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| Nostalgia - Old Timer Aircraft Everything about the good old days of RC! |
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| 08-04-2020 04:54 PM | ||
| williame3590 |
Re: 1939 Sal Taibi Powerhouse Hey Barry, whats new mister? Bill |
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| 08-04-2020 01:53 PM | ||
| Windfree |
Re: 1939 Sal Taibi Powerhouse Mine weighs in at 5 lb 1oz with Turnigy 46 and 3300mah 4 cell. Currently flying it on a Forster 99 but haven't weighed it.A gaseous mouse will make it thermal. |
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| 10-13-2014 09:54 PM | ||
| eric |
Re: 1939 Sal Taibi Powerhouse Sorry to hear about the Bomber, but, WOW! What a fantastic slope site you have there, Merv. If there was a spot like that here, I'd be parking my house trailer and settling down for the season. Cheers, Eric |
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| 10-13-2014 09:38 PM | ||
| OLD PRAIRIE RED NECK |
Re: 1939 Sal Taibi Powerhouse Turned out to be a pretty good day! wind was at a reasonable level but unfortunately no pictures of 2 Lanso Bombers as buddie's had a mishap on take off and is out of commission till repairs are done. I got a good bit of flying in before the wind got too stiff. Then we adjourned to the hills for slope sloping with 2 meter thermal ships. |
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| 10-13-2014 09:08 PM | ||
| eric |
Re: 1939 Sal Taibi Powerhouse No problem, Frank! I've tried every store I can think of - dollar, craft, art supply, department, etc. and everyone looks at me like I have 2 heads. Depron is also a great building material, so I may give that a try; its just that I love gluing sticks together a lot! My friend, Ken Coleman, is a master builder who has turned to Depron and 1/4" blue insulating foam sheets in constructing his scratch built masterpieces. He looks up 3 views on the internet and then turns out unbelievably beautiful models that fly even better than they look. Here's a few for interest sake. The jet is an EDF, absolutely deafening in a gym but very cool - he builds his own fan units from beer can metal, too much! Eric |
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| 10-13-2014 05:47 PM | ||
| Frank Klenk |
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| 10-13-2014 07:33 AM | ||
| eric |
Re: 1939 Sal Taibi Powerhouse Compared to you, we're a balmy +4 this morning (8:30ish am) and the trees are already bending over in the breeze. My SAM old codgers club has our weekly meeting of the minds (what's left of them) at Timmie's this morning so its only hanger flying for me today. Always wanted to try slope soaring, it looks so enjoyable and no worries about running out of fuel or flight batteries. We've got lots of hills where I live, but they're all covered with trees. You should have a go at covering with the clear wrap; easier and way less time consuming than tissue. The problem for me is visibility; old eyes and see through models don't mix well! I tried spray painting, brushing, magic markers, food colouring, nothing seems to stick or apply evenly to the clear wrap (too oily I guess). Might try painting the framework and see how that looks or I may just have to bite the bullet, join the dark side and start using Depron. Eric |
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| 10-13-2014 06:54 AM | ||
| OLD PRAIRIE RED NECK |
Re: 1939 Sal Taibi Powerhouse My hat is off to you Eric! I have thought about using food wrap for covering but never got around to trying it. Cool! Well it's -2 this morning with a 8km SSW breeze and still pitch black so - this could be the morning! Forecast is for 20km wind gusting 40 out of the south for the afternoon so the slope might be an option too! |
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| 10-12-2014 10:35 PM | ||
| eric |
Re: 1939 Sal Taibi Powerhouse Seems to be a country wide thing this year. We tried to go float flying Saturday evening because the wind was only around 10 km/hr at the house. At the bay, local conditions were totally different - 22 km/hr average, gusting over 30 with a nasty on shore swell. Worst year for wind I can remember. At least its calm in the triple gym my indoor club flies in. Here's a couple of my models for amusement value. I'm a fan of stick & tissue type construction, but I cover with coloured Saran Wrap. The perfect covering for light models. Purple UHU glue stick to the frame and shrink over a 100 watt light bulb. It draws nice and tight, weighs nothing and doesn't have enough pulling power to warp surfaces. Tougher than tissue as well. Its not made anymore, so if anyone has coloured food wrap they'd be willing to sell, please let me know as I'm down to just enough for one more model. Eric |
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| 10-12-2014 02:53 PM | ||
| OLD PRAIRIE RED NECK |
Re: 1939 Sal Taibi Powerhouse Same drill again today, you could slope soar a brick! Takes two of us to get in the house just to keep the door from being ripped off the hinges! |
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