[LASS Soaring] Polecat Comes Home

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I posted this to rcgroups.com.
 
I was contacted yesterday by a sailboat friend and occasional flyer which  we 
will call Dave (cause that is his name) concerning a recent purchase he had  
made.  Dave said he had purchased a DLG at a yard sale for a dollar about a  ½ 
mile from where our club flies on Thursdays and Sundays.  Dave bought it  
because he was concerned one of our club mates had lost it and he wanted to make  
sure it was returned.  The plane had seen better days.  It is a (out  of 
production) RES Xterminator Pro from PoleCat Aeroplane Works.  The wing  is in 
pretty good shape, the tail feathers kind of beat up, the pod broke in  half 
(repairable), the canopy was missing as were the servos.  The JR  receiver with 
channel 19 crystal was intact as was the battery.
 
Well I sent an email out to the club asking if anyone had lost one and I  
gave a brief description.  I did get a response from a club mate and we  will 
call him Ken (because everyone else does).  Ken proceeded to describe  to me 
specifics about the plane that assured me that it was his plane.  He  mentioned 
the crystal frequency 19.  He correctly described the receiver  model and that 
it used to be a righty launch plane.  He said he had removed  the pin and put 
it on the left wing tip following the purchase from another club  mate and we 
will call him Bruce (yeah you guessed it).  No doubt this was  Ken’s plane.
 
Now I know you are thinking what is so special about this story???   Well 
nothing except that Ken lost this DLG in a tree about 8 – 10 miles from  where it 
was recently purchased and from where we normally fly.  
 
Yeah!!!  What is so special about that?  Well nothing except that  Ken lost 
it in the spring of 2002.  
 
Tony 
Louisville Area Soaring Society
_http://louisvillesoaring.org/_ (http://louisvillesoaring.org/) 
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