Slope soaring pics

[oceanus]

These are just some of the pics of the sailplanes that my friends own.

Scale Ka-6

[oceanus]

More

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Duo Discus. The owner does not want to be known.

[oceanus]

B-52D

[oceanus]

Greg with his sport sailplane. Didn't managed to get the plane's name.

[oceanus]

EPP semi-scale TG-3

[oceanus]

A foursome of white wings :

The Nimbus 4, Duo Discus, ASK-21 and ASW-27.

[HZM]

Hi Oceanus,

Thanks for the pic. QA : Is there a scale glider ( like those in white ) of wingspan ard 1-1.2m? I am interested to take up soaring but size at home is a real issue.

Cheers

Mike

[YZY]

Wow so many ppl on wkdays??

[oceanus]

Originally posted by HZM
Hi Oceanus,

Thanks for the pic. QA : Is there a scale glider ( like those in white ) of wingspan ard 1-1.2m? I am interested to take up soaring but size at home is a real issue.

Cheers

Mike

Nope. The smallest commercial scale glider kit I ever come across is a 1.3 m Salto H101 aerobatic glider, which I do not recommend to one who has not done any slope soaring before. Anyway, small gliders generally do not fly as well as the bigger ones. The yellow Ka-6 own by my friend is an own-designed scratch-built balsa plane, which is about 1.2m. It flies okay, but a little too twichy in strong gust. He ever built some semi-scale pre-war TG-3 gliders at around 1m span which flew well, but requires sub-micro equipment. It's scratch-built balsa plane as well.

[oceanus]

The Nimbus 4 shown in the picture is 2.6m span which can be dismantled into 2 part wings and shortish fuselage. Pretty handy but cost quite a fair bit. As far as I know, he ordered it from Canada which cost about $400 Sing. Anyway, scale gliders are not a good way to start slope soaring. Get a sport glider to gain experience first will be better.

[HZM]

Thanks for the explanation, let me make a trip down to BR to get a feel of it

Cheers

Mike

[francis87]

the bomber is nice . hehe

like it, man

Originally posted by oceanus
B-52D

[Airborne]

Hey folks, where is this place shown in the pics..? SGP..?

[HZM]

Its at the top of Bedok Reservoir. Now is soaring season. U will find a lot of ppl there during the weekend

Nice place for family too.

Mike