Re: "NiCad" powered winch for DLGs, Anyone built one?
I heard of an experimental one made using the gearing and bail of a fishing reel hooked to rc truck motor. There was also a gizmo marketed called the "Grasshopper", which used a hand-cranked spring to spin a winch. The fishing reel thing
Engadget.com has a good piece on how to easily turn an old Futaba
Conquest into an FMS (the RC flight sim) controller. A little light
soldering and voila!
http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/14/how-to-real-controls-for-r-c-flight-simulation/
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ben wilson
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Nonsense! Everybody knows that OlyIIs are SQUARE: Pi is 355 / 113.
This forum is getting really wierd. Really..
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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
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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
While on the mend, was at Jo Jo's pages and went to Phil Kolb's log on his test
flying of his Pike Perfect, had a launch on mono from a hand tow of ~5.5s tow
time, 95 meter release, 216 gross launch height. That is a 2.27 return on your
release, I am kind of impressed, guess this is why I got
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 08:51:03AM -0500, Ben Wilson wrote:
| Engadget.com has a good piece on how to easily turn an old Futaba
| Conquest into an FMS (the RC flight sim) controller. A little light
| soldering and voila!
|
|
Thanks for the heads up (literally), Tom - we seem to be
getting some travelers going thru Dayton today... Just finished watching a small
group go by after spending lunch purched on the top of our
building. Them, not me.
Lift must be great; they're going up quick.
Showed a couple of the
I have a grasshopper winch for sale
$250.
Tom
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Subject: [RCSE] Re: "NiCad" powered winch
for DLGs, Anyone built one?
Re: "NiCad" powered winch for
I was flying slope at Wilson Lake yesterday with some friends when we
heard some birds squawking behind us. Looked up and saw a flock of
Sandhill Cranes circling up in a booming thermal. Really neat to
watch them get higher and higher without flapping their wings before
they glide off into
Peter Goldsmith asked that I post this to RCSE.
John
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From: Peter Goldsmith
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 1:31 PM
To: John Diniz
Subject: FW: JR Aero Tow Information
JD, can you get this onto the soaring exchange. I posted it to the Scale
Just a reminder. This Sunday (the 19th) we'll be again doing the BASH at Los
Banos! Some regulars will be there, some won't so please help us fill the
slope.
I'll be there as long as Donner Pass is open! (takes a lot to stop a jeep)
But if you don't see me there call search and rescue. :-)
Augie McKibben has been named LSF Club Coordinator for the Minnesota RC
Soaring Society. www.mrcss.org
Check out his biography along with a photo of his beautiful Genie flown at
the 2005 NATS:
http://www.silentflight.org/Coordinators/Club_Coordinators.html
Welcome aboard Augie!
Bill Rakozy
Marc,
Does the Pike Perfect predominantly launch better than the Pike superior
possibly? If Peter perfect piloted a pickled Pike; how much launch height
could Peter Perfect pick with a Pike Perfect?
Just wondering aloud,
Karl Miller
SOAR
Hilarious! Do you often just wonder aloud in tongue twisters? ;-)
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:17:15 -0600
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Subject: Re: launch numbers- Pickled Pike Perfect...
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Marc,
Does the Pike Perfect predominantly launch
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