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From: "Harley Michaelis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 11:54 AM
Subject: Genie pages update.
It's been hardly a month since the last update, but recent events have
prompted changes in all but 4 of the 18 files at
http://genie.rchomepage.com/. Friend Jay Decker has once again generously
taken the time to post the changes.
Most notably, Bill and Bunny Kuhlman, the managing editors of the online
RCSD, have decided to do a series of articles on the Genie line of
scratch-buildable sailplanes. Their merits are discussed in the "What's a
Genie?" file. The applicable pages in the March issue, are 3, 12, 13, 14
and 15.
I've made a new friend in Chris Boultinghouse of Austin, Tx. who has
started a build of the big Genie and will be documenting it for RCSD in a
series of issues.
I've sold new big Genie #28 and have started #29. Something new always
comes up to incorporate when building another, so the files get regularly
updated. Nothing is set in stone as with a molded design that
progressively ages.
In any event, if you want input on the ships in the composite Genie line
from other than me, the RCSD is now another source. Get into the on line
magazine at http://www.rcsoaringdigest.com. Be patient for the
downloading. There's a lot of material with pix in PDF format.
If some of you fellows can use extra money, consider learning to build
these ships for resale. Doing one a month is doable in evenings and
weekends. #28 sold for $1,400 for the airframe, exclusive of radio gear in
it. As long as there are flyers willing to pay the price, there is a place
for builders to produce RTF airframes for them.
I've been able to readily sell used ships I've built for my own use, as
well as occasional new ones built on contract. It keeps me in new ships
and new radio gear. I just recycle the same money over and over without
ever digging into other resources.
The thing is, the building of fine airframes is a doable art form.
Materials are available. "How to" information is readily available in many
sources, as well as in the Genie web pages.
Just because ARF's are available is no reason to capitulate to what others
offer and abandon the development and use of building skills, forgoing the
satisfaction of working independently. Non-builders miss the greater joy
of exercising their creative talents and give nothing back to the hobby.
You don't know the level of gratification you are missing until you do
something well yourself to take pride in.
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