Re: [RCSE] First Sailplane

[Jim Carlton]

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 folded wings, I rebuilt her with a Goldberg electric 
power pod and a Master Airscrew feathering prop and I thought I was in 
heaven. I could fly for more than 5 minutes at a time now. Thermals you 
say? Added wing tip extensions to 100" span, lost the power pod and 
learned how to use a winch. I still think, stock, it is one of the 
easiest planes to fly.
I have remnants of that Gentle Lady hanging up in the "hanger". Just 
don't have the nerve to toss out a piece of my "history".
Jim
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