Heh...they were still doing that in the 80's. I remember timidly asking
Grumman for some info on the F-14. I was pretty suprised when a package came
with a bunch of color 8x10's of every plane Grumman made, among other things.
I then went on a letter writting jag, to pretty much every
David Schat wrote:
jaffee wrote:
I don't want to diminish anything Rutan has done...
I'm no Rocket Scientist but don't orbital craft fire the motors in
reverse to slow them down for re-entry? Couldn't the craft fire it's
motor a bit longer and at full power to increase the decent angle to
one
a different servo on the elevator. This is
NOT for a big bucks molded ship, and I don't plan on putting digitals or anything too
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affecting the airflow over the horizontal stab,
rather then just some pitching moment caused by the wing.
I'm just curious about this...any thoughts?
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was a little faster, but not quite as good in
light lift. It died a tramatic death when one of the wings delaminated.
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Monkey King wrote:
Hey, that brings up a good thread: rather than What planes have you
bought but not built, let's ask What are you building?
Hmmmhaving finally completed my first big plane, a Sting-DS (woohoo...first flight
was last week), I move on to projects that were previously
tony estep wrote:
Richard,
There's a spreadsheet available from Blaine Beron-Rawdon that allows
you to simulate any servo hookup on-screen. But the advice in the link
that Jason sent (below) is correct. What Gordy said is wrong. For a
given mechanical advantage, the angular slop in the
tony estep wrote:
DJ's explanation is correct: minimize slop caused by the wire not
quite filling the hole in the horns, by making both horns as long as
practical.
Okay...I'm not sure that Don's article really disagrees with Gordy. Correct me if I'm
wrong, but Don is saying to use the
version) be
strong enough for the skins if I use a vac/bag?
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Thanks for all the additional battery sources guys. Not sure what the issue was, but
I was finally able to contact Batteries America today and ordered from them.
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Bob Pope wrote:
John if you can find something called goo gone that will remove the
tape. You have to work up an edge and keep squirting the goo gone where
the tape is coming up. Let it set for 30 seconds or so and keep working
up the edge. Work slowly so the goo gone can loosen the glue
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AFAIK, the EC met last weekend. Does anyone know how things went with regard to the
proposed full contact combat ban?
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Just to add a bit more detail: As I was cleaning my desk I happened upon a review of
the Starlight 2000 in the Feb/March QFI. According to this, the builder of the
Starlight 2000 is Karel Koudelka, of 2K models in the Czech Republic. He also made
the Cassiopea F3J model (not that I know what
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Steve Galle has posted some nice onboard video of his Opus flying around Parker
Mountain, even doing some DS'ing. Check it out:
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You'll probably want to use a medium weight glass cloth. The stuff you
have may or may not be that. As for the epoxy, 5 min is a bit thick for
that type of work. At a minimum, I'd use 30 min, or better yet, a 20 min
laminating epoxy, which is really thin.
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Brett Jaffee noted:
The worst, of course, is chrome. I have a small T-6 Texan power
plane which has wings covered in chrome monokote. The wings are
almost completely invisible 90
hard, but I'd like to start with plans if they are out there on the internet
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Not sure if anyone else experiences this, but I have problems with purples and blues
when viewed with a backdrop of distant hills or mountains (so you get the purple/brown
sort of effect). At one time, my Renegade sloper had a beautiful pearl blue paint job
and white fuse. The wing would all
Tom Koszuta wrote:
The Hitec Eclipse 7 has knobs for adjusting the camber. I would like to be able to
put these on my presets. I have the ability to raise and lower flaps this way, but
it does appear to be able to do the same with the ailerons. Am I missing something
or is the Eclipse
Do bear in mind that the asker could simply be hitting the reply button and saying
thanks directly to the person(s) who answered the question, rather then to the whole
group. I mention that because I did get a thanks from the last newbie who asked a
questions here.
Adam Till wrote:
Sorry,
Henke, Steve wrote:
Did you ever see the episode of Junkyard Wars where they
built gliders?
do you mean the bomb drop episode?
Actually, there was another one where they built full size man-carrying gliders and
launched them off a slope (the idea being to see how far down the slope you
Tom Watson wrote:
Yep...the spin launch nonsense killed all interest for me, too.
How is it nonsense? It got a lot of people enthusasitic about HLG (like me), and
enabled a lot of older guys to continue to be competitive.
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Monkey King wrote:
Weasel (now Wind Weasel II)--a built up--I kit bashed one with strip
ailerons and it made for a good sloper
I've gotta ask a newbie question here: what are strip ailerons? I'm
imagining that they're just strips behind the trailing edge? Is that
right?
Generally
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Or does everyone sit in front of the computers, hitting the Send /
Receive button repeatly so you can be the first one to post the next
smart-ass comment?
Only when I'm at work. :-)
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Lex Mierop wrote:
What did you get
Okay, nothing terribly exciting (in other words, no new planes), but got some useful
items none the less.
First, I'd like to thank everybody who recommended the Kenai slit finger Glacier
Gloves, which Santa found on my list. These things are
A great plane, though not exactly and F3F plane.
Tom Broeski wrote:
Nemesis in the US
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wptasinski wrote:
I purchased my first R/C glider, a Zagi 3C, a few days ago and have a
couple of questions that are not described in detail in the
manual.
1. The manual states that standard or micro servos can be
used. My question is (since I have not yet purchased a
radio), which
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begrudge anyone who is not a member.
When you get the February 2002 Model
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Hmm, lets, see the sponsor of this list, Airage, owns a magazine (Model Airplane
News), which always places vendor
Bill Swingle wrote:
My ideal slope is a hexagon shaped mesa with each side 1000 feet long or
longer. It should be at least 500 feet above the surrounding area and have
walls which slope at approx. 60 degrees. Also the top should have one tree
so if you're going to crash you'll know
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If no one has mentioned it yet, get your self a box of 100 razor blades. Cutting
covering dulls blades very quickly, so don't be shy about using them once and throwing
them away. It sucks when you are slicing off a piece of excess trailing edge
covering, only to have the blade go dull and
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and One Fun are coming out, but it appears this one is already in
production. I'm just suprised I haven't heard anything about it.
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Karlton Spindle wrote:
Turkeys do they soar in left hand circles or right hand circles?
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
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I'm pretty sure the F-16 uses flaperons for roll control as well, just like slope
glider.
Erik Alber wrote:
The F-16 has no ailerons either. It has flaps and leading edge slats for
lift control, but all the roll control is from independent full-flying
elevator control.
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from a visit to John at http://www.rc-direct.com and he has the OPUS W
on special right now for $399!
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Cool, I knew we would drag Joe into this sooner or later. :)
Joe Jan Wurts wrote:
Ummm... I guess I havta provide some balance here.
For pure speed, nothing beats moldies. Span, span, span... (or
more properly, L/D in the turn, L/D) For the real DS diehards
that have gotten
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Ade wrote:
If you hold full aileron in then open the brakes the up aileron goes up..
then stops at only part spoiler.. the down aileron then keeps going up
until you are only slightly short of the full up aileron.
Well, yes it does still work proportionally.
If I reduced the amount of
Ade wrote:
I see. I just never had a problem with that on the planes I
using spolieron on. I always had very good roll control. I
suppose on the 8U I could just add in a 1 directional mix that
would move the ailerons more downward when the spoilerons were
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James Osborn wrote:
To keep it on topic, the explosion of DS is my favorite thing this year.
Try not to use explosion and DS in the same sentenceit's bad luck.
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Oops. My apologies to Bert. I missed the first post and thought that Bert was
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Proofreading is one word.
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How about proof reading fool ... That should be:
How many hours ARE spent per newsletter?
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I thought I might, though I've seen worse!
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I was scanning some old photos
LOL! That picture is about 15 years oldI was young and foolish then.
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It's sticks okay. Spray it with 3M 77 first and use low heat. Any more then a
moderate amount of heat will cause huge bubbles to form (hence the 3M77).
James Osborn wrote:
Hey,
How about Utracote, will that stick to coroplast? I'm getting my JW kit shortly
and I would like to cover
I ended up using just a single drop of CA in an area of the linkage that was
exposed...it seemed to do the trick. I know the CA/mircos trick works well too,
though. If it breaks loose again, I'll probably do that.
I was a bit impatient, though, and uesd non foam friendly CA. Haven't seen
I wonder...has any thought been given to what these planes can do when their
propellant runs out? Any chance they will be given enough intelligence to be able to
thermal or slope soar? There's plently of dust devils on Mars, and I imagine there's
some good ridge lift in places too. Anyone
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Okay, didn't read your example carefully the first time. I stand corrected.
Lincoln Ross wrote:
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No. It doesn't work that way. Consider the case of an Apogee (numbers
per design spec) where you are downwind, trying to fight
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Levi Green wrote:
G). The kit calls for standard sized servos, and final weight should
be around 28oz +/- a couple oz. Would it be better to go with micro
servos for this sized plane?
Seeing as its a 2 channel plane, micros will only save you 2-3 ounces. Its probably
not worth it, plus,
Aerodynamically speaking, what makes a DLG a DLG? Obviously, there are
strength issues, but putting that aside, what differences are there between
a conventionally launched HLG and a DLG, especially in the wing. I know the
tails of DLG's are often different to avoid boom twisting on launch,
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I could be off base here, but it seems to me you would be crossing a very large gap in
price and features between the Stylus and the RD6000. Unless you have your heart set
on Airtronics, you should also consider the Futaba 8u and the JR 8 channel units (not
to mention the Multiplex stuff).
I've been experimenting with inexpensive (read cheap) on board video for a while, so
far without much success. It seems like a big hassle, especially since I really don't
want to fly the plane from the video...i just want to get some cool stuff recorded. I
think the best solution to this is
Just promise you'll get some speed runs in the shots! Gotta see some terrain whizzing
by! Watching video from a glider circling or even doing loops at 800 feet gets old
pretty quickly.
Has anyone done onboard video from a plane DS'ing yet? This could be your chance! :-)
Karlton Spindle
Paul Klissner wrote:
On my TD planes, I use rudders for flying thermals. In that kind
of flying a rudder is very important for making flat energy-efficient
turns.
Isn't flat and energy-effiiceint kind of any oxy-moron? The former implies some
deal of skid through the turn, which isn't
Btw, if you ever want a glass fuse for it, the wing of your wood Renegade will
actually fit the Fun-1 fuselage *better* then the wing of the Fun-1.
Brett
Erica and or Rob wrote:
Hey now,
I've recently made the same jump, so maybe I can help a bit.
I was told "the plane" was the
Well, I suppose that's true of any technological advancement. Once
everyone has it, equilibrium is reached and everyone goes back to where
they were. as a sport HLG pilot though, it's a very cool development
to have trickle down. I might not win (or even enter) any contests,
but if I can catch
d on an anemometer design I found at http://www3.sympatico.ca/jbremner/wind.html
I happen to have all the parts for it! I'll let the list know how it turns out.
I've often wondered if you could some how cobble together an annemometor using an
optical tachometer (of they type used for power
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