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    From cobrachoppergirl@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 22 00:51:36 2017
    I'm also looking for VJ-24 / VJ-24e / VJ-24w plans

    or email me, I may have them by the time you read this...

    CHOPPERGIRL @ AIR-WAR.ORG
    http:/choppergirl.air-war.org

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  • From rockinc.productions@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 7 18:20:39 2018
    I've been hunting around also trying to find a copy of the VJ-24 plans. If you ever found a copy, I'd love to get some. I'm happy to pay for em.

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  • From Standard Poodle@21:1/5 to rockinc.productions@gmail.com on Mon May 7 20:35:10 2018
    On 05/07/2018 06:20 PM, rockinc.productions@gmail.com wrote:
    I've been hunting around also trying to find a copy of the VJ-24 plans. If you ever found a copy, I'd love to get some. I'm happy to pay for em.

    Somewhere, I have a set of VJ-24 plans. Never used, as in didn't build a
    VJ-24 SunFun, or anything part of one, or anything else either. So these
    plans still come with the legal right to build one copy, if that matters
    any more.

    I'm in SoCal

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  • From rockinc.productions@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Standard Poodle on Mon May 14 10:54:04 2018
    On Monday, May 7, 2018 at 11:35:11 PM UTC-4, Standard Poodle wrote:
    On 05/07/2018 06:20 PM, rockinc.productions@gmail.com wrote:
    I've been hunting around also trying to find a copy of the VJ-24 plans. If you ever found a copy, I'd love to get some. I'm happy to pay for em.

    Somewhere, I have a set of VJ-24 plans. Never used, as in didn't build a VJ-24 SunFun, or anything part of one, or anything else either. So these plans still come with the legal right to build one copy, if that matters
    any more.

    I'm in SoCal

    Would you be interested in selling them? I'm in West Virginia.

    Thanks!

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  • From Standard Poodle@21:1/5 to rockinc.productions@gmail.com on Tue May 15 14:50:23 2018
    On 05/14/2018 10:54 AM, rockinc.productions@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, May 7, 2018 at 11:35:11 PM UTC-4, Standard Poodle wrote:

    Somewhere, I have a set of VJ-24 plans.
    ...
    Would you be interested in selling them?

    Somewhere... Yes, interested, and looking for them.

    Side story:
    The plans came with a sample of foam wing leading-edge material. Volmer Jensen wrote (or called, don't remember) me some months after I bought
    the plans, asking if I would send that piece of foam back to him. He'd
    handed out his last piece, and now needed another. He also invited me to
    come and watch him fly his VJ-24, at a beach in Oxnard. I sent the foam
    back to him, and made it to the beach on the appointed day.
    There was a stiff breeze, and he launched by taking a few quick steps
    into the wind from a high point on the sand. After a couple brief
    flights, the unoccupied airplane was for some reason pointed downwind
    while on the ground. His ground crew wasn't paying attention, a gust
    picked up the tail, up and over, the top of the vertical fin hit the
    sand and the craft was upside down. Not disastrous, but enough damage to
    end the day's flying.

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  • From toddlrice@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Standard Poodle on Thu Jan 24 12:14:48 2019
    On Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 5:50:27 PM UTC-4, Standard Poodle wrote:
    On 05/14/2018 10:54 AM, rockinc.productions@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, May 7, 2018 at 11:35:11 PM UTC-4, Standard Poodle wrote:

    Somewhere, I have a set of VJ-24 plans.
    ...
    Would you be interested in selling them?

    Somewhere... Yes, interested, and looking for them.

    Side story:
    The plans came with a sample of foam wing leading-edge material. Volmer Jensen wrote (or called, don't remember) me some months after I bought
    the plans, asking if I would send that piece of foam back to him. He'd
    handed out his last piece, and now needed another. He also invited me to
    come and watch him fly his VJ-24, at a beach in Oxnard. I sent the foam
    back to him, and made it to the beach on the appointed day.
    There was a stiff breeze, and he launched by taking a few quick steps
    into the wind from a high point on the sand. After a couple brief
    flights, the unoccupied airplane was for some reason pointed downwind
    while on the ground. His ground crew wasn't paying attention, a gust
    picked up the tail, up and over, the top of the vertical fin hit the
    sand and the craft was upside down. Not disastrous, but enough damage to
    end the day's flying.

    Curious if anyone ever located some PDF plans of the VJ-24. Looking to build an RC version

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  • From cobrachoppergirl@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 11 14:51:02 2019
    I have a copy of the VJ-24w plans in PDF form... same basic air frame as the glider, Volmer just grafted on a motor mount and some wheels to the VJ-24 run and jump glider and called it a "VJ-24e"with engine on back, and then "VJ-24w" for engine on
    front and wheels you could actually land on.

    If anybody wants them, email me.

    CHOPPERGIRL
    CHOPPERGIRL@AIR-WAR.ORG
    http://choppergirl.air-war.org

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  • From cobrachoppergirl@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 11 15:00:26 2019
    I own a Volmer Jensen VJ-24w myself, and I do my darnest to find, follow, and track all VJ-24's in the world... as there are so few... so far I've found less than a handful in various states of disrepair, or flying.


    My own VJ-24w page:
    http://dorothy.air-war.org

    My Volmer Jensen page:
    http://volmerjensen.air-war.org


    Don't bother sending off to Vula for plans; I did that once for the VJ-24w plans and sent him a $20 note, and never heard back from him or got anything, though I emailed him and was like... what's up?


    If you want the plans, email me, and I'll shoot you a link to them for free. They were a devil for me to find, and I finally got my copy from Mac Hodges who bought Scott Perkins plane... and got his copy from Scott Perkins who completed a plane. (
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wU0_Qb8qo0 )


    CHOPPERGIRL
    http://choppergirl.air-war.org
    choppergirl.air-war.org

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  • From Bonk@21:1/5 to cobrachoppergirl@gmail.com on Wed Mar 13 09:00:59 2019
    On 03/11/2019 02:51 PM, cobrachoppergirl@gmail.com wrote:
    I have a copy of the VJ-24w plans in PDF form... same basic air frame as the glider, Volmer just grafted on a motor mount and some wheels to the VJ-24 run and jump glider and called it a "VJ-24e"with engine on back, and then "VJ-24w" for engine on
    front and wheels you could actually land on.

    If anybody wants them, email me.

    CHOPPERGIRL
    CHOPPERGIRL@AIR-WAR.ORG
    http://choppergirl.air-war.org

    That's very nice of you. I (Std. Poodle) still haven't found mine.

    The Lazair was my favorite-ever UL, it just looked so organic and
    birdlike, while the VJ-24 is stiff and boxy. Sport Chalet used to be a
    dealer for those, and had one on display in our local store.

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  • From Bonk@21:1/5 to cobrachoppergirl@gmail.com on Wed Mar 13 08:50:56 2019
    On 03/11/2019 03:00 PM, cobrachoppergirl@gmail.com wrote:


    email me, and I'll shoot you

    I know!

    CHOPPERGIRL http://choppergirl.air-war.org choppergirl.air-war.org

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