Ed,
Forget about a 72MHZ module. Contact Horizon Hobbies or your local hooby
shop and get a 2.4 GHZ transmitter module AND a 7000 full range receiver
for just $110. I just installed this in one of my radios and my decond
Supra fude and it works like a champ!
Anker
Ed Anderson wrote:
Most
Ed,
I forgot to mention that the transmitter will use LES power with the
synth module and you won't see any difference with your receiver. Its
the servos that drain the receiver battery.
Anker
Anker Berg-Sonne wrote:
Ed,
Forget about a 72MHZ module. Contact Horizon Hobbies or your local
is different. Any way,
for the cost of one 2.4 GHz receiver, I can keep all my 72 MHz stuff flying
on their current channel. That is worth it for now.
Best regards,
Ed Anderson
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I like Google Groups much better than Yahoo Groups. The web based
interface to Yahoo Groups is terrible and the email distribution of the
two is comparable.
Anker
Mark Miller wrote:
I like the Yahoo Groups scenario. MVSA uses it for our communication
and it works well. Like a mail list that
Uncluded is a new word for me. I hope it isn't the opposite of included. :-)
Anker
David Webb wrote:
If you subscribe to the airtronics forum they will tell you that a 10
channel 2.4 radio with a lot of bells and whistles is due out FEb 2009
but this is not a replacement for the Stylus
It was really neat where they were dumping ballast water during the
passes. I don't think any rules were being broken. Looks like so much
fun it should have been illegal.
Anker
Marc Gellart wrote:
LOTS of energy on this slope.
For those that cannot get a heartbeat from this, you are dead.
I am looking for someone to laser cut foam cutting templates. I can
supply the templates in 3D CAD formats or as CompuFoil files.
Thanks/Anker
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Another option is to use the 15 pin connectors for PC serial plugs.
Several of the moldie manufacturers use them.
Anker
Jay Hunter wrote:
You could try the multipex 6 pin connector. Its a bit bigger, and
easier to work with.
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David,
Launching without turning the transmitter on is a symptom of a greater
problem. You must build a routine that you consistently follow each and
every time you launch, otherwise you will make this and a bunch of other
mistakes.
Most of the problems occur if you let yourself be rushed,
Bill,
I use Pro Set and it has all the post curing information right on it.
Its a two phase curing process and I don't remember exactly what the
times are, but I seem to remember 105 degrees for 24 hours. It does
depend on the brand and model.
As far as I remember, West Systems doesn't
There's a much better method than using a resistor. The resistor
generates heat that is pure wasted energy. Instead, an automatic pulser
that cuts the power to the solenoids when the current exceeds a certain
value is a much better solution. There's an even better advantage to
this solution
Don't worry, he will be all confused about the thermals rotating the
wrong way!
Happy Holidays to Y'all!
Anker
ESL Score Keeper Forever
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I Know The JW stands for Jow What hes name... But What is this
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CRRC has given engraved crystal beer mugs from Engravingcreations.com
for several years. They have been very popular, especially the huhe
onsed we giver for first place. They are no more expensive that regular
trophies.
Anker
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-In, the northernmost ESL contest and other contests in New
England that were in reasonable driving distance from his home in
central Maine.
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Here's our latest UPS horror story. My wife had ordered three boxes
of foam wreath cores. Two of them arrived when expected, and the
third arrived several days later. Upon opening the box all the cores
were broken. It turns out UPS crushed the original box, poured the
broken contents into
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Friends don't let friends discuss already out-discussed topics on RCSE.
This belongs with down-wind turns, counter-clockwise thermals, etc.
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The year I was at Oshkosh there were three crashes, two of which I
witnessed. I would not camp anywhere near the end of a runway.
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Thanks Scott,
I understand the argument you put forward, BUT:
If I take a film camera with a 105mm lens and a DSLR with a 70mm lens and
take the same picture with the two and produce full-frame, identically
sized prints, then the two prints will be almost identical! To me this
means that
to 450mm. Anyway, the best thing about
this camera is that when you press the button it takes a picture, no
shutter delay. Even better, you can now get the camera with the kit lens
for under a grand with mail in rebate.
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Tomorrow looks a little dicey for my Oly II. It is forecasted to be blowing
about 16 MPH in Central Maine, but the temperature will be tolerable and the
sun will be shining, so I'll launch it at least once so I can say I
participated.
Happy New Year to you all/Anker
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Thanks to everyone for all the responses. Very much
appreciated, since the stylus mixing scheme is still a mystery to me. I had a
MicroPro 8000, and quickly figured out how to use its mixers, but the Stylus is
another story.
Now if that snow would end so I could give it a test fly!
Dave,
I have been flying Seeker IIs is my TD gliders for 2 seasons now with no
problems whatsoever. On the transmitter end I have used the Stylus module,
and a Hitec Synthesizer module with the Stylus adapter. All combinations
have been rock solid. Now that I have a Picolario I can see whether it
Santa gave me a Picolario and installing it in a glider
controlled by a Stylus has me partially stumped. The Picolario needs to be
installed on a receiver channel that can have three positions, +100%, neutral
and -100%, either proportional or a three-position switch. I cant find a
way to
I have received an email from the manager of the Futaba Service
Center in which he
expresses regret at the treatment I received when I tried to have them deal
with serious product deficiencies in their 5 channel PCM radios back in the 90s.
I have also received an explanation of why this
Id love to see a servo with the
same reliability and performance as the DS 368 at 2/3 of the price. It is quite
a blow to pay $300 for four wing servos. $200 is almost at the point where the
wife doesnt notice.
Anker
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Why not cap with glass? Its so thin you don't have to worry about sanding
back, and its also easier to apply.
My technique is to lay glass on a glass plate, saturate it with epoxy, blot
the excess out and then let it cure. This gives me a beautiful thin sheet
that I can cut strips out of to cap
I'll bash Futaba mercilessly until they demonstrate to me that they are
capable of delivering decent customer service! They owe me an apology and
restitution for the stunt they pulled on me and their subsequent behavior.
When they do, if they ever do, I'll give them credit for it. Until then I'll
A short tale explaining why I will not buy Futaba gear, no
matter how good it is.
In the early 90s Futaba introduced what looked like a
fabulous value, a five-channel PCM radio that cost close to $250. I bought two,
and another member of our club bought three. Everything was fine until
Get the names right!
Frank Weston
Jack Cash
Bob Champine
All guys I have had the privilege to know through the ESL.
Anker
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From: Brian Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 7:35 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [RCSE] Who are Frank,
Frank,
It's a proprietary airfoil created by Frank Weston.
Anker
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From: Lighthorse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 3:17 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [RCSE] Magic Airfoil
Does anyone know what the airfoil of the Magic is?
Ken
York
I think this rant could be unwarranted. He didn't ask someone to copy a DVD!
He was asking for the original, which the purchaser has every right in the
world to give away or resell.
Happy Holidays to you all!
Anker
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I have two styli with glider cards. I would like to trade
one of the glider cards for a heli card. Any takers?
Anker
Mark,
What has been written is good, but not complete.
To execute a good zoom, you have to understand how it works.
As you launch, you want to maximize the energy stored in three reservoirs:
Kinetic energy (speed), Potential energy (height), and energy stored in the
winch line (elastic
This was one of the best contests I have ever participated in. Why? For one,
the ESL standings were wide open both in Sportsman and Expert classes.
Secondly, the two contest days were as different as you can imagine.
Thirdly, the competition was intense, with some of the top pilots in the
country
Jose Bruzual has just published a small article I wrote on
winch launching. The URL is
http://flyesl.com/News-y-Articles/featured_article.asp?FORUM_ID=7TOPIC_ID=112
I am sharing this because I se desperately little advice on
this, and an awful lot of people with horrible launch
Great points, Daryl,
The ESL seems to be slowly moving towards 5 foot, 50 point landing tapes.
They are relatively difficult, but the points are small enough to avoid
making it a landing contest. This is especially true with the tasks
tending to get longer and longer. These days a 7 minute task
A fairly small group made the second trek this year to Syossett, Long
Island, for the LISF Fall contest: David Walter, Lost Bruzual, Mark Drela,
Bruce Schneider and Yours Truly. Fritz Bien was committed to a wedding, Jeff
Newcum has left the hobby and sold all his planes, Jan Kansky had messed up
I am surprised that this long discussion hasn't mentioned synthesized RF
decks at all! I am fully synthesized on both the transmitter and receiver
side and will not contemplate any radio that doesn't provide ALL channels in
a synthesized RF deck. To me, this is the most serious deficiency of the
We should also consider the positive effects
that a team selection has on the local area. It serves to raise the interest in
the local soaring community in raising their skills to the national level, and
it serves as a recruitment vehicle to the hobby. The latter effect is maybe not
huge,
Because of a lack of shielding in most RC transmitters you don't really know
how long the antenna really is. The real length includes the base that
goes into the transmitter, sometimes all the way to the bottom, and also the
wire from the RF deck to the antenna. The only way to tune the antenna
Paul,
You also have cracks in the skin and damage to the glass structure. Your
main problem is that there is zero strength in your tips and just smoothing
it over won't change that fact. I would start by filling the creases with
microballons and epoxy. Then I'd sand it smooth. The next step would
Soak the warp in ammmonia (Windex) and holding the correct shape until it is
completely dry.
Anker
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From: juster1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 11:05 AM
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Subject: [RCSE] Balsa Trailing Edge
Anyone know the best way to
Thursday the 13th at 8PM and 11PM EST. I'm taping
it.
Anker
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From:
GRW
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Subject: Re: [RCSE] Model Rockets on
Discovery Channel
Does anyone know if they are going to replay
Andrew,
Just checked your web site and I love that knot. I'm also impressed with the
quality of winch lines you Canadians use!
Anker
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Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: [RCSE] Winch
Bill,
I am answering in spite of not being an expert!
On your first question, I have hard data. When my vision was a little bit
better, I was able to fly my plane about 1 mile away from me. I know because
I have lost planes and then refound them with a GPS, which gives me the
separation of the
Schneider, Jan Kansky, Mark Drela, our remote member - Jose Bruzual, and
Anker Berg-Sonne. Miner Crary was registered but we didn't see him.
Saturday morning was calm and sunny, and as the day
progressed it stayed calm with light breezes from the East and temperatures in
the 80's with high humidity
Stuart,
Two problems, one minor and one major:
Minor: The hill is round and air gets pushed more around it than over it.
Major: It is covered with rocks, brush and trees. It is almost impossible to
land the plane without damaging it.
Anker
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From: stuarthall_ct
and
Expert classes. This year the prizes are absolutely gorgeous engraved crystal
beer mugs. Join us for a fun-filled weekend of soaring for any skill and
experience level.
For more information and to sign up, go to www.flyesl.com
See you all next weekend!
Anker Berg-Sonne
I call that down, not left!
Anker
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Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 10:47 PM
Subject: RE: [RCSE] V-Tail Movement
When looking at the rear left rudder,left V should move left which
Let me try to be unemotional:
Being a CD for a regional contest is a big job. You have to prepare
everything, purchase prizes, organize helpers, take registrations before the
contest. During the contest you have to be the first at the field, the
hardest worker, the biggest worrier, the person who
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I can just imagine the headlines the first time a
RC plane is seen buzzing aound a downtown building. You'd have FAA, ATA, FBI,
CIA, and all the other agencies hunting you down! Give me a heads up so I can
make sure I'm watching CNN when you do it!
:-)
Anker
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A little clarification is in order:
What I am doing is in no way sanctioned, approved or even known to the ESL -
other than those who follow this list.
MY goal is to publish handicaps and handicapped scores by taking advantage
of the fact that I have the scores and manage the web site. If
OK, enough skeg mail. Let's move on.
A lot of the discussion here has been driven by the sentiment that soaring
contests aren't fair. The same people win all the time, its a landing
contest, its a flight time contest, fliers cheat by using skegs, yadi yadi
yadi ya..
Here''s my solution: As
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OK, enough skeg mail. Let's move on.
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Thehandicapping process isn't sanctioned by the ESL
For North Americans wearing prescription glasses, the easiest is to go to
Wall Mart and buy the ones they carry for wearing over prescription glasses.
They are called something like Wear Over and come with grey or brown
lenses, are polarized and come in several sizes to match your head and
Look at hand launch. You can hardly call that affordable.
The same will happen to 2M if it is ever revived, G.. forbid!
I have a pristine Image for sale with Volz servos for all you 2M
affcionados!
Anker
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To: Douglas, Brent
I am sure someone with more knowledge about fluid dynamics can say this
better than I can, but it is NOT frontal area that determines drag. The drag
increases faster than the frontal area when you lower the flaps and the drag
increase from 60 degrees and 90 degrees is enormous, much more than the
Other than some hard landings it had no damage. No damage whatsoever in the
the center panel, where the failure happened.
Anker
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Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 2:24 PM
Subject: Re
Perry,
The long term trend towards landing being more important than flying is
inevitable, unfortunately.
The cause is the incredible progress that has been made, especially the last
6-7 years in plane technology. Today's best planes, in the hands of a
reasonably experienced pilot, can easily
Ben,
I have the formul;a at work. I'll try to remember to post it tomorrow.
Remind me of I forget. It involves a bunch of cosines!
Anker
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From: Ben Diss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 8:03 PM
Subject: [RCSE] Lat/Lon
I fly gliders because they are challenging, and I fly in contests because
that's the only way I can measure my own performance.
I see the following reasons:
A) If you regularly go on the contest circuit you make a number of friends
that you normally only see at contests.
B) Some people go to
Bummer,
If that's the secret I'll never make it! I hate
being tickled under my feet. :-(
But thanks for letting us know!
Anker
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From:
John
Roe
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; RCSE Soaring
(E-mail)
Sent: Thursday, January
Brian,
The Metric flies horribly unless you increase the dihedral. I built one in
the 80s because it looked so good and was deeply disappointed.
Anker
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From: Brian Joder - OUTBOUND Ind. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 2:43 AM
Bill,
Being the owner of a plane (a Mantis) with two wings, one a 7037, the other
an MH32, both with the same planform, I think I have as good a comparison
basis as any.
The big difference is in ability to penetrate. The 7037 has a problem
penetrating when the windspeed exceeds 15 to 20 MPH.
I believe in an iterative process.
I use CG position to manage the stability of the plane. The further back the
less stable the plane will be. With a new plane I start with a fairly stable
CG and then start moving it back as become more comfortable with the plane.
An important decision is what
A few years back at a CASA contest I had a horrible problem with my Vision.
Suddenly the plane rolled hard to the right. After some frantic stick
movement is flew OK again, but when I got is back on the ground the ailerons
would suddenly go to full right with no stick movement. Only vigorous
I found it hard to launch holding on to the pod and have switched to holding
the tail boom.
The new wings have bent CF joiners. This to allow the tube on the tip panel
to be long enough that I can't blow the tip up on a two man F3J tow. :-)
The spars are CF tubes. The one in the main panel has
It would seem to me that it would have been simpler
and possibly safer to require attaching a parachute of some minimum diameter to
any object made of metal or weighing more than a few ounces. If the line breaks
or the device (stake) comes loose the parachute will quickly dissipate the
I would claim that sky jumping is a human gliding event with an an
atrocious
L/D. They do control where they go!
Anker
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From: Dick Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Yiu Kwong Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 10:31 AM
At the Daniel Boone Homestead near Reading, Pensylvania, we almost always
see cloud streets on both sides of the field, with the streets well out of
range of models. We do find lift even though the field is on the blue lane
between streets.
Anker
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From: Mick Maxwell
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