[RCSE] Multiplex Multilock
Is there a US distributor that carries the Multiplex Multilock wing locking system? My web searching has only come up with overseas sources. Thanks in advance, Loren 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] Tom Neill's passing
Kelly Neill wanted to let you all know that Tom passed away Sunday evening, August 20. Tom was still having some reasonably good days up until Sunday morning so after almost two years of cancer, the end came quickly. Tom was a long-time member and president of the Lincoln Area Soaring Society (Nebraska) and one of the key people in organized slope soaring at Wilson Lake, Kansas. He flew in every Midwest Slope Challenge, was a tireless contributor to the event, and even finished as the runner-up in this year's Unlimited race. One of the nicest guys you will ever meet in this hobby and we will miss him dearly. If you'd like details about the service or memorials, please contact me off-line. Loren 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] Tom Neill's passing
Kelly Neill wanted to let you all know that Tom passed away Sunday evening, August 20. Tom was still having some reasonably good days up until Sunday morning so after almost two years of cancer, the end came quickly. Tom was a long-time member and president of the Lincoln Area Soaring Society (Nebraska) and one of the key people in organized slope soaring at Wilson Lake, Kansas. He flew in every Midwest Slope Challenge, was a tireless contributor to the event, and even finished as the runner-up in this year's Unlimited race. One of the nicest guys you will ever meet in this hobby and we will miss him dearly. If you'd like details about the service or memorials, please contact me off-line. Loren apologies for sending this twice, the original appears to have gotten garbled in the digest version 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] Subject: WOW-where'd all these posts come from?
I got a digest email tonite, all 116K of it, with about that many October notes included, in a hard to read black font on a dark blue background, but fortunately only had to hit the delete key once vs. 80 times, which is the joy of the digest version come to think of it Loren Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:14:22 -0800 (PST) From: Dana Flemming [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: soaring soaring@airage.com Subject: WOW-where'd all these posts come from? All of a sudden, I have 80 postings from OCTOBER on my email list. This happen to anyone else? Dana 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] Re: Some history, status of things a challenge
Some perspective on Harley's note I recently acquired one of the neatest books I've ever read: Do You Speak Model Airplane? by Dave Thornburg. A wonderfully written history of model aviation in the USA from day one into the 90's. If this out of print gem ever comes your way, grab it. Since so much of it happened before I was in the hobby, I can enjoy most of it with a clear conscience. But some of it overlaps my hands on modeling experience and left me wondering about things that happened while I was in the game and how much of it I missed because I was too busy. When the next Do You Speak Model Airplane is published later this century, covering model aviation from 1990 until 2050, there's going to be an early chapter in it about this prolific designer-visionary from Walla Walla named Harley. Every bit as prominent as Jim Walker and Carl Goldberg are in the current version. I'm pleased to have latched on to this piece of history while it was happening and you have the opportunity to build a rocking chair moment telling the grandkids you knew that guy and built his planes. I've never met Harley, but the dialog we've had over the past two years is the most treasured I've ever had in the hobby. And jeez, you've got carbon cloth available instead of cedar shingles... :-) Loren Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:28:15 -0700 From: Harley Michaelis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: soaring@airage.com Subject: Re: Some history, status of things a challenge Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I suspect I have about as many years in model airplane design, engineering, construction, flying, crashing and repairing as anyone on the planet. I got hooked when Lindbergh did his 1927 flight to Paris. I thereafter never complained Mom. . . there's nothing to do! With the big Depression shortly underway and money unavailable even for essentials, my building, originally with non-flying models, was done with cedar shingles, fence posts and cigar boxes, apple boxes and what was in the lumber yard scrap heap. The first adhesive I ever used was LePage's 48 Hour Iron Glue. It took that long to cure! Tools were my dad's hammer, file, pliers and mom's kitchen knives. In my teens, besides Spicy Detective with its stimulating artwork, I discovered model mags offering things like Ambroid cement, balsa, tissue, banana oil, etc. There were rubber powered kits, but with money so scarce, I scratch built my own. Well, I did build one kit. It was a folding prop, 36 span, Douglas Space Conqueror. To buy it at a whopping $3, I saved up small change for 6 mo.! By the time I had discretionary income, I was so comfortable scratch building and with ideas popping into my head, I had no interest in kits. A life of scratch building has kept costs down, unleashed and kept the creative juices flowing and always given me something constructive to do, even now. Since getting into R/C sailplanes about 1965 I've built one kit, a Dodgson Maestro I promptly sold. No discredit is meant to Bob's designs. I remember a contest with 28 entrants I attended. 27 had a Dodgson ship. It's not his fault, but as money became less tight and with younger guys who never scratch built anything wanting to get in the game, kits became the way to go. Now with more money to spend and with guys showing up who are accustomed to instant satisfaction, and with the advent of ARF's and RTF's, relatively inexpensive kits that can similarly perform are about non-existent. The upshot of this is that the joy and satisfaction of being creative has been squelched, it costs too much, and because of costs it limits new participation. Pity. Sadly, guys who take this route do no original thinking, do nothing new or creative and thus have nothing to pass on to make a meaningful contribution. This is clearly confirmed in the pages of the model magazines that used to contain such meaty and useful construction articles that reflected the state of the art creations done by individual modelers. I'm disheartened that so many guys have acquiesced to the notion that only ARF airframes can effectively compete. This notion, in my humble opinion, is erroneous and essentially the result of failing to develop and use building skills. Just my opinion, but I think the common excuses of no time, my time is too valuable, I can't build, I want to be competitive, etc. have little validity for most who express them. Rather, for most, I consider it just a copout for their failure to develop and use skills and exercise their creative abilities. By now, readers must know of the Big Genie, the Genie Pro and the Genie LT/S at http://genie.rchomepage.com/. These are unique, highly competitive, scratch-buildable designs that, properly built and in skilled hands, will perform as well as any ARF in their size classes. The how to CD offered probably provides the most thorough instructions with pictures of any model offered on the planet. Stick to
[RCSE] Mark's Models Bird of Time Kit
I have a Mark's Models Bird of Time kit that can be had for $75 plus shipping. The kit box has apparently been through a serious rain storm, as the label is nearly washed out. But the contents are intact and in good shape. Small parts and hardware are still in plastic bags. Included is a pristine RCM plan with a reprint of the '79 Thornburg construction article (the best sailplane article ever written in my humble opinion) and the original construction photo sheet. If you like your 60 oz. RFT Bird of Time, you're gonna LOVE a 43 ounce version with extremities so light they respond to belching butterflies and wings with the strength of actual vertical grain shear webs. This is the kit of the design as it was meant to fly. Preference to PayPal payment and UPS shipping. Reply off line if you're interested. Thanks, Loren 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] Grand Esprit sold
It's been sold. Thanks for the interest. Loren Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 23:14:48 -0500 To: soaring@airage.com From: Loren Blinde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Grand Esprit Grand Esprit partial kit from the former Dream Catcher Hobbies for sale. Wing ribs, shaped parts, tail boom, plans instructions. You provide the rest of the wood. I only wish I had the time to build it. $75 + shipping, US. I'll even throw in a dozen sheets of 1/16 Sig contest balsa. Loren 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] Grand Esprit
Grand Esprit partial kit from the former Dream Catcher Hobbies for sale. Wing ribs, shaped parts, tail boom, plans instructions. You provide the rest of the wood. I only wish I had the time to build it. $75 + shipping, US. I'll even throw in a dozen sheets of 1/16 Sig contest balsa. Loren 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] Lil' T
I was just trying to make a buck, but seem to have inadvertently unleashed some really neat vintage stories that have been a pleasure to read. Reminds me that most of us were once bug-eyed newbies who showed up at a contest just to watch and got tricked into flying :-) So take that experience to heart and go trick someone else into flying at a contest. But unless someone wants a Lil' T for $50, I may just have to build it and learn to fly all over again. Come to think of it, that might be fun... Loren p.s. Ed Berris (and his large Sicilian associate) found me and I didn't owe him money, really... 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] Nostalgia kit for sale
For us golden age types, I have a Midwest Lil' T kit for sale. It's a 74 T-tail sailplane and the kit is in good condition. Here's the fun part: it's designed for single-channel rudder only. The box says Ideal for Galloping Ghost Single Channel Proportional. While I suppose you could engineer an elevator control, real men don't need all them steenking servos anyway ... :-) Best offer of $50 or more and I'll pay US shipping. Loren 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] The Midwest Lil' T rememberance
You got me curious, so I checked the plans on the one I've got up for sale, and no mention of lightening holes either. There's a small notation of 10/78 on the plan, presuming that might be a date. I bet a power pod would be good on one of these. I'm just back from a nostalgic session of flying my .049 powered Jetco Eastwind and now my hands smell funny. But if starting out with a Lil' T can put one in Harley's footsteps, I may have to raise the price... :-) Loren At 01:47 PM 8/27/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I too so many years ago had a lil'T. It actually flew quite well considering the times, I think I put a World Engines MkIII or something similiar in it., as at the time I was working for World, so many years ago. I Just picked up a Kit at the Nats, it was missing a set of wing ribs for one wing, for 50 bucks !! Courious though, I did notice that this kit did not reference the Optional cut ous on the plans for the Lightening holes on the Tail and the fuse.. The kit I have now must be an earlier version than the one I had in the mid Seventies. I remember hi-starting the heck outta the thing, Launches were always scary due to the wing blanking out the smallish t-tali and the smallish rudder was a challenge at slower airspeeds. Probably at home on the slope, it did thermal as well as could be expected, at the time, considering my limited thermaling skills. I think that it was my 3rd glider I had been flying power for quite some time and was gettin bored... I am Looking Forward to building this gem, if for nothing else a grin, a giggle, and a hoot !!! CJ -- Jack Strother Granger, IN LSF 2948 LSF Level V #117 LSF Official 1996 - 2004 CSS Gold 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] Servos for Sale - SOLD
Servos listed below have all been sold. Thanks for the responses. Loren Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:57:29 -0500 To: soaring@airage.com From: Loren Blinde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Servos for Sale Selling for a friend's estate: 4 - Airtronics 94141, old Airtronics connector, new in boxes All 4: $150, shipped U.S. 2 - Hitec HS-85 MG, Hitec connector, new in boxes 2 - Hitec HS-81, Hitec connector, new in boxes All 4: $50, shipped U.S. 16 Servo Grab Bag: 1 - Futaba S9601, 2 - Royal Titan Mini, 2 - Hobbico CS-12MG, 2 - Sanwa 80411, 2 - Hitec HS402, 2 - DAD Tina, 2 - Hobbico CS-11 1 - Hobbico CS-31, 2 - Kyosho KS-31, and 6 bags of Hobbico servo gears. Assorted connectors, I plugged them in and they all work. All 16: $75, shipped U.S. An offer to take the whole works for $250, shipped U.S., wins. Reply off-line with questions or offers. Loren 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] Servos for Sale
Selling for a friend's estate: 4 - Airtronics 94141, old Airtronics connector, new in boxes All 4: $150, shipped U.S. 2 - Hitec HS-85 MG, Hitec connector, new in boxes 2 - Hitec HS-81, Hitec connector, new in boxes All 4: $50, shipped U.S. 16 Servo Grab Bag: 1 - Futaba S9601, 2 - Royal Titan Mini, 2 - Hobbico CS-12MG, 2 - Sanwa 80411, 2 - Hitec HS402, 2 - DAD Tina, 2 - Hobbico CS-11 1 - Hobbico CS-31, 2 - Kyosho KS-31, and 6 bags of Hobbico servo gears. Assorted connectors, I plugged them in and they all work. All 16: $75, shipped U.S. An offer to take the whole works for $250, shipped U.S., wins. Reply off-line with questions or offers. Loren 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] Re: Opportunity to scratch build Genies for profit???
Harley, I'll accept the dawdling award in good humor as a proud testimonial to a lifetime of underachievement. Do I get a trophy or something? Actually my shop overhead time is probably 50% due to non-productive, yet somehow rewarding activities like scratching, getting distracted by classic movies and transporting beer from the upstairs refrigerator to the upstairs bathroom via the basement work area. A basement refrigerator and enhanced use of the floor drain would alone have cut the Genie time down by 50 hours. I think the focused types among us could do the first Genie in 100 hours and the second one in a lot less. My #2 would have been done already were it not for that dang Ingrid Bergman month on TCM. Loren At 12:09 PM 8/10/2005, you wrote: I scratch build my designs primarily for myself and every personal ship I've subsequently offered for sale has been grabbed up pronto. I've also built a few new on contract at prices comparable to those being paid for better ARF's and RTF's. My interest in and capacity for building new ships is very limited. I like the creative end of design and engineering, problem solving, etc., but take no joy in production work, other than rarely/occasionally building a ship for flyers in which I have some compelling personal interest. 3-4 airframes a year is about all I'm willing to do, since it's work and I'm supposed to be retired. Doing it to generate income is okay, but that, in and of itself, is of no particular interest to me. With the demand as it is for ARF's and RTF's, it seems to me that there is an opportunity for some enterprising modelers to augment their income working at home, by learning to scratch build the Genie line of airframes for profit. If you do a good job, sticking to the construction as I detail it is to be done, I think you would be able to sell all you can build and stay as busy as you care to be doing it. To get started would require you to build one of these airframes to see what's involved and learn how, wring it out to see that the performance is comparable to other contemporary airframes and, if interested, acquire supplies, figure out production steps to minimize your time and make yourself known as available to build. I'd suggest that you make it a requisite that the buyers provide the proper servos for you to install along with the Rotary Driver System drive shafts and pockets so it's done right to provide the cleanest wings in the business with nicely working flaps and ailerons. I will continue to provide plans, CD, hardware package, RDS couplers, etc. as mentioned in the What's Available? file and offer to be helpful by e-mail, but you will otherwise be on your own. I want nothing except for the airframes to be built according to the instructions so the quality is maintained. I thought I was a slow builder, but if it really took Loren Blinde 200 hours to build his Genie (the 10' span LT/S version, yet) he takes the prize for dawdling. (Just kidding, Loren. I know you are young enough to suffer those distractions that interrupt one's concentration and productivity.) I can turn out an LT/S in about 40 hours of genuine effort. I may take 6 weeks, however, putting it out. When the composite fuse is available, it looks more like 25 hours . I'm thinking in terms of a plain paint job that gives a 2 tone LE on the wing as seen on moldies, etc. Fancier paint trims take extra time. On the big 145-1/2 span big Genie, I'd say 60 hours if you scratch build the glassed-over fuse, but more like 50 using the available composite fuse/canopy. The Genie Pro with its 130 span and the composite fuse takes a bit less time than the big Genie. I get about $275 into the LT/S with the glassed-over fuse. I'm guessing it will add another $75 or so to use the forthcoming composite fuse/canopy. With the composite fuse/canopy used on the Genie Pro or big Genie, it's about $400 in materials. The above costs reflect the cost of the ready-to-use CNC cut wing cores that Les offers. The Genie pages at http://genie.rchomepage.com/, particularly in Files 1,2 and 3, give a good overview of what's involved, but the CD I offer as part of my package always includes later editions of the various files posted in that website. I see the number of hits on the website is over 12,500. I've mentioned it only over the RCSE to which there are around 850 subscribers. Guys must be repeatedly drooling at the material, but very few have built one of the ships. Among those who have, three who had never even built a kit are now building their third of the Genie line. Several are building their 2nd one. It appears that many would like to own one of these, but for whatever reasons, will never get to it. There must be a market for RTF versions. Questions? e-mail me. 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
[RCSE] Re: Lamenting the lack of available sailplane builder's kits
Thanks for your post ! I'm one of those vanishing weirdos who enjoy (and make the time for) building every bit as much as flying. And you've hit an issue right on the head. Today's builders are equipment installers, the market has responded in kind, and you're left to cope. I know, I know ... I'm sounding like a brain-damaged, nitrate-dope-sniffing geezer. That aside, I've occasionally been seduced into immediate gratification as well, I really like my Soprano, so I'm no saint in that respect. But, IMHO, you won't get a more satisfying and rewarding TD building experience than one of Harley's Genies. You get to do the cool stuff, like bagging a wing. The rest of it, fuselage and tail feathers, is balsa/plywood/monokote heaven. And you end up with a kick-ass plane in the process. That's what attracted me to Harley's designs in the first place, it's the best of both worlds and the best way for a builder to deal with the world as it is. Materials: $300 Time: 200 hours (I build slow and am easily distracted) Having some ask Where did you buy it? Priceless Loren 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] Estate planning
Let's say that tomorrow, due to circumstances beyond your control, you either go to heaven, ascend to a higher reality or become worm-food, depending on your own personal beliefs (off-topic for this forum). What happens to your stuff, presuming you think you'd care? A dear flying friend's recent death, who had the foresight to consider the question, made me think of this in real terms. Had he not done so, there would be a cache of primo sailplanes in the bottom of a dumpster; compounding the grief beyond that of his passing. You may have this sunshine vision of your flying buddies enjoying the fruits of your labors, but if its not written down, it may not be so. Just think about it it's all to easy to worry about it the day after tomorrow. Loren 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] Esprit Models KA6e
Does anyone have opinions or experience to share about Esprit Models and/or their KA6e ARF kit? A friend (not on the list) is interested in the plane. Thanks, Loren 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] Re: Spirit of 76 foam 2-meter
Can't say I've ever owned the plane... but about 25 years ago, a newbie showed up with one at our field. He soon broke it on landing. So, being the resident expert with all of two years experience, I offered to fix it for him. Out comes the bottle of Hot Stuff, liberally applied. 10 minutes later we're watching his plane dissolve into a wad of goo, wondering what happened :-) Formerly young and stupid, now old and stupid, Loren 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] DJ Aerotech
I have a good friend, not on RCSE, who ordered a Chrysalis 2M MKII back in December. All he has gotten so far are assurances to be patient. Considering the web site has a banner proclaiming Chrysalis Electric and MKII Available!, 4 months seems like a stretch for a 2 meter built up kit. My friend is relatively new to the hobby, his winter project has become a summer one at best, and right now I'm feeling a bit sheepish over having recommended the kit. Loren 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] JR/Hitec servo question
I was wondering sort of the same thing about comparing the two servos. But my question is: Why, when I plug in both brands, with no load, do the Hitec servos make this funny sound like distant morse code in a WW2 submarine movie, while the JR's are dead silent? And presuming that there's some current drain involved in making those sounds, why would I want to use Hitec? Newbie to this digital servo stuff, Loren 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] What do you have in your toolbox?
A long, long time ago (1979), I flew with some guys from the Rocky Mountain Soaring Association in Denver. One of their members had a large fancy tackle box, apparently suitable for a bass-boat episode of American Sportsman. Someone challenged me to ask him what's in his flight box. So I did. What I found was a quarter, a piece of lead and a sock. Thinking about it... priceless. Loren 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] Building Something Too
I have my second Genie LT/S close to completion. In 30 years of flying, it's the only plane I've ever built that I wanted to build again. Now I know how Harley can build 27 (or whatever he's up to now) Genies. After the first one, the next 26 are a breeze :-) Loren 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] Cal's Winch LED's
Some time back, Cal Posthuma offered a kit for LED's on a two solenoid winch. The idea being to indicate if one of the solenoids was stuck. I ordered and received the materials and instructions in good time. It was easy to assemble and worked flawlessly. Now here's the testimonial part. Since I was in winch-spiffing mode, I decided to wrap on a new spool of line as well. When I started, both LED's were glowing and I verified with a continuity checker that the solenoids were working. About halfway through the first roll of line, one of the LED's went out. I checked continuity and sure enough, one of the solenoids was stuck! Granted, I likely caused the problem by messing with the solenoid connections in the first place. I had installed some new bus bars and probably put some stress on a solenoid body in the process. But for 10 bucks and an hour of work, it might very well save you someday from either diving for the master shut off switch or watching your plane go through the turnaround. Thanks Cal ! Loren 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] BUILDING A GENIE OR LT/S THIS WINTER?
I know the feeling. I even started cutting templates for my LT/S wing last year. A four panel wing takes 5 templates x 2 (for upper/lower). I got bored after template #5, and frustrated that I couldn't find blue foam locally, so I ordered the cores from Les Horvath.. Upon opening the box, my first reaction was what the hell was I thinking?? Cores so perfect that it seemed a disgrace to subject them to my band saw for spar slots. Leading edges so smooth that I ignored Harley's balsa leading edges and left them intact. Throw in those neat blade joiners plus some of Harley's sliced condom rudder hinges, and you're on your own for the rest. Scratch builder heaven. I think Harley should do one of those MasterCard commercials: Wing cores, $75; Plans and other stuff, $30; Some carbon and balsa, $150; Beating a $1,500 plane . priceless. :-) Loren Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:11:41 -0500 From: Andrew E. Mileski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: soaring@airage.com Subject: Re: [RCSE] BUILDING A GENIE OR LT/S THIS WINTER? Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Harley Michaelis wrote: Since I first mentioned this spring of posting of the GENIE CD content at http://genie.rchomepage.com/, there have been well over 5,000 hits. That many intentional visits tells me people are looking for worthy airframe projects. Yet, but a few dozen inquiries have come in and fewer yet have committed to building. Harley, Keep in mind it has been nearly a year since I first looked seriously at building a Genie. Things may have changed since then. When I first looked at the Genie I was disappointed. From what it was being touted as, I was expecting to be able to visit the web site with glue in hand, download some plans, and start building. Though there is a wealth of information on the Genie (and great tips for building in general), one still had to resort to ordering plans and wing cores. This was a big disappointment for me. Perhaps this partially explains the hit-to-build ratio. I looked at cutting my own cores, and communicated with you (Harley), Winston, and Les, and decided it wasn't going to happen. I think Les even phoned me to try to answer my questions. I'm pretty sure I could cut a Genie-ish core now, but it seems one can only buy Genie cores. It just didn't seem right that I couldn't scratch-build a supposedly scratch-built sailplane. Now for anyone still reading this, and interested in a Genie, please do investigate this wonderful ship for yourself. It looks like a worthy project one will be amply pleased with. It just wasn't what _I_ was looking for, but it maybe exactly what others are. And again, it has been a year since I last looked into the Genie. My $0.02 Canadian. P.S. See Harley for the latest info, but my very outdated site is at: http://isoar.ca/~andrewm/rc/genie/ -- Andrew E. Mileski 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] AMA Election Results
The AMA election results have been posted to the web site: http://www.modelaircraft.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.
Re: [RCSE] Dave Mathewson for AMA President
Gordy is right on with his endorsement of Dave Mathewson for AMA President. A couple of years ago, during the near-demise of slope combat, I found myself involved to some degree and corresponded with Dave on several occasions. I was impressed by his willingness to listen and understand a situation, in contrast to some in power who reacted to mis (and dis)-information on the subject. His actions back his words. He, along with some other district VP's, were genuine allies. Bill, you are not only legitimate now, you have been assimilated... :-) Slope combat will be in the 2005 AMA rule book, right up there with Pattern and CL Scale. Loren Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:25:13 -0700 From: Bill Swingle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RCSE] Dave Mathewson for AMA President Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well I'll be. Gordy asked a candidate about my favorite flavor of flying; Foamie Combat. More importantly Mr. Mathewson offered a reasonable and supportive answer! Wow! Does this mean I can now safely consider myself legitimate? No longer a bastardized, fringe participant? Goodness, I can hardly imagine. No longer the black sheep, or red-headed step child? No longer Un-Clean? You know, if there were more than 2.5 slope flyers in my county, I might get pretty excited. DAVE MATHEWSON for president. Thanks for asking Gordy. I'm impressed. Let's be sure to give this gentleman a look: Dave Mathewson AMA Vice President, District 2 7271 State Fair Blvd. Baldwinsville, NY 13027 315.727.4275 315.635.1039 (Fax) Bill Swingle Janesville, CA 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 etiquette
Okay, when I receive a Digest version of this list, and it includes ten trivially useless, personally intended, one-line responses from one individual, something needs to be said: THERE ARE 887 PEOPLE SUBSCRIBED TO THIS LIST! I know it's an daunting and technically challenging task to cut and paste an address into a private email instead of just hitting reply. But if just a few of us took the time to do so, the ratio of content to crap on this list would improve dramatically. Loren 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] Aquila text
The AMA has a wonderful free resource available to all, an online archive of every page of every Model Aviation magazine since 1975. Go to www.modelaircraft.org. Click on the Members Only link (you don't have to be a member), then the AMA Digital Archive link. Search for the December 1977 issue. On page 9, you will find an article by Skip Miller on his journey to the 1977 world championship and a sidebar article on the Miller Mod to the Aquila. Yes, I confess, I'm old enough to remember reading the article on paper... :-) Loren 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] Aquila text ... PS
I'm informed that you do indeed need to be an AMA member to access the members only area. My cookies, and probably donuts as well, are smarter than I am! Just for kicks, I deleted all AMA cookies and it does ask you for your last name and AMA number to enter the members only area. So I may not have done our friend from Sweden much good... Loren 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] Shot down personally
This thread rings close to home tonite. Earlier this evening our club was giving a demo for some school kids at a small field in suburban big-money acreage land. I flew a tried and trusted Quaker old-timer with at least a couple hundred flights logged (yes, it had an engine, no, it was off, but that's irrelevant) and after three successful flights the controls locked up about a thousand feet up and away and the result wasn't pretty. Extensive post-mortem shows the batteries were okay, the servos all function, a range check of the remains was okay and the switch was on and functional. And there were no other participating transmitters on my frequency. Which leads to the interference theory. I've been flying 26 years and have never experienced such an event and have a personal aversion to attributing pilot error to interference; I don't do that lightly. But the nagging thought that keeps coming back (considering the local landscape) is that there could have been someone in the vicinity innocently flying a slow-flyer in the back yard. I can't prove I got shot down, but can't help thinking it. The mass-appeal, anyone can do it mentality that goes with those damnable back yard abominations is going to signal the end of organized RC flying anywhere in radio range of modern suburbia... My personal stance it that I won't buy one, fly one or even suggest that anyone use them to get into the hobby. And if you have one, next time you flip the Tx switch to entertain the neighbors, stop and think about anyone else who could be flying in the vicinity. Loren Blinde 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.
