[RCSE] trees

2008-01-30 Thread paul bell
at a casa contest long ago, len hauff (john's father) put his plane in a very tall tree. we discussed trying to get the fire department to come, but no luck. since it was sunday lenny went to mass as he did every sunday. when he got back we went to look at the plane in tree, but it had

Re: [RCSE] Tree story - straight down with a twist.

2008-01-30 Thread David Zucker
In a message dated 1/29/08 8:43:41 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why has every tree strike I've had end up with my prized glider stalling straight down on a wing tip. Go figure. My first thought was to step into its path and catch it. My second thought was

Re: [RCSE] Tree story - straight down with a twist.

2008-01-30 Thread Jack Iafret
For those that need revenge--- 50mph winds at 2 AM blew down a very large pine in my back yard last night, only winged things that are affected are the bunches of birds that live there because the feeder is only 15 feet away. Tree guys coming at 11:00. Jack On Jan 30, 2008 10:18 AM, David

[RCSE] Winter blues and USA F3J fundraising

2008-01-30 Thread Richard Burnoski
B ! Well by now most of you guys have your new contest killer plane , and possibly have the radio installed already. Your probably looking on your shelves pulling out last years broken stuff and glueing that back together for back up. Here in beautiful Chicago , we almost broke an all time

[RCSE] Tree story - straight down with a twist

2008-01-30 Thread Hilaunch
In a message dated 1/29/08 8:43:41 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why has every tree strike I've had end up with my prized glider coming stalling straight down on a wing tip. Go figure. Maybe 10 years ago, while flying an SC2 contest at El Dorado park in Long

Re: [RCSE] Tree story - straight down with a twist

2008-01-30 Thread Kurt Zimmerman
Hummm reminds me of another Eastern Soaring League event I was attending in Maynard, Mass at the CRRC site, I'm guessing back in the late 90's... Had my new Inventec Pelican (thank you Mike P.). I was having a great day weekend I love that plane... I was very comfortable with it... well,

[RCSE] Top ten Predictions for SWC?

2008-01-30 Thread David Zucker
I can't make it to the Classic this year so I thought it would be fun to make some predictions. Decent weather. No powerline hits. A couple Spread Rectum brownouts. OK, on with the Top Ten for Open Class. Not particularly in this order. Daryl (Supraman and 4xF3B WC) Perkins Skippy (Pike

[RCSE] Vision Battery Pack Wiring

2008-01-30 Thread Martin Brungard
I'm in a quandry! I was in the process of replacing the transmitter battery cells in my old Vision radio and the positive (red) wire broke off the connector at the end of the battery case. I can't tell where the wire was soldered to the connector. Could someone with a Vision, please lift

[RCSE] Chuck Anderson

2008-01-30 Thread Jim Deck
Chuck, Please ping me. Thanks, Jim Deck RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web

RE: [RCSE] Top ten Predictions for SWC?

2008-01-30 Thread mike
I don't care who you are...thats funny right there! Original Message Subject: [RCSE] Top ten Predictions for SWC? From: David Zucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, January 30, 2008 1:02 pm To: soaring@airage.com soaring@airage.com I can't make it to the Classic this year so I

[RCSE] Testing

2008-01-30 Thread john cyr
Test 1-2-3 RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL