[RCSE] ALTi2's are on the way - Delete if not interested
I have another shipment of ALTi2 Data Loggers on their way for those of you that are interested. This order also includes 3 of the "BF" units with the extra memory (great for XC use I would think), 1 of which is already spoken for. If you're interested in an ALTi2, please contact me off-list at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Also, thanks to everyone that placed an order during the month of December. Almost $55 will be donated to the LSF for the Worker's Raffle at the 2004 Soaring Nationals. Thanks for helping YNT support the 2004 Soaring Nationals and thanks for the bandwidth! -Sheldon- YNT uDesign A Soaring Nationals Supporter
Re: [RCSE] Hobie Hawk - Rebirth?
What about our "C-HAWK"..?? An all molded, hollow wings, pre-painted, molded servo tray installed, much lighter version than the original, rgds, Alberto www.hobbyclub.com - Original Message - From: Mark Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Joedy Drulia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 11:27 AM Subject: Re: [RCSE] Hobie Hawk - Rebirth? > Dennis Ross in Reno has the tooling and rights to the > kit. I have seem pictures of the tooling and looking > at the amount of effort to build them $300.00 would > not come close to making it viable. > > There is a fellow making something called a Super Hawk > which has a glass fuselage with longer tail moment and > wings of similar construction as original. It sounds > like it flies well. I have been flying them for 30 > years and I can find thermals and I like the way they > fly. > > Mark Miller > > --- Joedy Drulia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is a question that I've been meaning to ask for > > some time. > > > > With the popularity of Hobie Hawk kits often > > bringing in more than 300 > > dollars on eBay, why has no one picked up the design > > and re-marketed it? > > > > Does it have something to do with obtaining the > > commercial rights? > > > > -joedy > > > > > _ > > Let the new MSN Premium Internet Software make the > > most of your high-speed > > experience. > > > http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-us&page=byoa/prem&ST=1 > > > > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane > > News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests > > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that > > subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in > > text only format with MIME turned off. > > > __ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
[RCSE] What would cause this turning behavior?
Besides a forward CG, what would cause a RES ship to want to increase a bank angle on its own after a shallow bank had been initiated? Thanks! -Jeff _ What are the 5 hot job markets for 2004? Click here to find out. http://msn.careerbuilder.com/Custom/MSN/CareerAdvice/WPI_WhereWillWeFindJobsIn2004.htm?siteid=CBMSN3006&sc_extcmp=JS_wi08_dec03_hotmail1 RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
[RCSE] FOR SALE: electric fuse will fit Eraser
> This is for a crosstail, no stabs. > In excellent condition. > Has molded servo tray for tail servos and push-rods installed. > Yellow. > $149.oo plus shipping. > New with stabs are $309.oo if you can get one. > > Dave Hauch > Mich. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
[RCSE] Re: Raindrops on the wing
Rain drops??? What are they??? Garland Hanson Gilbert, AZ P.S. Who cares if it has rain on it during launch? Most of it is going to come off anyway when the plane slips out of your wet hand?! I've flown in a light rain on the slope at Torrey but I'm not excited about TD in the rain!
Re: [RCSE] Re: Soaring V1 #3231
You're missing out on some really interesting air. You get all kinds of interesting things happening with rain and frontal conditions. Actually, if you manage to be in the air at that magic moment when the other air mass arrives at your altitude, it can be pretty cool. The best part, it this is usually one time where you can actually look up on the sky and see where the lift is. Bill H wrote: Never been flying in the rain. Maybe you'll get an answer from someone much more desperate to fly :-) Bill Heishman RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
Re: [RCSE] Re: Raindrops on the wing - does it make a difference?
You mean the RainX you wipe your wings down with? It also does a good job of cleaning the wing, but watch out with some paints like Krylon. Winchdoc wrote: I have a secret special solution that I spray on to the wings that, -er well, never mind WinchDoc RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
[RCSE] FOR SALE: electric fuse for Extreme
This is for a crosstail, no stabs. In excellent condition. Has molded servo tray for tail servos and push-rods installed. Yellow. $149.oo plus shipping. New with stabs are $309.oo if you can get one. Dave Hauch Mich. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
Re: [RCSE] Ripley's...
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[RCSE] Ripley's...
Yesterday I attended a swap meet put on by our local soaring club, and ended up chatting with my good friend Dave Fowlow. He started to tell me some stories of his adventures with some fliers way up north of us here in Calgary, Alberta; First some info on these northern fliers. Now I don't want to call these guys strange, cause they are not. It's all relative...right? They just really REALLY enjoy their privacy out in the wilderness. They like flying all kinds of stuff, and have quite a few F3x moldies, powered stuff, electrics, etc. They keep to themselves. The movie Deliverance comes to my mind...but in the nicest way. Anyways, Dave was up north the other day on oil-related business and was visiting them...it was -53C (-63.4F) outside (no kidding)! They ask Dave "Do ya want to go fly'n"? Dave sez sure! So they bundle up and walk out to an aluminum sided quonset and go in. I can't recall the type of powered aircraft Dave mentioned, they were typical 0.60 sized glow-fuel powered jobbies. There was some old Quaker-style aircraft as well, with stringers and dope. They filled up the tank on one and fired it up inside the quonset with the big doors closed. The temperature in the hanger was hovering around a balmy(!) zero Celcius. The guy working the needles had it absolutely slobberingly rich, and Dave could not understand why. It would seem in fact the guy was getting ready to actually fly it this way. All of a sudden a couple of guys throw open the big doors, another guy picks up the aircaft and literally lauches it out of the quonset through the open doors, AND JUST AS QUICKLY CLOSES THE DOORS! The guy with the transmitter RUNS up to the little frosty window, and proceeds to fly the thing in a big circly from inside the "hanger". All of a sudden the engine goes lean and begins to SCREAM like a banshee...then QUITS! Now the aircraft is heading STRAIGHT back towards the quonset. All of a sudden they throw open the doors and the pilot flies the now-deadstick plane right back inside the building. SLAM go the doors as they swing closed behind the little plane. The pilot sez "watch this". He picks up the aircraft and attempts to pour the glowfuel out of the fuel tank...it has literally turned to jelly! Going from 0C to -53C, within a few seconds has turned the fuel to porridge. NO WONDER the engine needed to be rich! Then, as if on command, as the pilot is holding the jellyed fuel tank, it begins to turn back into a liquid and pour out. Dave was in awe. They asked him if he would like to have a go. Well, we all know Dave, HE's A KEENER! One of the chaps had JUST finished one of those ancient (stick and tissue) kits, but instead of tissue and dope, he covered in the almighty Monokote. Now I'm think'n I know exactly where this is going. I have seen Monokote fail in really cold weather as it becomes extremely brittle. I could not have been further form the truth. So anyways, they go through the cockamainy start-up procedure, throw open the big quonset doors, the launcher launches the plane, SLAM go the doors, Dave runs up to the little window and proceeds to fly. All of a sudden there's this strange noise, the motor goes ballistic, but the ailing aircraft falls to the ground! "What could be wrong" everyone wonders. Well...when the little aircraft, with stringer and rib contruction, with an internal (air) temperature of zero, and an OUTSIDE temperature of -53C, the builder had done such a bang-up job covering it in Monokote, it turned out to be perfectly sealed chambers. When the gang walked up to the aircraft, it was FLAT as a pancake. The almost immediate contraction of the air within the wings and fuselage as it hit the frigid outer air, that inner air shrunk up like your private parts do when subject to similar circumstances. The balsa ribs were crushed vertically. Dave said as he was walking away from the hanger, he noticed a whole load of small pointy dents in the quonset doors, actually the whole end of the building. When he inquired, he was told there are occasions when they don't get the doors opened in time for landing. During the summer Dave kept asking everyone for any and all Cox 0.49 engines for these guys.Dave solicicted me for any that I had left over from when I used to fly U-control in the late sixties/early seventies. When I asked why, he said the guys like to build aircraft of all sorts, then throw an engine(s) on them, and just launch it! No control system...free flight! The surrounding brush is SO deep, there is absolutely no point even attempting to locate where it landed. There are probably hundreds of models scattered throughout the area. These guys work in the oil industry, in the middle of mother nature, got lots of cabbage, and are enjoying themselves to the enth degree... RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscrib
[RCSE] SWC
Any preliminary scores from the Southwest Classic?
[RCSE] Re: Raindrops on the wing - Answer
The flying house analogy again ? come on Gordy, you are better than that! The followings popped up in my mind when I read about this rain drop theory : 1) The tiny pits molded onto the surface of golf balls are supposed to reduce the separation of air flow and hence reduce the drag of the ball. Will rain drops on the wing surface actually improve the performance of the model ? 2) Some free flight models have got saw-toothed leading edges on their wings, a feature that is designed to make the air flow turbulent and delay the onset of flow separation or stall. I am wondering whether rain drops will do the same good . I seldom fly in rainy days but even if I do, my fingers are always the prime source of troubles and what I worry most about . Y C Lui --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you have the latest most exact airfioil matched with the best planform, > span, tail foil and moment, perfectly balanced, and get the highest ever > launch...if you don't find lift, you ain't staying up. If there are raindrops on > your wing, it will make a difference...if you don't find lift you won't stay up > and your wing will be wet. > > Wet houses fly just fine in lift...in fact most of the time when you see > houses flying they are wet, so likely that indicates something about the what > effect raindrops have on soaring :-) > > Gordy RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
[RCSE] Re:UKs loss, USs gain
Most everyone should be so fortunate ! or Five Stars! Around the USA there are several pockets or centers of major RC Soaring activity. "William R. Henley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> plus http://www.reddata.com/sass/ has just given you the SASS Club's "WELCOME!" to one the most important and BEST! They have it ALL!! RCHLG-DHL Research Center, thermal (yet,Thanks! to GOOD lawyering) and undoubtable some of the BEST slopes in the world not that far away (their big problem is WHICH one to try for the day)--been there and done some of all of it; well, I have thermaled my RCHLG-DHL's there :-) !! Paul Clark, SKY PILOT, Osaka, Japan (AMA # 53 777 1) http://www.kcat.zaq.ne.jp/skypilot/ (dated) SKY PILOT'S HANGAR--RCHLG-DHL AFICIONADO
[RCSE] Re:UKs loss, USs gain
Hi and welcome to the Seattle-Bellevue area! I am Bill Henley, President of the Seattle Area Soaring Society. We have a great club and have a nice 17 acre glider field within a few minutes of Bellevue, where I work. We meet in Redmond which is the next town to the north, about 4 miles. There are some world class slopes in the eastern part of the state and we make frequent trips over there. There are a few nice slopes in western Washington which we also visit. Come on over and join us! Bill Henley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Club Website http://www.reddata.com/sass/ RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
