ORIGINAL: Tom Nied
Seems to be just the proliferation of the model aircraft industry. There's a whole bunch of guys who will never run a glow motor, too hard to master. Electric just turn it on and fly. I've been mostly a glow flier since '67, but have to admit have had a lot of fun with an electric motor glider this last summer. But I love getting all castored up and having a good time with my glow models. But maybe I'm nuts, I even like rubber powered free flight models.
Funny as it sounds in one article the "true" soarer guys...even had some bad remarks towards the electric gliders, made it too easy to do without having too use an up start for launching...why would you want all that extra weight up front on a glider and with thal floppy prop dragging it even more?...was the comment.....
and I really wasnt going for nostalgia..I mean this was last years stuff!!...Rog