[RCSE] 2004 F5J Electric Soaring World Challenge Registration Extended

2004-10-03 Thread bgtwining
I am posting this for our club president. Hello, F5J Electric Soaring Enthusiasts: The Albuquerque Soaring Association announces that registration for the 2004 F5J Electric Soaring World Challenge has been extended to Thursday, October 7, 2004. The contest will be held at the Gardner Turf

Re: [RCSE] Visalia update...

2004-10-03 Thread Steve Meyer
At 12:06 AM 10/3/2004, Flying High wrote: Sure it's a long way to travel for you east coast guys, but where else can you find yourself going up against the best of the USA Soaring Pilots??? When the soaring stuff is done, all the fun start. Night Ops on flying Rockets to How about an incentive,

[RCSE] Re: Soaring V1 #4400

2004-10-03 Thread Richard Hallett
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 19:23:17 -0700 From: Les Grammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Soaring V1 #4399 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] So tell me if you wouldn't mind...how does the 'ascending score' work? You try to make each flight longer than the previous? If it comes up

[RCSE] Soaring History Part 5

2004-10-03 Thread Chuck Anderson
This concludes my series on the history of thermal soaring in the United States. There was a lot of material left out to keep the series a reasonable length. I hope this brief history will be useful to those who were not there to participate and enjoy the adventure. The Decline and

[RCSE] hi-starts

2004-10-03 Thread Cheryl and Bill
Greetings! I need landing practise. I've been to a couple of contests where some fliers bring out hi-starts to get a 3-4 m, full-house plane up high enough to shoot a landing in a reasonable manner. The hi-start is not stretched very far and doesn't have all that much line on it, but for this

[RCSE] Updated Genie web pages.

2004-10-03 Thread Harley Michaelis
As of today, several files have been updated. See http://genie.rchomepage.com/. File 3 has great new stuff on using Mark Drela's servo mounting system and installing the RDS in an actual Genie LT/S wing are shown, starting at page 25. This is the best detailing for RDS I've ever prepared. A new

Re: [RCSE] Visalia update...

2004-10-03 Thread Michael Lachowski
Steve Meyer wrote: At 12:06 AM 10/3/2004, Flying High wrote: Sure it's a long way to travel for you east coast guys, but where else can you find yourself going up against the best of the USA Soaring Pilots??? I went where I found myself going up against some of the best of the USA Soaring

[RCSE] Loft FRU

2004-10-03 Thread rsiegel
Congrats to Tom Siler and Jerry Shape for putting on an excellent contest this weekend. There were 35 pilots today (Sunday) for seeded m-o-m with a 13 minute task all day -- and short LOFT landing tapes! Usual 70-80 landings were 10-30. Rich Burnoski won. Steve Siebenaler will have scores

Re: [RCSE] hi-starts

2004-10-03 Thread Ed Jett
Bill: Ray Hayes (Skybench) has just what you are looking for I think. Ed Jett Marion, MS - Original Message - From: Cheryl and Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 7:29 PM Subject: [RCSE] hi-starts Greetings! I need landing practise. I've been to a

Re: [RCSE] hi-starts

2004-10-03 Thread Jeff Steifel
And don't overlook Don Richmond, He sells a nice unit too. www.hilaunch.com Ed Jett wrote: Bill: Ray Hayes (Skybench) has just what you are looking for I think. Ed Jett Marion, MS - Original Message - From: Cheryl and Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 03,

RE: [RCSE] Soaring History Part 5

2004-10-03 Thread Jon Stone
Chuck, Thank you for all the rememberences. History is good for gaining perspective. Especially for folks, like me, who picked up sailpanes the last decade. Jon RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note

Re: [RCSE] hi-starts

2004-10-03 Thread Raschow
See also http://aerofoam.com/. Good Lift!