<div>That's several folks I have heard who changed wheels after a couple hundred flights. Suggestion for youse..... If you lined the foam initially with a thin layer of bicycle inner tube (ca'd on), your wheels (the foam) will last much longer. Maybe 5 or 6X if you fly off pavement<SPAN contentEditable=false style="DISPLAY: inline-block"></SPAN>. This tid bit ought to make Van Putte smile</div>
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<div>On flying, I count flights too as Scott is. My Temptress saw about 39 flights this year (3 gallons +). And we did fly in one whole pattern contest...woweee!!! Seven flights there alone. Temptress has just completed her 6th season, some 1500 flights in that span, 75% of which came in her first 3 seasons in Fla. Been in NJ for 3 seasons with a grand total of about 350 flights. Oh well. I've met some great folks though....</div>
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<div>I also got to fly grandson Cason's Vapor about 40X and his foam glider (EZ Star?) about 15X. And his CX2 about 3 dozen times before breaking the rotor blades. Cason is 4 and loves flying as long as Pappou (that's me) does the flying. But hey, he drives his little RC cars and trucks so it's a matter of time before he competes for stick time</div>
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<div>On the Vapor, this has to be the easiest to fly trainer ever made. My son Isaac actually loves to fly it. I've been trying to get the boy to fly with me for 15 years with no practi
cal success and along comes the Vapor and makes it so easy. I am pleased!!</div>
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From: James Oddino <joddino@socal.rr.com><br>
To: General pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org><br>
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Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] 2008 Season wrap-up<br>
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<div id=AOLMsgPart_3_7ccf2df8-50d7-4a58-a87b-8185928971d0>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.
<div>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.</div>
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<div>On Nov 29, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Scott Smith wrote:</div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I’m guessing I flew my last flight for 2008 today; it’s just getting too cold here in<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>New England! So barring a warm spell, I ended with 404 flights since April 17<SUP>th</SUP>. 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.</SPAN></FONT></div>
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