Minimoa first flight

On Mar 22, 1:57*pm, Tony wrote:
I was surfing around today and found this cool website about Minimoa's. *Turns out this group has built a new one from scratch and had their first flight in it yesterday. Wow!

http://minimoa.jimdo.com/maiden-flight/

What? No videos of the first flight? ;-(

On Thursday, March 22, 2012 3:00:03 PM UTC-5, JohnDeRosa wrote:
On Mar 22, 1:57*pm, Tony wrote:
I was surfing around today and found this cool website about Minimoa's. *Turns out this group has built a new one from scratch and had their first flight in it yesterday. Wow!

http://minimoa.jimdo.com/maiden-flight/

What? No videos of the first flight? ;-(

considering the amount of no hair and gray hair in the toasting picture i doubt these guys have a bunch of go pro's around. No offense to any of those out there with no hair or gray hair.

I did find this video which includes a bit about the glider, from last fall.. Anyone know Dutch (I presume)? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4zg93PwTlw&hd=1&t=6m25s

Wonder when/if they'll sell plans...

On Mar 22, 1:35*pm, Tony wrote:
On Thursday, March 22, 2012 3:00:03 PM UTC-5, JohnDeRosa wrote:
On Mar 22, 1:57*pm, Tony wrote:
I was surfing around today and found this cool website about Minimoa's. *Turns out this group has built a new one from scratch and had their first flight in it yesterday. Wow!

http://minimoa.jimdo.com/maiden-flight/

What? *No videos of the first flight? *;-(

considering the amount of no hair and gray hair in the toasting picture i doubt these guys have a bunch of go pro's around. *No offense to any of those out there with no hair or gray hair.

I did find this video which includes a bit about the glider, from last fall. *Anyone know Dutch (I presume)?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4zg93PwTlw&hd=1&t=6m25s

Wonder when/if they'll sell plans...

looks like there is a section on the web site for blueprints that they
are creating....next project?

Dan
WO

looks like there is a section on the web site for blueprints that they
are creating....next project?

Dan
WO

It would be tempting. Lots of work of course. As far as I can tell there were at least 3 in the US. One in the NSM (N16923) which belonged to Richard DuPont and Ted Bellak. Barringer set the world distance record in this ship at 210 miles. The last airworthy one (N2664B) was exported a decade or more ago to Europe. Not sure what happened to the other one (N37JK). Would be cool to have one flying in the US.

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looks like there is a section on the web site for blueprints that they
are creating....next project?

Dan
WO

It would be tempting. Lots of work of course. As far as I can tell there
were at least 3 in the US. One in the NSM (N16923) which belonged to Richard
DuPont and Ted Bellak. Barringer set the world distance record in this ship
at 210 miles. The last airworthy one (N2664B) was exported a decade or more
ago to Europe. Not sure what happened to the other one (N37JK). Would be
cool to have one flying in the US.

I was the lucky buyer in 1988 when I bought N37JK from John Karlovich. After
carefull restoration by Jan Vermeer the dutch registration became PH-848 and
I flew her at many VGC-meetings, until I sold the Minimoa to Tilo Holighaus
and Sieger Maier in 2005 where it was registered as D-8180
I am also involved with the recreation of PH-80 so I can still enjoy flying
this beautifull sailplane.

There is still a original Minimoa in private hands in the U.S.A. but the
owner does not want to sell it or have it brought back in the air.

Hans Disma

I wonder where the Minimoa that was owned by EAL Captain Shelley
Charles is located?

My father, Captain Fritz Compton, flew it several times in the late
1940's and loved it.

Eastern Air Lines let Captain Charles store it in one of the EAL
hangars at Atlanta Airport.

Burt Compton
Marfa, Texas USA

Several references to other gull winged gliders, but no one mentioned the
Condor IV. There is at least one in the US. I got a ride in one of them
in Cologne at the very beginning of my gliding career (1954).


At 16:48 24 March 2012, Burt Compton - Marfa wrote:
I wonder where the Minimoa that was owned by EAL Captain Shelley
Charles is located?

My father, Captain Fritz Compton, flew it several times in the late
1940's and loved it.

Eastern Air Lines let Captain Charles store it in one of the EAL
hangars at Atlanta Airport.

Burt Compton
Marfa, Texas USA

On Saturday, March 24, 2012 11:48:55 AM UTC-5, Burt Compton - Marfa wrote:
I wonder where the Minimoa that was owned by EAL Captain Shelley
Charles is located?

My father, Captain Fritz Compton, flew it several times in the late
1940's and loved it.

Eastern Air Lines let Captain Charles store it in one of the EAL
hangars at Atlanta Airport.

Burt Compton
Marfa, Texas USA

Capt. Charles bought his Minimoa from Chet Decker in late 1939 (Soaring Dec.. 1939) He set a national altitude record in it (Soaring Sept/Oct 1943)

Decker bought his from Barringer in late 1937, which had been damaged in the 1937 Nationals. (Soaring Jan. 1938) The damage was from another plane that stalled on approach (Soaring August 1937)

Barringer ordered his new from the factory for the 1937 Nationals (Soaring Feb. 1937)

Can't find any definitive evidence with brief searches to determine what the registration number was for this ship. It is definitely not DuPont's N16923 or N2664B (November 1983 Soaring). I'm curious what the registration was on N37JK before it was presumably changed by John Karlovich. It is a 1937 model, which makes it possible it was the one that Barringer ordered, but there was at least one more ordered that year. The November 1983 Soaring claims there were 6 in the US at that time but the locations of only 2 were known at that time.

Gosh I love the SSA's online Soaring archive!