Well, lets give this blog thing a try.... kinda slow day.
I learned to fly RC some 25 years ago. My first plane was an Airtronics Super Questor Kit that my bro bought for me. He advised me not to put too much "love" into building and finishing it because it probably was NOT going to have a long life
. I taught myself how to fly with that Super Questor ( I had flown control line for many years and had a good understanding of flight dynamics). It actually remained flyable 'til about three years ago...... my bro was wrong..it lasted 22 years !!
I recall that I went to a park to do a hand glide first test and managed to get the wing to hit the sign with the parks name.............. the only object within 600 feet that I could have hit
oh well, I then got my first experience at repairing the leading edge of a wing
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The Super Questor introduced me to R/C soaring which is still my most enjoyed part of the R/C hobby. Here's a picture of me and the SQ in 1982 or 83.......
All for now... will continue my R/C odyssey in the not to distant future.
01-27-2008
Well, I became fairly proficient at RC sailplane flight with the Super Questor and decided that I'd need to progress by adding an engine, which I did. I put a little SuperTigre X.11 on the nose of the SQ with a cox 7x3.5 gray prop..... yes, way over powered
I made the SQ w/X.11 a tail dragger and learned about ground loops !!
In the mean time, (while learning how to tame ground loops) I decided I needed to build a sailplane with ailerons so I could become proficient with ailerons as well. That was the beginning of building a TopFlight "METRICK" sailplane which I'll elaborate in my next blog post.