Re: [RCSE] Favorite Plane

2004-11-30 Thread Ed Jett
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

[RCSE] Favorite Plane

2004-11-29 Thread David Schat
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

Re: [RCSE] Favorite Plane

2004-11-29 Thread Jerry Miller
PROTECTED]>ewilson12000 ; <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 2:46 PM Subject: Re: [RCSE] Favorite Plane 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

Re: [RCSE] Favorite Plane

2004-11-29 Thread strotherbj
climb trees to retrieve my models. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ewilson12000 ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 2:46 PM Subject: Re: [RCSE] Favorite Plane Heck I will jump in, for grins !! Anyone who knew me then or knows me now, Knows that the plane

Re: [RCSE] Favorite Plane

2004-11-29 Thread Brian Smith
Drifter too..Brian SmithPS..That was before you had to climb trees to retrieve my models. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ewilson12000 ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 2:46 PM Subject: Re: [RCSE] Favorite Plane Heck I will jump in

Re: [RCSE] Favorite Plane

2004-11-29 Thread strotherbj
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

[RCSE] Favorite Plane

2004-11-29 Thread ewilson12000
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