Can you discuss launch a Supra?
RVC
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Wow Jack ,
You are really on to it with this shortening lines thing ! I sat around fo
Indeed, and the opening fold-out photograph, in addition to being a marvelous
photograph, is instructional for the fuselage/wing juncture.
RVC
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From: tony estep
To: soaring@airage.com
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 7:06 PM
Subject: [RCSE] albatrosses
Well, that would explain it. Thanks.
RVC
At 08:54 PM 6/22/2006 -0400, you wrote:
Yes, message size is limited on RCSE so attachments make things too large.
Rick Van Clief wrote:
This morning in response to the "Looking for a 2-M" thread I sent the
same note with attachment
This morning in response to the "Looking for a 2-M" thread I sent the same
note with attachment to Lincoln privately and to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Lincoln got his but the one to soaring@airage.com
never showed up. Could my attachment be the problem? Thanks.
RVC
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At 02:28 PM 4/15/2006 -0600, you wrote:
Nothing that's not already on the MSDS for the Silver Solder / Acid flux
(typically Zinc Chloride and Hydrochloric Acid) kit.
I appreciate this. In the past I have used regular lead and tin solder
after having used an acid flux. It works well enough I
WAY sorry about that last one from me, guys! Obviously I made a mistake
typing in the intended addressee. Sorry.
RVC
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"Into A Living Hope" from 1 Peter 1:3-5 will discuss the blessings of our
salvation "through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead," to
include an incorruptible inheritance, a coming salvation, a heavenly home
and a new life. The last point will come last as an evangelistic point.
R
Mouser, where I get my heat shrink tubing, has about as many different
types of it as you could imagine - or at least as I could imagine. The
link below will get you to a beginning place. If you have their latest
catalog (February-April 2006) start at page 770.
http://www.mouser.com/?handler
Don't know about the West product. I get my Cabosil from Aircraft
Spruce. Here's a link
http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/cmpages/cabosil.php
$6.85 for a gallon bag will buy you a lot of Cabosil.
RVC
At 08:47 PM 12/27/2005 -0600, you wrote:
I need to buy some cabosil but don't know wh
Oh come now... "Let's go to Luckenbach, Texas, with Willie and Waylon and
the boys..."
At 03:02 PM 4/15/2005 -0700, you wrote:
Because we can't pronounce those words??
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To: soaring@airage
I just bought a box of these and when I got them home discovered they were
purple and not blue. Do purple nitrile gloves offer the same protection
from epoxy as blue nitrile gloves are supposed to?
Thanks.
RVC
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Dave,
A while back I sent you some comments on my admittedly amateurish approach
to 2M based on Martin Simons work back in the 80's. AR's are around 6
- max chord around 16", min = around 8" Would you care to discuss how
this approach fits into your current discussion?
RVC
At 12:59 PM 2/18
If you can't find John's spreadsheet, I can forward either the simpler
earlier version or a more involved later version. If I can figure out how, I
could just put it on my website.
Sorry to intrude upon someone else's conversation here, but I was not aware
there was a "more involved later version
Jim,
Don't remember this. Which issue was this in?
Thanks.
RVC
Another option is to build the slow charger published in the AMA's Model
Aviation magazine.
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What is the longest actually timed TD flight anyone has witnessed, again,
no slope factor involved.
Just over two hours, I saw at least three of those in 2004 working LSF
tasks, I being one of those pilots.
I recall an account Joe Wurts wrote of one of his cross country flights. I
think he st
Try this one. You have to call for prices now. Didn't see any 168's, but
368's they have.
RVC
At 06:35 PM 11/18/2004 -0600, you wrote:
I need about 8 of them.
At Horizon they are $75, ouch
Thanks,
MDM
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MDM
MDM's Prof
While on the subject, what is a good trickle charger and where can one be
purchased? Are there plans available from which I could build my own?
Thanks.
RVC
At 07:49 PM 10/31/2004 -0800, you wrote:
Be sure to bye the Wal-Mart deep cycle marine battery not the standard car
or truck battery. I ha
Thanks for the info, guys! Kennedy Composites was the one.
http://www.kennedycomposites.com/
I appreciate the help.
RVC
At 06:27 PM 10/22/2004 -0400, you wrote:
Not too long ago someone had a note with an attached picture of an
adjustable tow hook. It had two plates, one fixed and the other wit
Not too long ago someone had a note with an attached picture of an
adjustable tow hook. It had two plates, one fixed and the other with tow
hook attached to it slid back and forth on the first. Both plates had what
looked like matching serrations on them which apparently allow slight
incremen
Really neat stuff here! Pardon the dumb question, but what kind of camera
is used here?
Thanks, and thanks for the clip.
RVC
At 10:31 PM 10/16/2004 -0700, you wrote:
If you guys want to see a hard launch w/ camera on board go the this web
site, and hold on
http://193.215.54.10/jogrini/video/pik
Can someone please tell me how to get individual e-mails of each message
instead of the daily digest?
Thanks.
RVC
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Is it the overall weight that matters or the wing loading? Reason for
asking - my LAR 2M will come in at 5 oz/ft^2 at 36 oz. 21 oz. will be
unobtainable. Airfoil is the AG36 thinned to 90%.
Thanks.
RVC
My 2-meter Aegea weighs 21 oz, with a 6.2 oz/ft^2 loading,
and I wish it was a bit light
Anyone out there know which one was used? I think they were supplied by
MacClean Quality Composites.
Thanks.
RVC
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You guys are serious. I thought I was beginning to detect shades of Monty
Python and coconuts.
RVC
The solution to an age old aviation question, what is the airspeed velocity
of an unladen sparrow?
http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
(Don Stackhouse, eat your heart out.)
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Yes, this is what I meant by "sheared" and "like it's prepared and used for
the hinge in the BD."
RVC
If you are particularly clever, you'll even put it on the bias, i.e., with
the thread running at 45 degrees to the hinge line. Twice as many fibers
holding both edges together.
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Mark,
If I am correctly deciphering this comment (you're trying to get a more
permanent hinge than tape or monokote provides) something I'm about to try
on my latest center panel spoiler may help. I'm going to lay the spoiler
in its bay and sand a 1/32" deep by 5/16" wide low area in both the
Hello Anker,
As far as I know, Mark Drela came up with the concept and introduced it for
modelers on his Allegro Lite and then later used it on the Bubble Dancer as
well. As I understand it the idea was to eliminate drag from intersections
between vertical and horizontal surfaces (there are no
A lot of really good planes like this over on Ray Hayes' site. Check out
http://www.skybench.com/
RVC
At 06:29 PM 9/25/03 -0500, you wrote:
I'm up for a new plane and would like your advice.
Plane will be used for LONG duration flights.
I like to fly slow, Falcon 880 too fast,
Many thanks to all who responded to this question. I guess it revealed my
ignorance. I've never done this before, went to a company that does
scanning hoping to get something I could import into AutoCAD and they gave
me tif files.
Follow-up question then. How does one scan a drawing into Aut
How does one do this? So far I have tried with no success...
acid core solder alone
acid core solder with liquid acid flux
silver solder (4% silver, 96% tin) with the flux paste that came with it
silver solder (5% silver and bronze, or so the guy said) with the above
paste flux
both the abov
Is there a "do not exceed" amount like maybe a so many fractions of a
degree washout per foot span or something like that?
Thanks.
RVC
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At 08:23 AM 1/19/03 -0700, you wrote:
A while back there was a post about hi starts. Someone put out a link that
had some info on figuring the pounds of pull needed for a given size a/c.
If anyone remembers this, I'd appreciate the link. I've searched the
archives and google just can't seem to f
I came across a site recently that said deep cycle marine batteries can
develop memories, quickly according to the article. If this is the case
what does one do to alleviate the situation? Do they make cyclers for
these batteries?
Thanks.
RVC
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At 07:58 AM 11/24/02 -0800, you wrote:
Ben and others,
I live a couple of hours from Silicon Valley, and there are a lot of
electronics surplus stores there. I find mine there. You also might look
in an old TV set or radio for PC board, or check your yellow pages for
electronics sources. We ha
Interesting stuff here Jason - thanks. Many years ago I was an automotive
painter, sometimes using Imron and occasionally a respirator. If they had
suits to wear I never heard of them. Maybe that explains why I only made
it to structural engineer and not to aeronautical. Have you any idea w
Wanted to thank all who responded to my wire source question. The
responses where most helpful and appreciated, and I picked up a few good
new web sites.
Thanks again.
RVC
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Anybody know when it's going to be back up? And where I might obtain
coordinates for the NACA 63-618 & 614 in the meantime?
Thanks.
RVC
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Came across an interesting glider designed by Gus Briegleb back in the late
60's - the BG-12/16. Apparently it was wood (over steel tubing in the
fuselage I think) and build from plans. A pretty decent plane from the
little I could find about it. Does anyone know anything about this plane?
Are
I know nothing about full scale, but the plane in picture 141 sure is nice.
Anyone know what it is?
RVC
At 02:17 PM 9/2/02 -0500, you wrote:
>I have my chute packed, now where is that glider? Usually just get to hang
>onto the wings of Cessnas :(
>
>James
>
>
>>From: Quiet Man <[EMAIL PROTECTE
OK we're talking about hundredths here. I may be revealing gross ignorance
here, but how can some guy holding a stopwatch hope to be accurate enough
for hundredths of a second to be considered?
RVC
At 08:07 PM 8/9/02 -0700, you wrote:
>OK, it appears as if we're carrying timing to the
>tenth
> Yes, you are missing something. Frequently, the two parts of an epoxy
> resin system are not the same density, and the ratio that is correct by
> volume is totally incorrect when used by weight. I have also used systems
> that required ratios so lopsidded that weight was the only choice, su
> >
> >I have a can of 206 Hardener in my hand and it says, "5 parts 105 Resin
to 1
> >part 206 Hardener by volume or weight measure." Hope this helps.
>
> That's weird. That means that the resin and hardener have exactly the
> same density.
>
So it would seem.
RVC
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Hello group,
Can anyone give health related advice regarding Boron. Just bought a golf
shaft for tailboom purposes. It's labeled boron/graphite and I wanted a
little more info before I started sawing on the thing.
Many thanks.
RVC
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> (We need to start thinking about alternative motors).
I've wondered about this. I'm currently rebuilding my longshaft winch after
about a 17 year absence from the sport and got to wondering why we couldn't
just use a normal (shortshaft?) motor with with a pulley to a belt to a
shaft forward of
first
DLG built and in the air. Many thanks to whomever compiled all those clips.
Rick Van Clief
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> Brian,
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> For movie clips, go to this page (recently posted in another message):
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> http://www.silentflyer.org/ihlgf01.html
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> Go to the bottom of the page and take a
've heard there are those that
> allow one to renew definition files every hour! Is there a consensus???
>
> Thanks.
>
> Rick Van Clief
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What a great group. Ask a question about spoiler size and you get comment,
discussion, and conversation about it from the likes of Mark, Blaine and
Harley. Thanks guys. What a great group!
RVC
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Years (many) ago I used to use 35mm black and white film developed without
having been exposed. Kind of a hassle but it worked well and usually had a
curve to it from hanging up to dry while weighted at one end. Had an opaque
gray tint to it which looked kind of neat contrasted with some colors
Good grief, where are you? I'm in central Florida and the high today will
only be in the 70's.
Rick VC
> To all you guys in the other world (northern hemisphere) having hot
> meals, celebrating Xmas with family indoors because it is cold outside I
> would gladly sit outside your window right n
Thanks to all who responded to my "LIFTROLL curves" question earlier this
week. I tried to thank each off-line. If I missed one, sorry and thanks.
Several commented that the thing to do was go for max av/max Cl, and also
that the Cl curve was helpful to determine if tip stall was going to be a
Sorry about my last. Hit enter too fast.
For me, has to be the Maestro, mainly because it's the only one I flew.
Pretty plane - sure looked good in a Florida thermal. Had trouble keeping
the wings in one piece, though (my fault of course).
Rick Van Clief
> I am checking to see if an
Excellent stuff here guys! Thanks to Oleg for the original question and
thanks to the rest for the really informative discussion.
Rick Van Clief
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From: Mark Drela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 12:42 PM
If your talking about the 4th ed. of Model Aircraft Aerodynamics, amazon.com
either has it or will have it soon. I was checking on that myself a week or
so ago.
Rick Van Clief
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'scuse my ignorance, but who's Karlton and what's his address, etc.
Rick VC
> Karlton, I'm glad things are looking up at your shop. I'm gonna need
servos soon again. For those who have not dealt with Karlton
> you will not experience finer service from a more dedicated guy.
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