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Twisted Sticks May 2006 Newsletter Another flying season is upon us. Hurrah! It looks like my hopes for having a personal flying season might be short circuited however. Management has lots of plans for me to be in Dumas Arkansas and Warrenton Missouri this summer. Well then it looks like I’ll just have to make the most of whatever flying I do, but you guys might not see my ugly face much. What’s been on the bench this winter. I asked our newly elected president this question after the monthly meeting and his reply was a classic. Not a darn thing. He did follow up on that by saying he had purchased Derek a Firebird Freedom. It’s a cute little delta tail electric with a wingspan of 50" and an anti crash technology. You can view it at http://www.hobbyzonesports.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=HBZ7000#specs Next up was Roger. He told me he needed to build a kit to while away his time in Texas so he purchased a ¼ scale SIG Spacewalker. He powered it with an OS 120 4 stroke. He also made the best deal I’ve heard of this year. A buddy of his crashed a 9 ½ foot D18. Now I’m uncertain whether it was a Jodel D18 or a Twin Beech D18. But the story goes that the owner said he had had all the fun he could get out of the aircraft and gave it to Roger, complete with the engine, retracts and coreless Futaba servos. Roger had the fuselage put back together in time to show the gentleman for their next club meeting! Barry said he had built 5 or 6!!! The first one he mentioned was a CG Edge 560 profile with an OS 50SX hung on the front. Next is a Great Planes Stick in both the 40 and the 60 sizes, a GP Sportster in the 40 size and finally an Uproar 40. All ARFs. Barry’s been a busy man. Vance said he built his Barber shop over the winter. Come on Vance isn’t that just a little hard to fly? Les is building a Dynaflight Fly Baby and he’s building a sea plane that I can’t remember the name of at the moment, but I’m sure I’ll see it at the field. J The sad thing is Les sent me some pictures of his new builds and now I can’t find them. I could blame it on having a senior moment ‘cept my mother-in-law says I’m not old enough yet! That’s about the only darn thing I’m not old enough for. Jerry is building a Duraplane Dura Stick that sounds like a lot of fun. You really should ask him just how many duplicate aircraft he has. The answer just might make your jaw drop! I know it did mine. J Dale’s been building another Dazzler and he has an unfinished Pica Duelist plus a Cessna 182 ARF he showed during this winter. His building been really affected by his health problems. Dick’s been busy building two Clancy Lazy Bee’s one is a 20 size with a 40" wing span. The other is a 40 size with a 60" wing span. Dick has also been having some health problems. http://www.hobbypeople.net/gallery/222216.asp http://www.hobbypeople.net/gallery/222200.asp Finally I’m still finishing the same SIG Somethin Extra and covering a Bridi Kaos 60 that I started on last fall or the fall before that! I did purchase a new transmitter; it is a Polk Hobbies’ Tracker III. This is an 8 channel, fully synthesized model with a built in frequency scanner. It has a 5 year warrantee and 99 model memories. It is selling for $180.00 which includes a $60.00 6 channel fully synthesized receiver, so the transmitter alone is $120.00! There were reports of people having some teething problems with the first 200 sold; a wire cable assembly to the gimbals was too short. They’ve sold over 2000 units so I thought I’d try one. It is under radio systems on the bottom left. http://store.polkshobby.com/ . Next meeting is at the field or Ken’s if it’s too cold or the weather is just too nasty May 11th – 7PM.
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