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L2 AIRFRAMES IS NOW ACCEPTING ORDERS FOR THE JW60

The sixty inch JW was designed with one thing in mind, Dynamic Soaring. Joe Wurts designed the airfoil to maximize the speed and performance of Dynamic Soaring with an EPP wing. This plane has the torsional strength to withstand the high speeds achieved while DS'ing. Now you can have the performance of a composite plane with the durability of an EPP plane. DS'ing is not all it can do. It is a fast and fun plane to fly on the front side of the slope too!

Many hours have gone into producing a high quality kits that Pat Bowman would be proud of. We have the standard version and the California Special version

Colors of the JW see the gallery for other looks Many sides to the JW Pat Bowman: The first DS plane that I made was the Sonic wing. I used an EH airfoil on it and it reached speeds of around 100 mph. The Sonic was fast, but it was very hard to keep in a DS circle. Wings always want to right themselves, that's why they are good for combat. I wanted something that would hold a good line and be easier for people to learn DS. One day I was cutting Sonic wings and had a couple of wing panels setting on the table. They were setting up side down with the leading edge straight and the trailing edge angled. I thought to myself, "wow, that would be a great wing planform for DS." The root cord was large with a small tip cord, that would give the wing a lot of torsional strength. Because of the way the trailing edge tapered so far back, I knew it would need a lot of nose weight so I added a fuse. The first JW was a 54", the same size as the Sonic wing. The first test flight was on Parker Mt. With a little more added nose weight, the JW was the fastest foamy I had ever flown. I couldn't wait to tell Joe Wurts about it and let him fly it. Joe did fly it the next week end and really liked it. Joe said he would make an airfoil for the JW that would make it faster and turn even better. Joe designed the airfoil so that the balsa elevons were part of the airfoil. He E-mailed me the root and tip airfoils and I made a test plane. I was happy with the EH airfoil but the JW airfoil literally blew it away. I was so pleased that I asked Joe if he minded if I named the plane "JW" after him. Later on I put a little taper in the leading edge so it didn't need quite as much nose weight and it landed a lot better. The 60" was next and was the best selling plane that I made.

Many JW's flying in the same circuit or DS groove have been named a fur-ball and can be a blast as the video below shows. This video shows up to eight foam planes all flying in the DS groove at speeds exceeding 150mph. There are two impacts. The first one Spencer Lisenby and Chris Bosley trade paint and both pilots save their planes. The second impact is a 177oz JW spliting a non-JW in two.

The JW's name sake Joe Wurts shows how great the JW is for Acrobatic Dynamic soaring.

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