[RCSE] soaring issues
I was thinking today while setting up my winch in the rain that i must have some serious issues. But I just went one day in a row without flying and couldn't think of going two without. :-) So I went twice today to make up for the missed day of soaring. Dave Hauch www.git-r-built.com 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. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
RE: [RCSE] launch foreplay
Your post reminded me of an towing anecdote. I did the weave and pull thing once at a PPSS night contest. I'd thrown together a 2M poly wing I had laying around on a CF boom and put a set of HLG tail feathers way back a la logic design. Tested OK in the back yard so I applied night ops and was all ready. At the field in the late afternoon it was blowing about 5-7 and knowing that the PPSS guys keep a half a mile of line on every winch I figured I'd just reel it all off and get "real" high for starts. Easy win - yea. A practice launch went great - but I held back so as not to show my cards. After it got good and dark they started the contest. I launched just like I practiced and got the plane to an ungodly height. Then I got greedy and went for a zoom too. Bad move - the night ops were on the bottom of the wing and down the fuse. Instant stealth glider. Never saw the plane until after it hit the ground - but it made a really awesome loud whistle and WUMP as it impacted the earth. No survivors. Just a tad of dynamic instability I suppose. From: Daryl Perkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 8/13/2005 404 PM To: D Hauch; soaring@airage.com Subject: Re: [RCSE] launch foreplay I used to do that all the time. It's a kick. Used to just stake the winch, walk back til I had just enough energy to launch the model, then start weaving super low, back and forth, to build line tension. You know you're good when it starts getting behind you in about 5 kts wind. Hopefully you have enough room to keep walking back. The better you get, you can start throwing the model with lighter and lighter tension. (And in lighter and lighter winds) You can do all kinds of things to build tension, then you need to learn how to lose the tension. Circling out to the sides, or very high will bleed off tension. Really tight circles will bleed tension, but the big circles build all kinds of tension on the downhill portion. You can get one heck of a launch without ever stepping on the pedal. Then go pick the chute up, and it's still on the long side of the winch. ;-) Before the exchange goes off on this - F3B style winch, brake doesn't allow line out, and monofilament line. You can do this to some degree on standard club winches and braided nylon, but the goal there is not to stretch the line, but to pull the line off the drum. D __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com 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. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format 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. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
Re: [RCSE] launch foreplay
Cool Daryl! Now you've given me more to work on. I've sure kept myself intertained this past year with this f3b stuff, I absolutly love it! It just gave me something all new to play with. Dave Hauch www.git-r-built.com - Original Message - From: "Daryl Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "D Hauch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 7:04 PM Subject: Re: [RCSE] launch foreplay > I used to do that all the time. It's a kick. Used to > just stake the winch, walk back til I had just enough > energy to launch the model, then start weaving super > low, back and forth, to build line tension. You know > you're good when it starts getting behind you in about > 5 kts wind. Hopefully you have enough room to keep > walking back. > > The better you get, you can start throwing the model > with lighter and lighter tension. (And in lighter and > lighter winds) You can do all kinds of things to build > tension, then you need to learn how to lose the > tension. Circling out to the sides, or very high will > bleed off tension. Really tight circles will bleed > tension, but the big circles build all kinds of > tension on the downhill portion. > > You can get one heck of a launch without ever stepping > on the pedal. Then go pick the chute up, and it's > still on the long side of the winch. ;-) > > Before the exchange goes off on this - F3B style > winch, brake doesn't allow line out, and monofilament > line. You can do this to some degree on standard club > winches and braided nylon, but the goal there is not > to stretch the line, but to pull the line off the > drum. > > D > > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > 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. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format > > 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. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
Re: [RCSE] launch foreplay
I used to do that all the time. It's a kick. Used to just stake the winch, walk back til I had just enough energy to launch the model, then start weaving super low, back and forth, to build line tension. You know you're good when it starts getting behind you in about 5 kts wind. Hopefully you have enough room to keep walking back. The better you get, you can start throwing the model with lighter and lighter tension. (And in lighter and lighter winds) You can do all kinds of things to build tension, then you need to learn how to lose the tension. Circling out to the sides, or very high will bleed off tension. Really tight circles will bleed tension, but the big circles build all kinds of tension on the downhill portion. You can get one heck of a launch without ever stepping on the pedal. Then go pick the chute up, and it's still on the long side of the winch. ;-) Before the exchange goes off on this - F3B style winch, brake doesn't allow line out, and monofilament line. You can do this to some degree on standard club winches and braided nylon, but the goal there is not to stretch the line, but to pull the line off the drum. D __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com 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. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
[RCSE] One Design Contests
The central ohio MOSS club used to do an annual Gnome contest. Most of the members had at least one 2 meter Gnome. I have built three of them and still have two, including the infamous Flamingoid. The Gnome is still kitted I believe. It is a little heavier and stronger than a GL and has a somewhat more advanced airfoil. I think of the Gnome as a wood and monokote Duck. For some reason MOSS has stopped running our Gnome contests over the last few years. I guess people got tired of standing in the landing circle and yelling "DUCK!"
[RCSE] launch foreplay
hi all, Did something new today. I've been dialing my X-21 to do cross wind launches, and finally have it dialed in and no more snapping. I had a good 15 mph head wind, so I loaded up the mono on the f3b winch to see how I could weave it from side to side. I loaded it up and launched it, as soon as it took off I got off the winch pedal and never touched it again. I started weaving from side to side like a kite and it was working beautifully. I remembered someone telling me about circle towing, never heard of it before or seen it, and wasn't going to believe it till I seen it. So I decided to give it a try. When I was coming across in front of me while still doing kiting, I put in full left rudder and it did a perfect circle, I couldn't believe! I did another, and another, opened it up a little to climb out, then dive it back down, I was amazed and laughing out loud, hope nobody seen me out there. :-) If I could go left, I'll try right, then did figure eights, then saw how low to the ground I could go then push it way up high. Couldn't beleive I was doing this, and wondering why I've never tried it before. It sounded like I was DS'ing from the sound the mono cutting thru the air. that flight last 10 minutes and my neck was killing me, so I wound it up and stomped on the pedal to get a huge ping out of it. Had a HUGE grin on my face the whole time, what a blast! Couldn't beleive I was doing this, and wondering why I've never tried it before. Just had to tell someone. :-) Dave Hauch www.git-r-built.com 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. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
Re: [RCSE] Re: Great Job guys
Better to be called a geek than a nerd! Michael Conte wrote: As soon as contests start paying $1million + for first place, I'm sure flying/building rc sailplanes will be considered "cool". Mike On Aug 12, 2005, at 7:58 AM, Dennis Hoyle wrote: Just a curious thing why is it "geeky" for someone to fly "toy" planes when it's cool whack a ball with a club into a hole? It must be the PR spin. ;-) Dennis Hoyle WMSS AMA 11952 LSF II Sec / Treasurer / Web Geek | '-|_|-' - Original Message - From: Jeff Steifel To: Joe Wurts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Soaring@airage.com Sent: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:52:38 -0400 Subject: Re: [RCSE] Re: Great Job guys Damn, I only thought that we were viewed that way in the US. I thought it was much more popular (an less Geeky) abroad. Joe Wurts wrote: Probably the best story from the WC comes from our first full day there, although not really connected with the flying aspects. We were on the way to the practice field, and stopped to pick up some food at a truck stop on the highway. On our way out, a teenager zips up to us on one of those scooter things. He took one look at us, and asked us (in english) "what are you guys doing here?" Gordon, in his typical rapier wit, answers "INVASION!" The kid, not at all intimidated, continues, "no really, why are you here?" We explain to him that we are here in Finland to compete at the world championships for radio controlled gliders. He doesn't bat an eye in replying, "Oh,... GEEKS!" Joe Team USA Geek member - Original Message - From: "Kiesling, Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 3:23 PM Subject: Great Job guys Congratulations on the podium finish. Looking forward to some great stories. Tom 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. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format -- Jeff Steifel 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. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format 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. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format 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. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
Re: [RCSE] GL for One Design
I only fly original designs so that leaves me out of One Design contents (unless somebody wants to have a one design contest using one of my designs). :-) Chuck Anderson P.S. I do buy one of the latest models every 5 years or so just to keep up with the trends. 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. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
