Gliders > Slope Soaring
Hello from the U.S.
Freedom Flyer:
Guys,
I'll do some experimentation and see if I can figure this thing out, I may have to get my neighbor over to see if he can help me out. Thanks, Tracy
gerryb:
welcome to the forum tracy, hope to see some of your work soon. i hope you don't mind me asking, but are you tracy (male), or tracy (female)? just curious!!
keith, i'm wondering how old is that photo........? nothing to do with you, it's just that blue stuff behind you, it's been so long since i've seen any of it!!
looks a fine model, any more info on it?
Freedom Flyer:
Gerry,
I am Tracy (Male), been involved in the RC hobby for 30 years although have not flown nearly as much as I would like to.I Love RC, but I Love my wife and kids more therefore the flight time takes 2nd place. Since I haven't flown a bunch lately, the RC world has passed me by and moved into the Carbon Fiber realm, so until I get up to date and save a little $$, I'll keep flying my balsa crunchies and my 1 foamie.
I Got started while working in a College Dormitory where one of the students had a J-3 Cub hanging from his ceiling in his dorm room. Long story short, through visitation and seeing him fly a bit the bug bit me. He ended up crashing one of his planes and throwing it away, I pulled it out of the garbage and through trial and error, secretly put it back together. Bought a Futaba 4 channel radio and an O.S. Max .25 and surprised him with the rebuild one day. He took it out and test flew it and I was on my way. That was of course before the days of trainer cords in 4 channel radios, so it wasn't long before the rebuild was re-kitted and I found another used plane to learn on. surprisingly enough It only took 2 planes for me to solo. He then introduced me to slope soaring, which really is my preferred type of flying. I tried for 20 years to get my older brothers involved in the hobby and about 10 years ago, 2 out of the 3 succumbed to the call. We are the only 3 guys that fly sailplanes and slope planes in our area, (that we know of we've never seen anyone else in the last 10 years) pretty sad for a city of 55,000. My oldest brother flies both power and sailplanes, but my other brother is a purest and flies slope only and no batteries or spinny things allowed :lol:. Therefore, my oldest brother and I call him a Girl and laugh at him when we're at the slope with no wind and we're flying our Radians. I do still fly power and enjoy it but I'd take sloping any day :D . Hope to get this figured out soon so I can share some pics of our part of the world and of our slope and the Retro stuff we fly. Shoot, I've still got the first Gentle Lady glider I built back in the spring of 1982, it sill flies wonderfully, and I take it with every time I go out. :D :D Hopefully I'll have some pics soon FF
Happy Days:
Tracy, you’d be better off ignoring gerryb. He’s hoping you are female. :wink: He has an eye for the ladies does our Gerry. :lol:
As for the ASW, I’ll write quietly so Fred won’t hear.
I don’t have an awful lot of info about the ASW Gerry. I managed to blackmail Fred into selling it to me about three years ago.
I told him that if he didn’t sell it to me, then every time I met him I’d remind him of a battle that his ancestors lost to my ancestors some 200 years ago outside a little village in what is now Belgium. (I can’t tell you the name of the battle because I promised Fred I would never mention the matter again if he sold me the ASW……..but I‘ll give you a clue. ABBA‘s first hit was called it. And the Eurostar train service from Paris terminates in London at a station of the same name.)
So if you want any more info Gerry, Fred is your man! :D
K.
gerryb:
hi tracy, thanks for the little history story. it's amazing how similar such stories are of how people get into the world of aeromodelling. some stay, others move on, but eventually come back to the fold!!.
by the way tracy, don't believe a word keith says about me, he's always stirring it up, and be very careful with your spellings and grammer. he's a stikcler for the king's english!!
keith, i'm just wondering, if you had that asw all along, why did you bother with the mu 28 (or whatever no it is)? that should be an ideal 4m to get you into biggish models
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