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It all started with ... HAND LAUNCH
GLIDERS .......
Dave Thornburg's Sunbird
- designed by the truly remarkable writer on glider topics
- Old Bussard - you can find a bit more information on the skybench.com
(+more variations on the Sunbird) and RCgroups
discusion forum
Some of Dave Thornburgs original
articles (scanned)
Photo of Daves Sunbird prototype (?) by Hugh
Broesamle, CA, USA
Dave
Thornburgs bio (PDF)
Well, this is also the story of HLG / SAL / DLG
gliders with building instructions and advice on the internet, and
that all started with the Terminator
published on Charles
River RC's homepage. A 1,5M HLG glider with drawings and instructions +
modifications assessable to everybody with a modem and the gusts
to get involved with the noble art of vacuum bagging:
Terminator
by Bill Grenoble, Denny Maize and Joel Foner
The next to follow was Mark Drelas surpreme Super
Gee
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