Re: [RCSE] Re: Hitec 555 radios

1999-09-20 Thread Bobbi and Randy
Oops. U. My head was still spinning from the flying yesterday. Is that a good excuse? Randy There is also a different phase shift in the radio signal. If I remember correctly, Futaboo is negative shift and Airtronics is positive. Read his message again - he had already grouped

[RCSE] Xmiter/Receiver crystals

1999-09-20 Thread Timothy E. Hall
I was told that if you wanted to swap out your transmitter crystal that you had to be a licensed class whatever radio person. I was further told that a radio needs to be tuned and checked before its safe for use and AMA will not cover radio setups where the crystal has been changed out. From my

Re: [RCSE] F3B Team support - 3 questions

1999-09-20 Thread Keith M. Skye
Spoken like a true Champ. World Class! Keith M RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [RCSE] F3B Team support - 3 questions

1999-09-20 Thread General Jubilation T. Cornpone
Daryl (I'm not going to say anything again) Perkins Keep your promise, and give us a short synopsis of your experiences. That will: 1. put a lot of other stuff out of mind. 2. edify us tyros (particularly your delicious splat). (-: THE General RCSE-List facilities provided by Model

Re: [RCSE] F3B Team support - 3 questions

1999-09-20 Thread SoarSOSS
Daryl, Your sign off, leaves us with a desire. You earlier said you would enlighten us with some of what went on in S.A. during the F3B Worlds and how you retained your WC status, here on RCSE. I know you and some others are on the spot about this flap, that will pass, but don't shut us

Re: [RCSE] Repairabilty (was: First Open Class Plane)

1999-09-20 Thread Dan deVries
I beg to differ on repairabilty. Ease of repair has more to do with familiarity and available tools. After building my first vac-bagged composite ship eight years ago, I stopped the wood "habit". Composite is easy, economical, strong, light and best of all -- damage remained localized and

[RCSE] Diamant Owners Unite!

1999-09-20 Thread Woods,Nathan
Diamant Owners Unite!   I'm looking for owners of the imported all molded 96" full house TD ship called the Diamant.   I'm curious to see how many people have one, how it flies, how you set it up, and what you do about repairs and parts.   I recently had a custom wing rod fabricated for mine,

Re: [RCSE] F3B Sponsorship Factoids

1999-09-20 Thread Gordon Jennings
Oops! Almost forgot CST, who sponsored the materials for the airplanes that I built for Joe and myself. Thanks again, CST! Gordon At 08:14 AM 9/20/99 -0700, Gordon Jennings wrote: Hey Y'all, Here are the sponsorship deals at play. I leave it up to you to decide if anybody should be whining.

Re: [RCSE] RE: More F3B

1999-09-20 Thread The Soaring Junkie
Okay, Enough of this... lets just kiss and make up and be on our merry way. So, who is going to Visalia? Let's focus on our upcoming pilgrimage to no-where's land!!! Where landing down wind is an art, just watch out for those dust devils... What will be in the Raffle??? At 11:38 AM 9/20/99

RE: [RCSE] SULA Triad HLG Results

1999-09-20 Thread Derek Boyer
Sorry Browne, this new one is whacked too. Although I would love to move up to second place, I remember well the fact that I flew against Sensei in heat two of the killer round 5. He buried us all, but you scored him in the first group and buried them instead. Could we impose on you to try a

[RCSE] New Laser 2MC

1999-09-20 Thread Ptmccleave
Hi All, After finally finding time to finish my new Laser 2MC from NSP I got to break in this weekend my favorite way, take a couple of trim flights and enter a contest. Although my results weren't as impressive as Daryl's I do really like this new plane. I have not officially weighed it

[RCSE] spoilers

1999-09-20 Thread Bill Johns
I have a question about sailplane design and hope this is the correct forum. With all the discussion of politics and personalities, one can never be sure. ;-) This discussion is focused on open class, large sailplanes. If I understand it correctly, dropping flaps results in increased lift and

[RCSE] Parker Mtn. invaded by NoCal fliers

1999-09-20 Thread Joe Jan Wurts
We have finally rebuffed the NoCal invasion, where Scott Hewett, Dave Reese, and Craig Toutelman (sp?) took over Parker for the last four days for many hours of DS, foamie flying, and general slopus carnagie. On Sunday, some of us were wondering what was wrong, when we did not have any

[RCSE] Unidirectional Carbon Handling

1999-09-20 Thread Mike Berends
Hi All, I'm just about to lay-up a few HLG wings and am using Unidirectional Carbon for the darts. This is the first time that I am using this stuff and was wondering if there was a really good way of handling it without getting all the strands all messed up while trying to place it and wet it

Re: [RCSE] RE: More F3B

1999-09-20 Thread Rcsail4fun
In a message dated 9/20/99 8:19:06 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay, Enough of this... lets just kiss and make up and be on our merry way. I agree. I think its sad to see friends fight. So in an effort to help everyone out I will accept sponsorship from any

[RCSE] Corrected SULA HLG Scores

1999-09-20 Thread BrowneCG
Derek Boyer has shown great sportsmanship in pointing out another error in the results of yesterday's hlg contest, the correction of which slips him back to Third Expert and places Paul Anderson back in second. The trophies as awarded were correct. Thanks to Derek for letting me know to

Re: [RCSE] Kicker toxic?

1999-09-20 Thread Howard Rudy
On my bottle of CA Accelerator It sales Warning: Combustible Liquid; Contains synthetic hydrocadeons and aromatic amine. Use with adequate ventilation. Avoid prolonged breathing of vapors. Do not induce vomiting if ingested. In case of eye or skin contact, flush with water. Keep out of reach of

[RCSE] Poway BOMBER Combat Results

1999-09-20 Thread Dan Borer
Hi all-- Well, here they are--the results for the Bomber Combat event that Jerry allowed us to stage at his very successful and fun Poway Combat Slope Race. Thanks Jerry for all the support! Before I tell you the results, here is what the event was all about and the scoring details. The