I built one some time in the 70s. It was the best free flight glider I had ever had. When throwing it and it encountered a gust, there was no nose-up tendancy, just a perfect flat gain in altitude. The slight curvature of the otherwise flat elevator provided the perfect amount of lift when air velocity increased.
Bei dem Wind landen ist nicht einfach. Ich flieg die Valenta Modelle die haben noch die guten Störklappen verbaut das macht das ein bisschen einfacher.
I grew up with free flight but then when i could afford r/c i could never understand why someone wouldn't want to put a radio in a plane - lol! Anyway, great flight!
Hello. Thank you for sharing these shots of Mangart saddle, they're amazing! Is it possible to use a small part of this video in a movie I make? I earn no money with it and I'd add you in the acknowledgements, of course. Thanks for your reply in advance! :)
In the early 80's I had the successor of this one (basically the same but with ABS fuselage). It had a mechanical timer to tilt the elevator upwards after some minutes to force it to land. But once the release mechanism was blocked and released only partially ... then it circled upwards in the thermals over our small city until it was completely out of sight. Luckily we found some guys who told us that it had landed in a large tree in a garden on a hill at the other side of the town.
