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From: "Harley Michaelis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <soaring@airage.com>
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 8:32 PM
Subject: GENIE PAGES UPDATED
While building big Genie #29, numerous new things were tried, worked well
and have been incorporated in the Genie web pages at
http://genie.rchomepage.com/ along with some new pics and text changes.
Friend Jay Decker gets the credit for updating the pages.
The end of File 1 now has a picture showing the final installation of the
removable "single tooth skid" that can be put into the nose of composite
fuselages not using slip-on cone.
File 2 has better material on knuckle hinging the rudder with Fourmost
Snap Tight hinges.
File 3, the bagged wing file, from about page 18 on has better stuff about
making servo mounts, servo wells, covers, RDS installations.
File 4, the Materials List and 5 on COSTS have been updated.
File 6, The RDS file has been materially revised. Something new is always
being learned about this all-internal system of moving surfaces. On #29, I
bonded a sleeve of 1/8" OD brass to the 3/32" SS flap drive shafts and got
a significantly stiffer installation in a very simple manner.
File 7, on the composite fuses has new pics and having done 4 such ships
over the fall/winter, good things were learned about installing, guiding
and supporting a carbon fiber pushrod for the stabs.
File 8 is unchanged, but so useful in getting a new ship ready for first
flights and progressively fine tuning it. I sure never have to ask anyone
about a CG placement or balance or throws, etc. Finding that stuff on your
own should be a no brainer.
After getting more experience with friend Winston Okerlund's Individual
Kevlar "Easy Hinges" system, I've decided it beats all hinging systems for
our sailplanes and have revised File 9 to reflect new things learned about
it. I've moved skinned hinge details to the end of the file. I doubt I'll
ever use them again.
File 10, the supplemental file for the LT/S has some new pics and new
material.
Remember that the next issue of the on-line soaring magazine, the RCSD at
http://www.rcsoaringdigest.com will have an additional and extensive
installment of Chris Boultinghouse's build of his big Genie. In the April
issue, you'll find the first installment and a "centerfold" of the plans.
I've gotten out a few times with #29 on a short high start and am so
pleased with it. Can't wait to do a go-for-broke launch on a good winch.
I'm already thinking about #30. Got a couple of new things to try out.
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