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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: R/C Glider crashing!
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- References: <1992Jul21.214510.25304@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 02:45:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul21.214510.25304@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> mken1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Mark Steven Kendall ) writes:
-
-
- >The same day as this I got quite a
- >bad scare with my glider on the launch, it decided that it would do sea-gull
- >impersonations and flap its wings a hell of a lot, I thought it was going to
- >fall to bits there and then. This doesn't bother me any more but it's good to
- >watch the expression on an experienced pilots face when you go into a dive to
- >pick some speed up for loops etc and the wings start to really flap!
-
-
- Hmmm OK...
-
- I remember my first Combat meet ever (where I actually beat Bob Bearden
- in my first ever Fast Combat match). Someone flew a foamie in Fast that
- had apparently been repaired one time too many. Halfway through the match
- it started flopping around in the turns and the wings started to flap.
- The thing eventually came apart altogether.
-
- I also remember an incident at last year's Nats where Mike Wilcox blew
- the outboard wing off his Arrowplane from just flying level. Those Texas
- Foxes are really fast!
-
- Some years ago some person was flying a foamie in Slow when he got bumped
- by the other plane. His plane immediately shed its wings and ended up
- impaled in the soft ground like an arrow. Back then foamies had a really
- bad reputation for shedding wings. They don't anymore thank goodness..
- we've learned to make em better.
-
-
-
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