Have you ever tried to buy a Y2K?
Randy
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I see a Duck commercial here. The most touted un-obtainable plane made.
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The earlier Cockpits had crap batteries. They would die early and with
almost no warning. They may have improved them, but I would throw the stock
battery away and get another one.
Also, in earlier Cockpits, they would suddenly scramble themselves. Your
plane would crash and you would look dow
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Not to mention the humbling experience of the famous "Walk of Shame"
The "Walk of Shame" is usually associated with combat. My guess is most
beginners won't be doing combat right way.
The way I see it, learning on a slope has the advantages of:
1. No high
Think EPP foam for learning. Yes Olympics of various sorts were ok at one
time to learn on. I did. But that was in the days before EPP. When you are
learning to fly, you are going to crash a lot. With any stick built plane
like an Olympic, a crash probably means the end of the days flying. It's
Save a tree. Build with carbon and glass. ;-)
Randy
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Who is out-of-touch ? You don't think there is fun with non-wood
airplanes? You don't need 100% wood to have fun!
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I know you're supposed to be pretty committed when you go in, but what's a
good way to get started? I felt like I bled off all my energy before I
even got started.
By "committed", it usually means having enough speed (energy) and diving
deep enough to punch through the boundary layer. Think
I haven't seen foam wings collide with aircraft but I've seen them hit
other vehicles and they don't seem to do noticeable damage.
And how many of those vehicles were doing 120kts or more? Because of their
construction and speed, planes are tremendously more vulnerable to strike
damage than an
Next time I would like to see the camera zoomed out a bit so you can see
more than just flash of the plane. So when you set that 320 record...
Randy
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Actually the video is here...
http://www.slopeaddiction.com/
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Building? Why are you building? It's not winter yet. You are suppose to be
out flying.
Randy
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This does NOT belong here. Find a political BS site for this crap.
Randy
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Wal-Mart has it here in NorCal.
Randy
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You know, I've never been able to find that here in California. BTW,
is it foam-safe?
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Some how I have a hard time with the image of chainsaw and "Friendship" in
the same sentence. Things more like "massacre" come to mind.
Randy
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The engine is from old Russian chainsaw "Druzhba" (Friendship).
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I would add an M60 to that list. It and the Gulp are very completive in all
sorts of wind. Here is the link.
http://www.northcountyflyingmachines.com/aircraft.htm
Randy
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The planes I'm interested in are:
60" JW (Bowman)
Super Tron or Screaming Banshee-60 (Tuffp
install the condoms, tie the knots,
WHOA!! This is more bonding than I want to know about.
Randy
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Does anybody out there have an Acacia 2 v-tail for sale?
Randy Bullard
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lift, there is always somebody flying there on the weekend and
often during the week.
Randy Bullard
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I did a dumb thing the other day and plugged the wrong set of charge cables
into my 9303 transmitter. I found out that this can damage more than the
fuse.
Center negative! Just one of the reasons I gave up on JR many years ago.
Instead of worrying about all this, why not just rewire the
ed to get them published.
Randy Bullard
NCSS grunt
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From: "Falarski, Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Davenport ISR 2005 is in the books and as some have already reported it
was full of exciting racing, plenty of crashes and near record speeds.
Specia
The thermal mode has about 3 degrees of camber, lots of ail>rud
coupling, a bit of up elevator preset, and about the same differential as
the speed mode.
Now this is very interesting. Someone with a much lower AMA number than mine
used preach to me that real pilots don't us ail>rud coupling. They
Having worn out another Dremel tool, so I'm shopping for a new one. Tower
has one for $64 which is the older version with less accessories. Home Depot
has the fancy new version with more accessories for $79. The also have the
new and more expensive cordless.
Have any of you bought the new versi
Is he talking about South Carolina?
Anyone who is not to keep it nor return it to AMA, please consider donor
it,
as I live in third country world and don't have access to that stuff.
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asily handle a plane at that speed so the chances of a crash are pretty
small. I would guess that the layout of the hill limits you to DSing there
instead of the top?
Randy Bullard
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Yes and probably more entertaining.
> This woodie/mouldie rant thing makes me think of what it would be like to
> put a Humidifier and a Dehumidifier in the same room and watch them
> fight.and it would be just as productive to boot.
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A radar gun would be much easier and more accurate. Of course since Tom is
probably snowed in, contemplating such things keeps his mind active until
the spring thaw and he can fly again.
Randy
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This story should have started with "Once upon a time"
Randy
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s 202 mph. speed run was 90 pounds.
Obviously the elevator servo was under a load higher than "near
weightless."
Randy Bullard
>Why the guy was burning lab time testing servos designed
for tiny near weightless (in comparison) RC sailplane surfaces -which barely
cycle at all in a days time
>Gordy
I prefer to hang the cat from the wall.
Randy
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0 mph barrier soon.
Randy Bullard
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> I guess my new napalm spraying skeg wouldn't go over well..
Well maybe you could use it on your Skeeter while turning downwind to bash
Sal.
Randy
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Well if you put a skeg on your plane, it will then be a skag..
Randy
> Being raised in So Cal, I under stood that a "skeg" was the fin of a
> surfboard and a "skag" was an ugly girl. :-P
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A skeg? I don't remember seeing them on any slope plane. Aren't they the
thing you stick on to turn a beautiful plane into something with an ugly
wart?
Randy
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Actually the thing with a Stylus that would catch everybody's attention is
the loud beeping. If you don't move a stick for an extended period of time,
the Stylus starts beeping loudly. I wish all transmitters would do this.
Randy Bullard
> If you turn in your Tx at a contest and lef
> You might even argue that Karlton caused his own demise as a Multiplex
> dealer. After all, it was Karlton who worked so passionately to introduce
> Multiplex to the US and is directly responsible for their growth in the
US.
So is this the "No good deed shall go unpunished" thing?
Randy
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Again, my experiences were not just me personally, but working at companies
where we received a lot of packages. The larger the sample the more accurate
the data.
As I said, everybody screws up once in awhile.
Randy Bullard
>
> IMRE, packages sent through USPS should be in a
> conta
hip a valuable plane from one place to another, I use Fed-X
Air. For lesser things, USPS works fine.
Randy Bullard
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I don't know. Maybe we should shoot Gordy just to be safe. ;-)
Randy
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planes, radios and supplies vs. how much do control line guys pay for planes
and supplies. I'll bet the magazine's advertisers would rather see the guys
that are more likely to buy more get more attention.
Of course my big question is how do CL guys keep from getting so dizzy that
t
I've been using 1600 mah. NiMH from Batteries America in my Stylus for over
two years now. They work great and will let me fly for hours without
recharging.
Randy
>
> I replaced my batteries with 1100 mah nicads from Batteries America
>
> www.batteriesamerica.com
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Great Planes clevises had a small amount of play where it
connects to the flap and aileron horns. But when I tested some Sullivan
clevises there was no play. I changed out the clevises and both the Statos
and I are much happier.
Your mileage my vary.
Randy Bullard
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I can't find 3M filament tape used for building foam planes. I've looked in
Office Max, Office Depot and Home Depot. Who carries it?
Thanks,
Randy
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And he is so I rest my case.
Randy
> So by your reasoning Sal is the worst sailplane
> provider because he is the largest?
>
> Bill
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> UPS is the biggest shipping company in the world. Its
> percentage is growing
> every year. There is a reason.
Dear B.goat.
Your theory is flawed. AOL is the largest internet provider. It is also the
worst.
Randy
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Having worked where we received a lot of packages, I got a pretty good idea
of who was good and who wasn't. My findings were:
Fed-x Most reliable if you use 1-day or 2-day. Your
package stands the best chance of getting there undamaged.
Fed-x Ground A significant jump down. About as g
, I would wire back or at
least send them a note saying that it has been rewired. What I did would
depend on whether or not it is still in warranty.
Randy Bullard
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If you are just beginning, your choices are:
Balsa = fly, crash, repair, repair, repair; fly, crash, repair, repair,
repair and so on until you give up or learn.
Foam = fly, crash, dust it off, fly, crash, laugh, dust if off, fly, crash,
laugh some more and so forth until you learn.
Tough cho
> The Stylus God has spoken.
>
> I am not worthy, I am not worthy
>
> :-)
I'm just wondering when he is going to write the Stylus book. My check would
be in the mail right away.
Randy Bullard
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ng so, then you are ready for the high tech planes.
Shoot, if I can fly one, anybody can learn to do so.
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inverted at
about three feet off the ground. Before I could decide what control
input to give it, the Logic met the ground. Total flight time was probably a
second or two.
The fuselage was broken, but nothing that hasn't happened before. It is
back flying again, but not as a DLG.
Randy Bu
(Sigh) It's going to be a long winter.
Randy
I just got a new system with XP. Compufoil will not install. Theere is
nothing is wrong with the master disk. So far, this is the only program of any
value that doesn't run on XP.
Randy Bullard
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nice and is
still close enough to an airport for work travel. Any other suggestions from
you guys that live out there?
Randy Bullard
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> What is this hobby coming too when I can turn to Model Airplane News to
order
> an Octane Booster for my cologne that is supposed to attract women? I'm
> Outraged!!!
> What the H___ as M.A.N. thinking when they decided to put that add in
there?
> What's it gonna be next? Cigarettes, Viagra, L
For the record, I've been charging my tx 1600ma. NiMh pack off my Sirius Pro
for about 8 months now and have had no problems at all. I gotten *much*
longer run times from it than from my 1100 ma. Nicad pack.
Randy
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As a lot of you know Karlton is running a photo contest. I just took a look
and the two top pictures are helicopters!! Yuk!!! Come on soaring guys. Vote
for some glider pictures, even if you don't vote for mine. ;-))
Oh yea, the link is: http://www.multiplexrc.com/contest_air.htm
Randy Bu
ts of hours and on
some slopes that I can guarantee that I was the first person to fly on.
Aloha,
Randy Bullard
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Hi folks. I hate to bother you, but I just go the joke.exe virus from
"Hahaha". It talks about Snow White in the body. This virus was to me and
not one of our other email names, so there is a high possibility that
somebody on this list sent it to me. If you have opened the joke.exe file,
(I didn't
stuff.
Great Video Dave.
Randy Bullard
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Goop and Shoe Goo are U.S. names. He is in Italy. It probably is not in his
hobby store under those names.
Hopefully somebody else can help Tullio that knows the names of products he
might find over there.
Randy
> > what kind of other modeler's glue is Goop similar to ?
>
> Household Goop is si
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