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Old 02-07-2014 | 02:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Kinner
My friend had the WenMac Dauntless. Yup, I'll second the "turd" description. Only his Dad could keep it airborne for any appreciable time. Spring starter too if I remember it.

My experience with flying with close by electrical storms proved that wrist loops were a good idea. Trying to squeak out one more flight before a thunder head covered us, I flew a wing over with my Sterling Lark and it was like trying to hold onto a spark plug on Dad's lawn mower. Later in life I learned about electrical induction and how magnetos work. Huh.. metallic wires moving through a magnetic field. "Pa Pap"

Great memories are made of this stuff.

Ray W.
Oh, I could keep the Dauntless aloft, but I had to supplement the forward thrust W/some centrifugal force generated from the center of the arc!