[NSRCA-discussion] 2008 Season wrap-up

[Earl Haury]

You guys got me interested in counting this year's flights. "Nats" airplane 193, all Hacker C50-14 Comp, "local" airplane 482 & counting, first 297 with Hacker (have 3 Hacker motors over 1250 total - 1 rotor replaced), the last 195 have been with Neu 1515-2Y motor. Clean & grease gears @ 100 flight intervals - no gear problems. All '08 with FlightPower F3A 5350's, no failures and typically 160 useful flights / pack . Servos look good basis measurements with AeroPerfect inclinometer after 500 flights. 

Before you ask - I don't know if the Neu motor will be available or not. It's a very cool running motor with excellent mid-range power and throttle response, draws 10A or so more than the Hacker C50-14 with the same props (EagleTree in-flight data). More difficult to service - similar to the standard Hacker C50, grease can be added through the hollow prop shaft and may be OK as the planet gear bearings are larger than the Hacker. Certainly an excellent motor and hopefully will be available at some point.

Earl

Team FlightPower
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: James Oddino 
  To: General pattern discussion 
  Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 10:51 AM
  Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] 2008 Season wrap-up


  I'm not finished yet but I'm only at 259 flights this year.  Twenty flights were testing my new 14MZ and 2.4GHz modules in January, and the rest were with my Abbra.  All electric powered.  I did change the motor, a DualSky 6360, at flight 422 on the Abbra, thinking the bearings were getting noisey but they really didn't need to be changed.  I'm now at 493 flights and I think I'm on my fourth set of wheels.  I also tightened the rudder cables once.  I'm constantly tweaking the transmitter as there isn't much to do on the plane.   
  I only got to three contests all late in the year, but I did see improvement in my flying after watching and listening.  Practicing alone will not get it done.


  Jim O




  On Nov 29, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Scott Smith wrote:


    Since the list is slow…

    I’m guessing I flew my last flight for 2008 today; it’s just getting too cold here in New England!  So barring a warm spell, I ended with 404 flights since April 17th.  Contests were a little light with three district meets and the Nat’s.  Electrics worked very well for me with battery cost currently at $2.91 per flight.
    (I know, I know…it’s sick I count flights.  But that’s my aviation upbringing and computer nerd side!)

    How many flights/contests did you do this year?


    _______________________________________________
    NSRCA-discussion mailing list
    NSRCA-discussion at lists.nsrca.org
    http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion




------------------------------------------------------------------------------


  _______________________________________________
  NSRCA-discussion mailing list
  NSRCA-discussion at lists.nsrca.org
  http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.nsrca.org/pipermail/nsrca-discussion/attachments/20081130/fbfd8aab/attachment.html>