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Old February 19th 14, 08:48 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Ah. But can top trump you all.....
Along with Cirrus, Astir x2, Pegase...the jewel
in the crown. FS24 Phoenix.



At 20:26 19 February 2014, Kevin Christner
wrote:
On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 2:47:07

PM UTC-5, JS wrote:
We all know who will win the Classic

Collection Contest.
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Interesting to know where two ASW12s

are. Which one does Kevin have?
Dave=
Nelson's 15m version? Mark Grubb's

complete refurb? Oder....
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The only prescription is more Kowbell!
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Jim


I have Mark Grubb's. The canopy mod, gas

struts allowing 90 degree
movemen=
t to the rear, is very nice. Unfortunately

the polyurethane has not held
u=
p well and large areas are cracking off.

AJ and George flew Elfe S3's in 1968.

However, if you look at any two
S3's=
, even those with sequential s/n's, while

they look the same, they are
ofte=


n internally very different.

Does anyone know if there are any other

currently airworthy ASW-12s out
the=
re? Not sure how far along Steve is on his.

Rick Walters' is working on
h=
is. Last I talked to him he was planning on

installing spoilers as part
of=
the rebuild process. =20

The holy grail right now is the 604. Four

are sitting in Arizona. No
cont=
act from the owner after repeated attempts.

I'd also like to get a Sisu.
=
Appears to still be a few airworthy. Only

one I've heard of flying
recentl=
y is AJ's that Dick Butler has and is

restoring for eventual return to the
=
NSM.