At the 1969 Nats...Dave Gierke and I were talking about the possibilities of finding a light weight small sized powerful electric motor that could be.......................
POWERED BY JUST USING ONE SHEILDED LINE....and more importantly have a battery pac strong enough and powerful enough that the flyer could carry in in a fanny-butt-belly-groin pack (depending where you located the silly belt pack
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The advantage in doing so was that the model would not have to be burdened by all that extra battery weight...plus even betta yet. One would not have to unscrew and install batteries in the model itself. Simply all one would have to do is strap yourself into the pack..n' plug into the control handle!!!!!!!!!!
From that point---------------Dave reminded us of the problem that he had experienced with his beautiful retracts in that All American Eagle with the shielded flying line at the 68 nats. But still....he and the rest of us...were upbeat to the real possiblities that major PA events would soon be not only WON WITH ELECTRICS BUT ALSO WOULD BECOME THE NORM...due to simply the noise factor alone as our world's populations grew and our flying fields would surely soon begin to disappear...due to urban expansion etc.
How profettical' was that?
I am totally amazed that it has taken so many years for these ideas to slowly become......reality?
CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN...TO PAUL WALKER WIN...AT PORTLAND WITH HIS NEW ELECTRIC POWERED IMPACT! WHAT AN IMPACT this year just may bring as folks are dragged, kicking and screaming into the dawning of a new age of the new GREEN REALITY!
Topic: DAVE GIERKE'S "I HAD A DREAM!" (Read 928 times)
