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Twisted Sticks February 2007 Newsletter
In memorandum... My flying buddy Dick Manthei passed away Sunday night January 21. He was a member of Twisted Sticks since 2001. He just happened to be my Father-in-Law. I say it that way because he was my friend first. He hadn't been to the field for a couple of years to fly, but he was building a 40 size Clancy Big Bee to fly when his health got better. Sometimes things just don't work out. An interesting idea from the land down under... I would really like to use this in our clubs newsletter. I'll be happy to give you credit if you'll give me permission. :) Thanks, John Norton Hi, sure you can use it. Wise words, the bloke who told me that is now 6 feet under. Deril Isaacs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The art of landing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Your eyes might be younger then mine but they are not as good as you think. They are particularly bad at judging air speed on a model RC aircraft so I'm going to teach you how to see with your left thumb (he was a mode 1 flyer). When setting up the throws on your elevator you have to experiment don't just rely on what the kit manufactures say. The best way to do this is to fly your plane on a very calm day get up to altitude bring the rpm down to idle, and the trick is to set your elevator throw so that , on low rates at idle, your plane just starts to stall when you hit full back stick. This effectively gives you an air speed indications as you always know how close to the stall you really are by checking to see how much back stick you have in. With this information you will be able to set up your approach speed with the elevator, you can even trim it for that speed so you fly hands off and manage your rate of decent with the throttle all the way to the ground. You'll know when you're on final and you are holding a lot of back stick she is near the stall and you won't have enough momentum to flare. What results is a big splat! And it beats trying to glide it in every time. On the building board... Hey guy's E-Mail me what you're doing and I'll put it in the newsletter. Dale Kelly's putting together a Cessna 172 Skyhawk. He also has a Phoenix Decathlon to finish and a Great Planes Dazzler in the bones. Al Bouda is fixing and modifying his trainer and thinking about building a 4 Star. I bought a Great Planes 120 Chipmunk. I'm putting a Saito 125 in it with Hitec HS 5625 digital servos. I've replaced the CA hinges with Dubro 1/4 scale pinned hinges. I'm concerned with what I've read on RCU that the 125 might be too light weight for this application so I might end up with something else. The original was built with an OS 120 Surpass III (33.3 oz) and required 20 ounces of lead in the nose. The Saito (24.7 oz) is 8.6 ounces lighter! 29 ounces of lead in the nose is something I don't want to think of. Dale also sold me the Carl Goldberg SU26MX kit that Ken McFarland built. It has an OS 120 Surpass III pump on it with Futaba S9001 and S9202 core less servos and to the best of my knowledge it's never been flown. Needless to say the construction is superlative. (Now that should butter Ken up enough so that when I cry for help he will forget about carving gourds.  ) |