Re: [RCSE] Wave of the future of HLG

2002-01-25 Thread Brett Jaffee
Tom Watson wrote: > > Yep...the spin launch nonsense killed all interest for me, too. > How is it nonsense? It got a lot of people enthusasitic about HLG (like me), and enabled a lot of older guys to continue to be competitive. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subs

Re: [RCSE] Wave of the future of HLG - Editorial - Long

2002-01-25 Thread RCsoarnut
In a message dated 1/25/2002 9:53:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Time for more gizmos this year, lets break out the night vision goggles! >> Nah, don't need no stinkin goggles! I'll just keep flying "Steves" airplane for skins:-) Denny Maize Polecat Aeroworks (717)

Re: [RCSE] Wave of the future of HLG - Editorial - Long

2002-01-25 Thread James V. Bacus
At 08:42 PM 1/25/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hey Jim > > It's even more fun if you get one of them there tree retrieval thingys:-) Man, I have the record for the "longest" drive in Muncie, that model must have been treed for at least 15 minutes, we were throwing everything we had at my po

Re: [RCSE] Wave of the future of HLG

2002-01-25 Thread Tom Watson
Yep...the spin launch nonsense killed all interest for me, too. - Original Message - From: "James V. Bacus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 5:08 PM Subject: Re: [RCSE] Wave of the future of HLG - Editorial - Long &g

Re: [RCSE] Wave of the future of HLG - Editorial - Long

2002-01-25 Thread RCsoarnut
Hey Jim It's even more fun if you get one of them there tree retrieval thingys:-) Never stopped laughing through the whole night at the Nats, even after loosing sight of the plane in the dark doing skins. Come to think of it, that was because it was Steves plane:-) Denny Maize Polecat Aer

Re: [RCSE] Wave of the future of HLG - Editorial - Long

2002-01-25 Thread James V. Bacus
At 07:39 PM 1/25/2002, Albert Wedworth wrote: >Hlg golf is WAY more Fun I don't think of HLG Golf as competition... even though I guess we keep score. 8-) I LOVE HLG Golf, it's the most fun. Jim Downers Grove, IL Member of the Chicago SOAR club, AMA 592537LSF 7560 Level III ICQ 6997780

Re: [RCSE] Wave of the future of HLG - Editorial - Long

2002-01-25 Thread Albert Wedworth
Right on! James " One can debate whether this is fun or not, but personally I have lost almost all interest in competing in HLG anymore." Hlg golf is WAY more Fun That's the only way I'll Play with my DLG, HLG. The rest is BS Al RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "su

Re: [RCSE] Wave of the future of HLG - Editorial - Long

2002-01-25 Thread James V. Bacus
At 02:38 PM 1/25/2002, pjawien wrote: >With discus launches, anyone can >get up high enough to hook a thermal. Where I fly, and the contests I have flown HLG in, including Nats, there are not always thermals, it can actually be flat or dead air. And there STILL is some serious launch height dif