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Squirrel catapult into lake3/28/2024 The light she brings is the disinfectant I pour over the ingredients, revealing what's safe for consumption. My Una, she sleeps on a small, fold-out chair/bed at night. Mary has been by my side since we arrived, Wednesday. Gumbo, it seems to be, a lifetime's gather of indistinct animal and vegetable parts. Sometimes I can see small craters where bubbles came and went. When my eyes dim, we watch a cauldron of confusions and impurities bubbling on slow simmer-a potent, unsettling brew whose attraction I cannot escape. Steroid induced sleeplessness and the proximity of Death creep in for late night companions. I am but waiting for you-very near-just around he corner. What is death but an unavoidable incident? Why should I be out of your mind because I am out of your sight? There is absolute and unbroken continuity. Life means all that it has ever meant, the same as it ever was. Let it be spoken without effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Let my name be the household word it always was. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me-a little. Laugh as we always laughed at the jokes we enjoyed together. Speak of me in the easy way you always did. Whatever we were to each other we still are.Ĭall me by my old familiar name. I am me, you are you, and the life we lived together is untouched and unchanged. I have merely slipped away into the next room. I share this with you all below, in loving memory of my friend, Dean. A number of years ago I shared a memorial written for an elderly friend of mine who had passed and Dean commented that it was the most eloquent valedictory as he had ever seen. He was a gifted craftsman who would literally hand you the shirt off his back if you chanced to admire it. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather and friend and mentor to countless people around the globe. Plain Jane can be seen in flight in the first part of this video.On November 4, 2016, Dean Torges crossed the Great Divide. I sanded the rough spots and covered this with glue to create a harder surface. Must have been my lucky day as it landed on the other shore and I was able to find it.Īnother issue I have seen is that the folding mechanism scrapes the balsa fuselage and this could hinder getting the wing locked in proper position. Thought sure it would either land in the water or fly away. I started chasing and the glider flew over a small lake. This worked too well as I had launched into a thermal, the glider kept circling downwind. I tightened up this rubber band and tried launching again. I found that the small rubber band that pulls the wing into place stretches out over time and the wing is not put into the proper incidence. Too many of the dives and the plane tends to break. Sometimes the glider would head in a steep angle downwards. Most of the time the wings would unfold and the plane would start to glide nicely. I substitued Tan 3/16″ rubber for the rubber loop provided which gave a higher launch. When you launch the glider it appears to work best by aiming the catapult launcher as vertical as possible. The wings are pulled back flat along the fuselage which reduces drag and lift. With this design the wing pivots forward and then hinges back. Gary had suggested I look at the A-J Classics glider inspired by the model aviation legend Jim Walker. The idea for purchasing the Plain Jane folding wing glider from A-J Classics started when I had tried to build one of my Hammer Down Catapult gliders with wings that would fold upwards at launch like the Guillow’s glider.
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