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Old 08-30-2011, 10:09 PM   #1
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Hey, Spinnaker, hope you've got yourself an RC plane handy in case someone can't find one themselves.
You'd think Lobo1186 would have jumped on this one. After all, it was his idea in the first place, and you're letting me down Sasha. The R/C field is right in your neck of the woods. It's 20 miles away from me.
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Old 08-30-2011, 10:57 PM   #2
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I'll try to get one tomorrow morning, work is crazy lately

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Old 08-31-2011, 07:10 PM   #3
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Well, 48 hrs. are up and all of you are dismal. Had to dig this out of storage, it hasn't seen daylight in 30 yrs. Originally built it in 1975. This will satisfy the rules of the game.
Since I feel guilty about the brick wall challenge, all I had to do was go out in front of the house, I will donate my point for the brick wall picture to anyone who can identify the make and model of this RC glider in the next 24 hrs. Think of it as a challenge within the challenge.
I'm not going to make it any easier for you all for the next picture challenge.
NEXT: Boxster with a snow covered mountain (a real mountain).
You guys up in Alaska should have this covered in a snap. For some of you, if you know anything about photography and lenses, you really don't need to be that close to a mountain to get it into the picture. For the flat landers, sorry, you can get even in a later challenge.
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Old 08-31-2011, 07:55 PM   #4
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Why feel guilty? You met the challenge without having to leave the house, much like our first point winner got an easy point because all I said was to take a pic of the car in the driveway...easy as pie. Ya got lucky, I say keep the point, but if you want to see if someone manages to get the point from you, feel free.

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Old 08-31-2011, 08:05 PM   #5
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Why feel guilty? You met the challenge without having to leave the house, much like our first point winner got an easy point because all I said was to take a pic of the car in the driveway...easy as pie. Ya got lucky, I say keep the point, but if you want to see if someone manages to get the point from you, feel free.

I just want to see if anyone is up to the challenge.
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Old 08-31-2011, 09:02 PM   #6
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Old 08-31-2011, 09:40 PM   #7
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Nope, I'll post the answer in 22 hrs. and relinquish the point to the first correct answer that beats the time limit.
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I will donate my point for the brick wall picture to anyone who can identify the make and model of this RC glider
looks like airtronics aquila...
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Old 09-01-2011, 02:58 PM   #9
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You'd think Lobo1186 would have jumped on this one. After all, it was his idea in the first place, and you're letting me down Sasha. The R/C field is right in your neck of the woods. It's 20 miles away from me.
haha unfortunately I have no RC plane The only reason I brought it us was the toy car and then someone saying it had to be a real plane... and an RC plane is real and a toy
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24 hours and no one came through. This RC glider was originally designed and made by Hobie Alter of surfboard and catamaran fame in 1974. It is a Hobie Hawk. The elliptical dihedral should have been a dead giveaway. It is a very distinctive feature of this glider, (tonycarreon-the Airtronics Aquila has the more conventional polyhedral and the wing has a constant cord center section.)
Thank you Overdrive for letting me hijack your thread. I had a feeling that my point wasn't in too much risk, now back to the picture challenge. You would think that anyone from Alaska to Colorado could do this easily. Hell, I can see a snowy mountain from Seattle and I don’t even have to leave the city.
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C'mon folks, find that picture of your Boxster with a (real) snow covered mountain! At best my local mountain might have some fog toward the top, so I'm SOL at the moment...
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Old 09-02-2011, 02:03 PM   #12
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Ok, Spinnaker, looks like we're about 5 hours away from the 48 hour mark. You'll have your second opportunity to retain your point starting then for the next 24 hours after that, and upon succesfully doing that, presenting the next challenge...not that either of them have been particularly difficult.

Don't let that stop any of you from trying to post up a picture if you've got one or are going to get one in the next 30 hours. You just have to beat Spinnaker.
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Old 09-02-2011, 04:17 PM   #13
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OK Overdrive, I will post it now since I know that you will be busy this weekend with your clamshell/top issues, just so we can move on. I seems that everyone is photo challenged as of lately. Don’t know why it is so hard to find a mountain. I just drove a mile over to Lake Washington and snapped this while I was running an errand yesterday. Figured I’d plan ahead for the inevitably lack of picture posting, because it appears that most of you don’t have the time to chase after the challenges. The next one will be as easy as my brick wall one was.
As long as the Sun is shining where you are this one should take any of you about 15 seconds to do. The most difficult thing you might have to do is to move the car out of the garage. It is better that I post this now, since the sun is still up on the east coast. If I waited until the 48 hr time limit came up, the west coast would have the advantage since you would be in the dark by then. My apologies to those in the EU.
Next: A close up of the Porsche crest on your hood with a reflection of the Sun next to it.
BTW, everyone knows that this would really be a challenge here in Seattle because it rains here all the time.
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Old 09-03-2011, 05:08 PM   #14
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