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the fuselage linkage is ready and the DIY tow release is glued in. 2 have some more fun on my local flying field, not only for sloping this 1 :cry:

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Finished up my little chuck glider/pitcheron project that Jeremy (yotaman1985) sells. Pretty dang cool. Waiting on rain so i can head out on the hill to give it a try.
 

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Finished up my little chuck glider/pitcheron project that Jeremy (yotaman1985) sells. Pretty dang cool. Waiting on rain so i can head out on the hill to give it a try.
nice one, it seems that pitcheron is now trendy
 

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Pretty awesome place, If you're into RC cars. I may have to go by there and check it out sometime. I was thinking of what would in aloft version of that be and I think basically you need to move your shop onto a hillside somewhere Wayne.
 

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Thought i would ask this over here (from the Zupair Z1 thread on rcgroups) as well. The z1 is one of my favorite planes to fly and is the #1 plane people want to come talk about when at sunset. They are pretty much impossible to find anymore. So i have occasionaly been browsing around looking at other low aspect flying wings. Does anybody have any experience with other wings of that style. Seems like there are a few around over in the EU.
 

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Thought i would ask this over here (from the Zupair Z1 thread on rcgroups) as well. The z1 is one of my favorite planes to fly and is the #1 plane people want to come talk about when at sunset. They are pretty much impossible to find anymore. So i have occasionaly been browsing around looking at other low aspect flying wings. Does anybody have any experience with other wings of that style. Seems like there are a few around over in the EU.

It has been a few years (okay, a lot), but I built on of the Co7 HLGs mentioned here. It really flew well, would be awesome with some smaller gear.

 

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High aspect wings are for sure a thing in parts of the EU. Kind of odd that few have made it over here. I sort of wonder if I might be able to talk someone like VP models into making one for us? Their methods should work very well.
 

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I meant HIGH, thanks wayne. There are some cool ones.
The SNAP by Peter wick is one i have been looking at. Much faster than the z1, which is a slow floater.
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It would be interesting to revisit some old designs and see how they would do with electronic augmentation.

I have a couple of KW100s floating around here. One of them was one of the KW100s that was shipped around to different soaring journalists for testing. Never flown it.
 

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SNAP looks sweet, but molds are said to be warn out and looks like the SNAP V2 didn't get finished??
 
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