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Hello from the U.S.
Freedom Flyer:
Didn't work, I'm having a heck of a time. Tracy
Freedom Flyer:
Hope this one worked, This is one of my favorite sailplanes a Craft Air Freedom built it in 1986 been recovered once about 7 years ago.
Freedom Flyer:
Hey guys I think I'm getting this thing figured out. My two brothers and I generally take a few different types of planes when we go, we are not yet into the hi-tech era. Since we are the only 3 guys who fly slope around here, and our hobby shop isn't much of a hobby shop, we don't have a whole lot of access to carbon fiber and the building knowledge that goes with it. :evil: There are a few guys that live about 125KM away that have some higher performance planes. In fact one is very knowledgeable and is building some very beautiful planes, he is however, very much an elitist. and has made some negative comments about our "Old School planes." Thankfully he doesn't live close enough to be around us much. Well gotta go for now I'll get some more pics of our planes, some launches, of our slope and some of the beauty we get to view from atop our slope. Tracy
Freedom Flyer:
This is a Picture of our slope, notice we are Land locked, no coast here, there is a road to the top, flyable from South West, West, North West, North, North East, and East. We are at about 1500 meters altitude
This is my Brother Wayne Launching his Gentle Lady off of a Bluff overlooking the city of Billings, about 230km (142mi.)east of us.
Just a fly by with my Craft Air Freedom
This is an old plane I scratch built back in 1985 from RCM plans, it's called a Pierce Aero Ridge Rat
This is me Launching my brother Wayne's scratch built Freedom
With our altitude we do get some winter flying, okay, a lot of winter flying, more than we care to have in fact. However, this winter has been very strange, in the town I live (Belgrade) we don't have a lick of snow on the ground. Very unusual. The Pic with my brother launching his Gentle Lady, the temp was about 4 below zero degrees farenheit. Most of my planes are all balsa and Monocote. Our landing zone is about a mile across and flat as can be, there is some rock but not much, quite abit of grass to land in.
gerryb:
hi tracy, glad to see you got your photos up. very nice they are too, a fine selection of models. pity there aren't more modellers around to share the good times with ye.
is the bird of time kit built or arf? i have a kit built version myself and my son, an arf version. lovely models to fly in light air.
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