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Mon 04/27/20


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     1. 12:39 AM - Re: Early Days (west1m)
     2. 07:33 AM - Re: Re: Early Days (william sullivan)
     3. 12:20 PM - Re: Early Days (west1m)
 
 
 


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    Time: 12:39:57 AM PST US
    Subject: Re: Early Days
    From: "west1m" <west1m@hotmail.com>
    While not the pilot you guys are I have been doing this off and on for quite a while. My flying started at around 6:30 AM in a bar after graveyard shift back in the mid 80s. My friend and i were sitting there thumbing through the throw away equivalent of craigslist. He found a hangglider and I found a Weedhopper. The following weekend we went out to the Calif. desert and tried them out. We never did get the hanglider to fly but after a six pack or so I was having a great time flying the Weedhopper. single cylinder and no ailerons of any kind and the desert was always windy. made turs fun sometimes! -------- West1m Hastings, MN Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=496058#496058 Attachments: http://forums.matronics.com//files/weedhopper_166.jpg


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    Time: 07:33:22 AM PST US
    From: william sullivan <williamtsullivan@att.net>
    Subject: Re: Early Days
    I love these old stories! More! Bill Sullivan do not archive On Sunday, April 26, 2020, 10:55:35 PM EDT, Richard Pike <thegreybaron @charter.net> wrote: My next fiasco: Back around 1981, Dupont sponsored some sort of contest pro moting ultralight aircraft. Don't remember the specifics.=C2- But I just happened to have a couple of 8 hp engines that had been marketed for attach ing to the crossbar of a hang glider to convert it into a ground launch han g glider. So I got busy. Here is the result: it wouldn't get out of ground effect either. -------- Richard Pike Kolb MKIII N420P (420ldPoops) Kolb Firefly Part 103 legal Kingsport, TN 3TN0 Forgiving is tough, being forgiven is wonderful, and God's grace really is amazing. Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=496057#496057 Attachments: http://forums.matronics.com//files/windspear2_113.jpg http://forums.matronics.com//files/windspear1_185.jpg S - WIKI - - =C2- =C2- =C2- =C2- =C2- -Matt Dralle, List Admin.


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    Time: 12:20:50 PM PST US
    Subject: Re: Early Days
    From: "west1m" <west1m@hotmail.com>
    Of course you have to introduce you kid to flyin' note the two coils duct taped to the main tube. No mag. just a 6V lantern battery under the seat and an alligator clipped wire hanging on the batt for power. -------- West1m Hastings, MN Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=496073#496073 Attachments: http://forums.matronics.com//files/weedhopperalex_727.jpg




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