Dear Gordy:
Solid lead would be easier to work with. Softer, and no splinters. Sort
of a lead sled.
I thought I had a source lined up for surplus Chinese lead ingots, but it
turns out they were contaminated with toys.
Tom H. Nagel
Judicium Procurator
Recuperatio
Soaring is not everything. It just seems like that.
Turn the sound up and get a grip.
http://dingo.care-mail.com/cards/flash/5409/galaxy.swf
Tom H. Nagel
Judicium Procurator
Recuperatio
http://dingo.care-mail.com/cards/flash/5409/galaxy.swf
According to news reports, disgraced uber-lobbyist Jack
Abramoff has shown up ten days late for the Cumberland slope for fun
event.
Tom H. NagelColumbus, OHhttp://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4336348.html
Jack Abramoff reports to Md. prison Chron.com - Houston Chronicle.url
Martin:
This thing appears to be a powered radio controlled boomerang!As a
one-time boomer builder, I am impressed!
Tom
- Original Message -
From: Martin Usher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: soaring@airage.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 2:16 AM
Subject: [RCSE] Invisible Models
ould
do the Air Hog pylon, limbo or combat. Or even better the Air Hog
pylon-limbo-combat. Maybe next time.
Tom H. Nagel
Judicium ProcuratorRecuperatio
a precision piece of manufacture. Who'd have thunk
it?
and
B. Get yourself a hound dog, not a lobotomized
retriever.
Tom H. Nagel
Judicium ProcuratorRecuperatio
.1, when I want to thermal the boxy electric
monoplane.
I still remember Hugh Roger's comment
about the Sophisticated Lady: "They ought to make T-tails illegal!"
Tom H. Nagel
Judicium ProcuratorRecuperatio
of
Belleville doing seaplane's with a little bit of Pirates of the Caribbean thrown
in.
Tom H. Nagel
Judicium ProcuratorRecuperatio
ls. I have been sloping some, but this
was my first flat field flying of the year, and it was fun to hook up to some
nice thermals, even if it was with a flying shoe box.
I let the soccer kiddies fly the Air
Hog.
Tom H. Nagel
Judicium ProcuratorRecuperatio
chain BF Goodrich Radials from the Ford Explorer roll over recall
campaign.
I am ready to attempt the first flight
of this monster, weather permitting, tomorrow morning, which will be, of course
...
APRIL FOOL'S DAY.
Tom H. Nagel
Judicium ProcuratorRecuperatio
Gordy:
I need your fax or snail mail address
so I can send you the copies of the article.
Tom Nagel
Hey Gordy, just look in the ultimate soaring resource,
RCSDigest.
I did an article on the Ronnie Winch in the
January 2003 issue of RCSD. Photos and everything.
Tom H. Nagel
- Original Message -
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Soaring@airage.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 14
Dudes:
Today is March 15th, the day the
Buzzards Return to Hinckley (Ohio), the mid-west's local thermal
celebration.
The locals up at Hinckley recount the
legend that the buzzards circle on the Hinckley ledges because of cattle being
driven over the cliff to die piled up on the shores
I lost
orientation, and the Air Hog drifted over the tall woods on the big hill behind
the park. I had a tense few minutes before I managed to bring the
plane down low enough that I could steer it and get it back over the field to a
happy landing at my feet.
Happy Air Hog Day
everyone.
Tom H
Guys,
I wonder if the common belief that pilots can't listen
to an altimeter and fly RC at the same time is related to the pretty well proven
fact that driving and talking on a cell phone is an accident waiting to
happen.
Hang up and fly.
Tom H. Nagel
Judicium ProcuratorRecuperatio
Gents:
I tuned in to thisshow
called The Rose Bowl last night, and would you believe it, there was not a
single sailplane in sight.
OK, there were a couple of parachutists
doing spot landings right at the beginning, but it is easy to make your time
when you are hauled up by a C-130.
Gents:
I had to drive from Cincinnati to
Vinton County last weekend on a beautiful fall day. I traveled through
some places I hadn't seen since being bitten by the slope bug.
In the stretch between Hillsboro
and Bainbridge, down along the Paint Creek valley, I noticed three likely
Locally mammiform clouds associated with thunderstorms indicate the risk
of tornadoes. Don't mess with Mammi-form Nature.
Tom H. Nagel
Columbus, OH
- Original Message -
From: Aradhana Singh Khalsa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Harley Michaelis [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Soaring@Airage.com
soaring
What I need is a turnaround that follows my car home, for
those occasions when I wind the winch line in and then forget to go pick up the
turnaround before heading home.
Tom H. NagelColumbus, OH
Gents:
I am working up a list of Ohio flying
slopes, in the hopes that it will make it onto someone's web site (like
Greg Smith's for example).
FWIW, Brookville Indiana is an honorary
Ohio slope.
Please send me nominations for the Ohio
Slope Site list, with place name, location,
Just a quick note to commend Horizon Hobby's service
department for once again quickly and efficiently repairing my much abused JR
783 transmitter without even once asking what kind ofspaz I am for having
messed it up in this fashion.
Tom H. NagelColumbus, OH
Guys:
I am a practicing lawyer of the general
practice persuasion, and when not making trouble on RCSE I do a significant
amount of estate planning for "regular folks."
Some basic advice:
have a will
don't get sucked in by a
"trust mill"--most people don't need a trust, and most
In case anyone had lingering doubts, the Muncie forecast
indicates that indeed it is RC Soaring week at the
NATS.http://www.intellicast.com/Local/USLocalStd.asp?loc=kmieseg=LocalWeatherprodgrp=Forecastsproduct=Forecastprodnav=nonepid=none
Muncie, Indiana 10 Day Forecast by Intellicast.u rl
Sun Safety
Tips
When summer rolls around,
everybody wants that perfect tan?but it's important to play it smart. Here are
some tips for safe, sensible tanning:
Block out harmful
UV rays with giant magnifying glass.
Always sit at
least 100 yards from sun.
When applying
Actually, for contests, I find thermal underwear works best. As for the
LSF V 8 hour slope task, well...depends.
Tom H. Nagel
Columbus, OH
- Original Message -
From: Cliff E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; '[RCSE]' soaring@airage.com
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 8:57
For those of you who like myself have been suffering
thermal withdrawal due to the mandates of family, work or weather, here is a
little thermal activity, courtesy of JPL, on the planet Mars.
The way things have been going for me lately, the nearest
thermal might as well be on Mars.
For those of you who, like me, are looking at a cold, wet
and stormy weekend, you can go to the Mars rover website www.marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov
and watch movies of Martian dust devils.
Tom H. NagelColumbus, OH
I have been allergic to lots of stuff, including dust, since childhood.
Several years ago my doc suggested Claritin, which is now generic and not
too pricey. Works for me.
Tom H. Nagel
Columbus, OH
- Original Message -
From: Andrew E Mileski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: soaring@airage.com
Sent
My favorite high start story
involves the Infamous Flamingoid, which I once arranged to launch with the
receiver turned off. It did a pretty good launch, but popped off about
half way up, pulled out and did a series of descending swoops and then landed in
the middle of the field with
You probably wouldn't feel so hot after hanging in a tree
for a few months either.
Tom H. NagelColumbus, OH
Looks like the family is headed up to Saugatuck Michigan
in June. Anybody know of flyable slopes up that way?
Tom H. NagelColumbus, OH
Thanks for the report Cap'n Jack. I had a
legal seminar to attend and no airplane $$ to spend. Had withdrawal
symptoms all weekend.
Tom H. NagelColumbus, OH
- Original Message -
From:
Jack
Strother
To: Tom H. Nagel ; RCSE
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 8:14
PM
It looked like a good weekend for
Toledo: cold, sleet, snow, high winds, miserable
weather. For the first time in alsmost a decade I missed goin to the
event. So, how was Toledo?
Tom H. NagelColumbus,
Ohio
I want a Spinal Tap transmitter, with a knob that goes up to ELEVEN!
Tom H. Nagel
Columbus, OH
- Original Message -
From: Ed Jett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Soaring List Soaring@airage.com
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: [RCSE] Signal strength switch?
I don't think
this winter. It
is hard enough for me, as a slow-flying floater with a GWS A-drive on a 60
Chrysalis, to avoid mid airs with the hot dogs when they were just flying
3-D aerobatics. When they can back up and hit you, it is time to give up
and get into model railroading or something.
Tom H. Nagel
This just in from Google News:
Earthtimes.org-
3 hours agoThe chaos at Melbourne Airport, Australia
was just short of pandemonium on Monday morning. About 700 passengers were
evacuated from the building and many flights were cancelled after a mystery leak
spread panic in the concourse.
Yes, I too offer my most sincere apologies for aggravating this lawyer
bashing thread. After all, we have high elected officials to do that for
us.
I am working on a plane, too---a sorta scale PSS model of SpaceShipOne:
P1. Does it sound like I'm pissed? Only if it doesn't fly.
Tom H
and causing a
malpractice insurance crisis. Wrong again. Same real bad guys, the bean
counters and the corporate bandits.
Tom H. Nagel
Columbus, OH
- Original Message -
From: Ed Berris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: soaring@airage.com; Jack Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 03
I endorse everything Chuck Anderson says about what George
Joy says.
(Boy, this could get old real fast.)
Tom H. NagelColumbus, OH
Last night my wife and I
went back to Bed, Bath and Beyond and returned the X-Plane for credit on her
charge card. The moral of the story is do not let your wife buy you RC
airplanes at a store that specializes in fancy home furnishings. And
conversely, don't buy your wife a Valentine's
Skye Malcolm and I met at the Franklin County
Fairgrounds for an impromptu NYD fly-in. Skye was just back from
Arizona and was wearing shorts and tennis shoes, so we didn't last too
long.
Sky had found an upgraded
ZingWing out west, one of those foamy flying wings that folds in half and
Merry Christmas to everyone at RCSE, lurker and
turbo typer alike, pundit and pun-pusher and dancer and prancer.
I spent the interlude between
opening the stockings and deep frying the turkey by attempting to assemble and
run the Silverlit Mfg Co X-Plane. The instructionsand
I spent a year in Houston one
summer.
In the argument over the choice between handicapping the plane and
handicapping the pilot, all I can say is that I come into the game already
handicapped so there is no point in picking on my plane.
Tom H. Nagel
Columbus, OH
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Dudes:
My mother-in-law is going to be
out of town for the holidays, so she stopped by tonight to give the family
Christmas gifts. She gave me this electric model plane that I have
not heard of before, and I hang out in a lot of hobby shops.
It is sort of toy-like but maybe interesting.
Hey guys:
Just a reminder, while you are out
doing last minute shopping at Radio Shack and such places, take your old dead
nicads back to the store and see that they get properly recycled.
Nicads are environmentally nasty in landfills.
I realize that a lot of you don't use
nicads any
This message is forwarded from Don Stackhouse and Joe Hahn at DJ Aerotech
Tom H. Nagel
Columbus, OH
- Original Message -
From: Don Stackhouse @ DJ Aerotech [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 11:23 AM
Subject: product discontinuance
About ten years ago my
wife knoew I was interested in RC planes, but had never tried it. So she
got me a .40 size RC trainer for Christmas, some sort of Goldberg
kit. No engine, no radio, no monokote--just a box of balsa.
I never really wanted to fly gas
power, so I took the kit back to
Tough question. Overall, I
think I have had the most fun with the Infamous Flamingoid, the 2 meter
Gnome in yard flamingo drag. It has had three or so memorable
half hour flights, and one startling appearance at Mt. Knobly for the Cumberland
Slope Fun Fly. It flies better than it has any
Happy thanksgiving everyone. Tonight we soar with
the turkeys!
Let's all be thankful for being allowed
to perpetrate our aerial sport/hobby; let's give thanks to the folks who provide
us with the great modern, inexpensive electronics
to the guy who invented EPP
foam
to the (recently
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the flying
field..a little something for Halloween.
In his excellent 1999 novel Starfish, science
fiction writer Peter Watts wrote about
"cultured brains on a slab" - a "smart gel - that could pilot a plane
as well as a person. Now,
I would like to apologize for setting off an email
firestorm with my speculation that the Secret Service and/or Air Force One were
jamming our RC radio transmissions.
As a test, I went out back and tried
flying the Tiger Moth while John Kerry was in the area yesterday. No
glitches. In
Dick Cheney flew into the Columbus area this
morning. As soon as I heard about it, I repeated my GWS Tiger Moth test
out behind the garage. Once again I lost throttle control at ten
paces with the antenna collapsed and less than 50 paces with full antenna
extension.
I'll try it again in
I am working on a PSS model of
SpaceShipOne, thus P1, an acronym than sounds like Gordy pissing on a flat
rock. Gotta work on that.
Parts so far: some EPP
beds left over from a Casavos boomerang, a clear 3-liter pop bottle,
a clear plastic peanut butter jar some 2" balsa TE stock,
I told you so.
Still not sure about the sunspots, though.
Tom H. Nagel
Columbus, OH
- Original Message -
From: Jerry Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Terry Mickle [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jerry Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Dean Gradwell [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Scott
Gradwell [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Terry
The only plane I have had attacked in the air was the Infamous Flamingoid,
which is pink. I was doing a half hour thermal flight, and a couple of
buzzards, of all things, took offense at the presence of a Flamingoid in
their air and made repeated swoops at it. I did loops and stalls, and they
John Derstine writes:
from: John Derstine
To: 'Tom H Nagel' ; 'RCSE'
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 5:39
PM
Subject: RE: [RCSE] Mystery Plane found
at MOSS site
Was W in the area
again?
Endless
Mountain Models
http://www.scalesoaring.com
email
Gents:
One of the home owners who lives near
the MOSS site in Columbus/Westerville OH stopped by the field and dropped off a
sort of Zagoid plane that he'd found out back of his house a couple of months
ago. No AMA number, name or address that I can find.
I have tentatively ID'd it as a
Wow, I want to get one of those Pterosaurs to fly at Cumberland! Or do
combat against Gordy! (Pterosoar vs Gordysoar)! Sounds like a bad
Japanese sci fi movie.
Tom H. Nagel
Columbus, OH
- Original Message -
From: Douglas, Brent [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: RCSE [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent
OK guys, Burt Rutan'sSpace Ship One crew just won
the Ansari X-Prize. The ship went to about 360,000 feet, re-entered
and landed safely.
Dave Garwood, we need a foamy PSS model
for this fall's sloping. Just stretch the wingspan a
little. Let me know when it's ready.
Tom H.
I agree completely with Jack's approach to park
flyers. We do the same at MOSS and have recruited several new
members this way. We do Park Flyer Outreach at the local hobby store by
leaving flyers near the pile of GWS boxes.
- Original Message -
From:
Jack
Harper
To:
I don't know if any of the rest of you were watching live
webcast coverage this morning, but Space Ship One lifted off from Mojave
Spaceport, cut loose from White Knight and lit the candle, in search of the
X-Prize trophy.
Shortly after the engine fired, SS-1 pulled up vertical
and then
Topic for the month of October:
Which vendor makes the best downwind
turn while trying to nail the UPS guy with a landing skeg? And could
Gordy do it better?
Tom H. NagelColumbus, OH
Guys:
The weekend is upon us.
George W. and John Kerry and Ralph Nader are all running loose out there
somewhere.
Beware of presidentially induced radio
glitches. If you are flying near a presidential campaign rally and
experience difficulty (other than stomach upset) please update me
OK, so who is going to do a PSS sloper of
SpaceShipOne?
Bill and Bunny were looking for a
project. Here you go--even sort of a flying wing.
Tom H. NagelColumbus, OH
If God had meant us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had ten
disciples.
Tom H. Nagel
Columbus, OH
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The solution to an age old aviation question, what is the airspeed velocity
of an unladen sparrow?
http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
(Don Stackhouse, eat your heart out.)
File attachment: style.org Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow.url
The file attached to this email
the paper covered core-board, or the thin fragile Depron;
nor was it the 1/4 inch fan fold Styrofoam sheet.
Next time you are at the multiplex, take a look at this stuff. Let's
see if we can figure out what it is and where we can get some to mess with.
Anybody got Hollywood connections?
Tom H
My first plane was a Goldberg Sophisticated Lady (later to become known
as The Crunchbird.) My wife had gotten me a kit to build an RC power
plane for Christmas. I took it back to the hobby shop and swapped it for
the only glider they had on the shelves, the Sophisticated Lady.
I learned
A few years ago our club ran an impromptu contest, the point of which
was to see who could get to the highest altitude within a set time. One of
the fellows had an altimeter watch, and we would move it from plane to
plane.
Each contestant had a short time---I think it was 4 minutes, to
I drove over to Newark OH to fly our little slope overlooking the Licking
River. It was a beautiful fall day with warm southwest winds, some
thermals popping off the slope, fall color, and for some reason no one else
showed up.
When I go sloping I tend to throw every plane I can lay hands
- Original Message -
From:
Steve Gibson
To: rc Soaring Exchange
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 3:13
PM
Subject: [RCSE] We should start a new
thread to bash
Anybody ever tied a parachute to a small animal
then dropped it out of an R/C plane?
If
Can someone point me at older RCSE archived messages? (Pre 2000 stuff)
Thanks guys
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During a recent RCSE discussion of bungee launching, I was reminded of
this thing that kids have been playing with this summer. I looks sort of
like a dragon testicle, if there were such a things as dragons and they had
testicles. It is a spiky soft rubber ball with a motion sensitive light
Gentlemen, and Gordy:
A while ago Dick Renskers donated a collection of his RCSDigest
magazines to our club -- a complete set from the first issue on.
Disaster struck this spring. We had a plumbing leak at home which
wiped out the kitchen, and some of my modeling stuff in the basement,
I personally am a skegnostic, and don't much care if people in contests
use skegs or not, because I am not going to be flying against them anyway.
I use one on the Flamingoid to keep the droopy plastic yard flamingo neck
from breaking.
What I want to know in this survey is: HOW MANY
I have to agree with Don Stackhouse--the answer is not to ban park flyers,
but to bring those folks into our clubs. We used the safety and
interference argument here in Columbus to get the City to allow us to fly
electrics at our sailplane field. (We had previously been banned from
flying
Dear Ed and RCSE gurus:
Could the weak or dying lithium battery
syndrome cause centering problems on other radios too? Once in a
while my JR 783 does odd things about centering control surfaces.
- Original Message -
From:
Ed Franz
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday,
We had a big turnout at the MOSS field this afternoon, old stalwlarts,
lost souls returning, new faces, kids, flying everything from free flight
to DLG to high tech unlimited to electric park flyers.
So here's three things I learned at the field today:
1. If your stick isn't
So, Gordy's shins are skegs?
- Original Message -
From: Bill Swingle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: RCSE Soaring (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 3:43 PM
Subject: RE: [RCSE] What is not a Skeg; DEFINED
Ack, another rules thread! Geez.
The decision is simply Does the
We were on our way home from Cincinnati after visiting my folks
Christmas Eve. I had figured on nuking up some left over Bambi Italiano for
lunch and opening presents in the living room--but Nancy wanted to make a
detour out to the barn where she boards her horse.
Normally I
A thought for a gloomy November day:
The sun is always shining, if you have sufficient altitude.
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Trademark and copyright law is a real specialty area. My knowledge in that
area is limited, and for me to take on a trademark case would be like Joe
Wurts doing brain surgery on Gordy. Fun to watch, but probably not a good
idea.
Don and Joe are already doing what I would tell them to do.
Some of you know I'm a lawyer. Most of you read my stuff anyway.
I am just finishing up a small post-decree domestic case for a client
who is a native of Kuwait, and lives in that country, although his son and
ex-wife are in the US.
A couple of days ago I received an email from
This is known as Lee Trevino's Law : don't stand at the highest point
holding a metal rod over your head when there is lightning around.
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Bill, and all the other Mongo-loids,
I was really sorry to hear that the Mongo and MongoJr had gone out
of production.
I built a Mongo Jr. with the intent to thermal off a highstart, and
made a few minor mods to that end. It thermals pretty well, and anyone
looking for a 2
Oh Geez, Gordy is gonna get me for this. But it is sort of
sailplane related, in that it involves fiberglass and wind.
Wife bought a Sunfish sailboat. I need to install a drain plug.
Gotta make a 7/8" hole in the fiberglass transom. If I use a spade bit will
this mess up the
The best thing I have found for closing spoilers is dental rubber bands,
left over from when my kid had braces. They are small, tough, and seem to
last forever.
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I ran into a fellow who is involved with Dyna-Wing, a company developing
soft-but-dual-surfaced wings for sailing catamarans, sailboards, and even
cruising boats.
Their web-site is www.dynawing.com
The interesting thing from our point of view is that sailboat
"wings" work at low
I was trying to get in a 30 minute flight this summer, in my continuing
quest to reach LSF III. I had about 15 minutes gone, and I was in trouble,
low and scratching for lift. Don Harris and Bill Hoelcher were standing by
trying to coach me a little, and another club member (who shall
Here's a club buddy of mine that needs
help dealing with the evil airage list server robot.
- Original Message -
From: rmong
To: Tom H. Nagel
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 12:09 PM
Subject: rcse
Tom,
Having trouble subscribing to the rcse list, any
help would be appreciated
I suggest LSSLeague for Smashing Sailplanes.
- Original Message -
From: "Dave Wenzlick" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "George Joy" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: [RCSE] DS'ing
As dynamic soaring guru Dave Reese said to me
Wow, the wind at that site must be awesome. Between the first and second
picture, it ripped the clothes right off her!
- Original Message -
From: "Brian C" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 11:59 PM
Subject: [RCSE] models with models... or my glider
This Spring and summer I made a serious attempt to learn how to fly HLG.
What I learned was all about shoulder strain.
The XC Nats might have had a hand in it. My job on the XC team was to
throw the monster plane.
"So, what do you do on the XC team, Nagel?"
"I throw up."
Anyway, the
Fellas, this is a true story. Sometimes I kind of blur the line between
truth and fiction, between the hallowed fact and hallucination as it were.
That probably comes from the influence of some of my favorite writers, Mark
Twain, James Thurber, Gordy Stahl, people like that. But this one is
Rick Powers delivered my U-2 foamy kit a couple of days ago, and after the
usual reading of plans and fondling of parts, I began to become concerned.
After I glued the fuse and the jet intake parts together, I was left with
this giant French Loaf of EPP to whittle on.
The instructions said to
When the thermal imaging discussion came up (this time) I finally
realized there are at least two philosophies at work here.
One group wants to image thermals so they can fly their planes better.
Another group flys their planes to get an image of the thermal worked
out.
As
Dear Fellow RCSE Addicts,
I will be signing off for a few days to have a try at DS here in Ohio.
No not dynamic soaring.
Deer Season, the religious holidays of the redneck sect.
Play nice while I'm gone.
Tom Nagel
Columbus, Ohio
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I have been looking at a slope foamie (for once not a flying wing) and
have some questions about aileron size.
This particular model has long narrow wings and uses 2" TE stock for
ailerons. Out at the wingtip that is more than half the wing chord.
Is this OK for a slope plane? Any
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