[NSRCA-discussion] Happy New Year

[Mike Hester]

LOL None taken =) There's still plenty of wood out there. Heck even the 
Oxais have balsa all in there....it's just one of those materials that have 
a really good strength to weight ratio for what we do.

All composite is neat, but pricey in some cases, and has it's drawbacks too. 
A nice blend of everything is a good smart way to go, IMHO.

This "roots" discussion is really neat. It's amazing how far we have 
traveled in such a relatively short time! Think about it, a Prophecy was 
state of the art just a few years ago....now look. It looks like a big 
Curare compared to what we fly today in general. Only, not as sexy.

On sorta the same subject, take a close look at something that's going on 
pretty quietly. Ballistic style planes are taking off again (no pun 
intended). Don't know why, but a lot of us just got a kick out of piped and 
retract planes, and a lot of people are acquiring them to play with. I just 
saw where even Chad Northeast just picked up a sweet Aurora! Atlantas, 
Curares, UFOs, Pheonixes, and yours truly just acquired the molds to the LA1 
(quite by accident, but it's cool!)

We have "BPA" meets (Ballistic Pattern Association) down here in D3, and 
it's always a good time. More emphasis on the planes and having crazy fun 
than actually scoring. Speed rules!

It doesn't replace 2 meter stuff for any of us, but it is a nice break and 
something cool to do. Same idea, different flavor.

-Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Cronkhite" <seefo at san.rr.com>
To: "General pattern discussion" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 11:41 PM
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Happy New Year


>
> It's cause Ron's got skills..
>
> Don't forget, Ron's been around long enough to remember when pattern 
> airplanes we're built out of BALSA wood.. lol (sorry Mike.. no disrespect 
> to your Black Magic line..)
>
> -Doug
>
>
>> Yes, we did keep them running until the airplane was in the hangar.
>>
>> BTW, we also used brakes back then too, so we could demonstrate taxi and 
>> a full stop just before takeoff.  Then we had to come to a full stop 
>> (straight ahead) after landing, before taxiing back to the hangar and 
>> stopping in the hangar.  Just producing brakes was a "cottage industry" 
>> back then.  I still have some mechanical and electric brakes in a baby 
>> jar somewhere.
>>
>> Ron VP
>>
>> On Jan 7, 2009, at 7:17 PM, J N Hiller wrote:
>>
>>> Ron, how did you keep those old motors running long enough to finish the
>>> flight and taxi back? I couldn't get then to run long enough to fly 
>>> around
>>> myself.
>>> Jim
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