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Lets see who's here
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For those that look for a place to laser cut parts in Australia
Contact Bob from Wolfmodels. Great service and competitive prices
Cheers
Jilles Smits
wolfmodels@aapt.net.au
Contact Bob from Wolfmodels. Great service and competitive prices
Cheers
Jilles Smits
wolfmodels@aapt.net.au
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How about Rossco. He is a visitor
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Barry Cole mentioned some time ago that for a big country there are not many of us in the scale glider business
For what it is worth I will try to bring things in perspective
The country is big 7.7 million km2 in area , 32 times that of the UK (243610 km2) The land area is larger than the USA without Alaska.
Population 23 million, only 1/3 of the UK with 64 million. give and take a couple.
I would think that in Australia the percentage of model pilots to total population is the same.
The population is spread out over a large area's
For some tow meetings sometimes one has to drive two days or 1500-2000 km you will not do that every month.
There are local scale glider groups formed by members of model clubs in more populated area's but members numbers are not that high.
Because of the weather we can fly most of the times all year around and do not need to compress events in summer months only
For what it is worth I will try to bring things in perspective
The country is big 7.7 million km2 in area , 32 times that of the UK (243610 km2) The land area is larger than the USA without Alaska.
Population 23 million, only 1/3 of the UK with 64 million. give and take a couple.
I would think that in Australia the percentage of model pilots to total population is the same.
The population is spread out over a large area's
For some tow meetings sometimes one has to drive two days or 1500-2000 km you will not do that every month.
There are local scale glider groups formed by members of model clubs in more populated area's but members numbers are not that high.
Because of the weather we can fly most of the times all year around and do not need to compress events in summer months only
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Good Points you make, Jilles, I wish myself I could get to more of the events more regularly but my job and a large family make make that still a little tricky, I do plan to try and get across to victoria on occasions just to catch up with the broader community involved in scale soaring here in the land down under. South Australia has a good core group of scale enthusiasts and I feel the activity here is on the increase again with an event almost every month in the calendar for aerotowing and a point that I like is that its not always at the same field, variety is the spice of life as they say.
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I'm in and looking forward to building my first scale glider soon.
The scale soaring UK site is a ripper too, so much info
cheers chuck
The scale soaring UK site is a ripper too, so much info
cheers chuck
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Hi Chuck, what part of Aus are you from, there is probably help close by if they knowChuck Thrillseeker wrote:I'm in and looking forward to building my first scale glider soon.
The scale soaring UK site is a ripper too, so much info
cheers chuck
Geoff
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"Chuck Thrillseeker"??
Conjures up an image: Is that a real name ?
Conjures up an image: Is that a real name ?
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yep i'm real Chuck T Seeker and even my kids call me Chuck!
have a youtube channel too https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF9f4N ... JjPY5FioVA
Know most of the guys on here from Australia too
Just enjoying this site as it is so full of info on a subject i love
I'm even a Pom too! born in Margate Kent!
Cheers Chuck
one of my videos!
[youtube][/youtube]
have a youtube channel too https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF9f4N ... JjPY5FioVA
Know most of the guys on here from Australia too
Just enjoying this site as it is so full of info on a subject i love
I'm even a Pom too! born in Margate Kent!
Cheers Chuck
one of my videos!
[youtube][/youtube]