Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone on the Goldberg Extra 300 thread!

Dave

And may the new year be even better then the old!!!! If anyone hasn't noticed, this thread has had 37,105 views and 875 posts, it's been on page one for a very long time. All this for one plane and one old kit manufacture.

Same here. Merry Christmas all you Goldberg Extra fans. Gray Beard, it must be because it is such a great plane. Hopefully someday someone will bring it back in to production.

Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year !!!!!!!!!!!

Merry Christmas to all! Guess what?, someone put a long narrow box under the tree with my name on it!

Merry Christmas from me to all.

LOL You must have been a good boy!!

Merry Christmas to you all and have a safe New Year

Kindest regards

C

If that big box is in your way i will give you my address....
Enjoy your new kit!!!

Any idea of what kit that big box may contain???[8D] Just wondering.

Maybe a fishin pole or a baseball bat? Wev'e been talking about a floor lamp for the family room? I don't know. Have to wait. []

I doubt that a fishing pole or floor lamp has much lift to it, may be tough to land *L*

You're right. Floor lamps don't have much lift. I know. I saw one fly across the room once, after I made one of my patented bone head cracks to the little lady.

Goldberg Ultimate under the tree! Will start this after finishing the Midstar rebuild.

Hurray!!! You will love that Ultimate! Looks like the Midstar is about ready to cover, so it shouldn't be long now.

The GB ultimate is another great plane and one I have never built. I have seen over a hundred of them i'm sure over the years, but when they was the in thing to have I wanted something out of the ordinary so I went with the sandbolt er I mean skybolt.
While it is a great plane in itself the Ultimate I believe is better. Have fun in both building and flying it.
One word of caution bipes don't fly quite the same a a single wing sport flyer.

Good score Al!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's another perfect flying machine!! Don't forget the template rule, it's another kit that may go away without warning.

Flew the midstar today. Flew awesome. Very aerobatic compared to before the midair crash. No dihedral, 6" shorter wingspan, taildragger, and 3/4 of a pound lighter. Over 15 planes flew in 17 degree weather and light snow. Plane cartwheeled on landing when the wheels stuck in the snow, nosed over and the wind blew it into a cartwheel. No damage except a broken elevator hinge. Already fixed. Now I have a plane to practice up on for the Extra!

Did anyone read about the drop of some other CG kits??? Al, guess how lucky you really are!!!!
Gene

Well fellows, after 38 years of flying glow I've decided to move totally to electric. I guess this means my Goldberg Extra and two kits are for sale. The finished plane is powered with a gently used Saito 100, covered with coverite and dope. $400 receiver ready, pickup only in AZ. The kits are $180 shipped to the lower 48 and $190 for the one with the glass cowl. I'll be putting them in the marketplace soon.

Gene I see tower is still showing the GB ultimate and a few others, are you reffering to something specific?

Great planes discontinued production of the CG ultimate. See http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_9375782/tm.htm and http://www.carlgoldbergproducts.com/...ndex.html#kits

Yep, what Al is showing!!!! TEMPLATES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Looking like anything CG is going to get the ax as long as tower owns them. Now I want to see them say that kit wasn't selling!!!
Only one of the all time greats. Without templates it's another gone bird.

I still can't believe they would discontinue a kit that made them money. That just doesn't make sense. I'm sure most people are aware of the "Bring Back the Goldberg Kits" thread. The main kit that people want Hobbico to bring back is the Extra 300. Right now there is an ad for two CG Extra 300s in the RCU want ads. $180, and that includes free shipping. The ad has been up for almost 24 hours and not a single bite. If there was such a demand for these kits they would have been snapped up within an hour. I'm having a tough time not buying one myself, but I've already got one stashed away for the day I crater my GP Extra 300.

Money, or lack of!!! It is right after Xmas![&o]

To much instant gratification, nobody wants to spend the time building now days when they can open a box and have a plane together in just a few hours or less. Over the years I have spent a many a dollar at Tower but it keeps getting to be less and less and if they keep this crap up it will be none, most of the time I can't get what I really want there anymore due to there discontinued product lines and I am not talking about just aircraft either.
When the big take over happened tower went thru and rasied every price on everything they carried and not by a small margin either.

They buy out the GB line and discontinue it, what a nice way to promote there own kits. Don't get me wrong I do like GP kits, but I also liked many others that are now not available due to such practices as this.
I don't even see a lainier ARF or Kit in the place, maybe I didn't look hard enough but it just stands to reason.
I was told 20 years ago that GP was trying to monoplized the aircraft kit industry and now I can believe it.
If I seem a little bit bent out of shape, thats because I am!!!!!!!!