Lee Renaud never made the Monterey kit. It was made by
Astro Flight (Rolan Bouche (SP)).
Arnie
--- Dick Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I did a scale up of a mag sketch for my first
sailplane. If I remember
right it was called the plank. A red herring sized
slope wing with an
un-tapered
Right! Guess I had a small senior moment. I just checked the box that had the
nice L/D and sink speed vs forward speed. AFI on Cheryl Place, LA (no zip).
Dick
Lee Renaud never made the Monterey kit. It was made by
Astro Flight (Rolan Bouche (SP)).
Arnie
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My first sailplane was a Goldberg Electra. I know that it is not a *true*
sailplane because it is powered but the plane is based on the Goldberg
Gentle Lady. In any case, I did glide the Electra around a bit after I got
it up to a safe altitude grin. After the Electra got beat up, then came
the
Before Meyer and Hauch do a transformer thing on the other thread,
sorry about that, that was suppose to just go to Steve, clicked
the wrong box.
dh
I know this topic will take off because it hasn't been brought up in some
time. Good one for a long weekend...
My first Sailplane was a FF
I built a 2M LIL BIRD by Ray Hayes and Sky Bench, just 2 1/2 years ago. I did
fly Doug Adams Big
Bird first , but made an Arboreal Landing (landed in a tree). Now I'm hooked!
Dennis Hoyle
WMSS
www.rcsoaring.org
- Original Message -
From: James V. Bacus
To: soaring@airage.com
Sent:
Dave Thornburg's (all sheet balsa) Zephyr (initially with one-channel
escapement) circa 1968. Any other older-than-dirt contemporaries still
alive out there? Good Lift!
Ah, takes me back. When I lived in England I bought a foam-and-obeche slope
soare. Never flew it there, but flew it off the towline a couple of times here.
Then I built an Olympic 99 (not an Oly II, the real old-timer with the 6409
airfoil). Fabulous plane, required minimal pilot interference.
My first was a Gently Lady, which met a quick demise.
Followed quickly by a HOB 2x2 which I still have today.
Tom Koszuta
Western New York Sailplane and Electric Flyers
Buffalo, NY
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My first was an electrified gentle lady. It lasted about 20 seconds
before the motor battery fell out the bottom hatch with the RX and RX
battery in tow and it spiralled in. After that a long succession of
gentle ladies, olympics of various sizes and one sophisticated lady.
Corey
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At 01:16 PM 6/30/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dave Thornburg's (all sheet balsa)
Zephyr (initially with one-channel escapement) circa 1968. Any
other older-than-dirt contemporaries still alive out there? Good
Lift!
Hi Skip,
I'm still flying a Graupner Clou, though I no longer use my Kraft
My first R/C saiplane was Dave Robelen's Kestral rudder-only plane
which I beleive was in Model Airplane News, approx 1970. The
sheeted hollow core wing had no spars, T-Tail, 6 ft, tissue doped over
balsa. I used a Controlaire Galloping ghost TX on 27.145, single
channel RX with transistor
My first RC glider was an Ecktronics Nomad, a Ted Strader design,
which used a Citizenship LT-3 receiver and a Bonner escapement, with
a CG Venus tube transmitter. Despite being rudder only, I managed to
successfully slope soar it many times. This was around 1962.
My first RC vehicle was a
Wanderer 1978 with Kraft radio. Took 40 hrs to build. Lasted about 5
seconds and could fit it back in the box it came in.
David Zucker
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I did a scale up of a mag sketch for my first sailplane. If I remember
right it was called the plank. A red herring sized slope wing with an
un-tapered wing, No computer mixers so a sliding aileron servo pushed back
and forth by by the elevator servo. Almost as hokey as the mixer from the
Todi I
At 07:23 PM 6/30/2006, Bill Bunny Kuhlman wrote:
My first RC glider was an Ecktronics Nomad, a Ted Strader design,
which used a Citizenship LT-3 receiver and a Bonner escapement, with
a CG Venus tube transmitter. Despite being rudder only, I managed
to successfully slope soar it many times.
I had a GL but never really learned to fly on it. I found out that you
really need more than one or two rubberbands on the wing when you have a
stiff up-start. I built a HOB 2x2 that summer. I still have the 2x2 but
most of the original wood is gone!
Both were flying with a Cox Sanwa 2
Hey Jack!, West Carrollton High School was my main flying field in
the 70's... and my high school '79-'81. I spent many days soaring
there.
My first RC sailplane was an Airtronics Square Soar. I also flew an
original 100 sailplane and an Airtronics Questor there, as well as
some powered
considering my line of
work
Hi Dana
What's you line of work?
Maurice
Sorry,
probably should have mentioned.
I serve a United Methodist Church as pastor.
D.
Wander 72. Built and bought 4. Crashed them all. Finally
got smart enough to join Harbour Soaring in 1979. 20 minute thermal 1st
weekend out. Downhill since.
Dan Fink
Simon Van Leeuwen wrote:
How many can remember their very first R/C sailplane? Mine was one of
the first Oly 650's. Wish I still had it for posterity, but elected to
fly another aircraft while a newbie flew my Oly, bad idea...
House of Balsa 2-T. Very stable plane, broke down easily for
I remember mine since I just started a few years ago. An EPP Highlander
as often recommended on this list. It is 39 ounces with standard radio
gear in it, and by golly it thermals quite nicely. I used it to finish
all my LSF I tasks.
Now that I am onto my LSF II tasks I have graduated to a 3M
Gentle Lady...hand launched that thing 'till I could make a turn and fly
it back...too chicken to put it on a high start. After umpteen crunched
wing tips and repairs (it always looked new!) I finally put it on a high
start a couple of months later and the obsession had begun!
After a couple of
Jim Carlton wrote:
Gentle Lady...hand launched that thing 'till I could make a turn and
fly it back...too chicken to put it on a high start.
Oh, and I think that was circa 1981 or so, fyi.
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, November 29, 2004 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [RCSE] First Sailplane
I remember mine since I just started a few years ago. An EPP Highlander as
often recommended on this list. It is 39 ounces with standard radio gear in
it, and by golly it thermals quite nicely. I used it to finish all my LSF I
tasks
OK, what got me hooked was a Graupner Cirrus when I lived in the Dayton Ohio
(mid 70's) area and belonged to the W.O.R.K.S. club (strictly power). One
other guy (forgot the name know but he drove a comptition Vette) and I went
to the West Carrolton High School and used his high start to launch.
Mine was an Early Bird. Kind of a Gentle Lady type plane but with a glass
fuse that looked a lot cooler to me at the time. I believe that was 1979,
maybe 1978. I still have the fuse. It seems to have followed me through a
good dozen moves or more. It survived the tosses off the baseball backstop
My first glider in the UK was a Keilkraft model called the Invader. True
stick and dope construction. This was around 1957, before the advent of
remote control. I would hand tow this thing up, then let it loose and get
lots of exercise going to retrieve it. First RC's was a Mark's Models
a Prophet -- originally designed as an electric. reverted back to
glider status. The actual name for the sailplane was a Lucifer, so
considering my line of work, this was a good change.
caught and rode my first thermal with it -- flew for 45 minutes and was
totally hooked.
Dana
I had some Janco FF model that I built without CA and was covered with
tissue and dope, and converted to R/C, (Jammed a Kraft 2 channel brick
into). I had a little rig that was similar to a F3J handtow device, but it
didn't have a pulley, just a handle the string fed through. Learned to fly
An Ecktronics Nomad was my first RC 'ship, circa 1960. Inside was a
Citizenship LT-3 receiver running off two AA batteries and driving a
Bonner escapement to control the rudder. The transmitter was a CG
Venus. (Do they even _make_ 67 1/2 volt batteries any more?) Still
have everything but the
My first sailplane (and first RC plane) was a Hobie
Hawk with a Kraft 2 channel brick. My brother bought a
Graupner Cirrus at the same time and we went out to fly
them without a clue as to how to do it. We had never
even seen an RC sailplane fly. Some way, we figured out
how to launch on a
As if by some cruel and dirty trick, my first sailplane was the FVK
bandit. In incredibly difficult plane for a first timer. NASTY
tipstalls especially with 8 sub c cells. The good thing? Is learned
how to FLY sailplanes/hotliners much faster than I would have with out
this horrible flying
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