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Brave Guys and Beautiful Dolls 
In the early 1980s, I purchased an Electra Flyer Spirit glider that had been tree landed, repaired it and we had some excellent flights on it at Buffalo Mtn., Okalahoma and early test flights with center of mass vehicle static tow launches in Dallas , Texas. The Spirit was easy to coordinate turns, launch and land compared to our truncated tip Albatross Sailwings and pointed tip Wills and Sunbird kites. I think the Spirit was a design project of both Kieth Nichols of Albatross and Larry Newman of Electra Flyer. Also I read somewhere that Australian Bill Pain manufactured under license the Spirit. Does anyone have some history on the design evolution and characteristics of flight? The performance and launch and landing seemed to represent a combination that could have been good enough for most typical hang glider pilots!
Scott Whittet USHGA # 7473
Thanks for that bit of history.