Ron Evers
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This glider was riding a thermal out back of our house yesterday.
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Cool pic. That reminds me, I need to trim mine and get it balanced and take it out for a fly around. Mine is electric with a collapsible propeller on the nose. A Calypso 52".
Cool pic. That reminds me, I need to trim mine and get it balanced and take it out for a fly around. Mine is electric with a collapsible propeller on the nose. A Calypso 52".
When I was a teenager, I used to fly model aircraft in competitions, mostly U-control but some free-flight. One time a FF competition came up unexpectedly for me @ a flying field 5 min walking distance from my home.
I had nothing to enter, so I frantically assembled a tow-line glider out of scrap parts. I used a yard stick for the body, wings from a previous tow-line & the tail assembly from assorted bits. I had no time to incorporate a dethermolizer.
If your plane stayed in flight for three minutes after release, you got maximum points. I made the three minutes on my first flight, caught a thermal & the plane disappeared into the sky never to be seen again.