Model Forum / Radio Controlled / Air Models / March 2009

Is on a Sunday evening.  All I need are a few bits of foam for padding,
and my newly built, 23 year old Goldberg Eaglet will be ready for the air.
But it's Sunday, dammit.  Worse, I have to go on a business trip this
week, so I can't even play hooky to go fly with the retired ...

http://www.hobbypeople.net/gallery/123684.asp
From its truss construction, the farcical nature of its top-mounted cannon,
there's no mistaking a Blue Max for some other run-of-the-mill sport
aircraft.

Many 35MHz items for sale - due to moving to 2.4GHz
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/merchant/tdmodels

I got  2 1,800-mAh 3-cell LiPos the other day, one with a Parkzone
foamie I bought to replace one I totaled and the other off the shelf
of the LHS. I charged both then realized the new plane was missing
parts so I decided to discharge both to 11 volts because they'd

I think it was sometime in 1969 or 1970.
Your help will be greatly appreciated!

I have just undertaken a strenuous expedition to investigate the
previously unexplored far reaches of my workshop and, after fighting
my way through vast heaps of assorted junk (I haven't a clue what
possessed me to keep half the stuff), I unearthed what I first thought

Hope this is the right newsgroup,  But i just picked this up from a
friend who has been
in the rc hobby for years.  it has been flown 3 times,  includes, 6
channel futaba radio already installed.  (only a 5 channel plane)  the

I have tried practicing on two different simulators:
Microsoft flight simulator
GE Real Flight
and I just don't seem to be able to keep the helicopter from

Just had a Management Moment*.  Tried to install pinned hinges with CA,
even though I _know_ it's stupid.
I've got the hinges out, the new ones are in, the epoxy is cured and the
grease (that I forgot to put on the ones I CA'd in) has successfully kept

If you were going to buy a second receiver to work with a JR transmitter
(72MHz), what would you buy?
JR?  Berg?  Something else?
This would be something that would go into anything from a 16-oz park-

Have a Neon that I use for flying wings. On Acer's Mini Speed Wing
site, I noticed Hitech had an "upgrade" with potentiometers for $11
and change.
Not ready for the GHz change-over yet.  That being the case, is this

Being thrifty (aka cheap) I bought a 4 oz bottle of medium CA.  Well, it is
now 9 months and 3+ models later and I have 1 oz of that CA left.
Unfortunately, it has thickened so as to be unusable.  Can I use something
to thin this glue (If so, what) or should I chalk it up to ...

This is still in the works, but they say in 2 - 3 years we will be able
to get them.
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090311/tc_nm/us_batteries_3
U.S. engineers find way to build a better battery (Reuters)

I just bought a  Precedent Aeronca Champ 1/4 scale fully kitted ou
with R/C gear and Super TIgre 2300 (23cc 2 stroke, 18 x 10 prop).  I wa
wondering if anyone had a copy of the build manual from Precedent.
I note there was a thread of this name back in 2005 where somoe gues

I have just undertaken a strenuous expedition to investigate the
previously unexplored far reaches of my workshop and, after fighting
my way through vast heaps of assorted junk (I haven't a clue what
possessed me to keep half the stuff), I unearthed what I first thought