[RCSE] Servo quality (was:Priced right servos versus the 'Best')

2000-02-26 Thread Dieter & Marcela
By process of elimination and "natural selection," good servos will end up in high-performance planes. I like to fly fast, mostly slope and electric, and I have to have the confidence that the servos will respond quickly and accurately whenever I move the stick. Without this confidence, I would n

Re: [RCSE] BASH #32 write-up

2000-02-20 Thread Dieter & Marcela
>BASH #32...The winds were clocking a solid >20mph. Gusts were in the thirties on a digital meter while a Dwyer Liar >said 40mph. Stiff wind for sure. Right. For foamies, maybe. Read Lindgren's post "Santa Maria! or Hold on!" and weep... :o) Dieter RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplan

[RCSE] ShredAir at the MWE

2000-02-10 Thread Dieter & Marcela
ShredAir will be at the Mid-Winter Electrics in San Diego Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. We will start answering e-mails again Monday night. Dieter Mahlein, ShredAir http://shredair.com RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL P

[RCSE] Re: Calculators, Volz servo mounts, and (shredair service)

2000-01-30 Thread Dieter & Marcela
>At 11:01 AM 1/30/00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> It's almost on a par with the smell of a >>freshly unpacked molded fuselage, or a brand new Hewlett Packard calculator. > >The new Sharon you got from Dieter and brought to the club meeting was >pretty cool... > >What did you buy the calcula

[RCSE] Better landings without @#$%^&* Skegs

2000-01-28 Thread Dieter & Marcela
> Perhaps target type circles to 1 meter or 1 >foot or less would lower the flyoffs... In the late '70s, Graupner's Teckpokal contest (with over 300 contestants back then) used a rope with point markers every 50 cm (about 20"). Final approach had to be flown within a 10-meter wide corridor (as