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Gliders => Slope Soaring => Topic started by: Fred on November 03, 2017, 16:47:18 PM
Title: Flying wings... Cortina and Taborca!!! :)
Post by: Fred on November 03, 2017, 16:47:18 PM
2 more gliders Well, half gliders, they don't have tails!
First, a good old MPX Cortina, and second, a glider I always wanted since it has been released, a Taborca!! (from LET)
Very little work left to be done to get the 2 machines ready to commit aviation, and really looking forward the first launch!
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Post by: Nhalyn on November 06, 2017, 09:32:09 AM
Beautiful !
Give report after you've flying both of them ! :-*
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Post by: billscottni on November 06, 2017, 10:25:47 AM
Ah! Fred has a Taborca :)
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Post by: rogallo on November 06, 2017, 14:09:28 PM
Bill, he stole it from an old man.
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Post by: Nhalyn on November 06, 2017, 15:08:47 PM
Yeah, I've seen that ! :o After nearly bite me to try to stole mine >:(, and as I was running too fast for him ::), he come back to this old man...
tssssss..... Maudits Français ! ;D
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Post by: Fred on November 06, 2017, 20:31:41 PM
:-* :-* I don't care I have a Taborca! :-* :-*
Did I say Taborca?
TABORCA!
Taborca
MINE! :)
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Post by: Fred on November 06, 2017, 20:39:52 PM
By the way... ;)
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Post by: Nhalyn on November 07, 2017, 08:39:35 AM
Nice place to have intelligent reading ! 8)
I like this !
(I was not thinking my article should be read in a pub as far as Dublin... :-*)
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Post by: Fred on November 08, 2017, 11:32:33 AM
I knew you were going to like it :)
I should post more photos of this article! You used to be pretty :-* :-* :D
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Post by: Fred on November 10, 2017, 19:19:30 PM
Well, it’s Friday, and Fridays are Irish music school days! Early, so the guys are warming up, and I have some good reading (again!!) Who is that handsome young man??!! :)
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Post by: Nhalyn on November 13, 2017, 09:06:44 AM
That was a time I was Young and beautiful... 8)
Now, I'm just beautiful.
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Post by: Fred on November 13, 2017, 11:06:44 AM
::)
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Post by: Andy.Meade on February 07, 2018, 10:09:55 AM
I do love the Taborca - I'm very jealous! Here is my favourite tailless - a Robbe Vampir :-*
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Post by: Fred on February 07, 2018, 11:50:28 AM
:-* :-* I am jealous of your Vampir!!
But no, I will not swap! ::)
Looking to get my hands on one for years. One day, like the Taborca, it will happen! :)
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Post by: Andy.Meade on February 08, 2018, 10:10:32 AM
I do have a complete half-scale plan for the Vampir (a copy of the original plan) - let me know if you want to borrow it :)
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Post by: Fred on April 27, 2018, 17:32:52 PM
Alrighty, catching up!
The Cortina did her first flight at the beginning of the month during the French flyers visit... And it flew like in a magazine! Straight from the launch (thanks Ralph!).
The only thing I changed are the controls. Ailerons and elevator are fully mixed, not separated as per the original manual. Much more authority, I like it better this way. Other than that, that thing is a big pussycat, and flies like a conventional 4m glider. That thing is going to get lots of air time :-* :-*
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Post by: Andy.Meade on May 21, 2018, 09:05:17 AM
Fred - there is one on ebay currently : https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/232774780420?ul_noapp=true
good luck!
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Post by: rogallo on May 21, 2018, 15:03:33 PM
Fred, do not bid please, I am bidding Ralph
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Post by: Andy.Meade on May 29, 2018, 13:31:29 PM
Wow, that went for a lot of money! I bought mine for £50 :O
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Post by: Fred on May 29, 2018, 16:58:20 PM
I buy yours for 60! :)
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Post by: rogallo on May 30, 2018, 07:41:47 AM
I liked the phrase " rarer than rocking horse poo"
R
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Post by: rogallo on June 06, 2018, 12:22:10 PM
Andy, it it your vampir? If it is any chance of a shot of the logo so I can make a reproduction please?