Fw: [RCSE] Santa Ana

2000-01-06 Thread Ken Johnson
- Original Message - From: Ken Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; RCSE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> What other wind directions are named in your locale? We have "Diablo" wind in the San Francisco Bay Area when the wind is Easterly. What is the "Sirocco", for example, or the

[RCSE] Wing rods

2000-01-06 Thread Kappus, John
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 09:30:53 -0800 From: Doug Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Wingrods, Ejector pins, and some Metal-urgy and the search for so

Re: [RCSE] Santa Ana

2000-01-06 Thread Ken Johnson
- Original Message - From: Dave Nasatir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Referring to the "Santa Ana" wind, > > Ken Johnson wrote: > > >Looks like a great day for any east-facing slopes in LoCal today. > > What other wind directions are named in your locale? > > We have "Diablo" wind in the Sa

[RCSE] JR Receiver for sale

2000-01-06 Thread Barry Baskin
PCM receiver in excellent condition. Credit card size. Sells for over $100. Asking $70. (am selling because it does not work with my Airtronics setup). RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [RCSE] Santa Ana

2000-01-06 Thread Michael Robinson
> What other wind directions are named in your locale? > > We have "Diablo" wind in the San Francisco Bay Area when the wind is Easterly. > > What is the "Sirocco", for example, or the "Chinook", "Foehn", "Mistral" ... etc.? Here in SoCal we have the "Efthreeyef Wind." It's a very, very light (al

Re: [RCSE] Topozone - IDEA!

2000-01-06 Thread Chuck Gadd
> I think the maps on this site are in graphical format, which means at the > least we'd have to write a very sophisticated program to analyze the > graphical content to generate actual contour data, plus optical character > recognition to read the altitude information, and separate out all of the

Re: [RCSE] Topozone - IDEA!

2000-01-06 Thread Steven Bixby
>What ifsince the maps I have seen use color differentiation to denote >height..write a program to digitize the color information. Then write and >algorithm to look for certain rapid differentiation's. Since color is stored >as 3 types of color (varying amounts of red, blue, green) a rap

[RCSE] Sunbird Fiberglass fuselages.

2000-01-06 Thread LJolly
For you guys flying the Thornburg contest at Phoenix I have just finished the mold for the SunBird. The fuselage fits Ray's kit and is faithful to the Model Builder plans with the exception that the nose is stretched 1.2 inches. If you haven't built your Sunbird kit you can get a fuselage from

[RCSE] Scobie underestimates the RCSE re: Maps

2000-01-06 Thread Scobie Puchtler or Sarah Felstiner
The following post has some serious content, but deteriorates into a well-meaning rant that is meant in good fun. If this makes you nervous... delete now. __ In my enthusiasm about the new topographic map site "TopoZone" I recently wrote (and h