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Hi all,
After owning many scale and sport slope gliders, being ARFs, balsa kits or scratchbuilts, I finally decided to own one of the latest fully moulded composite competition glider to further expand my knowledge and experiences with vaious kinds of models.
Decades ago, when fibreglass moulded scale and sport gliders reign the higher end of the market, they are often dubbed as "Glass slippers". The arrival of carbon fibre moulded ships have since taken the top end range of models in the recent years, which I personally prefer to dubbed them as " Charcoal".
Thanks to Pang, the founder of Soaring Composite, http://www.soaringcomposites.com/, mouldies like this suddenly become so much more accessible and affordable that what we had in the yesteryears. The qualities of these kits are also far better than what we had. Seeing many of these birds soaring from our local slope already make one dream of owning one. I certainly think that at least once in my lifetime, I should experience it for myself.
While browsing through websites, I found that international competitions like F3F race are evolving very fast, very much like fashion industry, and competitors and designers are consantly seeking for the new winning formular to top the competitions. The evidences are very obvious as you can easily distinguish the design differences between 2 designs just merely a year apart. Although the older design may have another few useful seasons worthy to stay competitive, it make sense to seek for the lastest design, if the cost remains affordable, as such that it'll stay competitive for longer period. Reading the descriptions and the design philosophy of the Strega got me into making my final decision, as many other models are simply provided with too little informations for one to understand the "winning edge" of each individual design.
Having talking so much c*ck, well, this is my lastest Purple and Violet, NOT pink, STREGA, AKA "Purple charcoal".
After owning many scale and sport slope gliders, being ARFs, balsa kits or scratchbuilts, I finally decided to own one of the latest fully moulded composite competition glider to further expand my knowledge and experiences with vaious kinds of models.
Decades ago, when fibreglass moulded scale and sport gliders reign the higher end of the market, they are often dubbed as "Glass slippers". The arrival of carbon fibre moulded ships have since taken the top end range of models in the recent years, which I personally prefer to dubbed them as " Charcoal".
Thanks to Pang, the founder of Soaring Composite, http://www.soaringcomposites.com/, mouldies like this suddenly become so much more accessible and affordable that what we had in the yesteryears. The qualities of these kits are also far better than what we had. Seeing many of these birds soaring from our local slope already make one dream of owning one. I certainly think that at least once in my lifetime, I should experience it for myself.
While browsing through websites, I found that international competitions like F3F race are evolving very fast, very much like fashion industry, and competitors and designers are consantly seeking for the new winning formular to top the competitions. The evidences are very obvious as you can easily distinguish the design differences between 2 designs just merely a year apart. Although the older design may have another few useful seasons worthy to stay competitive, it make sense to seek for the lastest design, if the cost remains affordable, as such that it'll stay competitive for longer period. Reading the descriptions and the design philosophy of the Strega got me into making my final decision, as many other models are simply provided with too little informations for one to understand the "winning edge" of each individual design.
Having talking so much c*ck, well, this is my lastest Purple and Violet, NOT pink, STREGA, AKA "Purple charcoal".
at 1st sight...
Heard from Pang later it was something to do with keeping it in the 'lift band' or something 
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