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This is a very common technique in competition flying, where you want nothing in the upper tube to get in the way of your recovery system. For fins, I like the CA suggestion. Adding more weight (beyond the added weight of plywood vs balsa) could threaten stability.
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It comes from the early days of the hacker movement, basically referring to a solution that does the job but ... it's ugly. Not elegant. IMO, the perfect shock cord mount has yet to appear. I don't really like any of them.
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Kludgy was around well before hackers - I kludged many things back in the late 1960's............
kludge noun ˈklüj variants: or kluge \ ˈklüj , US also and British especially ˈkləj ; ˈklü-jē Definition of kludge : a haphazard or makeshift solution to a problem The first recorded use of the word kludge is attributed to Jackson W. Granholm, who defined the word in a 1962 issue of the magazine Datamation as "an ill-assorted collection of poorly-matching parts, forming a distressing whole. |
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Hmm. I seem to have conflated computer hackery with MIT prank culture. Regrets.
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Actually, I AM familiar with the term “kluge”. I always thought it began with a “c” because I’d never seen it written before. Our (now retired) software engineer used the term quite often, i.e.: “I’ll see if I can kluge the Mitsubishi drive to run from the Yaskawa drive software”. It was sometimes followed by “Hold my beer and watch this!”
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