I just spent a few minutes boring you folks with my "First Sailplane"
treatise, so now I am going to be much briefer and tell you my favorite
sailplane. or two, or three.
I suspect this list will change as time goes by, but in current order:
Aquila - I can't seem to leave it at home if I go to t
Gotta' be the Aquila for me had three of them as an adolescent.
It's been almost 30 years since but I'll never forget my trip dwon the cliff
at Torrey Pines to retrieve my downed Aquila from Black's Beach. I was a
naive teenage country bumpkin... halfway down the cliff I swore all the
folks
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Heck I will jump in, for grins !!
Anyone who knew me then or knows me now, Knows that the plane I flew the
most and won the most all TD contests was a Sail
climb trees to retrieve my models.
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Heck I will jump in, for grins !!
Anyone who knew me then or knows me now, Knows that the plane
Drifter too..Brian SmithPS..That was before you had to climb
trees to retrieve my models.
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Heck I will jump in
Heck I will jump in, for grins !!
Anyone who knew me then or knows me now, Knows that the plane I flew the most and won the most all TD contests was a Sailaire. I have built over 30 of the Sail Pigs over the years, with all the various modifications.
The Tullohoma versions, the Stubbies, the ph
My favorite plane is the stretched Sagitta 900 I built from scratch
the winter of 82. With a ten foot wingspan and a fuselage streached 4
inches I won all my Level 5 contest with this plane. I retired the
plane and my son brought it back out to trophey at a Nat's. Again it
was retired to only
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