I really can't swing $160 for just the airframe alone. I also prefer to
build, so that's why I was looking for a DIY DLG plane. Is the Terminator a
DLG plane?
----- Original Message -----
From: "breck baldwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "SilentFlight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 1:53 AM
Subject: Re: [RCSE] Read this month's S&E article on lightening HLG's?
> SilentFlight wrote:
> >
> > Hey folks-
> >
> > Tired of me yet? I hope I'm not making a nuisance of myself on what is
> > obviously a list populated by high-level folks...
> >
> > I've got the aforementioned Skeeter HLG, and have been told by everyone
I
> > tolk to that I need to lighten it to get any performance out of it.
>
> Enjoy the Skeeter for what it is and leave it be. If HLG is your thing
> get a used/new discus launch plane and have at it. For a crashable HLG,
> do a goblin from Thermal Gromit works ($160), but beg Adam for the Dizzy
> Bird wings at 1.5 meters as an addition. I timed for Ryan W. at the
> Seattle contest with the Dizzy and it cores thermals as sweet as I have
> seen and launches decently despite useing a fuse/tail group for a plane
> of nearly half the wing span. For fancier, better performing, but more
> fragile, do the Polecat aeroplane works Sidewinder ($240 or so). Gets
> way pricier beyond this.
>
> For totally fun, crashable, hlg for both slope and thermal service, get
> a Red Herring or Chinook from thermal grommit works ($80). This plane
> everone should have sitting in the trunk of their car ready to fly with
> a dry cell tx/rx battery setup. My setup of choice is a chinook, hitech
> focus 3 fm and an end plug berg 6 off of two CR-2 lithium cells with
> HS-50 servos. I have traveled the world with a varation on this setup
> and been very happy sloping
> beaches in Brazil and thermalling in Canada.
>
> Both Denny (Polecat) and Adam/Red (Thermal Grommit) are buddies but I
> have no financial
> connection and I really respect what they are doing, so this is mostly
> impartial support of what they are selling.
>
> breck
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