It was a beautiful weekend in Las Vegas for all types of flying (except
IFR!) A few warnings about full scale sailplanes:
1. The DS groove is a little larger
2. The walk of shame for an off field landing is usually longer
3. They don't hold up to multiple dork landings
4. Forget about discus
Wes. . .it will be easiest to work with the rigid, pre-made laminated spars.
They come in several lengths, widths and thicknesses. If this is a 2M RES
the .014" thickness should be fine. If somewhat larger, a bit thicker would
be better. You do want these to be flush with the top and bottom of t
Building a new woodie RES and this time I want to reinforce the top and
bottom spars with carbon fiber. I've been looking over the CST and Aerospace
Composite Products web sites ending up with more questions than answers. I
know I should use unidirectional carbon fiber, but what's easier to use:
ta
Easier than I thought.
Nothing but the battery required for the trainer radio. No RF needed. I
just loaded both radios with the same glide card and memory card setup.
In the menu under trainer you set master on your radio, slave on the
trainer radio. Also set the Spoiler-Stk setting to master, o
I joined the Las Vegas Valley Soaring Association (full-size gliders)
today, took my first lesson in a 2-33 and had an absolute blast. So
much of what we do crosses over to the real thing. I did do something
that doesn't happen in models, though... My cell phone got knocked off
and left in the pl
Ok...
The charger and transmitter have been sold. I'll have
some more stuff in a bit.
Thanks Guys. I'm in the market for a new digital
camers so I'm clearing out the stull I have
accumulated and don't need. Any suggestions on a
camers? I'm leaning towards a Nikon 8700 or 8800.
Mark
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Bud Elder Bubble Dancer Pod, Rick Walba tailboom and
Bud Elder tail mount FS. SOLD
1 set of Les Horvath CNC cut Aegea 2 meter cores from
60 PSI foam. SOLD
Ace MP8000 TX. Dual FM RF boards on channels 12 and
56. Has not been used in awhile but worked when it was
last used. SOLD
PRICE REDUCTION!!
Does anyone have the documentation for the Stylus trainer mode?
My 7 year old son is getting involved in flying. He flew my Pike Sup.
pretty well last weekend and would would be nice to setup my back up to
avoid the hand off or should I say overtaking of my transmitter. I
already have the cable
Yes, several years ago a friend of mine
and I each had different parts to two different sailplanes a metric and a sagitta
600. We fitted the Sagitta wings to the Metric fuse and tail, cut off the nose and
added a
O5 motor to it , recovered it in about 14 different
colors of monoKote thus
Nice story...I'll be looking for it with my "COP" this coming season...My
"COP" is also a "combination-of-Parts"..It is a reclaimed Ava stab and rudder
from a very serious crash...It has a new Ava fuse...The wing is a Sage
FS001...It is one of the best flyers I have ever flown..It was able
A 'gordyplane' :-)
Last season it was a Majestic converted from Vtail to AVA type rear
end...and its still winning RES for the guy who ended up with it in Ut.
The season before it was a Pretty Mantis with a Luchanbach molded Xtail set
upit died a not morned death when its wing pivoted
Here is the latest from Hans for sale. If you know him you know of the quality involved. Please contact him direct at hr61orangman .com
John Hauff
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