Doug Reel is the local "champion" of the Opus, though two other excellent
pilots, Frank Cavazos (Boomerang designer), and Ralph Roberts (PSS Scratch
builder extraordinaire) also fly them. Doug uses his almost exclusively to
Dynamic Soar. Very stout little plane.
Doug's website on the Opus is
Anybody know about AMD's Cyclone wingeron slope ship? They ran an add in
the latest SE Modeler and it looks good on paper and on the site. Just
seeing if anybody has any experience with AMD or with the Cyclone.
The site is at:
http://www.amd.org.hk/
and the Cyclone page is at:
Twinstar + Dragonette + short towline = SCARY!
One day at our slope, there wasn't enough lift for anything to fly for
very long,except a twinstar. I got tired of throwing my Dragonette into the
air and having it fall from the sky. There were a lot of guys at the hill
that day that didn't
One of the newbies that fly with us at Maluhia bought one of those Cyclone
planes and flew it the first time yesterday. The first flight went
uneventful - till he landed. He didn't lawn dart it in or anything bad, but
the wing rod bent. We actually found out that the wing rod wasn't very
Anyone have the dates for the contest this fall?
Bruce Davidson
Louisville, KY
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I watched HLG 2000 last night. It really captures the spirit of the event.
With excellent video quality and a great soundtrack, it was very easy to
drift back to June in Poway and re-live the weekend.
The "clip on mike" segments are very funny. Both Tim Cone and Jim Carlton
are wired for sound
There will be a contest at the CVRC flying field at Visalia Calif. Sept.
10th at 8am Sunday. This will be practice for the up coming Fall Festival
that's on 7th8th of Oct. This is a low key open winch type contest. There
will be time limits to complete rounds by. So put this on your calendar,
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