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Have Sailplane - Will Travel<br />
The Easy Rider<br />
Tom Nagel, tomnagel@iwaynet.net<br />
have been writing periodic “Have Sailplane<br />
I - Will Travel” columns for a number of<br />
years now. One of the key points is that<br />
when I write about my own travels, I am not<br />
writing about trips I take to go soaring. I<br />
write about trips that I go on with my family<br />
or for business, and then manage to squeeze<br />
a sailplane into the luggage and sneak off to<br />
go flying for a few minutes.<br />
In order to get away with this, the sailplane<br />
has to be of modest size, and stowable, and<br />
durable enough to survive handling in the<br />
back of the family van. Most of the time that<br />
means I take a slope wing with me, early on<br />
a Zagi LE, and more recently a Boomerang.<br />
On one trip I took Rick Powers’ all EPP U-2<br />
spy plane, which packed well, but needed<br />
more wind and more space than I could<br />
always find.<br />
I think I may have a new traveling<br />
<strong>com</strong>panion, the 70" Multiplex Easy Rider.<br />
Actually, the box said “Multiplex Easy<br />
Glider,” but that was so close to Easy Rider<br />
20 R/C Soaring Digest
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