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Old July 30th 10, 07:45 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
mike
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Default Phoebus C - why so cheap?

On Jul 30, 11:36*am, Grider Pirate wrote:
On Jul 30, 10:20*am, Tony wrote:

NOT! A soaring junkie would have told us who was flying it, how they
placed, and perhaps posted the daily results.


well the daily results are in the SSA Soaring Magazine archive,
September 1969 edition Page 22 and 23 in the actual magazine (20 and
21 in the archive). *4 Phoebus's (or is that Phoebii?) were entered
and not noted as Standard Class gliders. *One of the 4 was designated
a Phoebus C while the rest were just plain Phoebus. *the Phoebus C
placed 21st, pilots last name was Ryan.


Soaring Junkie!


John Ryan, the guy who was being interviewed before the last task,
saying any of 10 or was it 20 people could win. He was the USA
distributor for the Phoebus at the time. The first was Art
Zimmermann, who later designed and built the Concept 70. ... Uh oh
I'm a soaring junkie.