Re: [RCSE] Oh What A Ride, Extra 300 That Is

2006-09-15 Thread Ray Hayes
Marc, Very cool Ray Hayes http://www.skybench.com Home of Wood Crafters - Original Message - From: RBurnoski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: soaring@airage.com Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 10:56 PM Subject: Fw: [RCSE] Oh What A Ride, Extra 300 That Is I give Gellart

Re: [RCSE] CSS Pumpkin Fly November 11, 12

2006-09-15 Thread Barry Andersen
Hi Chip, November 11, 12. Hope we see you. Pumpkin Fly is a bit later than usual this year. Of late we have had turkey shoots during the last round, this years event is right in the middle of Halloween and Thanksgiving. CD of record will be Mr. Steve Siebenaler, level V officianado.

Re: [RCSE] Oh What A Ride, Extra 300 That Is

2006-09-15 Thread Barry Andersen
Great weekend for you. Congratulations on the OVSS win. That's a pretty amazing acro ride. Mancuso obviously had confidence in your ability to fly, no small task to set that plane down smoothly with no tail dragger experience. Amazing that you kept the contents of your stomach in

[RCSE] Oh What A Ride, Extra 300 That Is

2006-09-15 Thread ama3655
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[RCSE] Re: Soaring V1 #8273

2006-09-15 Thread Ed Anderson
Friends, I believe I saw a message that described how one club used a wood dolly on wheels to retrieve multiple winch lines during a contest. The dolly was operated by a winch and retriever arrangement, as I recall. Anyone know about this? I thought I saw a photo, but I did not keep it. If

Re: [RCSE] Re: Soaring V1 #8273

2006-09-15 Thread tony estep
The pic of it is on the ESL site at http://www.flyesl.com/News-y-Articles/featured_article.asp?FORUM_ID=7TOPIC_ID=221 I was intrigued too, and Anker Berg-Sonne described it to me in an email. The way it works is that you have a lineup of, say, four winches with chutes but no retrievers.

[RCSE] 4 meter project

2006-09-15 Thread louiscimon
Hi, I am planing to scratchbuild a 4 meter Jantar Standard. I will build a mold to build the fuselage out of fiberglass and intend to build the wings of foam and fiberglass (vacuumbagging). I would like to obtain suggestions as to rules of thumb about the type and numbers of fiberglass (and

Re: [RCSE] Oh What A Ride, Extra 300 That Is

2006-09-15 Thread tony estep
Original Message From: Marc Gellart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [RCSE] Oh What A Ride, Extra 300 That Is == Wow, what a great story. Your stomach is a lot better than mine, Bubba. I'm green with envy! RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send

[RCSE] For Sale: Airtronics Stylus Accessories

2006-09-15 Thread S Meyer
Items are for Airtronics Stylus. Available at or after the Masters 9/24. Email me for details. Transmitter Modules, all in excellent shape, $44.00 each. Some have Airtronics and Hitec Crystals available $5.00. Channel 24 Channel 27 Channel 36 Channel 43 Channel 53 2 okay used Antennas,

[RCSE] AMA Rules and contest types

2006-09-15 Thread Jeff Steifel
I was reading Don Harban's doc and decided to read some of the AMA rules. First I noticed that the rules STILL have truncate time, which was a change instituted and not voted on I believe. I also read with great amusement the distance task. The wording is that without lift only 2.5 laps are

Re: [RCSE] AMA Rules and contest types

2006-09-15 Thread tony estep
Jeff, Here's one for you. Our club once flew an event called SM1LE, standing for Simple Multitask 1-Lap Event. You launched into the wind, then went back behind the launch point. You then had a time limit by which you had to get on the course, which started near the launch point and went

[RCSE] Re: LSF Discussion

2006-09-15 Thread dharban
Jeff, I apologize for not being clear about the concept for a Competition Equivalent Task. On rereading my posts, it might not be clear to someone who is not in my head that the intent of this concept is to more or less be the equivalent of an easily understood task and the cornerstone of the

[RCSE] Re: LSF discussion - some thoughts

2006-09-15 Thread dharban
Why on earth would anyone be satisfied to be an LSF Sportsman Level V when you could be a 'real' LSF Level V with just a little more dedication and perseverance? I'll tell you exactly why. It may be a surprise to know that there is a world beyond New Jersey or Michigan or California or wherever

[RCSE] Re: LSF Discussion

2006-09-15 Thread dharban
BTW Jeff, I'm not aware that you have accepted my challenge to fly a 2350 round in accordance with the rules set out in the pdf above. A real competitive sportsman would grab that challenge in a minute. Grab your plane, get some witnesses and let your thumbs do the talking. Show us whatcha

[RCSE] Re: LSF Discussion

2006-09-15 Thread dharban
Jeff, I guess Joe Wurts and Larry Jolly just wouldn't cut it flying in the ESL. If you would like to help and be constructive, maybe you could furnish data from a couple of years of ESL contests and we'll figure out what numbers would be appropriate. Unless Jesus or the Pope is flying our

[RCSE] Re: LSF Discussion

2006-09-15 Thread dharban
Jeff, The 2350 comes from 50 points less than a perfect 2400. Three 800 point rounds. Each round has 700 flight points in accordance with AMA Task T3 (described on page 142 of my mud stained AMA rule book) and 100 landing points. It was also detailed on the attachment to the last post where

[RCSE] Re: Covering Obeche over white foam

2006-09-15 Thread lighthorse
Russ Young Wrote: That being said, one of the remaining things I need to do is cover the wings. They are white foam with an obeche skin (about 1/16 thick). I would prefer one of the plastic coverings (Monocoat, etc.) but I'm afraid that I'll melt the foam with the iron or the heat gun.

[RCSE] Re: LSF Discussion

2006-09-15 Thread dharban
Jeff, It occurs to me that you really not aware of details what I have proposed. It has elements of what you are suggesting. Please familiarize yourself with it before you further judge my proposal. I mean no discourtesy in suggesting this. If you have already read it please forgive me. If

[RCSE] 6 Produits Gratuits du Mois

2006-09-15 Thread Bonnes Affaires
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[RCSE] Re: LSF Discussion

2006-09-15 Thread dharban
Just to put it all in one place. A little old and a little new. +---+ |Filename: Defining Model Soaring Achievement Levels By Skill Analysi….pdf| |Download: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=987142 |

[RCSE] Re: LSF Discussion

2006-09-15 Thread dharban
Please ignore the reference to three tasks being completed in one hour -- it should have been omitted. The overall rules proposal also contained as a part of the document describes a slightly different time restricting system. Don -- dharban

[RCSE] LSF Non-Competition Alternative Program...BEER LEAGUE!

2006-09-15 Thread GordySoar
Okay you guys probably are thinking, "Gordy likely just got out of the movie and is just tying in some current event stuff to be silly!" But not true! Think about it, instead of competition task requirements there could be achievement levels for stuff like "times you have landed in the

Re: [RCSE] LSF Non-Competition Alternative Program...BEER LEAGUE!

2006-09-15 Thread tony estep
you could accumulate points for actually getting your model out of a tree without destroying it by throwing a line tied to a rockI was a witness for one guy who tried for that Merit Badge but his attempt was a failure.

[RCSE] FS: custom wiring harnesses

2006-09-15 Thread davidhauch
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Re: [RCSE] What if LSF had been born on the East coast..

2006-09-15 Thread Larry Storie
Then why the H*ll does it seem that Ohio Valley think its their play thing. Larrys - Original Message - From: Chuck Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: soaring@airage.com Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 1:04 AM Subject: [RCSE] What if LSF had been born on the East coast.. What would