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Report on the E3 so far Posted by Greg Smith on Nov 6, 2002, 00:06 11/03/02 - I've owned my E3 for about 3 months and have flown it quite a bit at the slope. The first flight was at a small 50-foot site on the shore of Lake Michigan. This hill seems to produce better lift than its size would dictate and the Ellipse flew well. The landing pattern is unconventional at most of the slopes we fly due to obstructions behind the hill. We circle around low, below the lip of the slope, and try to bleed off as much speed as possible when coming back up, then plop down right at the crest of the hill. The Ellipse is very predictable and does all I ask of it in the landing pattern and I am getting at least 75 degrees of flap so it slows down nicely. I've had a lot of good sloping with it since the first day including several days at Atwater Beach. On a recent 20 plus mph day it started to show some of its speed potential. I could crank hard in the turns and it shot back the other way with no apparent loss of speed. I am also impressed with the durability. I have never really smacked it yet but I do have to land in a convienient bush at one slope (to avoid all the tree stumps!) and it has not shown any adverse wear. I even tried it off a heavy-duty histart and the launch was passable. This was my first histart launch in 20 years and it went up fine. It seems like it will thermal well but I really have to get it on a winch, haven't done that for 20 years either. Seems to me throwing it off the slope is so much easier! Print this article - Email this article ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------

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