foam glider list

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Permalink Reply by Cal on September 23, 2008 at 7:54pm

I have a JW Dynamic Soaring slope glider. It is all EPP with carbon rods in the wing.

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Permalink Reply by Eric on September 24, 2008 at 8:16am

Cal said:

I have a JW Dynamic Soaring slope glider. It is all EPP with carbon rods in the wing.

that looks like a fun plane although I think it has been discontinued and perhaps replaced by the arrow, I think they call that a flying plank, right? Do you live near any hills, what do you have in Michigan? Sand dunes?

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Permalink Reply by Eric on September 25, 2008 at 8:29am

I think I found the JW you were talking about - was originally a Bowman model - now sold by L2 Airframes

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Permalink Reply by Mark Taylor on September 25, 2008 at 8:35pm

Eric is correct...

Tom Copp of F3X.COM and myself (along with a couple of the other local guys in SoCal) were playing around with EPP slope planes. They had a special slope race class for them and Tom knew he could build a plane way faster than a Zagi on the slope. Zagi's just couldn't retain energy through a turn, mostly due to the large chord swept back wings.. He modeled the Bandit after a composite plane (think it was an old SNIPE). Indeed, it flew great and we whooped Zagi's.

Probably about 2 years later with the advent of DS'ing, Pat Bowman took this same basic design with a faster airfoil to make the JW..

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Permalink Reply by Eric on April 15, 2009 at 6:02pm

Dreamflight is back in business today with a moulded epp weasel. alula still pending.

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Permalink Reply by Ed Anderson on August 6, 2009 at 2:22am

I like foam gliders. I have an Easy Glider Electric, a Zagi and a Boomer ( mountain models ). I also have a Radian on the way. These tend to be fun planes, trainer planes and travel planes. At the other end are my Supra, Ava and Thermal Dancer. So I enjoy flying planes at both ends of the spectrum.

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Permalink Reply by Stehl Donohue on August 27, 2009 at 5:11pm

There is also Offtheedge sailplanes
www.offtheedge.com.au
Epp Wasp,Scorpion,Mig,Drongo and soon to be an EPP Zipper

Also www.fatboycombatwing.com for wings

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Permalink Reply by Dumorian on September 3, 2009 at 5:25pm

I have a Cularis which is one of my favorite planes. I 'had' an EGE, which the winds gods saw fit to take over the mountain. Live and learn? Well, no... I 'had' an EGPro with 30some Leds buried in it. Well, the long story short. We set a new long distance night flying record with it at Joe Nall this year. It was out around 2 miles. YES!!! 2 miles. We were still flying it! We were at the 3d line and it went down across 220 in the yard next to the church. Yup... 2 miles. I now have another EGE which is in the box, but is going to be my experimental tow glider. See if we can get that down to a science. And then I have the Multiplex Fox. And yes, it's going to get RC equipped. The micro glider. In fact I spent most of the afternoon thinking about this. And, then there is the Ghetto Glider. What's a Ghetto Glider? Well, you start with one of those cheapy foam free flight gliders like from Wally World and start the mods. We have a club contest scheduled for the Ghetto Gliders next month. So far, about 10 members have been building them.

That's about where I am with foam gliders at the moment.

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