Back in the IMAC game
02-25-2019, 12:41 PM
#1
Back in the IMAC game
My Dads Extra as it is now.
Will be recovered to look the same as the Extra I flew in 2006.
After loosing my 3M Comp ARF Extra 330 I thought I would be done with IMAC. Reasoning was that participation in IMAC has dropped in the SW region that I just could not justify the cost of replacing the airplane to compete against just a couple of guys. For the past few weeks I have been cleaning out my fathers house while after having to place him in a facility where he can get the 24 hr care he needs. Among the items taken out of his house was the CA models 38% Extra. After settling into my new home in the Portland area I will strip and recover his Extra to match the one I flew to 2nd place in the 2006 SW championships. I hope that this will somewhat keep my fathers legacy alive as well as boost participation in IMAC.
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02-27-2019, 03:23 AM
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I hope you have some warm rain gear since the two cities named Portland that I've been to both rain a lot more than California does and tend to be a lot colder, especially in the first and fourth quarters.
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12-25-2019, 09:11 AM
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After getting up to Oregon and getting my workshop set up it became painfully obvious that I just didn't have room for this beast of an airplane. I ended up selling it and bought a new sailplane. Here in the Portland area there is a very active sailplane club that puts on 2 sailplane contests per month May-October. I do still have my 1/3 scale Reed Falcon that will get new covering and a few mods to lighten it up next month that I will use in an IMAC contest when mt home field puts one on.
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