[RCSE] Off-topic don't read, unless you are a computer weenie.

2002-02-05 Thread Quiet Man
Help me. I just received a gift of an old toshiba satellite pro 425cdt laptop. I got it to use in the field for soaring, including downloading flight logs from gps receivers installed in either full-scale planes or models so I guess this post is not completely off-topic. Here's the problem.  Unit W

Re: [RCSE] SWC

2002-02-05 Thread Danny C Williams
Sorry Pat I had a wind meter at the SWC. (that is how I decide on how much weight to put into my Air Hog / Icon) Fred was pretty close as Saturday averaged about 10 knots all day long with gusts up to as high as 22 knots. Sorry the wind meter does not lie and this was on the ground away from th

[RCSE] SWC, a good test of who knows their gliders the best!!

2002-02-05 Thread Flying High
First of all, congrats to Skip Miller for teaching us all how to land in not so-ideal conditions. Great job!! Good flying to all the top place pilots, lots of great flying took place this past weekend and people got to test how well their pilot skills came to play. You know what, congratulations

Re: [RCSE] MUGI - Has anybody ever built one of these

2002-02-05 Thread Aerofoam
> With an experienced modeler's help (meaning yourself), you can instruct with > many different models. However, it will not be ideal. If your only looking > for a plane which will be impressive in YOUR hands, he'll love it. I don't totally agree with this,I have taught a few people on my Avros

[RCSE] Airtech Psycho aerobatic slopers in stock

2002-02-05 Thread Greg Smith
Hey guys, I have several Airtech Psychos available. This 90 inch aerobatic sloper was recently featured in QFI. It is very well built and most of the work has been done for you. It is an Almost Ready to Cover kit. More info at: http://www.slopeflyer.com/html/airtech_psyco.html Several fuse col

RE: [RCSE] Wing Question (Poly vs Di)

2002-02-05 Thread Stickles, Kevin
The Great Planes Spirit with the 2 Meter wing is what I have. I have used it on the original Spirit fuselage and also on a home-built fuselage modeled after the Gentle Lady. It flew much better on the sorta Gentle Lady fuselage. -Original Message- From: Bill Conkling [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

RE: [RCSE] Receivers and Carbon/Kevlar fuselages

2002-02-05 Thread Matt Fair
I have used a Jr NER-549x with my organic and it never passed a range check. However, I have used it in my hobie hawk (before I sold it) and it worked flawlessly. I have also used the new Jr 7channel 700superslim receiver in the same organic and have had the simmilar results. I purchased a Hitec

RE: [RCSE] CR Climmax wings

2002-02-05 Thread jaffee
Thanks all for the tips and offers regarding this. I had emailed CR last week, but expected that he was out of the plane-game for good, but he got back to me yesterday. It turns out that Charlie still has some Climmax cores left, and he's selling them for a good (imo) price. Brett

RE: [RCSE] Wing Question (Poly vs Di)

2002-02-05 Thread Bill Conkling
Which Spirit? The Great Planes kit, and what size? .bc([EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.widomaker.com/~conk Williamsburg, VA 23185 On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Andy Roberts wrote: > Have many people put Spirit wings on other fuses? > Which fiberglass fuses will it work on? > Will it wo

[RCSE] Edgar Vera/soaring Junkie

2002-02-05 Thread Brian & Iva Smith
Please e-mail me..I lost your address..Thanks...Brian Smith _ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscr

RE: [RCSE] Wing Question (Poly vs Di)

2002-02-05 Thread Andy Roberts
Have many people put Spirit wings on other fuses? Which fiberglass fuses will it work on? Will it work on a glass fuse with a V-Tail? -Original Message- From: Stickles, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 10:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [RCSE] Wing Q

[RCSE] MUGI - Has anybody ever built one of these

2002-02-05 Thread Andy Roberts
If so how did it fly, how did it recover from crashing and how easy was it My 6 year old wants to fly a plane and I thought this may be perfect for him to build and fly http://www.mugi.co.uk/ If we are what we eat, then I'm easy, fast, and ch

[RCSE] Proud to be from Colorado...

2002-02-05 Thread Danny C Williams
I must say that after the SWC I am rather proud to call Colorado my home, and to be President of the Rocky Mountain Soaring Association and a member of Pikes Peak Soaring Society. (ok ok and a member of SWSA, they would do baaaddd things to me if I did not say that ;^) anyway... I would just

[RCSE] wanted: DJ Aerotech Spectre 120

2002-02-05 Thread J.P. Morere
I have been lusting after this plane for a while, but now that they have quit selling all of their composite planes I figure I had better see if there are any out in the field to be had before they are ALL gone. OK, I admit that I do not have a fortune to spend, so well used but not beat up wo

[RCSE] SWC Thoughts

2002-02-05 Thread Jim Monaco
Thanks to the whole CASL club for a great event! Saturday conditions were brutal – everyone else has already described them – and they were not exaggerating. Add-em-up is a little more forgiving in the time area, but things were tough enuff to easily lose the 6 minutes buffer on the first day. I

[RCSE] Hammerhead performance

2002-02-05 Thread mordavianus
Anybody know how this Hammerhead by Polecataero plane compare in term of performance to others such as the Fun-1 and similar price slope plane? RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [RCSE] SWC

2002-02-05 Thread FRED SAGE
I was simply making an estimate of the wind speed. Since I seldom fly in windy conditions, my judgment may have been off. I don't recall anyone having a wind gauge set up so wind speed verification would be difficult. I based my assumption on the fact that most gliders coming off tow were

Re: [RCSE] frequency control

2002-02-05 Thread Jimmy D. Andrews
Here is a website dedicated to the Spread Spectrum Scene http://sss-mag.com/swindex.html James Osborn wrote: > > ... Can somebody define spread-spectrum for me? How does that work? And how would > a system using this coexist or compete with old style Tx's in the vicinity? > RCSE-List faciliti

Re: [RCSE] SWC

2002-02-05 Thread Pat McCleave
Fred, This in no way trying to take anything away from Skip's great flying and landing but if it ever blew even 10 knots all weekend in Phoenix, we must fly in Hurricane force winds here in Kansas. I was there and I do not ever remember any wind over 5. Down wind and cross wind landings were

[RCSE] Receivers and Carbon/Kevlar fuselages

2002-02-05 Thread John Ihlein
Group, There's been some past discussion about using JR receivers in fuselages made of that lightweight carbon/kevlar cloth. I just bought and Eraser Xtreme at the SWC. Its fuselage is made from the carbon/kevlar cloth. All my receivers are the JR R600 type, and they have given me flawless

[RCSE] SW Classic...

2002-02-05 Thread Jones, Philip
Thanks Dave and all the CASL workers for putting on an excellent contest once again this year!! I had a great time and met many of the fellow flyers that I had only talked to via email. Congrats to Skip Miller - nailing all those downwind landings on Saturday was an amazing accomplishment. Well d