Re: [RCSE] Antenna Follies
I've been using the Becker for years with no problems. Anyone else use a Becker? T - Original Message - From: Robert Samuels To: soaring@airage.com Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:40 PM Subject: [RCSE] Antenna Follies I had a transmitter antenna problem last year. My Futaba 8 U has a Smiley Rubber Ducky antenna. This attaches by means of a spring loaded bayonet mount. Due to the design the spring loading allows the mating pin to flex back and fourth a bit. After years of use I found the pin had broken off and that I had been flying with the antenna connection just barely touching. I think that is what caused the crash of my Organic at last years Nats. So I bought a new Rubber Ducky antenna assuming I would get a few more years of use before it failed. I was wrong. I just checked it and found it had failed the same way. After only a few months of use. Probably due to all the HL flying I've been doing which causes a lot of flexing of the spring loaded mount back and fourth during the launching process with it's attendant mating pin flexing. Glad I caught it during a shop check. Robert Samuels .. St. Louis -- Helping your favorite cause is as easy as instant messaging. You IM, we give. Learn more. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.0/1268 - Release Date: 2/9/2008 11:54 AM
Re: [RCSE] Postal Ladder Challenge
Mike, The electric soaring guys do this kind of thing on a monthly basis (X5J)- Bob Burson set it up several years ago and it seems to go well world-wide. He manages this on RC Groups so if you want to look over his techniques, take a look- http://www.rcgroups.com/electric-sailplanes. I am only suggesting that if you get this going, perhaps RC Groups is a better format to spread the event (or both formats for that matter). BTW, we have a foot of snow on the ground in my area and today will probably just break zero actual and a 25 mph wind- I ain't going nowhere- Jack On Feb 9, 2008 10:05 PM, mike reagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was going to try this as practice for the upcoming contest > season. Then I thought why not let everyone get in on the fun! The rules are > simple, do an 8min. 10min. 12min. and 14min. flight (in order). This is not > precision, so you can time yourself, just go over the time by at least one > second. After you make each time do a normal measured 25ft landing. Now here > is the catch. After each landing you can do that flight again to try to > improve on the landing but you only keep your last landing. You cannot go > back, you must start over if your unhappy with your score, take as many > tries as you need to get each time. Score 1point per second, 2460 total max > for time, each landing divide by 2, 50points per landing, making 2660points > possible. Three classes, Open, RES, and Easy Glider. Bragging rights only. > E-mail your best score and we will compare. This will be on going. Looking > to fly tomorrow, we have had rain the last 3 weekends. Mike Reagan > -- Jack Iafret Home and Hobbies
Re: [RCSE] Icon2 Pics
That is beautiful, not my color but beautiful! At 09:07 AM 2/8/2008, SCJohnson wrote: A few photos of the new Icon 2 have been posted here: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=815293 Jim Downers Grove, IL Member of the Chicago SOAR club, and Team JR AMA 592537LSF 7560 Level IV R/C Soaring blog at www.jimbacus.net 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] Postal Ladder Challenge
Mike, Sounds fun once we get back to having some nice flying weather. Today its windy and cold. Yesterday was nice, but work got in the way. See Ya, Pat McCleave Wichita, KS - Original Message - From: mike reagan To: soaring@airage.com Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 9:05 PM Subject: [RCSE] Postal Ladder Challenge I was going to try this as practice for the upcoming contest season. Then I thought why not let everyone get in on the fun! The rules are simple, do an 8min. 10min. 12min. and 14min. flight (in order). This is not precision, so you can time yourself, just go over the time by at least one second. After you make each time do a normal measured 25ft landing. Now here is the catch. After each landing you can do that flight again to try to improve on the landing but you only keep your last landing. You cannot go back, you must start over if your unhappy with your score, take as many tries as you need to get each time. Score 1point per second, 2460 total max for time, each landing divide by 2, 50points per landing, making 2660points possible. Three classes, Open, RES, and Easy Glider. Bragging rights only. E-mail your best score and we will compare. This will be on going. Looking to fly tomorrow, we have had rain the last 3 weekends. Mike Reagan
Re: [RCSE] Postal Ladder Challenge
So Mike, if I understand this correctly, you keep trying until you make each time, so the difference in scores will just be landings. Is that right or am I confused? On Feb 9, 2008 10:05 PM, mike reagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...The rules are simple, do an 8min. 10min. 12min. and 14min. flight (in order). This is not precision, so you can time yourself, just go over the time by at least one secondtake as many tries as you need to get each time. Score 1point per second, 2460 total max for time, each landing divide by 2, 50points per landing, making 2660points possible
[RCSE] fun at the cane field
I went out to the sugar cane field yesterday for my first flights on my new 9303 2.4 JR in my Sharon. It was fantastic conditions with little wind, puffy clouds, and 70 degrees. Since I usually fly alone, I had my wife help do a range test before I left home. So, at the field, I put it together, wiggled the sticks and launched. This system works great. I did get, and use, a little capacitor type thing that Todds Models has on his web site. If these 2.4 systems get a spike in current use, the receiver can shut down and take a few seconds to reconnect. This capacitor thingy solves that problem - so far so good. Big thermals were abundant. I was even thermaling inverted and fun stuff like that. I got the switches set up where I like them and I really like this new radio. On my last launch I broke the line which balled up and broke the brake lever on the winch. Oh well, I guess I'll have to go to a heaver line. As I tried to leave I got stuck in the mud. The more I worked at trying to get unstuck the deeper I got. Well I called AAA who said they would send someone but that it would cost me because they don't pay if you get stuck intentionally!!??? I was sitting there waiting as the sun got low and the mosquitoes started to swarm when all of a sudden there were thousands of little black birds going after those bugs. This spurred me to get out my hand launch and join them. As I flew around, the birds congregated in a huge swirl above my plane. I flew over that giant, red setting sun with all those swirling birds over my plane, and it made a magnificent, memorable picture! The tow truck did finally get there and get me out, but not before he got stuck himself! He called me three hours later at home to tell me he had just gotten out after being rescued by a bigger tow truck. Even though I got stuck, it was a great day flying a the field. Paul Perret Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ 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] PIKE PERFECT FOR SALE
BUYER CANCELED, Up again like new Pike Perfect , get it now for the new season. See ad and photos at http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=784412 Regards Rick Briggs Web Director http://www.soaringissa.org 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] Postal Ladder Challenge
We had strange, light, Santa Ana winds today, with down wind launches. Managed 2639.5, all on first attempt, no do-overs. My Supra worked good, barely made the ten. Anybody not in snow give it a try? Mike Reagan
[RCSE] Oh What a Beautiful Day!!
It was absolutely beautiful at the Poway Flying Site today. Temperature about 75, wind about 5 mph and a new thermal about every 8 - 10 minutes. A pair of Red Tailed Hawks shared the sky with us, frequently pointing out the thermals that we may not have found. It is the hawk's matting season so they are more interested in each other than in some sailplane. I would not mind being reincarnated as a hawk, but we will need to negotiate the sex life. All the toys in the car saw some of the beautiful air. The E Blaster took about an hour of the late afternoon. The extra weight of the motor and battery seemed to help on those long trecks upwind to catch the next thermal. Of course the Supra got lots of action as it is nearly time for the trip to Phoenix. My Supra, 'Ole #42, is entering its third year of flying and by my count, its 5th life. The wing, tail feathers and boom are original, but it is on the third pod. This one is 2.4 friendly so I can use my DX7 and AR7000 receiver with a satellite receiver. Setting up the Supra required some patience and the help of Mike L's program. I am learning to speak JR, but occasionaly I relapse and think that a flap is a flap only to be reminded that a flap is really a throttle or maybe an aux. Anyway it all works and I can find the sub trim menu in less than a dozen clicks. Today was the last day for top actuated flaps. Lots of glue, fiberglass tape and words did not fix the problem so tonight they will be converted to bottom horns and linkage. After two years of landing with the flaps down, the mounts seem to unrepairable. If I had DP's thumbs, I could get the flaps up before they hit the ground. The sunset over the Pacific is fantastic tonight. Tomorrow looks like another good one. And you SOAR? Don Richmond San Diego, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] _www.hilaunch.com_ (http://www.hilaunch.com/) **Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp00300025 48)
[RCSE] "That Voltage Protector for Spectrum Systems Paul Mentioned "
Its a very smart and simple device actually. Those of you who have Picolarios know that voltages can fluctuate significantly in full house sailplanes, this cap keeps things on the straight and narrow. Pretty cheap assurance actually ;-) Gordy _http://www.toddsmodels.com/SPM1600_Spektrum_Voltage_Protector_p/spm1600.htm_ (http://www.toddsmodels.com/SPM1600_Spektrum_Voltage_Protector_p/spm1600.htm) I did get, and use, a little capacitor type thing that Todds Models has on his web site. If these 2.4 systems get a spike in current use, the receiver can shut down and take a few seconds to reconnect. This capacitor thingy solves that problem - so far so good Paul Perret **Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp00300025 48)
[RCSE] "Supra Flap Link Insert Changed"
Today was the last day for top actuated flaps. Lots of glue, fiberglass tape and words did not fix the problem so tonight they will be converted to bottom horns and linkage. After two years of landing with the flaps down, the mounts seem to unrepairable. If I had DP's thumbs, I could get the flaps up before they hit the ground. The Supra has come a long way baby :-) With the help of all of us. Wing bolt mount pod changes, longer bolts, wing sub rib changes, layup changes, and both the aileron link insert and now flap inserts too...and lets not forget that now the ailerons go all the way to the tips...they are lighter now and stiffer too on the current batch of wings coming to Barry's den of storage. A short while back, well maybe a year or so, it was pretty clear that the area where the aileron inserts were mounted and how they were mounted needed to be changed for linkage geometry and durability, you can tell the new version because the hump is a bit taller. Those of you who hit the landing spot too hard like me, find pretty soon a bubble in the skin around the flap inserts on top. And the flaps not moving together and a lot of slop too. You glue it and glue it but in the end like Don the answer is to put carbon horns in the bottom The new wing has a far more durable link insert for both the ailerons and flaps. Mine? I think I have one more gluing left before I switch over to bottom horns :-) Gordy **Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp00300025 48)
[RCSE] Supra 2.4GHz install
For what it's worth, here is a link to a series of posts on a Supra 2.4 GHz radio install I did without the 2.4 friendly fuselage. I used a Spektrum system and hacked the main receiver to remove the remote receivers that are included inside. This allowed me to place 3 remote receivers in both wingtips and the tail: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=595288&page=4&pp=30 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] Broken Supra tail feathers for science?
Does anyone have a broken Supra stab or rudder to spare? I have a friend that has a laser cutting table that I know would be a great way to get really clean lightening holes cut, but I need some test victims to try out to set up the machine with. If successful, I'm sure I can get holes cut for anyone that wants them at a very nominal cost. Regards... 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] Paging Darwin Barry
Hey Darwin, Please ping me when you have a minute Thanks, Andy
