I'll just subscribe to RCSE - the Internet forum for the R/C soaring enthusiast. It's free, there are many contributors, it's fresh (most of the time), very informative, lively reading, etc, etc, blah, blah, blah. Maybe there would be more pages to RCSD if someone would reprint the info posted here on RCSE. Nah, it still won't get me to subscribe <grin>.
BTW, I don't need "black and white grainy photos...of guys flying sailplanes". I'll use the $30 I'll save for not subscribing to get me those "lost model" alarms someone mentioned on RCSE a while ago or a couple receiver battery packs from a company that I got the link from a post on RCSE <grin>. Al Battad - WH6VE AMA #506981 Glide and Enjoy Life! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 4:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [RCSE] RC Soaring Digest and the past. In the 'past' there were 'modelers.� Guys who built sailplanes from scratch, guys who created their own vacuum bagging pumps from fish tank pumps and refrigerators compressors, they MacGyver'd till they had bags, material, resin.� They created their own foils, planforms, spars...everything.� There wasn't a CST to call up and get some carbon. CST came about because of RCSD providing a collection point for modelers to share their experiments and techniques.� Lots of those guys are gone, gone to heaven or gone to bad health, or just burned out from giving to the hobby...in some cases pushed out by us complaining. RCSD has had a Flying Wing Sailplane column for almost as many years as I can remember. It is science crossed with fun. Usually filled with data and drawings and construction...it takes some space to get all that across.� Today RCSD is short on contributors, not pages.� In the time it takes to make an observation about its content, you all could have typed up an article about something you know about RC Soaring that others of lesser experience could use to leap frog the learning curve....using the experience and knowledge you have learned and stuff you have created. The "Journal for RC Soaring Enthusiast" may be slightly thin, but its because you guys haven't been making entries. $30 per year...for black and white grainy photos....of guys flying sailplanes.� One of the articles alone is worth the yearly subscription price... My article on tow hook placement and how goofy it is to think that CG has some value to launching (versus effect) ... That information alone is worth $30 without the Flying wing articles or the slope articles.� That piece of information alone could save a lot of moldies from rolling over to the side and dragging to the turn around.� Who would pay $30 to avoid that from happening to their new moldy? We pay thousands on planes and equipment and some pay $30 per year on adding data to their controller (brain) to try to take better advantage of our equipment's potential. Without RCSD, lots of guys would never understand the difference between a balanced Sailplane and measuring where the material they are made of -- teeters on some sticks. You took the time to make the comment, now do something constructive and contribute. You'll be paid for it the same way the rest of the contributors have been paid, by creating more and better sailplaners to fly with. The gauntlet has been thrown, its your turn to change from when everything is said and done, that for you, more will be have done than said :-) Gordy I flew today, you? Louisville 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.
