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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=100 BGCOLOR="#CCCCFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="04300640egdysm.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000066" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>Dayton Ultralight Club</B></I></FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT><B>    |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dayton Ultralight Club"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#0000BF" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <B>12/31/06</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.daytonulclub.org/trikasaurus/" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.daytonulclub.org/trikasaurus/"><U><B><IMG SRC="581be9d0.jpg" border=0 width="190" height="157" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="http://www.daytonulclub.org/trikasaurus/" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.daytonulclub.org/trikasaurus/"><U><B><IMG SRC="582b98b0.jpg" border=0 width="185" height="139" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <I><B>Click above pics for more photos</B></I></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=380 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> <B>Great Weather = Great Flying</B></div> <div> <B>by</B></div> <div> <B>Mike Peters</B></div> <bR> <div> You just can't complain about the great weather that we've had in December.  This last weekend had many pilots taking to the sky in southwest Ohio.</div> <div> Saturday (December 30th), started out by meeting for breakfast down at Frisch's adjacent to Hook field in Middletown, to visit with Dennis D'Angelo.  He was in town to pick up the majority of his equipment in his old hanger and move it to his present location in St. Louis.  After eating we all headed over to the hanger to load up his truck and continue the hanger talk.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="57ec5550.jpg" border=0 width="453" height="341" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Dennis is talking about organizing a flight come Spring, where the Dayton pilots and the St. Louis pilots will meet somewhere at the halfway mark between the two cities.</div> <bR> <div> Mike Chaney came out to test fly his Jabiru powered Kitfox, after doing some engine maintenance.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="57fc5550.jpg" border=0 width="453" height="341" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Four RV's came over in formation and peeled off for landing, then a little later this Yak taxied out.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="580c5550.jpg" border=0 width="453" height="341" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Around 1:30, I decided that I needed to do my own flying and drove North to my home field (McIntosh).  A high overcast had come over by now, but the 50 degree temps and low wind was ideal.  I gassed up the Titan and headed over to Dahio to see if Jim Watson was out flying his Trikasaurus - ATOS trike.  When I arrived, Jim was not yet there and there wasn't too much activity.  Many of the pilots got there fill on Saturday which was even a better day, but a couple of them tricked in later in the afternoon, including Jim.</div> <bR> <div> Being a hang glider pilot in my younger days and a sailplane pilot, I am intrigued by Jim's Trikasurus trike and the ATOS hang glider that he mated to it.  As a hang glider the wing is close to a 20:1 L/D which rivals Schweizer trainer sailplanes.  It is a folding rigid wing design created by Felix Rühle in Germany.  It has a carbon composite D-tube structure with folding carbon ribs and sports flaps and upper-wing spoilers.  The trike weighs around 100 lbs. allowing for a hefty pilot.  I'm not positive about the B model, but later models can carry up to 150 kilos or 330 lbs.</div> <bR> <div> As for the trike unit, the Trikasaurus is about as simple as you can get and it provides excellent visibility, since it does not have a forward downtube.  It amazes me that there are not that many flying examples of light trikes mated to the high performance rigid hang gliders.  I'm anxious to see what Jim can do with next spring's thermals.  I flew around Jim and got some aerial shots.  </div> <bR> <div> We will see another light-trike this next spring, since Conrad Swenson recently bought a Samba trike with a topless hang glider wing.  He is currently going over it to have it ready next season.</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" >Click on  </FONT><A HREF="http://www.daytonulclub.org/trikasaurus/" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.daytonulclub.org/trikasaurus/"><U>http://www.daytonulclub.org/trikasaurus</U></A> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" >for more pics.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Mike</div> </td> </tr></table></body>