Trikes : The Flex-Wing Flyers

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Are you interested in the book Trikes : The Flex-Wing Flyers?

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Trikes : The Flex-Wing Flyers

Postby Sox » Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:35 pm

Is anyone interested in ordering the following book?

Now with revised cover photo too!
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I am in contact with Lucian and will be putting together an order if anyone is interested.

This is one of the better trike books - these are HOT off the press.

For those interested parties, the cost will be around $45. Please submit your response in the poll.

Trikes : The Flex-Wing Flyers
By Lucian Bartosik and Hal McSwain


Trikes: The Flex-Wing Flyers is an exciting and important volume on Microlight Flight for trike enthusiasts of all abilities: beginners, intermediates, students, and flight instructors. Packed with dozens of illustrations, this 270 page contribution to flexwing flight offers a unique approach not only to the art and craft of flying trikes but to a thorough understanding of how an aircraft with no rudder, no tail section, and no ailerons achieves flight.

Trikes is authored by two flex-wing afficionados (the aircraft they fly, not the authors, are “flex-wing”) whose respective understandings of trike flight provide a thoroughly effective if unusual strategy and format: the work is authored by an apprentice to trike flight and one of the sport’s leading authorities and proponents of trike flight.

Trikers from Capetown to Sydney will recognize Lucian Bartosik as one of Microlight’s foremost authorities in the sport. With years of experience and countless hours in three-axis, hang glider, ultralight, and microlight aircraft, Lucian provides such insight and clarity as is gleaned only from mastery of “our” type of flying coupled with complete dedication to the sport. Co-author, Hal McSwain, as a new comer to triking was frustrated when he discovered that no comprehensive work on trikes was out there and contacted Lucian to initiate Trikes — since nothing else existed to supplement his own flight training.

Bartosik’s and McSwain’s initiative is both successful and exhaustive in scope.

Chapters include:
  • * an explanation of the phenomenon of flight
    * a description and history of microlight flight
    * effects of flight controls in weight-shift aircraft
    * preparations for flight
    * weather
    * navigation
    * flight
    * equipment and clothing
    * triking activities

In addition, Trikes contains an extensive set of appendices, exhaustive flight and weather glossaries, and a complete index, and all weights and measures are in both U.S. and metric measures. The authors’ constant attention to safety, airmanship, and “pilot awareness” provides the perfect introduction to the sport and provides a cogent yet clear reference for trikers of all abilities. Trikes is sprinkled with numerous vig­nettes from the authors’ own experiences and sparkles with a blend of Welsh (Lucian) and Southern U.S. (Hal) humor.
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Re: Trikes : The Flex-Wing Flyers

Postby slysi » Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:52 pm

Count me in Soxie boy vhpy
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Re: Trikes : The Flex-Wing Flyers

Postby Bayliner » Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:13 pm

Count me in as well. It will have to be posted to Kenya though.
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Re: Trikes : The Flex-Wing Flyers

Postby Sox » Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:04 pm

Bayliner wrote:Count me in as well. It will have to be posted to Kenya though.
We can talk later ... I'm sure we can sort that out.
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Re: Trikes : The Flex-Wing Flyers

Postby Frequent Flyer » Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:44 pm

count me in as well, thanx
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Re: Trikes : The Flex-Wing Flyers

Postby 3wheels » Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:56 pm

by Frequent Flyer on Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:44 pm

count me in as well, thanx
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Re: Trikes : The Flex-Wing Flyers

Postby African Grey » Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:01 am

Me too...
Student has my old copy...not sure which one though..?

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Re: Trikes : The Flex-Wing Flyers

Postby Sad-Ham » Fri Jul 18, 2008 9:09 am

I'll take a copy
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Re: Trikes : The Flex-Wing Flyers

Postby Barryathome » Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:15 am

I'm in - one copy please! vhpy
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Re: Trikes : The Flex-Wing Flyers

Postby Tobie » Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:49 am

One here please.
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Re: Trikes : The Flex-Wing Flyers

Postby Grumpy » Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:57 am

Me one please and thanks
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Re: Trikes : The Flex-Wing Flyers

Postby AV8 » Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:21 pm

Me too please.
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Re: Trikes : The Flex-Wing Flyers

Postby Uncle Spud Murphy » Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:45 pm

Hi yer Sox

Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo new to this new way of life, but sooooooooooooooooooooo excited for what is to come so pleeeeeeeeeeeeeessse include me for a copy. Still in the UK though until I sell the ##@@'** house so need to make a plan.

Do make contact,

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Re: Trikes : The Flex-Wing Flyers

Postby Leprachaun » Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:59 pm

Count me in. Leprachaun puff puff
How much and when do we pay ???
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Re: Trikes : The Flex-Wing Flyers

Postby KBP - COBRA » Sat Jul 26, 2008 1:10 pm

Count me in as well!!
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