[lektrik_flyers] Re: flying Saturday 9-28-13
- From: Bill Beavers <bill.beavers@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lektrik_flyers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 19:56:57 -0500
Straight wing with ailerons would be a great next step. Plus it leaves you
a plane you can fly two ways. You can always do the "run home to momma"
original wing or go a little more off reservation with the straight wing.
John can fill you in on how he is doing now with his built up straight
wing from SlowFly. I think he likes it. makes the SS a little quicker but
that is a next good step too. Then just start flying and crashing
everything like the rest of us! ;-)
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Joel Dean <deanjk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sorry I missed flying Saturday. I wanted to go to MARCS, but I woke up
> late and was lazy all day long. I heard there were lots of planes and
> pilots and some great flying.
> We had some great flying at Beaverfork this afternoon. Chris flew his
> piper cub and made it look easy. It didn't like landing in the grass,
> though. He also flew his 3D planes. He gets noticeably better every time I
> see him fly. Bill flew the Stryker, T-38, and Apprentice. I think Phillip
> flew his Sensei before I got there. I reinforced and stiffened the wing of
> my SS and it was much more stable and maneuverable. Well, as maneuverable
> as a Slow Stick can be. It has me thinking seriously about a new straight
> wing with ailerons for it.
>
> Hope to fly with you all again soon.
>
> Joel
>
> On Sep 28, 2013, at 19:24, Bill Beavers <bill.beavers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> John Goos, Logan and I had a really good flying morning at Bob Courtway.
> We were the only two official flyers, but Jason Mitchell did come by and
> stay a while and we had a good number of other drop in guests some
> potential flyers and some already flyers just looking to "connect up" and
> inquire.
>
> I didn't think at first I would be able to fly my newly modded Apprentice
> with the new bolts holding down the wing because I hadn't realized i had a
> broken control horn on the aileron of one wing. But I was able to scavenge
> off of an old SS wing, so got it in the air. It flew really well after
> that and I must have made more than half a dozen parachute drops for the
> boys. One caught a thermal and went WAY over toward the West and just kept
> going until we could barely see it. I watched it start to go down but
> wasn't sure just where it was going to land. I just wrote it off as gone,
> but after Jason left us, he came back just a little later and handed to the
> boys as he found it driving down a street over that way. Thanks a bunch
> Jason. No MIA on that trip! ;-)
>
> Gliders, Strykers, trainers, were the order of the day. Had fun with
> everybody as always. There is nothing like being a great big kid. Hope to
> never give that up. Hope to fly with you all soon.
>
>
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>
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