Sorry, got a whole bunch of things wrong about the impromptu slope combat with Brian last week. His message will set it straight. Winds are forecast to be in the 15 to 25 mph range tihs week. Aloha, Tom Nakagawa Note: forwarded message attached. ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Nakagawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 1999 10:02 PM Subject: [RCSE] M.O.G. > > Aloha Guys, > One of the guys lost his foamie A-4 over the cliff > at Kahakuloa. He found my MOG down at the water's > edge. The winds must have blown it down. He mentioned > that the gear is shot, and the plane is beat up. Not > to worry, the new MOG is every bit as crazy if not > better than the old one. > Had an impromtu combat session at Waihee. We had > just came down from flying up at Maluhia. Needed to > get some action. The big planes we fly out of Maluhia > are just too slow...on the manuvering. > Anyway, I was flying the MOG, and this other guy > (Brian) was flying a homemade "SR-7". We clicked wings > once when he attempted to follow me. He mentioned that > he could not keep up with my wild manuvering. I was > "put down" going too far back into the rotor, couldn't > make it back over the lift. The "SR-7" is a sheeted > foam wing with a balsa fuse. Brian claimed a "kill". > Lance wanted to fly, so I gave him the controls. > They were flying around when Brian decided to follow > Lance. Lance thought he was ahead of Brian and did a > Split-S to get away. Instead he hit Brian square on > the top center of his wing. The planes locked for a > second, and the MOG recovered well, Brian's "SR-7" now > had dihedrial. And the wing servo was sticking out of > the top of his wing. He landed and surveyed the > damage. Needed more repairs than field surgery. > Now Lance and Brian are talking about doing MOG > combats out there. > Flew the MOG out at Pauwela Point. Winds were in > the 20 mph range. A couple of guys were fishing on the > rocky ledge below. I couldn't help but put the shadow > of the MOG over them. They finally looked up into the > sun to see what "big bird" was flying over them. > Crashed into the cliff a few times, also did a few > cartwheel landings in the rotor. And a few good hover > landings. One cliff face crash bounced off and I was > airborne again. The tail had rotated straight down, > and looked very confusing. Good thing I have some wild > dayglow orange lighting bolts on the wing bottoms. > Anyway, the MOG behaved strangely, so I tried to land > on the top. It hit just below the top and hung on the > cliff. > Found one elevron was not functioning. Later found > a broken servo wire. Repairs were made at home, and I > am ready to fly again next week. > Weather has been a little more wet now that our > winter is comming. As long as the winds hold in the 20 > mph range we will be out flying next week. > Aloha, > Tom Nakagawa > > > > ===== Nice desription of the impromptu combat that afternoon. However I was flying my scratch built pink and blue foam trainer, not the SR-5. The foamie's wing servo has always been simply dropped into the top of the wing and hooked up to the ailerons. When Lance struck my plane he directly hit the wing center section. The center section joint seperated and the tape split at the bottom of the wing. The wing has a single spar on the top, and the top spar and tape held, so the model was still flyable, although it suddenly had diheral. The fix was to simply apply epoxy into the crack in the bottom center section and retape the wing. It took 5 minutes and could easily have been accomplished at the field. I didn't happen to have epoxy with me that afternoon, but the plane would have been fine to fly again with just some fresh tape on the bottom to keep the center section joined. As it was about time to go anyway I elected to to make the repair at home rather than to fly again that day. I would very much like to get a few intrested guys together and fly combat. Waihee is a good place to do it because you can fly close in and simply pick it up and toss it again from there after being "killed". Once I get my wing cutter set up again I am thinking about cloning the MOG out of pink foam from eagle hardware. I think a good name for the pink Mog would be "POG". I could produce a "kit" with full hardware and all for about 10 dollars in material. Add in 10 bucks for my time to cut the wings and gather all the parts, and we could have a a one design combat contest with locally supplied kits for $20 a pop. The original Mog would be allowed along with the Pog clone. It would be great fun I think to get a bunch of guys togeather every other weekend or something and fly combat. > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
