Good job Bob! I too had a great time. I think I was lucky with the air I
drew. I never got any air that was horrible. This venue does allow some DR
technique. I imagine that it is not as drastic as the European slopes at the
last VR, but at Mammoth there was a lot more volume than the
, and there is a $5 entry fee. For signup details including
directions, please visit the MoM signup page:
http://soarheads.com/cgi-bin/soarheads/mom_signup.cgi
Hope to see you there.
-- James Osborn
Contest Director
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Greeting F3F Pilots,
The monthly NorCal F3F race will be held at the NCSS flying site in Benicia (The Slot)
on
Sunday, October 10th. Race starting time is 11:30 am. This is an NCSS event. All
pilots
are welcome, but current AMA cards are required, $5 entry fee (waived for first time
F3F
in this class.
Foam leading edges or nose are not allowed.
Only wood or composite construction allowed.
Hope to see you there.
-- James Osborn
Contest Director
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Anybody know where to get a license plate holder touting DS? Something like
Dynamic Soaring - It will change your life! or the like?
-- James
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Howdy Foamie Fanatics,
The San Francisco Bay Area 60 Foamie MoM race IS ON for tomorrow, Sunday the
19th of October at SHELL RIDGE. Today's wind (Sat. the 18th) saw speeds of 13 -
23 mph from SSW between 1 and 5 pm. Meet at the top at noon, racing to start at
1 pm. Late signups (until Sunday
Greetings Race Fans,
Like the NorCal F3F Not Race at Davenport Saturday, our NorCal 60 Foamie MoM
did not happen. For a brief rehash (if you care), go here:
http://soarheads.com/soarheads/norcal_60in_foamie_mom_results_9-21-2003
The next NorCal 60 Foamie MoM will be Sunday, October 19th,
Grettings race fans. We had our first NorCal 60 foamie MoM race this past
Sunday. Everyone had a blast and is stoked to do it again soon. For race
details, descriptions, results, and photos, see the results page:
http://soarheads.com/soarheads/norcal_60in_foamie_mom_results_8-17-2003
or
A 60 foamie MoM race will be held Sunday August 17th in the S.F. Bay Area.
For details and to sign up, please visit the Bay Area Soarheads home page and select
the Nor Cal 60 Foamie MoM link in the lower right corner:
http://soarheads.com
-- James
Ed,
Honestly, I'm not interested in those other groups. I'm interested in
the people that I relate to -- YOU.
That article is deep. Generally when I get forwarded something like
that, I go oh jeeze, here we go. But I read it and Byrd really puts
things in perspective. And I wanted to share
I thought the Sierra 2.5M had an RG-15?
Brett Jaffee wrote:
I've always thought the Art Hobby stuff looked nice, but everything they make seems
to have a hand launch airfoil. Not that I'm saying they fly bad on the slope, but
it'd be nice if they made something with an RG-15 or something.
Dave,
Did (Alex) the owner of the (Genesis) airplane that was ditched in the
poison oak have his name, AMA number, and phone number properly afixed to
the aircraft? Could it be that the finder did not know when and who lost
the plane or how to contact said looser? Personally when I find
Thomas Koszuta wrote:
[...]
a comprehensive list of Mark Drela's airfoils and applications.
[...]
For all interested, Tom is referring to the Radio Control Soaring column
by Mike Garton in the March 2003 of the AMA Model Aviation magazine.
Fascinating reading..
-- James
Where's the best price for buying JR DS-368'S?
-- James
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Don et al:
This is a hoax. The file does not need to be deleted. Please do NOT contact
anyone else about this. See the following link:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/jdbgmgr.exe.file.hoax.html
FYI, whenever it says MacAfee and NAV won't find it, it is usually a
I've had great experiences ordering from Aerospace Composite Products
(ACP) too:
http://www.acp-composites.com
Quick prompt delivery even if you place an online order without even
talking to anyone. You can also visit their warehouse in San Leandro
and they let you wander the ailes of
Joe G wrote:
[snip]
So this ones for you Denny, Fred, Tom, Oleg, Joe, Daryl, Sal (yea even Sal
deserves to make a living) and all you other producers and suppliers of
SOARhead products THANKS FOR ALL YOU DO
Don't forget Don and Phil (Don Peters and Phil Pearson) at Mapleleaf
Design,
I'm going to make a fuselage part plug - it isn't a whole fuselage, just
a round-to-flat conical transition part that will be glued into the
round part of a finished fuselage in the nose cone region. This will
probably be a male mold; I don't think making a male master followed by
a female mold
Les,
I tried the Tom Hoopes method (article referenced on Charles River RC
website) and was not satisfied with it. The whole point of reverse
differential is to allow larger amounts of crow (ailerons acting as
spoilerons when flaps are down). While Hoopes' method did increase the
reverse
I dumped the contents of my digital camera. After a little massaging, the results are
online. The quality is not great, but it's
something. There is a picture of the full scale aircraft I mentioned when it was
taking off. Not a great view, but maybe somebody can
tell what it is? Here's
Can you say CARNAGE? There where many solo crashes (five if I counted correctly)
including Barry Baskin's beater Ellipse 2V, a
total loss this time. And there were three mid-airs. In one mid-air going opposite
directions (down wind plane took too low of a
line), the upwind plane sliced the
Chris,
I do not agree that DSing is a slope flight. While it is true that typically
you use a slope flight to start DSing, it is clearly a different mechanism of
keeping the plane aloft. I do agree that you shouldn't be prevented from using
DS during a slope flight, but I think that the DS
I asked Tom for photos of the method he was describing. He was kind enough to
take some photos (and did so very promptly I might add). I threw them onto a
web page for your viewing entertainment:
http://www-eng.lbl.gov/~osborn/Sailplane_Const_Tips/PullPull
-- James
Tom Watson wrote:
Jeff,
Yes you can tie all the +ve and -ve wires together. This will reduce the number
of pins required to 4 per side. For my Sierra, I used MPX connectors available
from Karlton. I chose the 6 pin connectors and used all wires for each servo.
Not the lightest, but more redundant. These
I tried this question on the JR yahoogroup - no response:
How do you set up reverse differential with the 8103?
The specific application is is for landing mode. When the butterfly switch is
engaged for landing mode, crow is programmed, and the flaps are fully deployed,
the ailerons are biased
Aneil,
THANKS!! The exchange IS great.
For curious minds with lazy fingers, here is the answer from Tom Hoopes:
With the XP-8103, first make sure that you have the ailerons moving the correct
direction and the crow deflection is set in the Butterfly menu. Next, you will
need to select an
Mark,
Mark Drela wrote:
[snip]
One very important item I left off my list is the
max flap thickness at the hinge line. This has
a big effect on the torsional stiffness. Tom Clarkson
is using an extremely thin wing, so that's likely
one factor there. Maybe Mike Fox's wing is a lot
Joe,
Thanks for the information on the Encore flaps. It has seemed to me that one of
the advantages of the aileron style DLG is that it has much less dihedral and
therefore the centrifugal forces are better handled by the wing versus a
comparable polyhedral DLG. How much extra dihedral did
JW,
Okay, I stand corrected as far as your preferences go. I posted to Nathan
offline conceeding that foam has its advantages. And it does as you point out.
However, I will quote a few other lines from my message to him:
...Serious DS'ers live a lifestyle that puts that thrill at a higher
Regarding 8103 programming, I figured something out over last weekend that I was
baffled by at the time. This is a full house glider with dual flaps, so I
enabled that in the model select mode (hold up down keys while turning it
on). Then in the regular menus, I disabled all the flap trim
I'll elaborate on this slightly:
Bill Swingle wrote:
Reynold's number is a very important parameter in fluid dynamics. Flows at
the same Reynolds number are similar, which make it possible to use smaller
models (length l) for tests at higher velocities (velocity v) to achieve the
same
Well Barrett, how'd you like THAT speech? I agree GW was not shining in the
beginning. Indeed, I didn't think it possible for him to come across as genuine
and intelligent at all, ever. But even I have to admit THAT was a good speech.
Let's hope that this is a new and permanent side of GW we
Hey Joe,
Once upon a time, I found myself headed for Seattle. I posted a question to
RCSE asking - where do I fly? I got scant responses. 'Course, I'm not JW. But
inquiring minds want to know where this field and club is that you mention...
-- James
Joe Jan Wurts wrote:
Due to the
Hey,
How about Utracote, will that stick to coroplast? I'm getting my JW kit shortly
and I would like to cover the coroplast fin.
-- James
Aerofoam wrote:
Well, since they use it for signs, I'd call up the local sign shop and ask
what screen printing ink they use on the signs.
They
I would like to buy a simulator that I can drive with my JR 8103. I have
determined that the Ikarus EasyFly will do this and it is on sale for $50 now.
What about the Multiplex Cockpit Master? Any other sims to check out that will
work with the JR? Any comments on which is best or about
Okay, an often visited topic. I want to buy a real charging system.
I'd like:
1) Support for NiMH and NiCad
2) Charge Rx (4 or 5 cell), Tx (8 cell?), and motor packs (10 to 20 cell?)
3) Maybe multiple packs simultaneously
4) Field charging or AC input
5) Cycling
6) Capacity
Warning JR 8103 owners:
Yesterday I had an interesting problem with my JR 8103: the LCD screen started
flickering and eventually doing all kinds of jumbled and chopped up
unrecognizable things. The transmitter appeared to be working okay, despite the
garbled display, so I didn't land
My brother wants to purchase an Airtronics RD6000 for sailplane use
primarily. While at the hobby store, he could discern no difference between
the sailplane version and the aircraft version other than the gear switch.
I told him that the channel assignments were likely different and that
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