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Keeping away the winter blues.................
Hi everyone, first off,.......the very best of the seasons greetings to you all.Just to keep the momentum going I have embarked on putting together a woodie Smooth Genie Pro, from a box of timber…Continue
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Alexander Hall posted a discussionKeeping away the winter blues.................
Hi everyone, first off,.......the very best of the seasons greetings to you all.Just to keep the momentum going I have embarked on putting together a woodie Smooth Genie Pro, from a box of timber supplied by Jim Ealy. Good looking ship and very well engineered. Had an easy week so began putting it together, have posted some pics of the fuse online. Its not a massive undertaking, however much head scratching and phone calls to Jim where needed to understand whats what. SInce I m without a work…See More
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"Washout really helps when flying slow, only have 1/4 inch. She turns really well, on a wing tip if needed, but need speed. However I feel the yaw response is a tad slower than a plane with poly........ the plus side is that she s not tossed around…"
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"Because of the late night building I glued in a slight kink to the built up trailing edge and D tube!"
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"Really, really easy to fly, but squirrely on the climb with the hi start. There is no hook adjustment as designed. So if ever I build another one, the fuse will be a tad narrower and have adjustable hook."
Alexander Hall commented on Alexander Hall's photo
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"Very possible......was coming in hot and realised I m closer to terra firma that I should be. So a little bit of up became a lot of up....."
Gregg commented on Alexander Hall's photo
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"God, I saw what looked like little patches o' carbon and got all excited fer a sec... Then I realized they was just some damn duct tape.... j/k
Hey, someone's gotta make sum comments!"
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"Washout... gotta love it!
So.. what's it like flying the classic Mark's Models Windfree?
Damn, come to think of it that design is four decades old...! Damn!
Yeah, make this site interesting... In this new age of disposable RTF/RR Prefab…"
Gregg commented on Alexander Hall's photo
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"Put some "Model Airplane News" font at the top of this picture, a little crop and you can tell everyone that it's May 1971 issue MAN..."
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"I believe there were a few Windfree wings amongst my friend's horde... Those wings were sure designed to be lightweight for sure! Check out that angle on the full-flying H stab! Do I perhaps sense a little whoop-dee doo on final..? Yahoo!…"
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"Picture a crinkled tube of Ambroid Cement on that thar table... "Shazam..!" It is 1971..!
Did you throw a little carbon in or build it pure nostalgia?
The R/E gliders I've flown all had polydihedral. I've always wondered what…"
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- about me
- Am from Malta, a little island in the Med, currently in Rhode Island as my better half is from here. I sail long distance and restore boats for a living.
- city, state
- Sliema, Malta but currently in Newport, Rhode Island
- country
- Malta, Usa
- how long have you been flying and what types of gliders?
- Flying some 30 years, only improved in the last 10. Started with a Frog Vega, an English kit from the 60's, beautiful plane with a 45" span, still have the fuselage. Malta too small and rocky for proper gliders and soaring, but Sloping is a treat.
- your first glider? your favorite? building now or next?
- Frog Vega, was my first, follwed by a Keil Kraft Conquest, building a Zagi and a Windfree.
- what clubs or groups do you belong to?
- Rhode Island Soaring Club
- my company
- Free lance large yacht captain, build captain/project manager and a trained shipwright to boot.
- other interests
- Sailing, rebuilding old sailing craft, restoring old motorcycles
- how did you find RCGliderAndSailplane.com?
- Looking up info regarding the Windfree.
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- At 4:09pm on November 30, 2011,
Randy j said… good eyes , Alex
- At 6:58pm on November 13, 2011, Gary Alan Baugh said…
Alex, welcome aboard, matey. It looks like we have a few things in common (sailing, soaring). My wife and I have been livaboards for going on 16 years. We have no children, but one very spoiled polydactyl cat (6 toes on each paw). Our Westsail 32 has 1 circumnavigation under her keel and has survived several hurricanes while providing us a dry and comfortable home. I envy your location. Rhode Island has long been on my places-to-go list.
- At 12:32am on May 19, 2011, shaharul farzul razali said…
hi mr alex,
i was amazed u been soaring for the past 30yrs but here in malaysia our soaring pilots was so small number who crazy enough to fly powerless.
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