ORIGINAL: Rebsix
ckangaroo....
There is a picture of the GL in my gallery if you had'nt looked already. Another Marine and I sort of decided one day to give it a try. He bought a Wanderer and I bought the GL. We didn't have a high start so we drove around looking for a good platform to launch from. The place we found was about 150 feet up with mountains on the left a mile away and a cliff on the right a mile away. The ocean (San Onofre Beach) was 3 miles straight out, I don't think we could have found a better place. The only thing that brought us down was darkness or the battery life. It's sort of funny, back then I'd get excited when the wind was blowing, just the opposite now.
Great looking Planes in your gallery! I wished I still had my Gentle Lady. Would be fun to tow up now on one of my 1/4 scale Planes. Either my Sig Clipped Wing Cub, or my 1/4 scale Space Walker would tow a GL up pretty easy I would guess.
I actually miss the peacefulness of it all, and I have thought about getting another sailplane. Dyna flight only makes the big 108" Bird of Time so I'd have to find plans to build the 2 meter version. It was much more airplane than the GL, sort of like going from a high wing trainer to a pattern ship. The trouble is, Michigan don't have the mountains Southern California has, we have too many trees up here too.
Illinois is a little on the flat side also, and all that corn can gobble a Plane up in a hurry. LOL
Block, Concrete, and Stone here. My Dad was a Mason for 40 years and I've been involved in it for at least 30 of my 39 years. In the early years it wasn't by choice, but I've been doing it full time for the last 9.
Me and my 3 other Brothers are all masons. We all work together for Moore Masonry Inc. which is my Family business. Some real interesting days occur when you work around your Brothers everyday.
