Great day of thermals

[pitviper51]

	Quote: Originally Posted by alec taylor
	bit of a sore shoulder this morning. spent all day yesterday trimming 2 disc hand launch gliders.just finished a 84 inch "southerner" for vintage comps.a 1940 something design. anyboby know the year, as i need to know this. had a lineup of gliders for the camera the other day. 2 12 ft elec. gliders for elec. duration. 2 quarter scale jobs,a kirby kite and a k18. 2 full house thermal soarers, and the shoulder wrecker, the hlg. 1 third scale pawnee for towing, a 1 quarter scale cesna agwagon in full scale detail for towing and scale comps. this one is done in litho plate, 5.8 power and 26 pound. and the trusty old piper pa18. just about finished my third edge at 44% plus the 35% yak and a stephens akro at 42%, so i have have enough imac planes, and the wife still says, what the hell do you do all day. they dont seem to understand a mans needs. i look at all her camera gear, but i dare not ask what price. fine day so out comes the kitfox. alex

[pitviper51]

	Quote: Originally Posted by alec taylor
	bit of a sore shoulder this morning. spent all day yesterday trimming 2 disc hand launch gliders.just finished a 84 inch "southerner" for vintage comps.a 1940 something design. anyboby know the year, as i need to know this. had a lineup of gliders for the camera the other day. 2 12 ft elec. gliders for elec. duration. 2 quarter scale jobs,a kirby kite and a k18. 2 full house thermal soarers, and the shoulder wrecker, the hlg. 1 third scale pawnee for towing, a 1 quarter scale cesna agwagon in full scale detail for towing and scale comps. this one is done in litho plate, 5.8 power and 26 pound. and the trusty old piper pa18. just about finished my third edge at 44% plus the 35% yak and a stephens akro at 42%, so i have have enough imac planes, and the wife still says, what the hell do you do all day. they dont seem to understand a mans needs. i look at all her camera gear, but i dare not ask what price. fine day so out comes the kitfox. alex

[alec taylor]

i might get the photos on tonite. got to chat her up first as its her camara. i will get gut shot if something goes wrong. alex

[pitviper51]

yesterday was insane!!! a guy i fly with had his electric glider out for the day so we decided to try. and from my fullscale glider experiance i was thinking we might hit big lift with all the cumulos clouds everywhere.. sure enough he did a 2 minit climb and shut it down, then it shot toward the cloud like a rocket out of control, we had to pass the tx back and forth to give our necks a break.. at one point the 2m glider was almost out of sight.. 28 minits of flying with a 2 minit power run great stuff!
mike

[RustyTumbles]

Just tried a mate 4s pack on the cirrus, much better thrust so once my pack turns up we should be in for some great gliding.

[pitviper51]

cool! get some video! im leaving the big yak home for some work so im a glider guy today haha, hope i see good lift!
mike

[pitviper51]

what a glider day it was!!! the thermals were epic.. one of my last launches as i was thinking it was time to set up for landing i noticed a bubble. and well ok ill make a circle..woooohhh. gained 15 ft.. ok !!!!!! so i rode this thermal so i high i lost track of my plane briefly!! thats what happen when the buzzards look like sailplane when they all look like dots!!! man im hyped after that flight i can only hope my ventus rides lift this good! great day here in ky!
mike

[RustyTumbles]

Nice

Was watching the birds yesterday climb from tree top hieight to out of sight is just a few miniutes. Was wishing I had the glider there so I could join the fun.

[RustyTumbles]

Took the cirrus out again today, The climbs are much better now, but I am overloading the speedie and it cut out after 30sec or so. I will order a 30amp speedie this week then we should be sweet.

Was pretty windy today so what lift there was disappeared downwind very quickly, so I was just playing around with my power on mix so I get a nice steady climb. Hopefully next time there will be so more lift around.

[RustyTumbles]

Got my 30A Turnigy speedie today. Got it installed this evening, will be flying it again on sunday hopefully it goes well this time.

The weather is starting to come good again now so there should be bucket loads of lift around.

[fredo]

I love gliders, that's my favorite past time in the local park now. Got myself a discus launched glider last year from "Soaring USA" and after a few hopeless throws and a couple of accidents, managed to master discus technique and all I can say it's very relaxing. It's like fishing. You " fish" for thermals. So many times I thermaled out to the height I could hardly see it, from a hand throw. Great fun!

[RustyTumbles]

Yeah it's a different challange. Defy gravity without and engine.