Dan Neelands wrote:
That's not nearly as amazing as UPS. A glider left Phoenix yesterday bound for Washington State. It arrived in Louisville this morning. They claim it will reach its destination tomorrow. I wonder if that's its intended destination or just wherever it winds up?
Try
Regarding the eagle cam vids on this site:
http://media.animal.discovery.com/convergence/spyonthewild/birdtech/birdtech.html
Saw a commercial for the show it's from.
It's "Spy on the Wild" on the "Animal Planet" channel this Sunday. A 2 hour show starting at 8 PM Eastern and repeating three
jaffee wrote:
I don't want to diminish anything Rutan has done...I think it's awesome...but
I doubt the feather rentry mode would work for an orbital craft. SS1
re-enters the atmosphere at Mach 3-4. An orbital craft does so at Mach 25!
I have some doubts about that myself.
As a big space
Dan Ashenfelter wrote:
I have a question about the aerodynamics of SpaceShip 1, specifically the
feather mode. Is the descent controlled in a manner similar to a
free-flight's pop-up dethermalizer or some other means?
The Feather descent pretty much does emulate a pop-stab DT (though it is
I will let them pack and ship the items for me.
I can recall a bad situation mentioned on rec.models.rc.air where someone had
won an R/C copter on Ebay and the seller tried to bill the winner an extra
$100 or so due to UPS shipping fees (the seller had originally quoted something
like
Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They did make a major comment on FAA approval for the extremely high
launches have a one hour window of opportunity to launch, if they are not ready, no
launch. Be kind of a bummer for all the work these guys are putting in these
things.
Launches like that
VectorAero
2-3
years ago and the Cuda kit is currently out of production. It can sometimes be
found on auction. There is a chance the Cuda might go back into production
again.
I have a page on R/C RBGs that shows a few models, and a few links:
http://members.aol.com/GCGassaway/rcgliders.htm
BTW
Pete Olsen wrote:
The RS Talking timer has been deemed not acceptable at that event. The
reason is the timer will not display the actual time flown. It does not matter
whether or not the timer is programmable, the watch will not display time flown.
This has been the case for at least two
I recently have soldered up three 4.8 volt flight packs using 150 NiMh cells.
Charged them using my Sirius chargers, and have run capacity tests using the
Sirius SuperTest battery capacity tester.
On two of the packs Im getting around 130-140 mAh. I figure thats pretty
good, I only get
Can someone post some URL's for sites (or other information sources)
describing how to use balloons or inflated surgical tubing in the process of
laying up tubes on a mandrel?
- George Gassaway
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I have a couple of questions related defining a "runway", and software for
scoring.
First, for the actual landing zone. For contests that use runways several
meters long, what are the runways made of? A line, cord, ribbon, or what? I
figure ribbon would not work well since the wind would
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where can I get some real small servo wire for my aileron I tried some
24 gage ribbon wire from Radio Shack, (it had 4 wires and I just stripped of
the green wire) but it is just too big and wont fit down the aileron tunnel
The servo's I am using are Cirrus 10's.
Last call
Ace MicroPro 8000 Computer transmitter with 2 RF decks, special RF Deck
switch, and Pro 810 Receiver being auctioned at:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=275937999
J-Bird, rare old 97" span sailplane kit by Craft-Air being auctioned at:
Order from Cermark 8N-1100AAU-1 $27 These are Sanyo nicads (not NiMH)
cells and will double your TX time . These will fit any 8U and add $3.50 if
you need a connector already soldered on. 1-800-704-6229 They are located in
California.
I did exactly that in Spring 1998 and was very happy
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