Looks like I'll be in Hong Kong from the 11th til the 24th, then back to
Hawaii with a couple days in Tokyo.
Other than AMD, are there any other manufacturers or shops I should check
out?
I've printed out maps of the soaring sites and Stanly Chan has told me of a
soaring contest on the 11th (I
Look for bowcases, rifle cases, golfclub cases, and ski cases. I made my
own travel case out of masonite, epoxy, and triangle stock, but it was time
consuming and now it's all duct tape anyway.
I saw a perfect golf-club case not too long ago at a local hardware store -
didn't get it and now
I have a Hitec 555 Rx that came in a used plane without a case. The antenna
came loose and I had a lot of glitching as it bounced around. I sent the Rx
back to Hitec and they soldered a new antenna on. I took it out of the box
when it returned, looked at it wrong, and the antenna fell off
Well I got home early yesterday and had a hour to kill so I built a stock
Whipper Whiz. Flew it across my living room a few times and then just had
to start modifications.
Mod 1 - made a dihedral wing with elliptical tips.
Mod 2 - made a T-tail with matching elliptical tips.
Mod 3 - replaced
Went fishing Xmas eve and flew Zagi400's and a Zagi THL on Xmas day. Not
enough wind for the usual sloping on Molokai. I've posted a bunch more
pictures if you are feeling snowbound and grumpy.
Go to http://www.photopoint.com/
and type my email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the login field. No
Seems to me it might be interesting to curve or sweep the trailing edge
forward to meet the hingeline. It would offer no aileron ends to create
drag (similar to trileron theory but without cutting and linking two
surfaces).
Any thoughts on this?
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I pulled a couple lengths of this stuff off my stack of phonebooks a while
back thinking they would be useful for something like this. Good to see I
wasn't alone on this. The material has a little stretch, but is on par with
foamie construction. Has anyone tried glues other than 3M-77? What
With a range of 1,900 nautical miles, you could stop a few times along the
way to practice.
-Silas-
- Original Message -
From: Clifford Schwinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: RCSE [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 2:30 PM
Subject: [RCSE] advice needed!!
I am contemplating
Please open this can of worms. What's a 'dart' style surface spar? Is this
the triangular layer of carbon used to reinforce the wings? Are you
advocating a shear web installed in foam wings. Tell me more!
-Silas-
- Original Message -
From: Scobie Puchtler or Sarah Felstiner [EMAIL
I have a cousin that plays for the Steelers. If he wasn't drafted, he was
headed for Dental School. At 6'-8" and 340 lbs, his genetics may have made
him ill-suited to be a dentist, but his making millions in football despite
being quite bright =)
Flying deliberately and systematically may lead
Thanks again to all who have replied. The general consensus is more down
throw than up, with some liking more up than down, and many preferring to
keep it neutral and tweak as needed after flying. Now I just need to learn
how to use a rudder on a aileron plane.
-Silas-
- Original Message
I picked up a samurai a while back and it's a pitcheron model (only the
wings move for pitch and roll). My friend has a snipe that has an elevator
too and he likes the feel better (he's gone through a couple samurai too)
Using an elevator for pitch seems to reduce low speed stalling, and you
It's more than an issue of upgrading your computer. I think it is not a
problem for most of us in the US to read HTML, but in many countries, ISP's
still charge by the minute or by the byte for internet or email access.
This can impact your hobby budget if you get a bunch of HTML junk in every
Where can a non-dentist get it?
-Silas-
Honolulu
- Original Message -
From: Walba, Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 12:05 PM
Subject: [RCSE] dental materials
Dental Stone is another usefull item. Cheap, also mixes with water and
molds
light
Ah! So a vote for AG has us soaring at the Indy 500 Brickyard in front of
thousands of spectators =) Just think of all the new flying fields we'll
have!
-Silas-
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From: George Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October
I was born in Santa Fe and spent a lot of my childhood in the ski basin, the
pecos, and the gila mountains. I only had FF gliders then, but I had a 30+
minute flight off of Mount Baldey (13,000 ft above msl) with a 12" span
glider.
The winds going up-valley in the morning and down-valley in the
Try fresh water followed by the electric motor cleaner that the rc car guys
use. Carburetor cleaner works too. It dries out the water.
The trick is to rinse out the salt water and dry the electronics before
corrosion has a chance to start. I used to play with RC boats a lot and
have seen a few
I was born in Santa Fe and spent much of my youth in New Mexico. Many of
the older homes, barns, etc. have dirt floors. They use horse or cow blood
to seal it and it makes a hard, dust-free surface that is easy to sweep.
I'm sure you could use any brick or concrete sealer if you don't want to
What the opinion on the use of an atlatl or a sling to launch a HLG. We
used to play with atlatls as kids and could increase the range of a bamboo
javelin by many yards. A sling made from an old sweatsock can easily double
my throwing distance of a golfball, passionfruit, water balloon, or toad
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 09:15:12 -0400
From: "Pearscott, Mark (GEAE, Today's Temporary Services)"
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To: "'soaring'" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Anyone design scratch foamie without using a wing/foam cutter?
Message-ID:
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I've been working on a thermalling
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 02:34:41 +0800
From: Raymond Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: micro ballon = baby powder?
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It is so hard to find micro ballon here in Hong Kong.
Someone told me baby powder works almost the same, anyone tried before?
George,
I received the Samurai this Saturday. I haven't had a chance to fly it yet,
but I got the radio programmed. If this is the one without the LE damage,
the other one must be total wreck =) I'll fix up that LE crunch and get it
pretty after I get used to flying it a bit first. The red
Thanks to all who commented on this subject. I figured the market was
pretty much as you all described it. I guess I'll stick to my daily grind
for now. I don't think I could bear to build too many of the same plane for
too long anyway. On the other hand, haveing a small business to offset RD
Not sure if I saw the same ad or not. The one I saw showed a guy climbing
up a tree to get the plane, then throws it off the top. It was a
gray/silver polyhedral plane with a V-tail. The message was something about
"freedom" or "serenity" - is that what we represent? =)
There was also a
Tord,
I've worked with epoxy a lot and it will stick well to old epoxy. You may
need to sand off the amine blush first, though some epoxies are made not to
blush (I've used Aluzine surfboard resin from Fiberglass Hawaii for kayaks
and wings). It also helps to get it rough first. Your concrete
I broke the carbon tube spar in my EPP Cyclone this weekend. The top of the
wing hit flat on the slope face in a failed attempt at a landing. I still
need to do some more forensics, but it looks like the spar is two 36" tubes
joined at the wing center with another inner tube. The break
I've lived in Hawaii for 21 years and haven't made it to Kauai yet. I have a
friend in my home town on Molokai (pop. 7,000!) that used to fly on Kauai.
He said he flew over a golf course near Princeville. The winds in Hawaii
blow from the ENE 90% of the the time and we've got mountains and cliffs
What is the best way to use Tyvek (lightweight mailing envelope stuff) for
hinges? It feels so smooth, I wonder if epoxy will stick to it well. Can
you put a strip of it in a lay-up of glass over balsa to get a "living
hinge"? I'll be experimenting with this a bit, but would rather stand on
Jim,
I use 3M 77 spray on glue. Only spray on one surface and push pieces
together before it dries. Let it dry and then sand away. The parts will
pull apart when you're done. If you spray both surfaces, let them dry, then
stick them together, you will have a permanent bond. Same can be done
I just went to the site and figured out what trilerons are. Looks like a
good way to clean up drag. Has anybody tried something similar at the root
end of an aileron? I suppose the throw would be too much for use on flaps
or flaperons, but a few linked sections might work.
-Silas-
Waikoloa,
We've all been talking about ducks, pelicans, eagles, etc. and their beauty
in the air. I've spent hours and hours watching Golden Eagles, ravens,
turkey vultures, and falcons fly around near Santa Fe, but the most striking
bird, to be at least, is the Frigate Bird or 'Iwa. The swollow tail,
I saw someone mention concrete molds last week when providing dimensions for
a plane (Logic, I believe). I've built concrete canoes (American Society of
Civil Engineers competition) and work with concrete a lot. I'd like to try
making a concrete mold one of these days and have a few questions.
I made my first attempt at glassing a wing over
Thanksgiving weekend, with very poor results. Due to brain failure, I got
lacquer thinner on the cores and ruined them. The area that did not get
thinner on it became my practice subject.
I used one layer 4oz cloth with Aluzine epoxy from
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