Just slot the vertical fin for the carbon tube, snug fit. No cutting of
the carbon tube at all. Pieces of kevlar on either side for strength.
Construction article by Craig Greening at Denny Maize website.
http://www.polecataero.com/
RB
- Original Message -
From: Steve Giron [EMAIL
The Cross Country skiing has been great for the past 3 months. Does that
answer your question?
- Original Message -
From: James V. Bacus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 12:40 AM
Subject: [RCSE] Running on empty?
When is the last time you have
You apply for membership and get your Level I voucher. When you complete
your Level I voucher you send it in. It's cecked to make sure all tasks were
completed. Then you get your Level II voucher back in the mail. And so on.
That's how it works. If you've lost your level II voucher then I'd
When they say Gordy is all thumbs they are right!!!
Gordy has just pointed out why you should not fly with your thumbs only!!!
Try grabbing a hold of the sticks like you are suppose to With your
thumb and your index and middle fingers if you want to have more precise
control over your stick
Yeah. And I miss dodging your plane, or sometimes not, while standing on the
lip of the hill!
RB
- Original Message -
From: Steve Pasierb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: RCSE [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 8:19 PM
Subject: [RCSE] Slope Sites in CT Hudson Valley
Any good
Just spent the last two days flying two ESL contests in Lancaster PA. One
day contest on Sat. and one on Sun. We flew a 9 round contest on Sat and an
8 round contest Sun. Oh Yeah, BTW, Gordy was there and we kick his butt
again this year. Thanks for coming out to play Gordy.
There are many
Have you tried changing the file name as I suggested. I've done this. All
you should need to do is change the file name. Example (filename.dat)
change it to (filename.cor). If you have not tried this I suggest you do.
After you change the file name it will pull up in Compufoil just like any
Pat,
I just checked and it was .arc files that I was changing file (extension)
names on. After changing the file extension from .arc to .cor these pulled
up just fine in Compufoil, although my version is a later one than yours so
not sure if this would work. This also may not work with the .dat
Andy,
Do you build your own composite, (carbon, foam, glass, whatever!) planes
too?
Also why don't you go to contests anymore?
RB
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From: Andy Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 11:10 AM
'Dorks' do just as well as the 'better' flyers in this type of landing.
Carry an extra 1 to 2 feet of altitude as you approach the 100 point spot so
your sure to get there. When over said spot push down on the elevator and
'dork' it in for a high score. This method is assuming that you don't
Flying here in the East on the ESL contest circuit I can honestly, and
thankfully, say that I don't see this rule getting bent or abused. If you
do, then you are flying with the wrong group of guys.
Most do have more than one model. It is then up to the flyer to chose
which plane is going to
I think the multiple HLG model use is due to the nature of HL contests.
There are multiple launches/tasks/ flights in any given round. It is never a
one flight thing like a TD round. In TD if you land off field that's it. In
HL if you land off field you grab another plane and continue to try your
Someone was asking a few days ago for the site for a fix for slop on Hitec
servos. At the time I could not recall the site. I just was a reference to
NorCal racing and remembered that is where I saw this fix. I did locate it
and think this is the help a RCSE member was looking for.
The NorCal
Thanks. Already doing that with a 5/32 rod. Works fine but looking for
something else. Maybe my estimate of the size of the element was a bit
much., more than what was being used.
RB
- Original Message -
From: tjb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Rick and Jill [EMAIL PROTECTED]; soaring [EMAIL
Oh come on guys, Sal was never gone. He's been here all along. He just said
he was leaving. All you have to do is check the Members list to see if
someone is truly off the list.
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From: Stefan Smets [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Sal DeFrancesco [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Joe Parsons
OK, I'm outta here!
- Original Message -
From: Chuck Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Rick and Jill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: [RCSE] NSP Orion 2M
At 05:46 PM 1/23/2002 -0500, you wrote:
Oh come on guys
Gordy IS Sam Ward reincarnate!
Ignore him and he'll go away.
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The eyes are playing tricks with your mind. That is a servo arm NOT, as your
mind is seeing it, a shaft sticking out the top of the servo with holes in
it.
I'm not sure anyone is ever going to be ?smart? enough to make a RDS
dedicated servo
- Original Message -
From: Harley
All,
I have wing panels I've been bagging for a slope ship. Have been doing just
ailerons up until now. I want to do flaps and ailerons on the latest set I'm
getting ready to finish.
Previously I have been using a brass tube with the end sharpened and notched
to produce teeth for cutting the
All,
I wanted to get some favorite websites for wind forecasting from the list
members to be used in forecasting direction and speed for slope soaring. I
know there was a discussion about this in the last year, but since then I
had a disc drive go bad and lost much of this info.
I do have the
Site address I sent in previous post got truncated. You can copy and paste
it back together into your browser if you want, but here is the home page of
the site.
http://www.intellicast.com/
You can enter in your own location and get a regular forecast and then go to
the top left and look for
Just had to thank Mike Mayberry at Hitec. About a 2 weeks ago a friend
posted to the list about needing the control arm screw size for some Hitec
metal geared servos. He had misplaced/lost the screws while the servos were
laying around waiting to find a home in another airplane. Now that he had
- Original Message -
From: David J. Schat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Did I read correctly earlier and the winch lines are retrieved by golf
cart... no regular style retrievers? If this is the case this is one area
where time can be gained if retrievers could be used (I don't know if they
Set up all your launch and land modes on the flap stick and don't mess with
the 3 position switch(over the right stick) during launch. A simple flip of
Switch A(over the flap stick) gets you back and forth from launch and land.
- Original Message -
From: Brett Jaffee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
http://www.itinscales.com/avivir.htm
- Original Message -
From: Bill Rose Haymaker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: soaring [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 9:46 PM
Subject: [RCSE] Scales again
Looking for a scale, 500 grams at .1 gram accuracy or better. Any good
deals
out
Homosote is a good material to pin into. Not too hard not to soft. Needs any
of the other suggested flat surfaces to be attached to.
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 2:59 PM
Subject: [RCSE] Building Board Suggestions
A question, and disagreement has come up about LSF competition requirements
between a friend and myself.
On the website and on the voucher is outlined two scoring systems thePlace
System and thePoints System.
Stated, Two alternative methods of scoring may be used to meet competition
the minimum
points.
- Original Message -
From: GRW [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Rick and Jill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: rcse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: [RCSE] LSF competition requirements
Rick,
I just made level 2 last week and I too was confused on the LSF
- Original Message -
From: Rick and Jill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Jack Strother [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: [RCSE] LSF competition requirements...reply
Jack,
I am not out on a cursade other than to find out the rule. I do not
dispute
that you
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