VincentJ

I think they both look fabulous!

Captcrunch44

Yes, they make quite the pair.

bobsrc

Bob at Sig Mfg. is a control line flier also. Brotherhood #97 bobsrc
Come to the control line fly in at Montezuma this Saturday June 17.
Fun at Hazel's airport.

acdii

Hope the weather is better this time around. I can't imagine doing a CL with the kind of wind we had on Saturday! Would be a lot of ducking. I can just see Bob being pulled across the field by one of the planes.

bobsrc

If we had that kind of wind again you could fly all day without starting an engine.

acdii

Maybe SIG needs to sell Kites next year! Been so windy the past couple years.

FlyerInOKC

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Provided they offer them as a "kit" and not an ARF!

acdii

Of course, a bag of Koverall, two spruce sticks, a roll of string and a quart of dope.

FlyerInOKC

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A pint would probably do the trick.

acdii

for covering, sure, but if it's windy, and hot it will evaporate faster than you can apply it! LOL

Besides, have you seen how much Koverall is in a bag?

FlyerInOKC

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True!

Big Stikflyer

If you use rip stop nylon you wouldn't need to paint it. You save on cost and weight. Also if you CRASH your kite Capt.Crunch, you could use the nylon for parachutes.

bobsrc

You don't really need a kite just a light control line airplane that can wind surf.

Hydro Junkie

How about a glider with a line on the front? it would handle like a kite and still be gliding

bobsrc

Whatever lights your fuse. You learn to fly in the wind or you don't fly in the Midwest.

FlyerInOKC

My Feedback: (6)

True, I soloed in a 20 Mph crosswind but you get much above 25 Mph and gets to be too much work and loses the fun in flying.

VincentJ

I've flown in 20 mph winds, but I don't enjoy flying when the wind blows that hard. Not worth the risk of loosing a good plane when you're trying to land and it that gust comes from a different direction and ruins your landing...

FlyerInOKC

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In Oklahoma if the wind ever stops we'll all fall down.

Captcrunch44

Well I agree If you don't learn to fly in the wind you will never fly. (Much in Iowa).

acdii

What He said! I don't mind flying in the wind, but if it gets too windy, or gusty, or from a bad direction, it isn't fun. I'll fly a plane I am comfortable with in strong winds, but what we had on Saturday, I tend to pack it up.

FlyerInOKC

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With a new airplane with a radio having hiccups I think you made a good decision. You got too much invested in that airplane to take such a risk. There is always a next time.

TomCrump

No kidding. When I moved from Cedar Rapids, to here, I didn't think that Michigan had wind, in comparison.

acdii

Got a question on a 4*20. Won a kit at the Flyin, and my wife wants to build it. I went through my stuff and found an Eflite Power 25 with 40 Amp ESC, so got the power for it, also have an RX for it, all I need now are servos. It calls for mini servos. What are decent low cost reliable servos for this? Not sure what a Mini is to a Micro. Is there a standard to the Mini case size?

FlyerInOKC

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I think physical size they are close to the same except a Mini will have a lot more torque. I think if you would stay with something around +/- 40 oz. at 4.8V range you would be good. Anyone else have a thought on the matter?

spaceworm

I have flow my my Kadet 1/2, GB Eagle, Nextar, Alpha 60 and Sig 1/4 Cub all in brisk enough winds that I can throttle back and fly them stationary into the wind. Great fun. A hotshot pilot with a aerobatic, flat, full symmetrical wing plane saw me and tried to do the same. He kept falling out of the "hover" and gave up. A Cub with flaps will be a great trainer for wind, as well as tight quarter landings. Cross coupling flaps and ailerons and using rudder can do many fun things. In Kansas way back in the day, we used a chain for a wind sock, and if the chain was straight out, we would take off into the wind , do a half loop, and then fly lazy eights for the entire flight with an occasional half wingover with half loop at top and return to DW eights. We did not fly combat in these wind conditions, though.
Re the wind, we would sail our Snipe at night to avoid the high winds during the day. Great sailing in the moonlight.