[RCSE] Contest Format: Some personal experience

2008-01-10 Thread ALNephew
Kudos to Tim Bennett for coming up with a new variation on his contest format similar to one of his formats for HLG-size planes. I agree with Dave Register's comments (see below). I flew in one of Tim's Class-A Scramble events a couple of winters ago in Dallas (winter in Duluth, NICE in D

[RCSE] Re: subscribing

2006-03-21 Thread alnephew
e is to it. Al -- alnephew alnephew's Profile: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/member.php?u=92305 View this thread: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84421 RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News.

[RCSE] Re: Soaring V1 #6540

2005-10-16 Thread ALNephew
>In a message dated 10/16/2005 6:37:10 P.M. Central Daylight Time, Soaring@airage.com writes: >http://www.google.com/search?&q=babel+fish&btnG=Search >Does anyone know what a google is? (Just kidding.) My parents used to sing a song about Barney Google, with the googly, googly eyes. Mayb

[RCSE] Seeing his post the author realizes . . .

2005-08-08 Thread ALNephew
In a message dated 8/8/2005 2:17:13 P.M. Central Daylight Time, Soaring@airage.com writes: AND FORGETS TO RIGHT CLICK TO ELIMINATE THE UNWANTED GIBBERISH!!! (jokes on me, I guess--it's easy to forget). >On my last post regarding this topic I expressed ignorance about the Mac. So just now

[RCSE] Re: Text-only AOL posts--It can be done

2005-08-08 Thread ALNephew
On my last post regarding this topic I expressed ignorance about the Mac. So just now I tested a Mac post using AOL 5.0. It sent only text with no modifications needed. However, my older Mac G4 uses OS 9.2, so I can't run the latest AOL on it--the newer AOL is so much better that I do email o

[RCSE] Test

2005-08-08 Thread ALNephew
Testing. 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 ar

[RCSE] Re: Text-only AOL posts--It can be done

2005-08-08 Thread ALNephew
Greetings AOL users using a PC and possibly other ISP users as well, To write your AOL message in text only: 1. Place the cursor in the text of the message. 2. Right-click the mouse. A list will pop up on your screen. 3. Scroll to the bottom of the list and choose "Compose as Plain Text."

[RCSE] Paging Don Vetter

2005-05-24 Thread ALNephew
Don, Would you please email me back? Thanks, Al 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 f

[RCSE] Re: Soaring V1 #5702 Buying Batteries

2005-05-22 Thread ALNephew
Recently I got a set of four 1/3 AA 350 mah NiMHs with tabs from Batteries America. I didn't check them with a voltmeter beforehand, I'm sorry to say. I presumed they would be good. I soldered up a 4-cell pack, but it only put out 3.6 volts and one cell was dead when I checked it. When I phon

[RCSE] Re: AMA Numbers Again

2005-04-09 Thread ALNephew
Woops, sent it by accident before finishing it. I was trying to get someone at AOL to tell me again how to keep my post from printing a second time mostly gibberish and clicked by accident on the wrong part of my post-in-construction.   When I got back into model planes in the early 1990s I asked

[RCSE] (RCSE) AMA numbers

2005-04-09 Thread ALNephew
    In a message dated 4/9/2005 12:41:21 PM Central Standard Time, Soaring@airage.com writes: First, you can truncate your AMA by becoming a CD, mine is 1394, twodigits dropped when I became a CD formerly 139444.Here is a question that I have been curious about. I originally joinedthe AMA in 195

[RCSE] Re: Soaring V1 #5247

2005-03-03 Thread ALNephew
Hi Eddie,   Fred Mallett seems to have dropped out of sight of sailplaners since about 2000 or 2001. I communicated with him by email and phone a number of times before that (I got into sailplanes in 1997), and thought we might get together to fly since he has (had?) relatives not far south o

[RCSE] Visiting Austin TX this weekend

2004-10-13 Thread ALNephew
If anyone in or around Austin is planning to fly this Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, weather looks good for TD and I'm bringing a couple of planes, a 2M and DLG, and a weak hi-start. I'll have a car, and would like to join any and all flying sessions where a visiter would be welcome. Coul

[RCSE] A dog that loves watching HLG

2004-09-11 Thread ALNephew
Today I went to the local (mainly power) club's field to fly DLG. There is a nice field of mowed hay on the other side of the parking area from the power field. There were two guys evidently intending to fly power but mostly talking. As I pulled in and got out of my car the dog of one of the

[RCSE] Maybe a bit off topic but useful--Ethanol, evils of

2003-03-08 Thread ALNephew
Traveling in CA recently, I picked up a brochure at a Shell station. It touts the fine qualities of ethanol as an oxygenating fuel additive. Evidently MTBE is being phased out and ethanol phased in in CA. The brochure says, "It's save to use in your car, or any other engine. . . nor will it harm an

[RCSE] Re: any hope for a mac rc simulator?

2002-03-03 Thread ALNephew
I have an R/C AeroChopper program from Ambrosia Microcomputer Products. It is an old one (1987) for a Mac SE/30. The Mac is now broken (I'm in the market for another SE/30 if someone has one). My particular model of the R/C AC is only for the SE/30, though they have made them for many models of Mac

RE:[RCSE] I Circumnavigated the Santa Maria

2001-07-10 Thread ALNephew
Apropos the lower cortex of the brain, have you tried flying a different mode when you are well used to one of them? I had always flown mode 2 until not too long ago I tried flying a swift slope plane on mode one. The owner, a very generous guy named Chester Tai, offered his plane to me to fly

[RCSE] Visiting Albuquerque and Santa Fe

2001-06-27 Thread ALNephew
>From July 12 to 20, I'll be visiting Albuquerque (into Monday the 16th), and then Santa Fe until Friday the 20th. Can anyone give me directions to the HLG or TD fields and slope sites in both these areas? Also, I'm wondering if anyone is planning to be at any of these sites on a particular day

[RCSE] Need help finding small dia. titanium rod

2000-12-21 Thread ALNephew
Does anyone know a source for titanium rod/wire in approximately 3/32 inch diameter equals about .093 inches equals about 2.3 to 2.4 mm, or somewhat smaller even? Intended use is a bent two-piece wing connector for a HLG wing that has a dihedral angle too great for a straight carbon fiber rod-i