Found Saiplanes New In Box

[SoCalGliderFlyr]

Found a stash of NIB sailplanes. Looks like some Paragons, 3 and 2 meter Gnomes so far. Might be able to get a decent price on them if enough flyers are intersted.

[oracle_9]

Just to further your thread, were these yours originally? how long have they been stashed away for? Reason for selling them? And of course, how much is $$$?

[SoCalGliderFlyr]

Not mine.

About 2 years.

To better others lives and soaring experiances.

Most likey more than you would want to pay.

[oracle_9]

hehe

[apage]

How much for a Paragon?

[fprintf]

eBay here we come!

[SoCalGliderFlyr]

eBay here we come!

Might find a Paragon there.

I know you will not find a 3 meter Gnome. I'm looking at the only kits in existance.

Then there is the Crusader.

:)

[oracle_9]

Umh, they still make the 2m, 3m Gnone

...And heres the link:
http://home.comcast.net/~bsli40/Page2.html#SAILPLANES

[oracle_9]

Not mine.

About 2 years.

To better others lives and soaring experiances.

Most likey more than you would want to pay.

Ok, after I posted short questions in a list, this was what this answers sort of reminded me. Its a famous humorous telegraph made between a father and a son at camp.

Son: "No Fun, No Money, Your Son"
Dad: "So Sad, Too Bad, Your Dad"

Well, I find it funny.
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Anyway, the Gnones looks like good looking planes, anyone know their flight characteristics?

[SoCalGliderFlyr]

Sorry. That is a two year old web site. Bob has backed off making anymore kits as he is back to teaching college. Lost interest in taking a large fortune to make a small one. Call the number and most likely you will find that the answering machine is full. And covered with dust as of last Saturday.

This is where I come in. I will be finishing the 3M Gnome kits and selling off the remaining production runs. Clearing the place out. I may continue the 3M Gnomes. I may not. As the 3M Gnome is a formidable RES ship, took second, third and fourth against eight import carbon and kevlar super RES's in last months contest, I just might make a few more. Definitely NOT at the low price I'm offering the to-be-completed kits in stock. I also examined a fiberglass fuse for the 3M Gnome yesterday. A bit of clean up on the molds and it's definitely a goer.

There are 2M Gnomes in stock. One of the better 2 meters kits on the market. Also makes a great electric sailplane as the 12% airfoil does a great job of handling the extra weight.

How many do you want Oracle?

[oracle_9]

Oh, sorry to hear he closed his business, looked like a good selection. I was thinking of getting or making one like a few years from now. Building a Monterey atm, so my budget is used up.

[Rain City Flyer]

SoCal - What are you charging for the Gnome kits?

Thanks,

Chris in Seattle

[gdjsky01]

Sorry?
Sent you a PM.

[SoCalGliderFlyr]

Boy did I bite off a big one. The 3 meter Gnomes where a third finished at the most. The easy stuff such as sorting and stacking the sticks and the fuse sides were done for about 20. But not the ribs or the wing joiners or most of the other cut and sanded parts. I have been busy. Looks like the end of this coming week to have 20 3 meter Gnomes on hand.

[birdofprey]

SoCalGliderFlyr

I may be interested in a 3M Gnome kit (or two)

E-mail or PM me when you have prices and shipping figured out and I'll see if I can swing it.

I remember about 13 or 14 years ago at a club contest, a gentalman from Washington state showing up and kicking the crap out of us with a Gnome 2M. The memory is forever burned into my mind.

Thanks,

Justin

[AllThumbs]

"<<Anyway, the Gnomes looks like good looking planes, anyone know their flight characteristics?>>"


Well, I can tell you about the 2M version.

About fifteen years ago, I was learning to fly on an Airtronics Oly and building a Sagitta 900...(someone at the field mentioned I should build another 2M as the Sagitta was just taking forever).

Seeing nothing that interested me at the LHS except this Sig Riser, I called up a dealer and we got into a conversation bout good sailplanes for transition to competitive flying.

He suggested a great 2M that was popular out west - but one that I had never heard of here on the east coast...a 2M Gnome.
That Riser 100 .....he talked me out of it.
The Riser had open bays in the wing LE with turbulators, while the Gnome had a strong Dtube style wing - a thicker E205 airfoil with a beefy spar that made for reasonable zoom launches and was great in light lift.
Spoilers for glide path control..it was a good choice.

All of it was true, and the plane made a lot of fans where I flew.
The only thing that I didn't like was that the thicker wing made the penetration coming back from downwind more difficult than faster planes, but ballast would likely help there.

I remember it weighed very little - I could hand toss it and catch it all afternoon....the response to slight pitch attitude adjustments with the elevator trim was extraordinary...I could watch it as it flew by at eye level and each click on the pot would raise the nose a degree or two...really quite something.
The guy that instructed me at the field eventually bought it from me after I moved on to the Sagitta.

(BTW: The guy that suggested the 2MGnome was Sal DeFrancesco at NE SP).