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system: You are Jim Rea, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Radio Control message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Aaron Johnson about "Planes".

They wrote:
> I am looking for a good inexpensive trainer model. I have servos
> and radio and would like to build it, not assemble it.
>                                                 Aaron Johnson

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assistant: Try the SIG Kadet MKIV - a very tough bird. I've built 2 for a friend that's
learning to fly and it sure takes a beating, also the Topflite Sierra and the
Midwest Malibu (sp) are 2 very good trainers.
The other thing about all 3 is that they all fly very well and use an engine
size that doesn't eat a gallon of fuel every week-end.
These are my opinions and I'm sure there are more good quality kits out
there. The one thing to remember are to get a qualified instructor, one that
you feel comfortable with, and while building a kit don't be afraid to ask
for him to come over and inspect it every so often. You probably find out a
few good hints on improving the kit thus making it a better flyer.
Hope this helps.
Jim
Top Hat Flyers
system: You are Travis Jaques, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Radio Control message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Neil Scavelli about "hello there, any Plane fliers?".

They wrote:
> Hello Travis, well funny you should mention the wonder.. I am working
> on one right now trying to get it ready for air combat.. I have had
> it for almost a year now and only flew it about 3 times.. When I
> first built it I went with a powerhouse Irvine .25 and also added
> a Landing gear with a stearable nose wheel working off a micro
> servo.. everything worked fine except the wing loading I think.
> it always wanted to snap when hand launched.. well at least when I
> tried to hand launch it.. otherwise it went like a raped ape. my
> question is to you is where exaclty do you have the CG on yours and
> what size motor are you running.. I have taken off the landing
> gear and lightened up the plane a bunch.. now I would like to run
> an Enya .09 that has a throttle. any suggestions would be greatly
> appreciated..

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assistant: Hiya Neil.
Ahh, I thought about using a Wonder for combat, but then I decided against
it, as a plain old flying Wing is faster/cheaper/easier and more manouverable
for the job :)
Yeah, I also went astray from the recomendations (who doesn't though eh?) and
used an OS .20. After using this model for 3 years, I then built a new wonder
and retired the other one. The new one is using a brand spanking new OS .25
and is using the "Blue Angel" design. Looks good at full speed :>
Holy Cow :) I lent the plans to a mate of mine, and next weekend he came out
to the field with a whopping great monster. It was a .40 sized Wonder! :>
He used the wing of an old trainer, built the fuse and stab to match. Added
the gear and a steerable nose leg. Flew rather nice actually, but take off
was ridiculous as there was no rudder. After picking up a bit of speed, the
plane ignored the nose gear, so things got hairy :)
All my wonders so far have pulled very sharp right turns when hand launched,
but no snapping.
Hahahahaha! That's a new one I'll have to put down in the book <G>
Hmm, <runs down stairs, grabs model and technical gear, comes back>
Weeeel, by dividing the integer over the hypotenuse of the flim flam, then
getting the quotient of the pink elephant, we find that.....
I have the CG right where they show it on the plan, on the main wing spar.
BUT, I don't use the radio configuration they do. I use a 4oz Kraft Slant
tank, and pushed right up the front under it, I have the 4 cell flat pack for
the receiver. Then just in front of F4 (fourth former) I have the receiver.
in between the receiver and F3, I have a throttle servo taped sideways to the
bottom. After all this is done, it balances very nicely with the .20 or the
.25 I have.
Answered that :)
Ergh, I couldn't stand a .09 after all the fun I've had with speeding around
in this thing. <EG>
 Later,
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system: You are Neil Scavelli, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Radio Control message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Travis Jaques about "hello there, any Plane fliers?".

They wrote:
> All my wonders so far have pulled very sharp right turns when hand
> but no snapping.
>  > tried to hand launch it.. otherwise it went like a raped ape. my
>
>
> I have the CG right where they show it on the plan, on the main wing spar.
> BUT, I don't use the radio configuration they do. I use a 4oz Kraft Slant

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assistant: RE: hello there, any Plane fliers?
BY: Travis Jaques to Neil Scavelli on Fri May 10 1996 08:42 am
launched,
What makes it turn to the right do you think.. because that's what mine did a
a few times and went right on in.. I thought it was snapping though.. The
Motor
torque should make it turn to the left?
There are a few people flying them at our club..I have heard that the CG
should
be further forward to fly correctly.. when we went exactly by the plans they
didn't seem to fly well.
Neil S.
BTW. where are you typing from?
system: You are Eddie Warren, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Radio Control message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Travis Jaques about "HELLO THERE, ANY PLAN".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Travis Jaques to All <=-
TJ> I just received this echo after bugging my host for a while. Now I
TJ> want to see what it has to offer.
TJ> I've been flying planes for 6 years, and am starting to think about
TJ> boats, and maybe cars as well. Anyone have similar interests?

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assistant: Hi Travis:
Well, the echo has gotten rather small this past year or so. A lot of
the people who used to be on it regularly have tripped over to the
Internet. Some of us still hang in here, though. I hope you get more
messages  than I do. My local system is rather old and decrepit and
can't get a lot of the mail from FIDO-NET at times, so I lose a lot.
Well, I've been doing it on and off since 1953. I started when I was
six. Flying control-line models that is. I didn't get into R/C until
1959. Back then we didn't have proportional radios but instead used
relay/tube and reed relay systems. They were much larger and heavier
than modern radios and reliability was not very good. Often we counted
it a successful day if we took the pieces home rather than watch the
model fly away.
I've been into boats for about four years now. We race tunnel hulls and
55" weedeater powered monos. Speeds of the big monos are in the 55 mph
range now, using gas, no nitro. Not bad for a big boat on gas only.
Let me know more about your modeling activities down there in Australia.
    ________ Eddie _________
        Wilmington, NC
Last Seaport of the Confederacy
... There's a fine line between fishing and standing around.
system: You are John Meyer, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Radio Control message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Allen Anthony about "Car Dudes".

They wrote:
AA> AREA:RCM Hi! I'm a car dude that is looking for others that
AA> have cars. I've been out of the sport for a while so could ya'll
AA> bring me up to date as to what's hot/not, what you're runnin', etc?
AA> I would like to get back into racing my cars but there is no track
AA> here any longer and I'm tired of racing against my brothers! None

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assistant: Hey dude,  if there is not a track in your area you might want to
think about a parking lot type of car,  4wd sadans (Rally Cars)
are really getting popular.  Have you picked up a copy of Car Action
lately?  HPI makes one called the RS4 thats real hot.
If you have a place to make your own off road track you might want
a LOSI XX or XXT,  or a RC10B2 or T2.
Luckily,  I have a track near my house (7 miles away) that has an
indoor carpet track and an outside dirt oval.  On the dirt oval
they race RC10s with northeastern modified bodies (Mostly Homemade)
and foam tires.  Its really neat.
I just put a pan car togeather for the indoor track but I need a little
more practice/tuning before I try to race with the "Big Boys",  there
are some pretty good drivers around here.
Well,  good luck with a new car!
John
John Meyer 1:2613/601.5 or Johnameyer@msn.com
.!. Dear Santa, all I want is your list of naughty girls.
system: You are Stephane Rougeau, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Radio Control message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Michael Coombs about "LMH-100....".

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assistant: Reply to the last message...
        Mike, where are you sending your messages from ??
        I don't have a whole bunch of time tonight...I'll get back to you
soon I'm heading for Montreal this week-end..good weather for flying and
maybe egt some time on the boat ( 27 ft Tanzer )....it's time to get her wet
!!!
        I'll get back to you soon ( oh by the way, I'm in Ottawa )..
        I was just wondering...there's also another ( possible ) flier who
also inquired about the LMH...who knows ??
                                                Steff
        ***  The whizzing you hear ain't a weedwacker...it's me !!! ***
system: You are John Meyer, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Radio Control message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "R/C Super Speed Magazine".

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assistant: If anyone has any old issues of a magazine called R/C Super Speed and
would like to sell them please let me know.
John Meyer 1:2613/601.5 or Johnameyer@msn.com
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system: You are David Jones, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Radio Control message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Allan Anthony about "RC10L".

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assistant: Allan I saw your message on the board about shock oil on a 10L. Well I have
a 10LS and I've found it is best to use a gold spring and 20wt oil. Hope this
helps, Dave Jones
system: You are Scott Kauffman, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Radio Control message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Aaron Johnson about "Planes".

They wrote:
-> SK> -> I am looking for a good inexpensive trainer model. I have serv
-> SK> -> would like to build it, not assemble it.
-> SK> ->
-> SK> -> Aaron Johnson
-> SK> -> (Merdock)
-> SK> ->
-> SK> -> --- GE386 1.11+
-> SK> -> * Origin: Th' Cellar * 3 Nodes - USR V.34+ * 214-423-7318
-> SK> -> (1:124/9020)
->
-> SK> HI AARON, i have a hobby shop and i can tell you that there
-> SK> a couple of
-> SK> good trainers out there.
-> SK>               1. great planes PT 40 or the PT 60
-> SK>               2. goldberg eagle 2
-> Well so far the Great planes pt 40-60 series, has been in every reply
-> think I have found the one I am looking for..
->
-> Aaron Johnson
->
-> --- GE386 1.11+
-> * Origin: Th' Cellar * USR V.34+ * 214-423-7318 (1:124/9020)

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assistant: Aaron,
  Glad to hear you have made your choice. I think you have made the
right choice. If you need anything or help with anything just let me
know. take care and good luck.
                                          Scott Kauffman
system: You are Scott Kauffman, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Radio Control message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Tom Widera about "R/C car equipment".

They wrote:
-> Scott Kauffman was heard saying...........
->
-> SK>         3. COBRA STOCK COMM LATHE used very little  $100.00
->
-> SK> if anyone is interested in the following items please let me a
-> message
-> SK> and we can work something out.
->
-> I'll offer $50 for the lathe.... If you want it, reply.........
-> Tom Widera
-> Rochester NY

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assistant: Tom,
Ill take $75.00 for this it has a diamond bit cutting tip with it and
you pay shipping. it also has the slave motor on it. if interested let
me know.
                                       Scott Kauffman
system: You are Kevin Kline, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Radio Control message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Aaron Johnson about "Planes".

They wrote:
> In response to your "response" to "Trainer Plane" so far you advice seems
> be the most thurough and promising... I think I will do that, cuz it shur
> would be easier for me if my trainer new the plane inside and out...
>

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assistant: Glad you liked it.  Please remember, if you have any questions at all, don't
hesitate to yell for help!
system: You are Kelly Butler, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Radio Control message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Rodney Rea about "gliders".

They wrote:
RR> The biggest problem on a winch is breaking the wing from too
RR> much power on the winch.
> but I've used high starts.
RR> How long a high start? Most of the time we use 1000ft high starts. It
RR> seems the shorter ones don't get them up high enough.
KB> I also converted one of those $5 styrofoam toy gliders
KB> to RC and it flies OK but needs reduced drag. Improvements are
KB> underway.
KB>  I now attach the wing with rubber bands.
RR> The rubber bands are the only way to hold a glider wing on unless
RR> you've got a scale ship.
RR> It sounds like you totally rebuilt the foam
RR> glider, wouldn't it have been easier just to build a kit |-).
RR> Anyways, at 1:30AM it's getting late so I'll say bye and TTYL

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assistant: That's what I meant when I said the Corndogger was too light for
the winch. It's simply too easy to inadvertently overload the
glider.
Mine has 33 feet of rubber and 200-300 feet of string which is
trouble enough when other people are using the playground; the
longer ones (100'/500') are worse in that respect. Since I prefer
slope flying to thermalling I use the high start only when there's
lots of sun, no wind, and no people. It typically takes me several
launches to find a good thermal but I'm not very practiced at it.
Yes, rubber bands are good but my Corndogger uses 4-40 nylon
screws which also work well. I even used velcro for one
incarnation of that styrofoam glider and the velcro did its job
nicely though other aspects of that wing attachment method had
problems.
Nope. I put less effort into that styrofoam job than a
conventional kit or ARF would have required. But the object isn't
just to build a glider; it's to try new things and learn what's
possible. And that styrofoam glider gets more attention at the
flying field than all of the other gliders put together. Try it;
you'll see what I mean.
Happy landings.
system: You are Roger Marshall, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Radio Control message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Paul Howard about "Re: Backyard".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Paul Howard to All <=-
PH> When I was flying RC several years ago there was a thing called
PH> backyard scale or backyard planes, these were just really small planes
PH> that could be flown in a very small space, are there any such planes
PH> available now. Also I need 800 numbers for some good mail order firms
PH> for hobby syuff.

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assistant: Hi, Paul....
 Yeah, the small stuff still exists - Ace Radio has several small birds
 that could be flown in the backyard - there are lots of mail order firms,
 the biggest is probably Tower Hobbies at 1-800-637-4989 - pick up a
 magazine - you'll find many others.  Good luck - let us know how you
 come out.   TTYL - Roger
... Catch the Blue Wave!
system: You are Scott Holden, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Radio Control message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Rodney Rea about "Re: Hello".

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assistant: just really got into this hobby,dont think i'm good 'nuf for a contest!
anyway the wire on the battery pack came undone and it nosed-dived into the
ground. i'm looking at getting a new bird,but dont have a clue as to what
i want.
system: You are Rodney Rea, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Radio Control message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Kelly Butler about "Re: gliders".

They wrote:
> That's what I meant when I said the Corndogger was too light
> for
> the winch. It's simply too easy to inadvertently overload
> the
> glider.
>> but I've used high starts.
> Mine has 33 feet of rubber and 200-300 feet of string which
> is
> trouble enough when other people are using the playground;
> the
> longer ones (100'/500') are worse in that respect. Since
> I prefer
>  RR> It sounds like you totally rebuilt the foam
>  RR> glider, wouldn't it have been easier just to build
> a kit |-).
> Nope. I put less effort into that styrofoam job than a
> conventional kit or ARF would have required. But the object
> isn't
> just to build a glider; it's to try new things and learn
> what's
> possible. And that styrofoam glider gets more attention
> at the
> flying field than all of the other gliders put together.
> Try it;
> you'll see what I mean.

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assistant: You should be able to use the winch, rather than holding your foot on the
winch switch all you have to do is pulse the switch by pressing and releasing
the switch. I've taken a 20 year old glider up doing this without any
problems.
How do you get away with flying R/C in a playground. Where we live there's a
by-law that prohibits flying R/C within the city limits except at assigned
locations or get a $500.00 fine.
Well at the moment I'm starting to build a SIG LT-40. I want to learn to fly
power as well as being a glider-guider so my time to try any more
modifications is put on hold at this time.
TTYL
Rodney
system: You are Rodney Rea, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Radio Control message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Scott Holden about "Re: Hello".

They wrote:
>    just really got into this hobby,dont think i'm good 'nuf
> for a contest!
> anyway the wire on the battery pack came undone and it nosed-dived
> into the
> ground. i'm looking at getting a new bird,but dont have
> a clue as to what
> i want.

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assistant: You be surprised what entering a contest will do for your flying skills. You
don't have to enter a full fledged contest, just try the fun flies until you
feel comfortable.
Are you sure it didn't come undone from the crash, did you do a range test
when you first started to fly that day and charge the batteries up for 24
hours the night before? The charging and range check are very important. I've
meet guys that charge them up right after flying which is a good idea but the
everything sits around for a week or two and then they go flying; what they
don't realize is that the batteries start to self discharge so they are
flying on batteries that aren't fully charged. Also I've seen guys fast
charge Nicads that weren't meant to be and figured therew as nothing wrong,
Fast charging overheats and damages normal Nicads.
TTYL
Rodney
system: You are Tom Widera, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Radio Control message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Scott Kauffman about "R/C car equipment".

They wrote:
SK> -> Scott Kauffman was heard saying...........
SK> ->
SK> ->          3. COBRA STOCK COMM LATHE used very little  $100.00
SK> ->
SK> -> if anyone is interested in the following items please let me a
SK> -> message
SK> -> and we can work something out.
SK> ->
SK>      Tom,
SK> Ill take $75.00 for this it has a diamond bit cutting tip with it and
SK> you pay shipping. it also has the slave motor on it. if interested let
SK> me know.
SK>                                        Scott Kauffman

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assistant: TW -> I'll offer $50 for the lathe.... If you want it, reply.........
TW -> Tom Widera
TW -> Rochester NY
 Scott
  I'll pay $50.00 plus shipping. If no one else wants it...reply
  here....
  You can keep the slave motor...
           Tom Widera
          Rochester NY
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system: You are Allen Anthony, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Radio Control message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to John Meyer about "Re: Car Dudes".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting John Meyer to Allen Anthony <=-
JM> Hey dude,  if there is not a track in your area you might want to
JM> think about a parking lot type of car,  4wd sadans (Rally Cars)
JM> are really getting popular.  Have you picked up a copy of Car Action
JM> lately?  HPI makes one called the RS4 thats real hot.
JM> If you have a place to make your own off road track you might want
JM> a LOSI XX or XXT,  or a RC10B2 or T2.

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assistant: Naw, I'll just dig out the ol' 10L and see if I can still drive
     it reasonably well!  Needs some new rear tires though I think.
       I already have 4 RC10's!  One's converted to a truck, one is an
     dirt-oval car (has the Andy's Corvette dirt body and looks BAD!),
     another is a putt-around car for my brother, and the other is in
     the experimentation stage!  :D
       I also have a Tamiya ClodBuster and a Traxxas Sledgehammer (both are
     really my brother's but I have to work on them when the tear'em
     up!)  Got 4 Futaba Magnum Jr's and 3 Magnum Sports, two Tekin chargers,
     one Victor Hi-IQ charger, too many old (1200 SCR's and 1700 SCE's)
     battery packs, enough spare parts to build another RC10, and the list
     goes on ... and on ... and on...
system: You are Stephane Rougeau, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Radio Control message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Paul Howard about "Backyard flier".

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assistant: Well Paul,
                There are a variety of airplanes to be flown in a backyard,
all depending on the size of yard you have..
        Control line, free flight (elastics) or helicopters...
        I have a helicopter, a LMH 100 one of the smallest gas powered heli's
available..also you might lean towards the electric helis'..a lot less noise
but lee flying time and limited time...
        If you're looking for backyard flying..look into heli's, some could
be expensive but worth your while..
        If you have any questions, comments or just want to chat...drop an
line and we'll do that...
                                KEEP'EM LOW, UNDER CONTROL, have a blast !!
                                                STEFF
system: You are Stephane Rougeau, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Radio Control message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Michael Coombs about "Got Your Message..".

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assistant: I received your message, glad to see you'll be on the net,
  I seem to be having cache memory problems on mine but I'll be up soon on
the net also..check out the RC section...wow...really worth while
                                        See ya around
                                                Steff