West Coast Barnstormers

[stone]

All right, Im proposing a rampage on one of the many parks we have in this great state of W.A.(just rub that in your nose RB)

Probly a few weeks away,after the Bunbury interclub and weather permiting of coarse.After all, were novices atm.

Lt. Mic Chow has gone and got a slow stick,and Probee officer Lt. Mongrel is thinking of getting one,so I might as well get on the band wagon seeing as there dirt cheep.

ANY AND ALL WELCOM, Please show your intrest here,and dont be afraid too ask any questions,or for help.

:)

[Matt]

what's a slow stick?

[stone]

Matt type in RC Slow stick on you tube!Easyest way.

[mik068]

Stone are you proposing r/c combat !

[stone]

Ha ha,In time mate , all in good time.

Actualy the EPP wing big Dazz got would be the go for combat.

We could actually tow streemers like the old days befor EPP was invented.Safer that way too.

[mik068]

you are right the wings are the way to go I have flown them in control line combat good fun but is darrens wing a pusher or motor in front ?

[stone]

Im thinkin Pylon racing! Coupla witches hats with broom sticks sticking out of them painted red or somthing.

All sorts of things we could try in the future: Combat,Pylon racing,Limbo,Spot landings,Pitt table touch and go's! Lolly drops,egg bomb drops,piggy back a glider on my IC plane,Slope soaring,Slope pylon racing,HLG last one up,.........Heaps of fun stuff.

[stone]

Yeh I dont know what it is Mic,most of them are pushers.

[J-ME]

Hey Stoney just remembered i have a
zagi 400 which is a electric powered wing that
has a pusher motor i havent flown it yet....
I might have to test it out..
And i have an electric glider that runs off 7cells
i havent flown that yet as well, its about a 1metre long.
(i better go check wot ive got cos i keep finding planes ive
half built or built but not flown)
J-ME

[stone]

Do it! Do it!

[Wilkinson]

Witches hat with mop handles, haha sounds like someones gonna be doing more rebuilding than flying.....
Stone : It's guys like you that make me look in the plane section of hobby shops now.....:P

Chris

[Dlux]

Combat! I'll be the token Kamikaze then............HARROW!

[stone]

LMFAO at Dlux,dude if you put the new one in the air that IS what will happen.

It's all good Wilky,its all good.

[stone]

Ok fellas,looks like a couple of the boys are going away for the long weekend so I recon the following sunday.
There is a huge big park in midland where the Biplane fotage was taken,thinkin thats the spot. On Harper rd I think it was.

Matt Ill do my best to have a pylon built for your glider by then Mkay!

[stone]

Well boy's,it seem's a few of you are keen for flying today.
the weather is bloody fantastic too!!!!!

Harper st, Woodbridge.

I'll be rockin up about 11am, Ive just got to transfer the brushless back too the glider then I'll have that,the nitro plane and the Heli,no biplane today but....I killed it yesterday flogen it around till the top wing ripped off at 50 meters up.

Needless to say she wopped into the ground pretty hard,and while I wont bin it just yet,I think it's beyond repair this time.

Oh and just for shit's and giggles Im going to strap me digi cam under the Avistar!!
I did it yesterday and it worked so this should be fun.

See you there.

[SuperRoo]

Firstly, let me say that I like your avatar support for the WEagles there Stoney.

Secondly, lets get it on one of these days soon now that the WC racing season is officially over nobody has any excuses, including me. :)

[SuperRoo]

And to show I'm serious here is the Condor wing out of moth balls and cleaned up a little. It's big and I dont know how I'm going to transport it.





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[stone]

strap the sucker to the roof!!

Ha ha,should be fantastic weather tomorrow. It's been great the last two days,so It's on for tomorrow fella's.

Harper st Woodbridge,about 1 PM.

Ive gotta go to the club and pay membership in the morning,then after Ive got the MAAA membership I can fly indoor at the Midland Velodrome!! WOOT,love indoor.

Oh and Matto,got that motor pod built but need to sort the prop and solder it all up. Trying to make it universal so we can use it on the Avistar to launch the gliders aswell!!
Need to rig a servo on a y lead me thinks.....Hmmmmm

[stone]

What a great day,had a tad of lift on a slope behind the park when I first got there.
Matto was a bit out of form in the wind (up all night whoreing again),but he had quite a few good tows and flights,he even had a go of my Avistar for a few minuets at a great hight.
Well done bud.

Mongrel tested ALL the glue joints I had made the previous weekend! At one stage I looked up to see it sticking out the ground like a javlin. Getting better mate,good on ya.

Richard had his areo bird buzzen around the sky a couple of times. the first one was a little short lived due to the wind,but a little while later It died off and we hand launched her to comit avaition. As is the norm with them it was a little lacking in control surface throw,but a good flyer all the same.
good too see ya in the air mate.

As for me,I flew the avistar at the Forestdale club in the morning then drove to the park in midland for lunch time.
Put the fling up off the slope befor the boys got there,then the avistar got a good thrashing.Gave the other glider a few hand launches then put the Avistar up a couple of more times.
I was bangin the sticks around and Nuts was standing behind me saying he could hear the sticks banging from side to side,LOL.

Great day fellas,cheers.

[SuperRoo]

Yep, was a great day thank you very muchly.

BTW, didnt I tell you I had a problem with landing. 3 Flights and 3 perfect landings. Well I guess they were close to perfect, nothing broke :)

[stone]

Get the condore ready and we can do some glide-land training.
There's nuthin to it mate,infact it's probly my fav part of flying.

1. work out the wind direction.
2. work out your aproch direction and angle.
3. make the first two happen!!
4. when you get down to about 10 feet slowley ease the elevator back so as to lessen the aproch angel.
5. now all you have too do is watch the air speed bleed off as you keep increasing the up elevator till it touches down at stall speed !!

Too ****in easy! It might be your biggest fear at the moment,but it wont be for long.

[stone]

OK boys,

Feild = Cnr of Tonkin hwy and Gosnells rd west, Gosnells.

ETA = 1500 hrs 18/8/07

Debreif = We'll talk crap while we set up the planes.

Air strip direction = I havent even worked ouf if it has a cricket pitch!! But
it does have a brand new hot mix car park,the one on
the vid I posted.


Looken like crap weather at the moment but we'll see. !bow



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[revsinc]

ohh thats really close to home, so i might just have to come ,and you can have a play with me copter, (i cant get the bloody thing of the ground ) !clap

[SuperRoo]

Yesterday would have been perfect for the glider, light winds most of the day and inversions all over the place.

We'll try to make it sunday weather pending.

revsinc - you talking about your heli? If so bring it down other wise Stoney lives down that way so maybe you could talk to him about giving you a hand to sort it out sometime, if he's willing to have a go.

[stone]

LoL,I cant even sort my own choper at the moment.
I think the tail rotor bearing is floged out.

Will do me best to help if I can mate.

[SuperRoo]

Anyone got a older version Sanwa 2 ch 29Mhz AM RX they dont want? or Maybe a older Acoms Technicplus 2 stick TX?

[stone]

I lent mongrel my Sanwa Rx and Tx,and seeing as he smashed the glider again I could probly get that back for ya !

Got the condore ready have ya?

[SuperRoo]

Nah, I've got the servo mounts in but havent done anything else as I dont no which servo's are going in it yet. Once I no what radio is going in it theres probably only a hour tops to get it going.

[revsinc]

yea its a helicopter,
biggest problem is my garage is to small, need a bigger area for it . like a hall or something

[stone]

Anyone for float flying?

Na, seriously, it's blowing and raining in Gossnels.
Im going down there with a book an if the rain and wind stop for 5 second I'll go up,but if you traveling any great distance
I wouldnt bother eh.

[stone]

Well the rain and wind give us a couple of windows of fine weather.

RB when my net speed is back I'll post up the other guys plane that was there, a Boeing 777.Man that thing sounded insane spooling up.

[remotebandit]

mate i would love to see a clip , all i see is my 777 in the corner going nowhere cause ive spent over $200 in ESCs trying to work out why i cant get 1 to work . Bloody shitting me to tears it is .

[stone]

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[remotebandit]

WHHHOOOOOAAAAAAA , bloody sensational .

Can you find out off this bloke which ESCs hes running and also if hes running stock motors , looks a bit quicker than stock to be honest .

THanx mate

[stone]

No worries mate,Ill ask him.

[stone]

Slope soaring it is fellas,somwere around Cott Beach,somtime about 2 or 3 pm. Iff the wind drops off instead of picking up we'll find an oval around there.

PM me if your interested in more info.

[Matt]

small change to the plan.

We're meeting at Cott Beach at midday today!

(Sunday 29th July)

[Matt]

No, change of plan again. We're going to a park in South Perth.

Oh I have no bloody idea where we're going.

[stone]

Ha ha ha,Well done today Webby. Good to see ya had to balls to pull a loop at the top of the tow!
We need to go slopen,you'll love it.

[stone]

So anyone interested in an afternoon fly tomorrow?
Should be a good day for it,I need to get my flatty out side so I can practice stuff at a safe altitude.

[SuperRoo]

Yep!, All things going well we should be up for it. Drop us a sms or email with details. I'll be pulling a motor out of a car in the morning and fingers crossed it'll be back on the road in the arvo.

[stone]

Fair dinkuim mate,out and back in in a day,I guess youv'e done it befor then!?! must be the little Zooky motor huh.

Mate Ill give ya a ring later,we should just go down the park near your joint then eh.I can bring me tools and come over early too give ya a hand if ya like? I'll just have to stop in at work and pick up my tools. :D

[stone]

Cheers fellas that was a hoot. So I took two planes down the park and got to fly four!?! :D Cheers Daz,that slinger is fun to fly,and the Pulse,mate thats some power to weight ratio its got going on.

Well as it turned out I bought a second hand wattage PC9 at lunch time to fly this arvo,and it flys great just a tad under powered.So I give it some consideration and mounted my Hacker out of my 3D plane in it tonight,should have more balls now.

The little flatty did me proud today,tryed a knife edge spin a couple of times but I must have to much elevator or ailiron throw,coz she just wouldnt do it,never the less it was alot of fun. !super

[stone]

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[SuperRoo]

It was a nice day for flying yesterday, I'm really sorry I didnt take a plane up there now.

I got some led's for you when your ready. Their 935mm from led to led (The Flatana is 915mm) with a jst connector on the end. I just used the 5mm leds I had here to see how they work. I'm going to look into using some little 0.9(thick) x 2 x 3mm led's (or some surface mount led's) in the future and use some silver paint I have sitting around from my electroplating days to put straight on the wings instead of wire, that way you wont see any wiring.

The Green led looks brighter than the red in the photo because it has a wider viewing angle than the red and its a different mcd rating but I have mucked around with the resistors so they both look similar now.


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[stone]

Wicked,cheers man.And whats that,silver paint for wire?

[Matt]

Geoff, and Richard...

How many planes have you fellas got now??

[stone]

Um hang on,4 gliders,4 indoor models,2 park flyers and 2 nitro planes.Well thats the metro hanger anyway. !lol

So the new PC9 got a fly in the crapy conditions this morning,heaps more power but I realy could'nt suss it proply
untill this arvo right on dusk when the wind had died.
Turned out I still want more power, :D
So tonight in went a much bigger motor again that I got from Daz yesterday.
Mate this thing is going to hoot now.In true turboprop fassion.

[stone]

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todays flight line

[remotebandit]

he can fly any plane on the market but cant post a pix ... !lol

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[SuperRoo]

Wicked,cheers man.And whats that,silver paint for wire?

Yeh, its basically a conductive paint I had when I did touch up work on a specialty line of jewelery we use to make. I also have some carbon based paint somewhere but it doesnt look as pretty as the silver and its a lot hard to use.

Geoff, and Richard...

How many planes have you fellas got now??



Not Enough! :) 2 X park flyers, the Slow Stick and the glider, but looking at a slope soarer as soon as the extra radio gear arrives.

I recon its about time you got yourself a powered plane Matt :)

[stone]

Yeh I recon,and Mongrel too.An avent seen Mik in a while,must be hibernating.Great to see Daz doing so well after such short time learning.

Oh yeh , cheers RB, They were all working befor,Im sure Im still clickin on the right thingy,obviously not! !smack !lol

[mik068]

stoney im hiding and building just got a Zagi wing for lunch times at work

[stone]

I should get one so we can have Zagi Conbat.

[mik068]

thats the idea, dazz has the mini slinger

[stone]

That little slinger is amazing,Ive seen it bite the dust more than once,Im sure it has many more crashes under it's belt and when I flew it on saterday It still flew great.hard to belive.

[mik068]

heres a pic

[stone]

Where? you dirty tease!!

[remotebandit]

Miks pix

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