PLEASE READ I know 19 min. is not very long but it was my very first flight with a thermal. I barely used the motor at all. The weather in Seattle today has been stunningly beautiful so there was no reason to sit home and do nothing. I flew the Cumulus '97, a 10 year-old six-foot wingspan, Nicad battery but damn good flying electric sailplane. I hit two monster thermals at Marymoor, the first was the best, rode it up to about a thousand feet. The second one I almost gave up at first because all I could find was sink (which meant there was a BIG thermal around). Then all of a sudden at the corner of my eye to my right I see about 4 hawks soaring high with their wings spread out so I headed over there......hit alot of turbulence on the way then....BAM up I went! And I got it all on my inflight camera. Longest flight may have only been 22 min (it was the second one with the birds which I did not have the camera on), buy hey It was my first thermals so I got nervous once I hit about 900 feet. And I only used about half of my two Nicad 600 Mah and 1000 Mah batteries (I use Nimh and LIPO on my other gliders/planes because Nicad is so outdated). Bringing it down sure is hard! To show what a glider is capeable (barely) of doing I did some loops and rolls on the way down to lose lift. Club flying is fun because your etheir flying with a big honking gas plane or small sub-3D electric guys swarming your big glider. Was a great day for me! And thanks to my dad for hand-launching it <b>...</b>
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