Radio Controlled Soaring Digest October 1998 Issue
Issue Contents:
Gordon talks about the joys of flying his Paragon and also enjoying long thermal flights at his productive field at St. Marys College in MD.
Slope soaring offers more opportunities to do aerobatics than having a power plane. The Chandelle maneuver is revisited.
Tip stalling on a scale model was fixed by warping the wing under a 150 W halogen shop light. Incidence meter used to set the proper washout.
Steve tells of removing covering from a bagged wing which was covered with Ultracote Plus. Residual adhesive removed with dope thinner and Scotchbrite
Humor is used to describe 7 stages of becoming addicted to slope soaring. Advances in models flying conditions commitments are sited.
Petersburg Pass Slope Site is discussed. Location if close to MA VT NY common borders. On Rt. 2 between Petersburg NY and Williamstown MA.
Little Big Winch is a sport winch with improvements other the formersport winch which we all put off buying but needed. Comes complete!You cant fly out of lift in control. No possibility of recovering model if you cant land on top. Bring a model you can fly well.
Drive Systems for ailerons and flaps include DAD RADS and RFDS allowlow slop control. See Harley Michaelis page www.rc-areo.comelements = coupler to the output gear a pocket on the surface rotating shaft. 5-10% of drag can be caused by external control hardware.Rotation for 90 deg flap requires a 90 deg bend in wire and servo mounted at an 45 deg angle. Specific instructions for successful appln.
The Swallow is a double taper swept flying wing with 120″ span. There is a 2″ x 24″ fuselage. EH2.0/10 airfoil. Problems in launching being studied.
Mongo by BASH Enterprises is a very large foam flying wing. It has an 8 ft span and difficult to transport. Flight performance if very stable.
The 1999 California triad contests are listed: SW Classic Pasadena Rosebowl and Visalia Fall-fest. The SW Clasic will be in Queen Creek AZ
Jerry chooses a 1/5 scale Pilatus B-4 to build this winter. A list of materials is made and the first step will be to build a straight fuselage.
RCSD Web page now contains coverage of contests and photographs which makes RCSD an optimized of electronic and printed communications.
Dave Reese flies a CR High Performance Contender at Sunset Beach StatePark near Watsonville.
Radio Controlled Soaring Digest October 1998 Issue
