What I've Learned @ RCU
02-14-2004, 09:40 PM
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RE: What I've Learned @ RCU
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Use a factor of 2 to find the correct engine size for your latest project. .40=.80.....1.20=50cc gas ect....ect.....
I am the dumbest sum***** here. Every post I answer I am corrected on.
lol David
Use a factor of 2 to find the correct engine size for your latest project. .40=.80.....1.20=50cc gas ect....ect.....
I am the dumbest sum***** here. Every post I answer I am corrected on.
lol David
02-14-2004, 11:40 PM
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RE: What I've Learned @ RCU
http://www.turboforce3d.com/ Click on annoying thing in the lower right corner then on next page click on bikermime in lower left hand. Sort of sounds like a DA100 doing 3D
02-21-2004, 02:55 PM
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RE: What I've Learned @ RCU
OH NO,NO, NO. An engine is defined as not requiring any out side power source except for fuel and air to operate. A motor runs on electricity.
OH OH OH I knew I would get to correct somebody someday
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OH OH OH I knew I would get to correct somebody someday
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Engines are motors, and motors are engines
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Engines are motors, and motors are engines
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02-21-2004, 06:14 PM
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RE: What I've Learned @ RCU
If you mention getting into this hobby, you will find out that you can't do anything before you join the AMA and find an instructor. Why does this always have to be the first thing that anybody has to say when a person even asks a question about a plane? What is so hard about just answering the question first?
02-23-2004, 03:20 PM
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RE: RE: What I've Learned @ RCU
What I have learnt:
1) Howq to spend more money on my models
2) How to fly ( I am not kidding)
3) How to spend more time on using the computer.
1) Howq to spend more money on my models
2) How to fly ( I am not kidding
)3) How to spend more time on using the computer.
02-23-2004, 07:49 PM
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Why does this always have to be the first thing that anybody has to say when a person even asks a question about a plane? What is so hard about just answering the question first?
02-26-2004, 03:21 PM
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RE: RE: What I've Learned @ RCU
Hi
The only one engine Brand "X" I have bought , new, right out of the box :
A) need to touch all needles setting to run well
B)never start at the first flip
C)when put in the plane the fuel tank have improper location
D) the fuel line have a small hole
E) fuel and presssure lines are switched
F) the filter is clogged
G) the fuel have a lot of water in it
H) the glow Brand XY is not suited for that engine
I) The throttle servo do not have enough travel and max rpm are
not reached
J) the carbon fiber propeller is out of balance
H) in the internet the hobby house have in sale an engine 10 %
cheaper with a gift of a motor mount
HAVE FUN WITH THE HOBBY
Jose
The only one engine Brand "X" I have bought , new, right out of the box :
A) need to touch all needles setting to run well
B)never start at the first flip
C)when put in the plane the fuel tank have improper location
D) the fuel line have a small hole
E) fuel and presssure lines are switched
F) the filter is clogged
G) the fuel have a lot of water in it
H) the glow Brand XY is not suited for that engine
I) The throttle servo do not have enough travel and max rpm are
not reached
J) the carbon fiber propeller is out of balance
H) in the internet the hobby house have in sale an engine 10 %
cheaper with a gift of a motor mount
HAVE FUN WITH THE HOBBY
Jose
02-26-2004, 08:20 PM
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If your not in the AMA then you are a very bad person.
If you don't fly in a santioned area your are "ruining it" for everyone else.
If the search function is not used you will be told to use it instead of being helped.
Most (not all) people on this board are cockey, ignorant, smart *****es with nothing better to do then to try to degrade you and prove you wrong.
Fact: I am going through my dailey "rounds" of the different forums and threads on this board, and while i am not going to name anyone, more then 60% of the posts on these boards end up getting flamed. Alot of the time i see flaming being started and continuing with the same names. [
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So, i have learned to keep my fingers from saying what i feel, mostly cause the mods would probably ban me from the forums. [>:]
Yeah i got some pretty bitter things to say, but i didnt make it this way...
The ones that decide they know more then everyone else did
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If you don't fly in a santioned area your are "ruining it" for everyone else.
If the search function is not used you will be told to use it instead of being helped.
Most (not all) people on this board are cockey, ignorant, smart *****es with nothing better to do then to try to degrade you and prove you wrong.
Fact: I am going through my dailey "rounds" of the different forums and threads on this board, and while i am not going to name anyone, more then 60% of the posts on these boards end up getting flamed. Alot of the time i see flaming being started and continuing with the same names. [
]So, i have learned to keep my fingers from saying what i feel, mostly cause the mods would probably ban me from the forums. [>:]
Yeah i got some pretty bitter things to say, but i didnt make it this way...
The ones that decide they know more then everyone else did
sean
02-27-2004, 10:21 AM
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Do not, by any means, bring up a thread that is more than two months old. Somebody will get the satisfaction of pointing that out to you and making you feel a dummy. If we are not to bring up old threads, then why keep them?
02-28-2004, 01:41 AM
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RE: What I've Learned @ RCU
i have learned, IF you glass something, you might as well but in the 20,000 rivets. Also learned go for a 4 stroke. Another thing i have learned is not to put glue on hands[&:]
02-29-2004, 12:27 AM
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RE: RE: What I've Learned @ RCU
Never, ask which type of engine is best.
Every type of plane either stinks or is awesome.
Lots of things to say after I crash.
Every type of plane either stinks or is awesome.
Lots of things to say after I crash.
02-29-2004, 04:56 AM
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RE: RE: What I've Learned @ RCU
don't argue with "The Troll" it just encourages him.
don't Argue with Hossfly... he just wants to bash the AMA, regardless of if he has any reason or not.
don't Argue with Hossfly... he just wants to bash the AMA, regardless of if he has any reason or not.
02-29-2004, 04:02 PM
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RE: RE: What I've Learned @ RCU
- Every plane including trainers should hover. And nothing else to be said about it.
- Power is never too much, so let's start puttting 3W240 on all our planes below .90 size. Then we have Lycomings IO 360 for the 25% planes, IO 540 for the 33% ones and IO 720 for the 40% (just to help the ones not used to these engines, their number denote their cubic inch displacement)
- If you fly the pattern, your flying is boring both to watch and fly.
- Never ask which is the best engine for that plane. You only get more confused. Multiply the recomended ones by a factor of 3 and go flying without worries.
- Don't ask what is the best engine brand unless you want to know how many brands are there in the world today.
- No matter what's the question you ask, if it has already been asked the only answer you will get is search
- The only way not the get the search answer is by asking how to search.
- Old posts are holy posts, don't you ever dare to bring them up again or else you will be severely flamed, the older they get, the holier they get.
- Power is never too much, so let's start puttting 3W240 on all our planes below .90 size. Then we have Lycomings IO 360 for the 25% planes, IO 540 for the 33% ones and IO 720 for the 40% (just to help the ones not used to these engines, their number denote their cubic inch displacement)
- If you fly the pattern, your flying is boring both to watch and fly.
- Never ask which is the best engine for that plane. You only get more confused. Multiply the recomended ones by a factor of 3 and go flying without worries.
- Don't ask what is the best engine brand unless you want to know how many brands are there in the world today.
- No matter what's the question you ask, if it has already been asked the only answer you will get is search
- The only way not the get the search answer is by asking how to search.
- Old posts are holy posts, don't you ever dare to bring them up again or else you will be severely flamed, the older they get, the holier they get.
03-25-2004, 05:38 PM
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RE: What I've Learned @ RCU
I have actually learned that 3D is O.K to practise as in my club its just not right!! Real planes cant do that so models shouldnt either and if it dosen't look like a real plane its ugly??
03-28-2004, 12:27 AM
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I've learn't
There is no need to post a question because you will get told to "do a search"
EVERY plane needs Hi torque / Hi speed digital coreless servo's.
EVERY plane needs enough power to hover.
The biggest engine a manufacture recommends is the smallest engine everyone on RCU recommends.
90% of the people here can fly competiton level aerobatics.
Anyone who flies an ARF's is evil.
It's ok to spend $10000 on a model.
The most important thing is you MUST have at least 10 planes flyable, 20 in the building stage and 40 kits waiting to be built at any one stage.
There is no need to post a question because you will get told to "do a search"
EVERY plane needs Hi torque / Hi speed digital coreless servo's.
EVERY plane needs enough power to hover.
The biggest engine a manufacture recommends is the smallest engine everyone on RCU recommends.
90% of the people here can fly competiton level aerobatics.
Anyone who flies an ARF's is evil.
It's ok to spend $10000 on a model.
The most important thing is you MUST have at least 10 planes flyable, 20 in the building stage and 40 kits waiting to be built at any one stage.
03-28-2004, 07:41 AM
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I 've been having my secretary post here for me! I just get all the credit.
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That there are HUNDREDS of companies that unwittingly pay thousands upon thousands of dollars so their employees can use the office internet access and get on here and talk about their hobby (yes, I'm at work).
That there are HUNDREDS of companies that unwittingly pay thousands upon thousands of dollars so their employees can use the office internet access and get on here and talk about their hobby (yes, I'm at work).
03-28-2004, 07:53 AM
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RE: What I've Learned @ RCU
No. 1. thing I've learned on RCU-most (most) everyone is full of **it.
No. 2. thing I've learned on RCU- at least with the advent of this thread: These are my people!
Jetts
No. 2. thing I've learned on RCU- at least with the advent of this thread: These are my people!
Jetts
03-28-2004, 08:55 AM
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RE: What I've Learned @ RCU
Spads are heavy
Spads are ugly
Spads are not real airplanes
Beginners can't build Spads
Spads inspire careless flying
Being a Spadder is cheating
Scale Spads can't be done
Spads get brittle in the cold
Spads melt in the heat
Etc...
Etc...
Yet Spads inspired their own (and growingly popular) topic here at RCU which proves on a daily basis that the opinions of guys who hate them and/or haven't tried them are not worth the electrons needed to display them on the screen....however...to us those opinions are priceless because probably the most interesting thing I learned along these lines is that every time one of those stupid "Balsa vs Coroplast" debates was raging in the beginners forum...the hit counter on the Spad website spiked like crazy, and the Spad forum membership would increase way above normal
...so to any of you Spad haters who don't realize the power of negitive publicity...thanks for sending so many people our way (literally hundreds+)[8D]
Spads are ugly
Spads are not real airplanes
Beginners can't build Spads
Spads inspire careless flying
Being a Spadder is cheating
Scale Spads can't be done
Spads get brittle in the cold
Spads melt in the heat
Etc...
Etc...
Yet Spads inspired their own (and growingly popular) topic here at RCU which proves on a daily basis that the opinions of guys who hate them and/or haven't tried them are not worth the electrons needed to display them on the screen....however...to us those opinions are priceless because probably the most interesting thing I learned along these lines is that every time one of those stupid "Balsa vs Coroplast" debates was raging in the beginners forum...the hit counter on the Spad website spiked like crazy, and the Spad forum membership would increase way above normal
...so to any of you Spad haters who don't realize the power of negitive publicity...thanks for sending so many people our way (literally hundreds+)[8D]