HI GUYS !: today,friday i finish working arround noon,then i was relaxing in my building room looking at my sailplanes hanging from the ceiling....... there it was..my s 1-26 hlg with pieces of covering missing,the nose in pretty bad shape after houndreds of flights...still had the servos in. i had retire it like 5 or six months ago..... i suddenly had an idea......... i took 2 pieces of carbon arrow shaft about 6 inches long and taped one on each side of the nose leting like 2 inches protruting to the front of the nose,then a straped a speed 400 6 volt motor and 6-3 folding cam prop on top of the arrows giving it a little of down thrust ,. i then soldered some 16 gage wires to the motor lead s and extended the to the top of the wing were i put a speed control,,further back ,on top of the fusselage i sraped a 7 cel 500 ar pack from my zagi 400 and played with it to optained the balance at the spar.......... my scale reeds 32 oz!!!!! i know "very heavy" but i thout wat the heck!! i didnt wanted to remove the reciever pack tha was inside the hlgs nose so proceeded..... all this instalation was done in the outside of the s-1-26 and it took 15 minutes.......it looked llike it would never fly........ so 15- 20 minutes later im in the flying field...... one of my friend sed "what the hell is that!!!" just an experiment i sed... i turn on the tx and gave it full throttle....sounded nice...so i gave it a hard strait throw............. OOOOOHH !!WHAT A SURPRISE!!!!!!!!! THE S 1-26 HLG STARTED CLIMBING VERY QUIKLY...... i took it up so high i cood bearly distinguish it.. i did loops .,wing overs even flew inverted. what a fun day...cant wait till tomorrow! this little hlg that i used to learn to fly just doesnt want to die............ luis ps sorry about my english "its my second language" RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
