Model Forum / Radio Controlled / Air Models / April 2005

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I am going to be building a hovercraft full scale ( and it will be a
wig craft.. it flies in a sense ) but want to build a scale model first
so I can use it as a test bed instead of my body.
I have never tried to fly a scale craft so my question prob will seem

Would you have put a jet on the model in the video ?
Would you have carried on after the first circuit, where you
gain a good idea of what is to come ?
I would have landed after the first circuit, unbolted the jet and

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       Ottawa, Ontario  Canada
       (home near Carling and Kirkwood)
Range:

Toshiba's new Li-Ion batteries charge in minutes!  If they can pump out the
amps, this could really be interesting.
http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2005_03/pr2901.htm
PCPhill

Yesterday i called the local hobby shop to ask if they carry the new
super magnets about the size of an aspirin tablet. Dude sez, "no but we
got cow magnets". Thinking he said "cowl magnets", i asked more about
them. But nope, they're magnets intended for cows to swallow to collect

I have a Ripmax Xtra 3O Amp Speed Controller and would like to use
that with my HITEC 555 Micro Reciever. When I connect servos to my
reciever I can see that the speed stick is on channel 1 and battery
and channel 5 is on channel 5.

Central Hobbies Website -- Problems?
I run the website for Central Hobbies, here in Billings, MT.  I've
gotten a couple of reports that the site isn't working, but everything
checks out here in Montana.  The site comes right up and works fine.