Please pass on to all, this link for the current changes to the Navigation Rules: http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/mwv/navrules/navrules2003.htm
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Thanks Rick
This is really good "information transfer" stuff. I've been looking at a new horn to replace the one that works with my loud hailer and this gives some specifications to put with my project. WIG craft - that's a new one. Anyone know why they call it a "wing-in-GROUND"? Why ground? And this wording: "... shall, if the circumstances of the case admit ...." Never seen the word "admit" used in this context; maybe "allow"? Any lawyers or wordsmiths out there that can shed some light on this phraseology?
This is really good "information transfer" stuff. I've been looking at a new horn to replace the one that works with my loud hailer and this gives some specifications to put with my project. WIG craft - that's a new one. Anyone know why they call it a "wing-in-GROUND"? Why ground? And this wording: "... shall, if the circumstances of the case admit ...." Never seen the word "admit" used in this context; maybe "allow"? Any lawyers or wordsmiths out there that can shed some light on this phraseology?
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Wig craft in simple terms are flown just above the water. this allows the craft to depend on what is known as ground effect, this is the phenomena that allows pelicans to fly so effeciently just above the waters surface. the air is compressed between the surface, ground or water and the wing. this creates a little additional lift which allows a wig craft fly along just a few feet of the surface of the water. if the wig goes to high it looses the ground effect and will glide back down till it finds the lift again. kinda neat huh!
Wig craft in simple terms are flown just above the water. this allows the craft to depend on what is known as ground effect, this is the phenomena that allows pelicans to fly so effeciently just above the waters surface. the air is compressed between the surface, ground or water and the wing. this creates a little additional lift which allows a wig craft fly along just a few feet of the surface of the water. if the wig goes to high it looses the ground effect and will glide back down till it finds the lift again. kinda neat huh!
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