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San Francisco Bay / Central CA Area Aerotowing
The South Bay Soaring Society aerotows every month at the Los Banos Creek Reservoir State Recreation Area, Los Banos, CA. This is a premier site for both aerotowing and slope soaring of Giant Scale Sailplanes, with separate runways available for takeoff and landing.
We have a Robin with 3W-80 twin, an Aeromaster Bipe with G-62, a Fly Baby bipe with G-62, and a Sukhoi with a DA-150 - we can tow anything. Check the Events menu at www.sbss.org for details, also for map, lots of photos. Los Banos is also the site of one of the oldest organized scale aerotow events, which this year is April 20-22, 2007. Email for details: scalesoaring@sbcglobal.net with subject Los Banos 2007. |
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Sacramento CA Aerotowing
The SVSS club holds aerotows on the 3rd or 4th Sunday of the month from February to June, and September to November. This is a new event started in the Fall of 2006 by Scott Allen of the SVSS. Tow planes are restricted to electric power, but don't let that fool you - Scott's Super Cub has 4.5 HP and can tow just about anything. There is a 1/4 Wilga with 5.5 HP (in the repair shop at the moment) and a new 5.5 HP towplane will be in service starting in March, and hopefully growing participation will encourage more people to bring electric towplanes.
Get schedule info at http://www.svss.org/calendar.htm; you can click on Scott's name to send him an email. |
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Aerotow Melbourne, Australia
There are quite a few impressive tugs in the area and with at least one official aerotow meet each month.
Our latest tug was very kindly sponsored by Model Flight to create a "workhorse" tug. Rebuilt from an old 8' stick (with impressive amounts of 'black balsa'), the tug is powered by a Zenoah 62 with a 22 x 6-10, JR 9x transmitter with synth module and RS10DS receiver, JR ES579 & DS589 servos, an MGM pro Accusw2 battery backup system. for information on events in the area check out the events calander: http://www.silentflight.net/ |
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Corner Ketch, DE
Joined Sep 2005
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S.K.SS field in Newark De.. rt 72 white clay creek we have a huge field with great thermals I have built four electric tugs, the new one is a Graupner Taxi 2400 with a Astro 120 motor should be around 5.5 hp...
some of the guys in the club are building large scale sailplanes including my Ventus cx from Sal at Ne sail..click on the link and check out the areotow video. http://skss.org/wpress/?p=76 |
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We have a new tug up at Horsefeathers , Virginia.....it's an Airborne-Models 1/3rd Cub with a BME105 twin on the front......engine is so powerful it's set at 65% for full throttle......even at that setting it will go vertical as soon as it lifts off the ground.....not very scale like...but fun!
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