Gongrats on finishing the glider. Do, please, send us a photo. You must be proud of her. Fly her with confidence. If you do fly her, what you've built, you can also repair. My son is flying his big drone after dark now because it is quite dark when he gets home from work. The other night he was flying it over a big field doing rolls and loops and other aerobatics with all its lights blazing. He noticed a car pull up some distance away. It sat there for a time before turning off its headlights. My son ignored it and continued to fly at higher altitude. Finally he was cold and numb and hungry so he landed the drone, picked it up and started for the house.
Then he remembered the visitor. It turned out to be a deputy sheriff. Apparently, some distant onlooker had called in a UFO report. Realizing what was going on the deputy had turned off his lights and watched the show from a distance. Now my son has a new friend and the one who reported the UFO must have been terribly disappointed.
Last night my son was flying the drone at top speed away from him. He watched in dismay as it hit the top of a very tall but invisible tree and tumbled down to the ground. He just knew it must be a pile of rubbish as he about 2 football fields length to get to the wreckage. To his great surprise and delight, the drone was intact and unharmed. May you be as lucky with uncontrolled flight. Flying at the beach or at the airfield should avoid greedy plane grabbing trees of course but winds, up and down drafts are fickle.
We don't need your Brit Lysanders anymore, we get ours from Canada. Yes indeedy, we have our own. Attached is a photo of the Lysander llla at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Strange markings for a US plane though. Actually, I have never seen a Lysander with US markings either. Some sort of liaison aircraft perhaps. Weren't they used a lot to drop spies behind enemy lines or in occupied Europe during WW 2?
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My son is flying his big drone after dark now because it is quite dark when he gets home from work. The other night he was flying it over a big field doing rolls and loops and other aerobatics with all its lights blazing. He noticed a car pull up some distance away. It sat there for a time before turning off its headlights. My son ignored it and continued to fly at higher altitude. Finally he was cold and numb and hungry so he landed the drone, picked it up and started for the house. 
Yes indeedy, we have our own. Attached is a photo of the Lysander llla at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Strange markings for a US plane though. Actually, I have never seen a Lysander with US markings either. Some sort of liaison aircraft perhaps. Weren't they used a lot to drop spies behind enemy lines or in occupied Europe during WW 2?
