[RCSE] AD in SD for SB

Hi all, I'll be in San Diego all of next week (and possibly the week after). Any orders received by tomorrow will be shipped out late Sunday / early Monday, but afterwards it becomes a bit of a toss-up. If anybody's interested in television and how it gets to be that way, I've put up a (very)

[RCSE] Need SD HLG'er / football fan please

Howdy, If you live in San Diego, and are into hand-launch and football please contact me privately. Thank you, Gabe B. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must

[RCSE] PIGGYBACK setup

Brian Joder - OUTBOUND Ind. wrote: Here is a site that has a ready made piggyback setup to launch gliders http://www.nyblimp.com/ Umm Thanks Brian, but it's actually not ready-made. However there are fairly complete instructions and pictures so you can build one yourself. The concept

Re: [RCSE] RC Blimp?

Tripp Meister writes: This might be slightly off topic, but I wanted to know if anyone here has built or knows any information about building a fully controllable blimp? Not like those cheap little ones in a catalog. Hi Tripp, Please see: http://www.airdyn.com/blimps/MB.htm for the

[RCSE] NYBLIMP - Air Dynamics [was PIGGYBACK setup!/ blimp etc]

Hi All, If anybody goes looking at the blimp or the piggyback rig you'll notice that there's some work going on at the site this weekend. I hope to have most of it done by Sunday night and I promise I'll drop a note to the list when it's ready, but in the meantime, please, please DON'T order

[RCSE] Forum invasion

Barry Baskin wrote: Any forum like this will have it's share of people expressing unpopular views and even tasteless idiocy. That is what I use the delete button for. I used to feel the same way, but (see below) I am concerned that any vendor would take the remarks of a few to

[RCSE] OT - All Joy Departed / Death by Carpet (:-)

Ok, just 'cause everybody is so bummed out and all, and yes, it has nothing at all to do with soaring, but here are a few funny / amusing articles hidden away on my website. They're not linked to anything so if you want to find any of them again you'll have to bookmark them. A column by Russer

Re: [RCSE] polemicists

Stefan Smets wrote: Anyway, we have about the same word in dutch, meaning people having a fight with arguments. (but that's NOT what my dictionnary says about it; I don't have a Webster or something alike (should buy one though :-)). Edwin Armstrong (who invented radio and as soon as people

[RCSE] Armstrong - Off Topic - [was - polemicists]

gabe baltaian wrote: Edwin Armstrong (who invented radio and as soon as people figured out how to make money with it became hopelessly tangled in legal challenges to his patents) once complained about lawyers who substitute words for facts and then argue about the words BTW, the 300-foot

Re: [RCSE] OT - Learning on Flight Sims

YK Chan wrote: I totally agree with the reflex part, but that is only one critical factor to the whole business. ... One thing might help to isolate him from the soft-stick syndrome for the real-stick for good is to go keyboard maneuver with FS. He can learn all else at equal value from a

Re: [RCSE] WAyyyy Off Topic, but Hilarious

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that Hitec has invented a new way to scare your fish http://www.funtecmodels.com/Microsub/microsub.htm Been there, done that (:-) See: http://nyblimp.com/projects.htm On a somewhat related note, I belong to an electric airplane club (SEFLI). I brought

Re: [RCSE] Converting fuel to electric

The original question concerned converting an LT-40 to electric. Hi Fictionologist, I agree that 20 minutes may be unrealistic, but the LT-40 has a huge wing and is quite the floater in it's stock config. It would be better to have built it as an electric from scratch since there's a lot of

Re: [RCSE] parkflyer

terrytrimble wrote: http://www.slowfly.com/DetailPages/comirsys.html here is a link for a company that offer infrared radio technology Actually it says right at the bottom of the page that "IR is not conducive to outdoor flight". I've seen this system (and one other) work very well indoors

Re: [RCSE] Frequency control [was Park flyer]

Sailplanes wrote: Kyosho of Japan sells a small channel checker that you plug a Futaba RX crystal of the desired channel in to see if anyone is on your freq prior to flying. An alarm and light comes on if anyone is on that channel. Unless any of the channel checker gizmos or any scanners

Re: [RCSE] Favorite films and novels

Hi Guys, You missed a few good ones: Movie with Glenn Ford from Ernie Gann book about airliner crash caused by coffee spilling into indicator console. Name = "Fate is the Hunter" maybe?? "Capricorn One" - great chase sequence at the end "Birds of Prey" - David Janssen is a WW2 vet / traffic

[RCSE] [SFRC] CS Update 2!!(aka BIG pile of little checks)

Hi all, I just read over the first post and it sounded more negative than I intended. Another way to put it would be: Thank you to the many people who ordered CS tubing. A LOT of people ordered it and not a single one wrote in to complain so I guess you're all pretty happy with it. If this is