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01-17-2007, 02:41 PM
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Bad-ass Super Contributer!
 
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Cheney, WA
Age: 32
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All the "Closet" Sailplane Pilots please come forward!!!
I'm one.... and I'll admit it. Sailplanes rock.... go fast, turn hard... no fuel needed.
 Who else is out there.... Don't worry, we'll accept you as you are.... |
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01-17-2007, 02:50 PM
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Put some Bling on that thing
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: San Jose CA
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Re: All the "Closet" Sailplane Pilots please come forward!!!
I flew in the 1996 F3B team selection finals........does that count??
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01-17-2007, 02:51 PM
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It will fly!!!
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Washington, Indiana
Age: 48
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Re: All the "Closet" Sailplane Pilots please come forward!!!
I have a couple of sailplanes. They are just 2 channel birds but hoping to move up to a full house bird this summer. There is just something relaxing about going out and flying with just gravity and air currents as power.
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01-17-2007, 05:25 PM
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Bad-ass Super Contributer!
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Rantoul IL
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Re: All the "Closet" Sailplane Pilots please come forward!!!
Working on my sailplane hanger now. I have a Organic II and am looking for a large 4meter to be towed.
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01-17-2007, 05:32 PM
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Bad-ass Super Contributer!
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Boise, ID
Age: 50
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Re: All the "Closet" Sailplane Pilots please come forward!!!
I have one too. Nothing as relaxing as catching a thermal on a lazy summer day and flying nonstop for an hour.
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01-17-2007, 05:52 PM
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Sink Stinks!!
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Orange County, CA
Age: 56
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Re: All the "Closet" Sailplane Pilots please come forward!!!
Not in the closet at all. I LOVE thermal duration contests and also scale aerotowing. Some DLG and RES as well. Hell, I love gliders. Period.
My hangar: Sharon Pro 3.7 (primary contest plane) Sharon Pro 3.7 (back up) NYX (Carbon F3J version) Artemis LT - red V-tail Artemis LT - yellow V-tail The above are all molded planes out of Eastern Europe. I am sorry, but a Comp-ARF looks like it was put together by a stoned 4 year old compared to the workmanship in these planes. Topaz (RES) Organic (2M) Blaster (DLG) Lil' Breeze (DLG) 4.3 meter ASW-27 (all molded HKM plane) 6 meter ASH-26 (all molded Schuler plane) E-Graphite (all molded with a Hacker B-40-FAI motor - 100 amps of electric soaring bliss). None of the above are your Daddy's Gentle Lady to be sure!! My home glider club is the famous Torrey Pines Gulls, home of 2 of 3 of the 2007 US F3B Team (Mike Smith and Aaron Valdes). I get to fly regularly against some of the best soaring pilots in the world. Folks like Daryl Perkins (4-time CONSECUTIVE World F3B champion), Mike Smith (current US NATS champ, World Soaring Master's Champ, Visalia Champ, and US F3B Team Member), Joe Wurts (too bad he is off to Kiwi land), Mike Reagan, John Erickson, Ben CLerx, Larry Jolly (ask him for some avocados when you see him), Aaron Valdes (F3B team member), Mike Lee, and on and on. Out here in SOCAL we are indeed in soaring heaven.
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01-17-2007, 06:39 PM
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GiantStyle Yapoleno Hucker!
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Cordova, TN USA
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Re: All the "Closet" Sailplane Pilots please come forward!!!
Love a good HLG OR DLG here..... matter of fact, I've been hankerin for a nicer DLG for the spring....
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01-17-2007, 07:26 PM
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Re: All the "Closet" Sailplane Pilots please come forward!!!
Never been a glider guy in the past and not sure if those "hotliners" count but after getting to fondle a few at the AMA show and Levi mentioning 220 mph I think I may have to try one.
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01-17-2007, 08:31 PM
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GRAVITY SUCKS
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: florida
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Re: All the "Closet" Sailplane Pilots please come forward!!!
well you guys know i have them. iam not in the closet. and jee get one and it will change your whole outlook on rc. youll wonder why you never did it before. oh yea it will make you a better 3-d pilot too. one things for shure you will never dread a dead stick again
 . also alot of the so called radio hits that are claimed by pilots will go away after they realize it just a thermal hitting them.... hahaha
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01-17-2007, 11:42 PM
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Bad-ass Super Contributer!
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Lake Tawakoni
Age: 39
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Re: All the "Closet" Sailplane Pilots please come forward!!!
Judge, could you recomend a GOOD dlg? something that can take some abuse? I have two two channel gliders to my right.
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01-18-2007, 07:04 AM
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What goes up, must come down!
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Tucson, AZ
Age: 30
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Re: All the "Closet" Sailplane Pilots please come forward!!!
does this count? ;- )
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01-18-2007, 08:49 AM
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Fly it like it's STOL'n
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Oceanside California
Age: 43
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Re: All the "Closet" Sailplane Pilots please come forward!!!
Recently got back into soaring with a "Long Shot" HLG and it is awsome. Last weekend caught a thermal and went up nearly outta sight. I will never be without a HLG again.
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Put some Bling on that thing
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: San Jose CA
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Re: All the "Closet" Sailplane Pilots please come forward!!!
Sweet, I haven't seen an R&R SB 10 for ages. Rich Spcer and I hare still good friends after 15 years. We now fly giant scale together. He went and did an all composite 33% exact scale Sukhoi. Even uses it for aero towing. When I flew F3B it was with a synergy 3 and What I called a Synergy Vee. It was a 3 fuse heavily modified with SB10 stabs for the V and Synergy 91 wings. I mid-aired the 3 halfway through the contest and has to switch to my unflown Vee but still managed 24th place. Shawn |
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01-18-2007, 10:18 PM
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Burn Gas.. Bend wings.
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Kentucky
Age: 26
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Re: All the "Closet" Sailplane Pilots please come forward!!!
sorry for the late entry,, been busy dealign with family, anywho,, that sb-10 loks like one of the cross country birds, that must be fun!!!!,, oh for those looking or a durable 3m scale saiplane this KA-6 is very nice for entry level towing and slope, i might try to get one this year,, maybe haha http://www.skykingrcproducts.com/rcp...t/DAW_Ka6.html
heres a pics of my motorless fleet.. and there gotta be more of us here... mike
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01-18-2007, 10:59 PM
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Re: All the "Closet" Sailplane Pilots please come forward!!!
Levi, what was the companies website who's booth you were working at the show? I'd like to get one of those little speedsters.
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