I am on vacation this week and was flying my Lil Bird2 this afternoon at the nearby high school field. All I can say is that if I keep flying this glider for another couple of months, I think I�ll be able to get off my blood pressure medicine. This afternoon was the most relaxing flying I have done thusfar in the couple of months I have been into this hobby. A couple of factors have combined to take me to the next level in this hobby. The first is the Lil Bird2. This glider is an amazing aircraft. It flies slow and floats like magic (despite the armor plated strength that I have built into it) - two essential qualities when you�re learning on your own! The second thing that has helped me up the "learning curve" has been the Endless Lift videos. While watching the first Endless Lift video last night I realized that I can actually enjoy slope soaring even though I am live 3000 miles east of Torrey Pines and my flying field is in Philadelphia! Taking what I saw on the Enless Lift video - Paul Naton "slope soaring" off of miniscule "slopes" in Florida, I tried seeing if I could get any lift out of a 20 foot high slope (about a 40 degree from horizontal) that runs the length of the field on which I fly; the wind was blowing towards the slope at about 5 to 10 mph this afternoon. It worked!! I got some amazing flights with my LB2 off the slight lift from this slope!! If there are any people out there who are learning to fly on their own,� GET THESE VIDEOS! They will open your eyes to the capabilities of r/c gliders. The third thing that has helped me up the learning curve has been to put red ultracote covering on the right wingtip of my otherwise all yellow LB2. Previous to doing this, I was consistently getting the left and right controls mixed up; my son has been learning much quicker and has not had this problem - I guess my old brain has long since been "hard wired" making learning this stuff a little more difficult! Thanks Ray Hayes for designing such a cool little glider. Thanks Paul Naton for producing those great videos. Thanks to whoever it was on the internet (I think on the rec.models.rc.soaring ng) that suggested putting the different color covering on one of the wingtips to help differentiate "left" from "right". Below is the url to a satellite view of my flying field,� and it�s all mine! I am confident that I am the only one who has ever flown here. Flying powered planes is out of the question with houses on all sides, but this field is perfect for gliders; and it is even "more perfect" for hlg�s! Despite what the Terraserver photo says, this photo is in the Olney section of Philadelphia; it is about 3 miles away from Rockledge, Pa. (I guess the people who cataloged these USGS satellite photos are the same ones who cataloged the satellite photos of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.) http://terraserver.microsoft.com/GetTilesByXY.asp?XId=9488&YId=3695&TileX=2&TileY=0&SrcId=1&ImgDate=03/29/1992&DSize=2 cliff RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
