Wood Crafters 06 Grand Championship top ten results.
Congratulations Guys.
1. Tom Tock 6700
2. Paul Wiese 6505
3. Marc Gellart 6291
4. Tom Sculley 6007
5. Ray Hayes 5823
6. Tim Wolf 5797
7. Bob Robinson 5773
8. Bill Friend 5743
9. Joe Albridge 5562
10. Bill Grenoble 5508
Top quality Models for
sale! someat around 25% off what they cost
new
Ican take Digi pictures
for serious inquirys!
1)Calypso Cobra(
mh-32) 124"span
$850 new in box
2)Molded F3B Eagle (rg-15)
114"span Mark Allen built! $650
3)K-2
composite(mh-32)130"span
$500 new in box
K-2
http://louisvillesoaring.org/content/view/105/43/
On June 30th, some of the best pilots in the Midwest, MidSouth and East
will be stepping on an incredible, and huge flat grass field to fly some Man On
Man, Seeded, thermal soaring.
There'll be tents and vendors and food, and music (after).
Title: Receivers for sale
4 Airtronics 92765 7-channel receivers w/old style connectors. $42 each shipped.
3 Airtronics 92785 8-channel receivers w/old style connectors. $42 each shipped.
First come, first served.
Title: Airtronics Receivers For sale
4 Airtronics 92765 7-channel receivers w/old style connectors. $42 each shipped.
3 Airtronics 92785 8-channel receivers w/old style connectors. $42 each shipped.
First come, first served.
Guys,
I recognize that the OlyII and 650 are great first planes for getting
started. My first sailplane back in 1977 was an Airtronics Square Soar.
But today kids don't seem to have the time or gumption to build their own
trainer. Perhaps it's too many competing priorities in their lives or
Title: NIB 4M Graupner Grob 103 For Sale
Ive got a brand new in box Graupner 4M Grob 103. Its typical German quality with sheeted foam core wings, FG fuse. $550 + shipping. Its a huge box so itll probably have to go via Greyhound bus. Email for further details.
Someone pointed out that slope foamies were a 'weird' choice for
teaching beginners, and while I'll admit that I momentarily forgot that
RCSE is 95% about thermal flying, a fine and noble pursuit in itself, I
think that giving beginners their first flights at a slope has some
benefits.
First
I was the one that said it seemed weird. What I meant was, using slope oriented planes for teaching flatland thermalling seemed weird, mostly because the slope planes tend to have shorter spans and fly faster. While there are polyhedral slope planes and you can fly regular flatland ships for
Title: Sailaire parts for sale
I have a set of laser cut wing ribs and a wing plan set, and also a set of stabs with bell crank for $40 + shipping. First come, first served of course. I hope you had a great holiday weekend. gv
Sorry if this posted more than once - my posts seemed to go into the bit
bucket - probably because of the tables I put in with results. I have since
posted the results on the RMSA web page - see the links below.
It was 2 days of brutal competition, with very challenging conditions. We
had
Jeff,
You are spot on about teaching at the slope except for one small part.
Actually you fly back at yourself a lot on the slope if you fly back and
forth along the face of the slope. That is one of the really great teaching
aspects of going to the slope for training purpose along with the
Less stressfull.Not to mention the humbling experience of the famous Walk
of Shame
- Original Message -
From: Pat McCleave [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Monday, May 29, 2006 6:50 pm
Subject: Re: [RCSE] A defense of training beginners via slope
Jeff,
You are spot on about teaching
Jeff Thompson wrote:
... and while I'll admit that I momentarily forgot that
RCSE is 95% about thermal flying
Try something more like 99.9% ;)
Steve
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We are happy that those who won, won, but everyone of them, when reading
the results of a contest they didn't attend, would want to know who flew what
:-)
We don't win or lose a contest by ourselves...we have a partner who does
the in the air part. Only fair it gets mentioned too :-)
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