[RCSE] Aerotow Fun Fly 4/25-4/27 (Des Moines, IA) TO BE RESCHEDULED

2008-04-24 Thread Rex Burton
This aerotow has been cancelled. Unfortunately the current condition of the field and the weather forecasts are not cooperating. The sod farm is currently too wet to allow traffic of any kind, let alone repetitive foot traffic on any areas. We are forecasted to receive rain five of the

[RCSE] Aerotow Fun Fly 4/25-4/27

2008-04-10 Thread Rex Burton
Aerotow Fun Fly Sponsored by Kansas Soaring Electric Bill Chase's Field, 3350 Ashworth Road, Waukee, IA 50263(suburb of Des Moines, IA April 25-27) All scale and semi scale ships will be welcome with towplanes capable of towing ALL size RC aircraft. Aerotowing will begin at noon Friday

[RCSE] Aerotow Safety Checks

2006-11-01 Thread Les or Gypsy Stockley
Hi all, I am part of a committee here in NZ that has been asked to look at implementing safety rules regarding inspections of large aerotowed models. I see you have some pretty large scale sailplanes in use over there and I assume you are likely to have some sort of safety/inspection checklist at

[RCSE] AeroTow Syosset LI NY 1415/10

2006-10-10 Thread Zb. Michalczyk
This has been posted here, but with less noticable Subject tittle here it is once again: The Long Island Silent Flyers is proud to offer a 2 day aerotow event at our field on Long Island. It will be this Saturday and Sunday, October 1415. For field location and photo of the field visit

[RCSE] Aerotow?

2005-09-24 Thread David Nasatir
A friend has offered to attempt to tow up my 3 meter, foamie, DAW KA6 e with his ...Razzle electric - it has thrust:weight about 1.25:1, big wings, will fly fairly slow if need be I have never done any aerotow and I am not sure if he has. What should we know in order to: 1) avoid

Re: [RCSE] Aerotow?

2005-09-24 Thread Raschow
In a message dated 9/24/2005 12:51:38 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What should we know See http://www.scalesoaring.net/tow.html. Good Lift! RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please

[RCSE] Aerotow in Utah

2005-07-21 Thread c_j_miner
This morning Tauno Knuuttila and I (Curtis Miner) successfully aerotowed his 1/3 scale ASW-28 with my 1/3 scale Extra 330 L / DA- 100. Neither of us had any experience aerotowing but after reading all we could find on the web (thanks John Derstine and others) we felt we had enough information

RE: [RCSE] Aerotow in Utah

2005-07-21 Thread John Derstine
of launching and landing. JD Endless Mountain Models http://www.scalesoaring.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of c_j_miner Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2005 6:04 PM To: soaring@airage.com Subject: [RCSE

[RCSE] Aerotow on Long Island - CHANGED to July 10, 2005 (30 miles east of NYC)

2005-07-07 Thread Tyra, Fred
Aerotow on Long Island - CHANGED to July 10, 2005 (30 miles east of New York City) The Long Island Silent Flyers Annual Summer Aerotow will be a one day event to be held on the rain date now, Sunday July 10. We

[RCSE] Aerotow on Long Island - July 9 2005 (30 miles east of NYC)

2005-06-25 Thread Tyra, Fred
The Long Island Silent Flyers Annual Summer Aerotow will be a one day event to be held on Saturday July 9, 2005 starting at 10:00 (rain date is Sunday July 10). The aerotow will be held at the Stillwell Woods Park Preserve in Syosset, New York. We will have gas and glow powered tugs at the field

Re: [RCSE] Aerotow scale topics

2005-06-22 Thread Bruce DeVisser
. Bruce DeVisser - Original Message - From: Jim Deck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: RCSE soaring@airage.com Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 4:54 PM Subject: [RCSE] Aerotow scale topics I was browsing through a German book on gliders used during the war and came across a couple of interesting photos

[RCSE] Aerotow scale topics

2005-06-21 Thread Jim Deck
I was browsing through a German book on gliders used during the war and came across a couple of interesting photos. One claims to show the first aerotow attempt - both towplane glider (definitely not a sailplane) would be interesting topics. The other shows a DFS 230 troop glider with a

[RCSE] Aerotow This Weekend in Muncie

2005-04-26 Thread psiegel
Don't forget this weekend is the annual Aerotow Weekend at the fantastic AMA Flying Site in Muncie Indiana! So cycle those batteries in those beautiful scale ships (and towplanes) and plan on a fun weekend of aerotowing! Any questions, contact the CD Paul Siegel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[RCSE] aerotow on the 27th? oops, more specifc

2002-04-30 Thread Douglas, Brent
I meant the Muncie, IN Aerotow the LB get together sounds like it was a blast, thanks for the recap - any other chances locally (Ohio, Indiana, KY, etc) to fly a bigger ship?? Thanks, Brent RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe

Re: [RCSE] aerotow on the 27th? any updates, stories??

2002-04-30 Thread blkflash
Hey Brent If you are talking about Los Banos fun fly which is really a slope site but we had aero towing going on both days Sat the 27th and Sun the 28th. I can tell you from personal experience Sunday was out of this world in thermal activity Tony Elliot was the only one there that had

[RCSE] Aerotow -- Pine Island, NY -- Sat 9/22

2001-09-21 Thread Ben Diss
We've put together a last minute aerotow tomorrow. Dansville's event was canceled due to weather. We have about 6 scale gliders coming and a tow plane capable of pulling up 1/3 scale birds. If anyone is interested in joining us, please e-mail me and I'll give you the pertinent details.