Guys I run a Tandy model 100 for scoring thermal contests,
I have a quite good programme for this computer written in
Tandy basic.There are a couple of keys just starting to
occasionally miss making contact and I have been thinking
of upgrading to a Tandy model 200 as I wish to continue to
Hi again ... I meant to add that the computer is being
sold by someone inWaukesha, WI
where ever that is???
Eddie
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At 01:30 11/11/2005 +, you wrote:
You have GOT to be KIDDING! You can't really be using a 20 year old
computer
Well maybe if you are running Nostalgia contests and you really want
to add the right atmosphere!.
Radian
Ha Haa ..
Eddie
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At 15:41 10/11/2005 -0800, you wrote:
Do you have the source code for the program?
I'm sure a programmer could port it to something more Windows
compatible.
I've already written it for a windows machine but I
just prefer to stay with the Tandy.
Has any one on RCSE got a model 200 that they
At 03:32 11/11/2005 +, you wrote:
I do not have a Tandy 200. (But I do have a couple of TRS
80s.) :-) How can I help?
Regis in S. MD, usa
For all you guys that have replied to help me in my quest
I thank you I managed to win a model 200 on ebay that
will post directly to
Anyone have any good ideas about how this stuff can find
a good home?
Thanks in advance.
D.O.
Give them to a number of kids around your district, that might
encourage them to get into modelling.
Eddie the Eagle
in sunny South Australia
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Hi Guys ... I've done some trials and I'm nearly there.
I decided that I've gone as far as I can without building a
complete jig. So far I've made the frame, resin container,
ladder guide, and a few of the guide/pinch rolls.
I've taken four photos which shows the full assembly to date
and
That is probably the best
you can do without going to high modulus carbon.
From what I've seen on the net high modulus carbon really
only tows made up of smaller diameter carbon fibres.
The diameter of a 12 K HM carbon tow is about half that of
the normal carbon tow. Physically this means
At 17:06 12/09/2005 -1000, you wrote:
Isn't that JUST what you need to attract the younger crowd to soaring?
Listen to the deafening roar of the engines on the starting line as the
seconds count down the working time! See the lights flash on the
christmas tree - red - yellow - GREEN! They're
Hi Guys to add a little more to this thread I did a little more research
on the net, talked to a number of suppliers here in Australia and have
come up with a design for a machine to wet out the tows.
It will consist of a vertical length of PVC tube of 35mm dia. closed at the
bottom with a
At 18:07 12/09/2005 +0300, you wrote:
http://nakotne.com/e107_plugins/kig_menu/index.php?view=imageimageId=795
The engine is from old Russian chainsaw Druzhba (Friendship).
regards,
Arne
I can remember back in about '78 that there was a couple of winches using
motors like that. They had a
At 14:27 12/09/2005 -0500, you wrote:
Eddie, this sounds very professional. I'd like to see a photo of it when
you get through with the tool and I'd like to know if it worked as planned/
George Voss
We can't send photos to the group but I can certainly send anyone who's
interested a photo
At 06:51 AM 9/7/05, you wrote:
Eddie,
I asked Mike Lachowski how they were getting their molded models so light.
He did a very in depth write up for me about how he is building them
starting with the method of wetting out the tow.
Please see below:
D
Thanks guys, It might be
Guys ... I saw a photo quite some time ago of a jig for wetting out carbon
tow for spar caps.I thought that I had saved the photo of the jig but I
can't
find it.Does anyone know where I might find photos of such a mechanism?
Or .. has anyone made something to do this job that they can
I'm hoping that Real Balls or some other ball/roller bearing end caps will
become available. In the meantime, a Torrington B-1010 needle bearing will
very nicely replace the front bushing. (Thanks for the tip to Tim
McCann.) I should have this setup flying by next weekend, with any
luck.
Hi Guys Just to add some soaring interest to the group
A couple of months ago I was giving a talk at one of our club meetings
about thermal flying, I've been flying gliders now
for 26 years in a generally power club. Most of the guys have or have
had gliders over the years but
Hi Guys ... well it was a beautiful day today in South Aussie 15 oC,
light winds just the day you want to get out and have a fly
Not bad for a mid winters day, hey, ... but not for me, I was stuck in a
factory working.
Still looking on the bright side ... a couple of days ago it was
Hi guys ... I'm trying to get in touch with the manufacturers of the X21
moulded model.
Anyone know who they are and their email address ??
Eddie the Eagle
in sunny South Australia
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At 12:50 PM 3/18/05, you wrote:
It does make things a little more fun doesn't it?
I am still waiting on my paperwork just to start level 1!!! 8-)
I got a question for you..how do you fly for 8 hours? Finding lift is the
easy part ;-)...
No really... got to go to the bathroom, eat or worse yet
Hi Guys wondering the other day what has happened to Fred Mallett
the designer of the Epsilon javelin HLG. He used to frequent RCSE but
I haven't seen any mention of him for a couple of years now. Is he still
involved ?? What prompted the memory was, the fact that I have an
Epsilon kit
Gordy the time to come back to Australia is for our long weekend in
early June.
This is the time for the LSF contest in Jerrilderie and all the best pilots
will be there.
70 pilots and 50 winches ... all on mono
Eddie the Eagle
in sunny South Australia
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Yes ... well we did miss you Gordy but the contest in Adelaide was
still a success.
Great weather ..15 k/hr in the morning tapering to 10 in the
afternoon. Temps 23 o C
So now what about the championships in two weeks time looks like Gordy
is too afraid
to get down to South Aussie
I use Corning Formular foam for the production of Compulsion/Addiction and
other custom wings. I do this because the Corning foam cuts much better
and
is crisper at any given weight than its Dow equivalent. Unfortunately,
Corning foam isn't readily available in California so I have to
for example if you have time
Eddie Smith
in sunny South Australia
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By altering the PAR files one can change the
behavior of your model - to get a flimsy
slowflyer to roar across the sky at 200 mph,
or vice versa, but the more interesting
is to try to improve your model's flying
characteristics, by playing with aspect ratio,
chord, stabilisator size, and not
Guys ... and Gordy ;-) ... on Sunday we went out to practice launching
and landing. Conditions were quite good with winds building up to 20 knot
winds as the day went on.
I've been gradually trying to improve my launch technique and at the same
time modifying the winch to try to achieve higher
At 03:48 AM 11/7/04, you wrote:
Hi, Eddie
I'm also interested in improving winch design. I've recently resurected
an old one I built in the mid 70's. We had really small drum diameters
(and widths) then probably because we were not using 350# test
line! Anyway, Im a computer/electronics
Thanks guys for the input on the drum diameters.
It seems that up to 65mm dia is used in low or tail wind launches and
reverting to
the smaller drums when the wind is up.
Eddie the Eagle
in sunny South Australia
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At 01:13 05/11/2004 -0500, you wrote:
Peter Williams wrote:
I know Dave James who makes winches also uses 42mm and 65 I thinkHe has
a website and calls himself Winchnz, maybe a google will find it.
http://isoar.ca/~andrewm/bkmks/RC/Sailplane_Launch/Vendors/
--
Andrew E. Mileski
Hi Andrew ...
Hi Guys . I was wondering what drum dia's you are using on your FAI
winches.
it seems that the drum dia's are creeping up a little from when we first
built to the
F3b winch rules.I remember Nic Wrights winch having a 42mm dia drum some
time ago. I've just built a new drum this week
At 10:41 PM 10/31/04, you wrote:
And how were they measuring the height, with a Picolario, some other
vario?
Endless Mountain Models
http://www.scalesoaring.com
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Actual height was 347m measured using a LoLO
Eddie
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Hi Guys ... Just a follow up on the height achieved on launch...
Come of the guys were launching to 340+ metres last weekend.
On a FAI winch with mono.
Thats about 60 metres better than I can do. Makes me think of upgrading
my plane.
I believe they were using their own design model .. Wormburner
At 01:12 AM 10/21/04, you wrote:
Eddie:
I would be very interested in knowing about the resistors that you have
used and how you wired them up.
Actually, IMO, the whole list would love to get this info, and pictures
would be worth a thousand words.
Thanks for sharing this.
Jack Harper
Houston
At 01:18 AM 10/16/04, you wrote:
I am looking for a way to slow down the winch when winding the line
back up at the end of flying. Regis
On my winches I have a resistor control on my M50 winch it has three
speeds.
The three speeds are achieved by using three solenoids, two have a dropping
At 10:27 PM 10/5/04, you wrote:
Eddie,
Go to www.yntdesign.com, mouse over the menu to Electronics, then select the
Lo-Lo. This will bring you to a page with a write-up by Jim Bacus that has
some data graphs, etc. Looks like he was doing right at 600' on launch.
-Sheldon-
Guys I asked the
Hi ... What height does Joe and D get on their launches on a FAI winch ??
The Eagle
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At 04:40 AM 10/6/04, you wrote:
Simple questions.
1) What do you currently pay in dues to your club?
2) What would you pay per year to keep your field?
Seattle Area Soaring Society (SASS):$30.00 current annual dues - 109
members
I would pay $100 to $200 per year to keep our field (60 Acres
At 12:18 AM 10/6/04, you wrote:
It depends... on the line length and the wind. Give me a little breeze
and good air and the F3b winch will put a model higher. But no wind or
downwind, then that power with a big drum will do better than mono.
We use two plastic half shells on our winch drum to
Hi Guys when you launch on your ford long shaft motors with your non
stretch line
what would your best height be ? Assuming a good F3b model and no drag
from your
line retrievers. I don't want a guess a test using a LoLo would be
nice.
Eddie the Eagle
in sunny South Australia
At 04:47 AM 9/28/04, you wrote:
11178 meter = 36,673.2283465 foot [U.S.]
Imposable to see the plane from the ground.
I design the most realistic Scale sailplanes for FMS.
Try to get one of those that high. Now thats a challenge.
Flew the DG1000 to 1m ... too easy
The Eagle
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freed my model from the winch line. The cost of freeing my model from the
winch line was the loss of my rudder which was seen to be fluttering to the
ground as the model flew peacefully away.
Phil
Of course losing a part of the model nullifies the flight... You must come
down and launch again...
Hi Guys ... went flying today ... it was just about perfect. Don Berry and
I went down to the SSL field
at Milang and got Dons new NYX Furio into the air.
He now has just about got it sorted and it looks like a winner.
I flew my trusty Tragi, played around with the C of G and got it flying a
At 07:42 PM 9/3/04 -0700, you wrote:
Gordy Please don't embarrass us...
D
Too late
Eddie the Eagle
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At 08:18 AM 11/21/03 -0500, you wrote:
I have a two channel airplane with standard size servo's and a 1000 ma
battery pack. Any ideas on how long the pack will last while flying a
slope LSF task. Going for my 2 hour and want to make sure before starting
I have enough life in my battery. What
Jim, I use a strip of stainless steel to drop the voltage on my winches for
speed control. This is much easier than pulsing. You could run a similar
strip of stainless in your drive circuit of your retriever. Try 1 wide,
.032 thick and about 18 long to start with. With a meter you could check
so far learning has been without too much carnage - some poor listeners /
macho types have learned the hard way. I have been searching for better
ways to teach so I tried an experiment this weekend - I made a cable with
a 6V battery in it to go in the footswitch cable (to operate the 12V
I would suggest that you filter [EMAIL PROTECTED] our of your
email. I have.
With this email address he seems to be an Australian .not
If all Australians carried on like this I would be ashamed to call myself
Australian .
Eddie the Eagle
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However, I didn't like the precision needed around center. One click either
way caused too much surface deflection. I'm not that good and could easily
miss the *exact* center, even with the center marker. Thus, I disabled the
cambering.
Bill Swingle
Bill and others . One of the guys here
At 10:58 30/07/2001 -0500, you wrote:
On a related topic--
I have some commercial wingrod I'd like to bend for a couple of projects
I'll be working on. The 1/4 wingrod material is case-hardened (North
East Sailplanes, I think) and the 5/16 is Ultrarod from DreamCatcher.
What I want to do is
At 05:45 AM 04/16/2001, you wrote:
Anyway:
Why should the tail extend below the boom?'
DLG puts lots of side stress (yaw) on the plane...this helps get the plane
tracking straight quicker. Or so I believe.
The area below the boom helps to reduce the twist of tailboom.
Eddie the Eagle
At 01:28 AM 03/17/2001, you wrote:
Well, I was thinking of just a motor drum with no
line, but yeah, I guess you could say that. What's the
max it reaches right before the backlash starts to
slow it down as the loops of line hook around the
winch frame. If nobody here knows I'll take my optical
The motor I tested was a Lucus M50 with ballraces and with
reduced stator clearance ... definitely 8000 revs.
Eddie the Eagle
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The Winch Doctor told me that he got about 3500 RPM
on his winch with drum
the line taped up so it would not fly around.
Hi Guys in and around Adelaide SA
The ORAM Thermal contest was blown out today and is to be
recheduled and reflow in the near future. Probably on either
the 20th or 27th of May
Eddie the Eagle
in windy South Australia
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annot adjust ratios at all unless you can live with less than 90 degrees of
flaps.
I think I would buy a computer radio on the spot that could effeciently deal
with this issue.
Rob Crockett
Just mix flaps into flaps and you will get more movement if you can't do
that with your Tx then get
1)You can do all the landings whenever you want. Weeks, months, or
even **years apart**. They don't have to be done consecutively. I
remember getting about one level 2 landing per week for a while. Near the
end, I could get 3 in one day.
Cut ...
Jon Stone (LSF 4, and a looong way from
Hi folks . I think that aircraft with ailerons can be built too
light. If an aileron aircraft flys too slowly then aileron responce
is very slow or not at all.
Eddie the Eagle
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The towhook survived, it's a pretty nice one too :-)
Sam Girardi
Hey wasn't there someone looking for a tow hook for his model
Eddie
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That brings up a very important point. Line stretch is an important factor
in optimal energy insertion for glider, in particular to *** ratchet ***winch
system. Prelaunch energy storage, semi-highstart effect for initial
I've noticed that a bike ratchet has been
At 11:25 AM 10/18/1999 -0400, you wrote:
To All,
My club, has encountered a small problem this year with our 3 winches. That
being during take-down of the the turnaround and winding the line back on
the
drum (with the chute), it seems many :), in the club cannot get the hang of
pulsing the
place the rod on it. put a round bar say 25mm dia. across where you want to
bend it and put the whole lot in a vice or in a press and compress until you get the
right angle.This produces a bar that has a small bend radius at the centre and
all else is straight.
Eddie Smith
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rd is 2mm futher back... understand?
If you don't do this you will get the overlaping layers lifting.
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t have pilots flying against some other competitors too many times.
Some programs get close but none are quite there yet.
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