Bill, and all the other Mongo-loids,
I was really sorry to hear that the Mongo and MongoJr had gone out
of production.
I built a Mongo Jr. with the intent to thermal off a highstart, and
made a few minor mods to that end. It thermals pretty well, and anyone
looking for a 2 meter thermal wing would do well to start with the 2M Mongo
Jr. as a kit to bash.
Mods:
RDS couplers, no external pushrod drag.
Balsa winglets, covered in Tyvek from old mailing envelopes.
Saves an ounce of tail weight and a lot of frontal area.
Towhook.
Trip strips on the top aft of the EPP an inch or so.
A carbon tube spar, just aft of the CG (cause that's how
long the piece was that I had on hand.) Laid in a groove cut in the bottom
of the wing.
And eventually, wing fences, just for the heck of it.
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