I think it is time to start the official propaganda campaign for our
fall contest. So here we go...
East Coast HLG Festival 2006 will take place as usual in Wilson, North
Carolina, on October 21-22, 2006.
We will have 2 days of intense competition with (hopefully) some of the
best East Coast
I finally posted the tables with full results and a list of models flown
at the contest. If you like numbers and statistics, you can enjoy seeing
the scores for each round. You can even see how I lost the contest in my
last flight of the last round :-) If you see a mistake somewhere, send
me a
I posted my pics from the contest, please check them out here:
http://olgol.com/contest/pictures/
Oleg.
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dropped 1+ minute and finished 3rd! Phil Barnes and Don Vetter both did
an excellent job and finished 1st and 2nd.
Here is the list of pilots and final scores:
1 Phil Barnes 16711.5
2 Don Vetter 16635.9
3 Oleg Golovidov 16626.0
4 Shane Spickler 16384.9
5 Russ Bennett 15844.5
6 Ben Wilson
Friday report
What a great day we had today. A bunch of people showed up despite some
very low clouds and even rain to the north of the area. The weather
improved throughout the day and by the afternoon we had some areas of
blue sky and later the sun came out and it the sky opened up.
I did not get any new registrations since the weekend, so I guess we
will have to split all those nice raffle prizes between the 24 of us (or
probably fewer, since some people will not show up as usual). Pilots,
please bring a lot of cash for the raffle tickets :-)
I will start the clinic abou
Major news. I came home from a short vacation yesterday and found a
rather large box on my porch from JR/Horizon with a message "contest
donation"! I was quite excited and opened it immediately - there was a
brand spanking new XP-9303 radio set inside with a small JR700 sailplane
receiver! That
Just reminding to those who may still be thinking about coming to our
contest. Less than 2 weeks left before the contest! Next week I will
start generating the flight matrix and will not be able to accept new
registrations (unless the bribe is ridiculously large :-)).
We will have a clinic/sem
For the hand launch pilots who are not on SALglider group and not on the
RCgroups.com for whatever reason...
We are getting close to our annual East Coast HLG Festival 2005, in
Wilson, North Carolina, October 21-22-23.
We will have a warm-up day on Friday, Oct 21, and a practice
contest/clinic f
Hello, y'all!
It is time to start planning your trip to one of the greatest HLG
contests on the East Coast. The East Coast HLG Festival 2005 will take
place on October 22-23, in Wilson, North Carolina.
No matter of you are a beginner or an expert, if you like going to HLG
contests or never be
Charles, I am glad you asked because I kinda fell asleep at the wheel.
Yes, absolutely there will be ECHLGF this year! We had the date finalized long
ago. Some minimal information and registration is available at the ESL web-site:
http://www.flyesl.com/calendar.asp
The dates are October 22-23,
OK, got it, thanks a lot!
Do you think this will work in North Carolina also? :-)
Joe Wurts wrote:
>
> Oleg,
>
> For steady state circling, yes Virginia (or South Carolina...) the left
> thumb has to come into play. As you aptly note, with my setup I have to use
> additional rudder to override
No, that is a natural tendency of all airplanes in a circling flight. The
inside
wing travels at a slower speed and requires a higher AoA than the outside wing
to produce the same amount of lift. Outside aileron deflection equalizes the
lift. The amount of deflection depends on the turning radi
Joe,
thanks for sharing your setup tricks. I notice you always use more ail->rud
coupling for thermal modes, both TD and HLG. What do you do during circling,
when you need to give some opposite aileron to counteract the over-banking
tendency?
I always disable ail->rud coupling in thermal mode fo
We decided to get a little more "serious" about hand launch in our club since
we
have had a required critical mass of HLG diehards for a while now (about 4-5
pilots). So we planned 2 practice contests this spring to warm-up for the new
season and be ready when the real competitions start.
We
Dave,
>OK, we've got a nomenclature difference (it's always the communication
>issues, isn't it?)
In my original message I said the induced drag is proportional to SPAN LOADING,
not wing loading, for a fixed span wing. That is really all I am trying to show
you:
Di = (W/L)^2 / (Pi*q), where
>A number of things trade off. As aspect ratio goes up, Cavg goes down while
>W/L goes up (both numerator effects). Meanwhile, V^2 goes up (denominator
>effect) as W/L goes up for a relatively constant Cl (assuming the plane
>maintains approximately the same AoA at min sink or max L/D, which
>This does not seem to be dimensionally correct.
>
>In english units D is in lbs., V is in ft/sec, W/L is in lb/ft^2, and rho
>(density) is in slugs/ft^3 (gotta love those english density units!).
>Converting from density to weight (density * g ) gives the left side in lbs
and the
>right s
>Yes, but also what's happening (for a fixed wing span) is a trade off
>between wing loading and induced drag. Re (at least for DLG chords and up) is
>a variable but not the dominant one.
>
>As you increase aspect ratio (reduce chord for a fixed wing span), induced
>drag goes down but
>I still suspect pressure may be a variable for this light foam and layup.
>However, if I had to blame one thing, the most likely culprit is handling the
>cores while peeling the mylars. If you have to slide your finger under the
>mylar to get it off, you may have a problem.
I still think
If you have been patiently waiting for the resutls, I finally posted the
table with the scores for ECHLGF 2004 on the web-page
http://olgol.com/contest/results.html
As I mentioned in my report, I promptly stayed at the last place despite
a few very good rounds :-)
Sorry it took so long...
Oleg.
Pictures from ECHLGF 2004 are on the web-site http://olgol.com/contest/pics.html
Also check out Charles Frey's gallery here:
http://photo.charles.cc/photos/view.php?dir=2004.10.26+East+Coast+HLG+Festival+2004
The full results are not there yet...
Oleg.
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A big thank you goes to our sponsors: Denny Maize and Phil Barnes (XP-4),
Horizon/JR (complete radio set 6102), Oleg Golovidov (that's me), Rick Walba (3
tailbooms), Dick Proseus (2 servos), Brady Baggs (2 servos). I hope I did not
forget anybody.
A big thank you to all who helped wit
There is still a little time left to send in your registration for our
fall HLG festival in Wilson, North Carolina on October 22-23-24.
I just posted the tasks that we will be using. Please take a look here
http://olgol.com/contest/tasks.html
We are approximately at 20 pilots now and we sure coul
I posted some pics from IHLGF 2004 on my web-site http://olgol.com/IHLGF2004
I also posted there Phil's extensive report about his flying and Jan Kansky's
report that he made for the ESL mail list. Check them out. It is good to re-read
these reports after a few weeks or even months. The old IHLG
fs:
pilot score plane
Oleg Golovidov 11,723 Taboo XL
Tom Kiesling11,643 own design
Russ Bennett11,447 Taboo XL
Phil Barnes 11,350 own design
Adam Weston 11,043 Encore/own design
Doug Pike 10,869 own design
Don Vetter 10,710 own design
Thanks to
o the trees in the narrow section of the road, right in front of Don
and I. The plane was severely damaged, so we went back...
Here is are the final results of our XC "race":
pilot raw timerelaunches final result
Oleg Golovidov 7:314
Thanks to all who replied!
It sounds like it is easier than I expected. A whole series of coordinates can
be pasted from a text file right into the command window with the SPLINE
command. No need to paste them one by one!
Oleg.
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This has been covered before I am sure but I could not find anything in the
archives...
I am trying to learn Autocad basics and the obvious problem is how does one plot
airfoils? More precisely, how can I import a file with airfoil coordinates and
use it with the SPLINE command?
Thanks in advanc
NIB Space Pro 3.27m cross-tail - all untouched
gorgeous red/white
carbon D-box wings
works for F3B or F3F/slope, can be used for a windy day TD
asking $800 plus shipping
Oleg.
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If you are thinking about coming to our HLG contest in NC, it is time to send in
your registration now! If you are not thinking about it, you should!
The contest will happen on October 10 (XC HLG event), October 11-12 (main HLG
event).
We will have a raffle with an XP-3 kit from Denny Maize and
Sharon Pro 3.7 for sale
red/white, beautiful plane
very little use, almost no wear and tear
used in 2 contests in 2003 (Mid South and NATs)
6 digital Hitec servos (4 monster servos HS-5245mg and 2 thin servos HS-5125)
battery 1000mah NiMH
asking $1300 OBO (paid $1180 for the plane, $330 servos, $
We are open for registration for our second HLG contest in North
Carolina. We are using tasks and rules form the IHLGF in an attempt to
make a very interesting, competitive event and hopefully attract pilots
from all of the USA and eventually maybe other countries. We will have
an informal XC event
I did 12 launches (mostly due to bad landings, about 3-6 inches too short), Joe
did 11 launches on the first day (holes 1-9). On the second day I did 10
launches and Joe did 12 launches (holes 10-18). The record was/is 10 launches
according to the people who attended golf in previous years. So w
This is a funny picture (Jim, thanks for your gallery!).
In the middle of the HLG golf craze people decided that I was too sober and
needed a re-charge before the next hole. I had to stop before throwing my plane
and take a small beer break...
http://www.jimbacus.net/soaring/nats2003/hlg_golf/pa
It took me way more time than I wanted to spend but I created a nice (I think)
page with all reports about IHLGF, please take a look if you have time to read
through them again and re-live your memories
http://olgol.com/IHLGF2003
I also posted pics from the Mid-South HLG golf, enjoy:
http://ol
I finally uploaded a bunch of pics from IHLGF onto my web-page. No descriptions
yet, you will have to go by the file names. I may also publish all reports that
were posted on RCSE and SALgroup to have a collection of all reports about IHLGF
later.
Check it out http://olgol.com/IHLGF2003/ and tel
>Message: 10
> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:34:37 -
> From: "philipdbarnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Here is what I know. I hope others will fill in what
>is missing or correct what I get wrong:
>
>Oleg; Taboo, four servo(possibly six servo?), weight
>probably 10.5 - 11.5 oz - just a guess
I b
I created a new page with pics showing my way of
facing DLG aileron leading edges with fiberglass.
You can access it from my "construction tips" web page
http://olgol.com/TabooXL/tips.html or directly
http://olgol.com/TabooXL/aileron-LE.html
Check it out and feel free to share your comments
or cri
If you clicked on the links in my previous message and did not
get anywhere, it's because of my punctuation signs that got lumped together with
the links, sorry. Here, click on these:
http://olgol.com/TabooXL - home page for TabooXL kit
http://olgol.com/taboo - home page for the old Taboo kit
Rega
I posted the final scores and pictures from our contest in Wilson, NC on
my web-site.
Please, check them out at http://olgol.com/contest/
The page with the pictures takes a very long time to load, even though I
have
reduced size files on the main page and full pictures can be viewed as
links from t
Just reminding y'all that we are still waiting for your entries to our first HLG
contest in Wilson, NC. We are planning to develop this into a big annual event
and we need your help for that! Please send your registration (an e-mail with
your channel number) to me or to Dick Proseus (contest dir
Sherman,
you can use these sketches as a starting point for setting up your Xtreme:
http://olgol.com/Eraser/tech_info.html
Oleg.
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>On a larger model like the ICON, guys have been using the JR DS 3421
>on the stab, another nice digital servo from JR.
I was always puzzled a little by recommendations to use a mighty servo on the
full flying stab. I totally understand the need for precision here (digital
servos), but why use
>If you're designing a wing with a flat-bottomed airfoil, it's
>convenient to create the effect of washout by thinning the airfoil
>as you go out from the root; this reduces camber and lowers the angle
>of attack at which CL = 0. So for example Mark Drela's Allegro 2M
>uses an 8.7% AG35 at the roo
Mike,
thanks a lot for your generous offer! I will send you my shipping address so you
can send my one of your planes to fly! :-)
Seriously though, can somebody help me out (Mark Drela, Joe Wurts, anybody out
there with serious aero background!?) to understand the effects of reducing
camber to
Due to the lowered demand and reduced sales, I am going to run an "end
of season" sale on my Taboo discus launch glider (I need to blame
something for the reduced interest in my HLG kits, so I will blame the
end of season. On the other hand, people say that Denny Maize is doing
better than ever ma
I updated the unofficial web-page with the pictures of my competition plane that
I used in Poway. It is the same as production Taboo kits except for the
detachable stab which I needed for tansportation.
http://www.geocities.com/olgol/taboo.html
Oleg.
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ot; web-page is ready I will announce it here.
Happy flying to y'all,
Oleg.
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Oleg Golov
easured the temperature in various points of the wire ?
>
>Ciao.
>Tullio.
>
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Selling my prototype model of Secret HLG.
-This one was built specifically for review by our well-known and respected by
many :-) RC soaring publicist Gordy Stahl (thanks a lot Gordy). The review is
supposed to appear in the RCSDigest soon.
-Very little used.
-Ready to fly.
-The wing tips w
Lite (F3J) Cobra
Red bottoms, white tops
MPX digital servos throughout
Only a few flights on the plane
Asking $1300 ($1000 without servos) OBO
Oleg.
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