TCAF has a new member, Patrick Quarteman who joined us Wednesday July 28th at the field with his new plane.
His new plane, an E-Flite T-34 Mentor was checked over by TCAF members and ultimately flown by Bob Kovacs for the “check ride”.
Please join me in welcoming Patrick to the club.
Every Wednesday night starting around 5:30 Bob Kovacs is at the field for training. If your new to the club, need to refine a few maneuvers or practice your landing technique’s Bob is the guy that can help. Bring your own plane and transmitter to hook up with a “buddy box” to fly with a trained professional helping you along the way. We like to have members of the club come out and fly as well on Wednesday’s for inspiration!
These are two of my favorite gliders…they are all favorites when I’m flying them. I have converted a number of these, for myself and other people, over to electric to escape the necessity for winch launch . They come as an ARF in the orange and white scheme but I decided to strip one and re-paint the fuselage and redo the covering to suit my taste. The black covering on the bottom makes it much easier to see when it is way high but the white has the clean look I really like. I have fitted split flaps into the bottom of the center section of the wing to make landing in close quarters easy. Larry Weller
There is a handful of fellows in the club that like gliders. Any kind of gliders. There are a few that have DLG’s in their quiver such as this Blaster gently roaming the skies at dusk. A lot of the flights are 1-2 minutes but then some days 15 minutes is not unusual for a hand-launch.
A few of us went to training/club night and enjoyed a great night of flying. Garret is continuing to get better with Bob’s help and should be soloing by the end of the summer. We had several U-Can-Do 60’s out there as well as Mikes electric 4 star 40. It was a great night and hopefully more can make it out next week. As a reminder every Wednesday night is Club/Training night and every 2nd Wednesday of the month hot dogs are provided.
