This are the two best in my past.
The first was a while a go. A bunch of pilots in our club practiced F3J
launches. The pilot (Troy) did the leg signal ( you all know, it looks
like a dog peeing on a tree). While all this business was happening, he
somehow tangled the transmitter antenna with the
April 17, 2005 9:30 AM
To: soaring@airage.com
Subject: RE: [RCSE] High Start Stories
Back in the summer of 1982 I was teaching a buddy of mine that flew power
how to launch and fly sailplanes. After giving him some stick time on my
SD-100 that he flew very well. It was time to check out his plane(d
Back in the summer of 1982 I was teaching a buddy of mine that flew power
how to launch and fly sailplanes. After giving him some stick time on my
SD-100 that he flew very well. It was time to check out his plane(don't
remember what kit it was). We checked everything out to make sure they wer
The first two involve very nice and relatively new Super V's
The first incident was accomplished by Ron Scharck. The high start was the usual red rubber and was stretched about the same distance as the previous launch, but something went wrong and the model did a large banana profile a
The bad thing about high starts is that once the
plane leaves your hand you really can't do a whole lot to help a
problem.
My favorite, altough disasterous story, happened to
Bill Malvey. We went to the Fresno field to practice for Visalia. He has a high
start that is more of a zip start.
My favorite high start story
involves the Infamous Flamingoid, which I once arranged to launch with the
receiver turned off. It did a pretty good launch, but popped off about
half way up, pulled out and did a series of descending swoops and then landed in
the middle of the field with ab
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