Lynn & Meredith King wrote:
Good day all.
I have a friend going to Maui for two weeks. Is their any possibility
some one could show him ( Walt Gerfin ) where the flying takes
place???
He is interested of course in models, however, he would be up for
full scale also. Walt will not be bringing anyt
Check out www.e-s-l.org for all the Eastern Soaring League events.
CASA is the weekend after labor day weekend.
Douglas, Brent wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to get the DARTS calendar up to date - anyone know the date
for CASA's open this year? Isn't it usually in September?
Thanks,
Brent
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The only thing I practiced today was driving my C5 home from work in 3"
of fresh powder in Chicago rush hour traffic, talk about SCARY.
Jim
Sounds like you should put some skegs on those tires...
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I tried some Wal-Mart batteries a few years ago. I was not impressed. I
haven't seen a Trojan in a few years. I have had good luck with the AC
Delco Voyager batteries. Exide Stowaway's have also worked but they
sometimes charge funny. The battery charger never drops below a few
amps. It mig
I just noticed the AMA published the latest competition regulations in
PDF format at:
http://www.modelaircraft.org/templates/ama/compreg.asp
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Nathan Woods wrote:
Well, the following servos are all pretty good if money is the deciding
factor:
2. JR 341 sim to HS-85, but better
3. JR 351 sim to JR 341 but with MG
4. JR 368 digi version of the 351, very sweet servo
The only thing in common between the 351 and the DS368 is the case.
Has anyone played with a Motorola TalkAbout T6320? Besides the FRS
stuff, specs say it has NOAA weather radio, some sort of
stopwatch/alarm, compass, barometer, and altimeter.
I was in Radio Shack. They only had one in the bubble pack and with the
XMAS season, they weren't too interested in se
built-in mixers so it was a
little short on mixers.
You can find references as to how I program the 10X at
http://www.eclipse.net/~mikel/ There are links for 6 servo and 8 servo
setups.
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I was just reading an article in todays New York Times. It looks like
almost everyone has gone down to two checked bags and raised the rates
for any additional bags or overweight or oversized bags to $80.
Last year you got 3 bags and it wasn't that hard to get something
oversized on for nothing
The Luckenbach fuselages are $110 each. Tom took a half dozen to the
Nats for Terry and all were sold. Tom did use that fuselage for
Unlimited with Drela's airfoils on the tails. Some other issues
prevented him from using the molded mantis wing on that model.
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I don't use sliders. For those who do use them, how do you pick the
optimal position? Or do you just end up sliding all the way one way or
another.
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You can get a 1000A non-locking master disconnect switch from JC
Whitney. Part number 74ZX7827P.
http://www.jcwhitney.com/item.jhtml?ITEMID=4432&BQ=rv
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Daryl Perkins wrote:
>
> < my 58-60 oz plane
> starting in the very bottom of a gaggle of sailplanes,
> including
> heavier molded, will climb through them? Just
> wondering, Walter
>
> H - How is it my 90 ounce models "starting in the
> very bottom of a gaggle of sailplanes...will climb
>
Bill Johns wrote:
>
> Here is a scenario for you experts
>
> You find yourself way down wind and way high up with an unballasted plane
> and gotta head back into a moderate head wind. You can head directly into
> the wind on a straight line back or you can tack back and forth like a
> sailb
Another easy to transport wing is the Passaj. It's a 48" wing and it
already breaks down into two pieces and you can have the tip plates
screw on. Plus it's a lot faster than the plain foamie wings since it
has a real airfoil.
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You don't need to use the 8103 with the camber and landing mode switched
on the stick. You can program the stick so it's always landing mode. Use
a switch for launch and for reflex and camber presets.
Using a slider for changing camber is definitely over rated. A fixed
camber and reflex setting
Remember that 6 rounds of F3b is more like 18 rounds of AMA TD. Fairly
large contests
can be run with F3b. You just have to accept the demands that you be in
the right
place at the right time to fly and larger flight groups. The contest
can be speeded up by overlapping prep time with prior fligh
As best I can remember who was flying what. Thanks Phil and Don for
putting on a good contest. (And keeping some of our southwest stash of
winch batteries)
Tragi 702 > 1 Tom Kiesling ..12595
Ellipse 4 > 2.Mike. Lachowski. ..12400
F3b Icon> 3.Joe Wurts ..12024
Y2K
Darwin N Barrie wrote:
>
> Yes David that IS the ICON you are talking about How I let it go without a
>little more research on my part is beyond me. Oh well
> I know it went to a good home and will be used. It appears the ICON has become the
>Alpha 4 of the sailplane world, high quality,
>
For those who like fancy machined hooks, these are really nicely done.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a few aluminum adjustables with SS hooks available. Check
> my web sitewww.hilaunch.com
>
> Don Richmond
> San Diego, CA
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The adjustable towhook is a complex piece of equipment. Don't attempt
this without adult supervision. I was disappointed that I could make a
towhook without having to use my milling machine.
See http://www.eclipse.net/~mikel/towhook/towhook.html
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Actually the Bosch motors suck for making winches. The fords had two
good features for making cheap winches. 1) the relatively long shaft
that you could mount a short drum on. 2) Built-in mounts that can bolt
to a simple plate.
The Bosch motors require machining a motor mount. The shaft is lo
The Eagle was a nice model in it's day. The basic design is the same
vintage as the Ellipse 1T. Fortunately for Joe and Daryl, they were
better at setting up the model and Joes understanding of launch
mechanics was better than the Europeans. The Ellipse 2V is probably a
better model. By that time
Let's not start AMA Bashing. We've cycled through the AMA insurance
stuff too many times. Please don't post any more on the AMA insurance
discussion.
Let's get back to Karlton bashing.
Bill Malvey wrote:
>
> On 12/26/01 5:21 PM, "Brett Jaffee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'm not anti-
Dennis Phelan wrote:
>
> Dudes,
> I've been working on the trim inside the house all week. Seeing all the nice
> grains as I put the clear polyurethane has been reminding me of the beautiful
> wood finishes that Hans Mueller put on the Anigree[?] skins of his planes and
> the so many others that
gldr guy wrote:
>
> >Btw. It doesn't have to be molded to be good and everything molded is not
> >automatically good.
> >
> I think Tom is right here. I believe over the past few years if you look at
> whats doing well in TD, at least out west, you will probably see at lot of non
> molded plane
"David J. Schat" wrote:
>
> Ah! So there are twelve winches not launching models while the carts bring
> the lines back. how many launches could be done in that time? My guess
> is that if your doing 8 launches in 90 seconds you could probably launch at
> least another 8 people or more in the
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> << http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1567918&a=14016859&p=56634170 >>
> Lucky old Luke got that scholarship. As you can see from the pics he can't
> even afford shoes:-)
And if you look at his chin, he even looks like his skegs after a
landing in grass. That nic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Is there a picture of the plane DP won with posted anywhere? Thanks, Rich
There is one photo of the T-tail version. Gavin Botha is holding this
model.
http://www.minfo.cz/f3b2001/images/Hac_Perk.jpg
I believe it is probably close to this 3-view, but I suspect this
Marc Gellart wrote:
>
> It is kind of interesting that one of the sites, not the official one I
> think, was really kind of slamming the Icons as not stiff enough and if only
> Daryl and Joe would fly real F3B ships from Europe they might have a chance.
> I hope the term "bring it on" will be app
Ultracote is handled by Horizon Hobbies. www.horizonhobby.com. Web
site says black and white are in stock. They are now the exclusive
north america distributors and you'll start seeing the Hangar 9 name
instead of Goldberg. Of course that also explains why Tower has
discontinued the product.
R
Kevin Sheen wrote:
>
> we are in need of a New England parachute. Sal is out and says they aren't being
>made anymore. Does anyone know of a place that may still have stock left?
The New England chutes are still being made. I have some available, 10"
size. Not sure if I have any 12" size at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Any one have comments on how the recent trend of light weight V-tail
> Euro-molded ships handle in a TD contest? Always hearing they don't
> fair
> well in the landing task. But then again the earlier ships were much
> heavier with higher wing loading.
> V-tails suc
>From the FAIsoaring list if you're not subscribed to that one.
> Paulo Dias Guimarães wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Realated to CIAM deliberations about F3J with prohibition of the use
> of stacks I decided to post a poll asking the opinion of our fellows
> aeromodelers. The results will be sent to CIA
Hallo all,
I was asked by leading members of the German Aero Club (
national soaring committee ) to provide following information to the members of
the soaring list as well to the whole F3J community :
The German national body DAeC ( German Aero Club ) decided on
a meeting last week-end
Hawaii for F3f. I'm interested...
How about if we move the F3f Viking Qualifier from CA to Hawaii! It's
certainly much nicer than where it's planned now. And at least we won't
have to rent a generator to make sure we can charge our flight packs at
night.
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OK, so we have a big uproar about what sounds like a safety rule change
in F3B/J for hand towing.
The CIAM is mostly european. I'm sure Terry Edmonds was at the meeting
and he will report back. Terry did as the AMA district reps for FAI
soaring for input on the rules changes that were on the age
You can select PPM or PCM with the 8013. You can use either receiver
and you don't need to change the module to do it. PPM and PCM are both
FM. They just use different techniques to encode the data being sent.
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We had an incident where lots of .net addresses got bounced around new
years. A note was sent out to most of those subscribers to
resubscribe. As Jon noted, there are plenty of folks who read it via
places like egroups. I know since I usually have several messages every
day that I have to appro
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My favorite sources for machine tool supplies are
http://www.use-enco.com
and
http://www.penntoolco.com
A set of 1-60 ranges between $19 and $35 depending on the type of finish
and if it's US made or an import.
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Just got the latest stuff from Horizon on the new servos.
Digital servos with metal gears
DS368 53 oz/in micro servo 341/351 size
DS3421 65 oz/in mini servo
DS9411 82 oz/in mid size
Digital servo, not metal gears
DS3301 56 oz/in same size as a 3321 which is close to a Airtronics
9414
>
> Man-on-man and less launch altitude could emphasize flying skills, also
> strategy would be important.
OK, so your choices are F3j or F3b. Both do a good job on man-on-man
soaring, but emphasize maximizing your launch altitude to gain an
advantage over your competitors.
After that it's flyi
If you're looking for an interesting RX to try, check out the new R700
FM receiver. I've had one of the test ones in my PicoJet all year.
Smaller than the 549's and only .64 oz with the case.
The web site shows the 610M as in stock. There is no mention of the
short antenna that was on the origi
I have a spare Esprit wing for sale. White with blue bottom. Bottom
hinged flap. Brand new, never flown.
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No really great speed times or distance flights. Due to field
limitations, many of the speed and distance rounds were flown with
different wind directions than normal. I think that 5 of the 6 speed
rounds were flown with the wind going the opposite direction of what
would normally be set up. W
Skip Miller wrote:
>
> I thought this should be MENTIONED as it hasn't appeared on the exchange.It
> is fairly important, possibly revolutionary(no pun intended)
>
> PAUL SIEGEL out flew everyone flying his own design DISCO besting the field
> of some of the top handlaunch pilots THROWING Disc t
Dan, my shipment of Monofilament came in. Send me an e-mail. I lost
your address.
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Welcome to extruded foam sheets. The pink Foamular (not Dow) foam you
were using can have quite a bit of stress in the skins. You have two
options. One is to shave a thin layer off the each side, the other is
to score the top and bottom of the sheet before you cut it. Using a
plank in additio
"James V. Bacus" wrote:
>
> Has anyone tried running a F3J contest with a modification of adding one
> minute to the working time beyond the duration of the task?
If you add two minutes and use a winch, I call it F3b task A.
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Rob Skiba wrote:
> experience with these tell me if one suits soaring better than the
> other? I have flown the 10x in RC Jets before and gliders but have no
> experience with the 8103 in a glider. Does the 8103 have flight modes?
> I know it now has digital trims, but I am wondering about the
If anyone notices some messages that seem to have appeared from several
days ago, it's because I just approved them.
I was away since Wed. at Cape Cod for some good slope soaring. Most of
the winds were from the south through west direction with a period of
dreaded north winds. While the winds w
Try
http://dmoz.org/Recreation/Aviation/Model_Aviation/Radio_Controlled/Soaring/
At the moment, I have 308 soaring related links, all good, valid links.
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I maintain a list of links at dmoz.org.
What ever happened to your foam cutter page?
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