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Carriers!!! - 7/12/2003 11:17 AM   
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Status: offline 		You know what would be cool? Aircraft carriers that actually can take a airplane landing . Yep, I surely dream alright.

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landing - 7/15/2003 5:43 AM   
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Status: offline 		ive seen a british assault carrier model take a scale heli landing on it

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Carriers!!! - 7/15/2003 7:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		Mmmmm, landing R/C no a carrier; would a 40 foot hull do it? What a hell of a project. I'l be satisfies with something about six feet long. I saw a twelve foot Destroyer for sale that I'd buy, but the shipping to Bermuda would be through te roof...................more dreaming CKS

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Carriers!!! - 7/17/2003 2:22 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hey, could I get some pics if possible about the carrier, that would be cool.

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Carriers!!! - 7/17/2003 4:58 AM   
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Status: offline 		Whoa there, not so fast. The carrier is on a short wish list at the moment. I was hoping someone had one they wanted to sell. Intil then, it'll be just a dream................CKS

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Carriers!!! - 7/17/2003 2:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		Just for practice, next time the flyers in the bunch go to the field draw out a deck with chalk or flower or something about 10 foot wide by 50 foot long and try and land and takeoff in that space. It's a lot easier sounding than it is but great fun. Also good way to shape up your flying skills.

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Carriers!!! - 7/17/2003 8:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well we pretty much have that in hand at the moment. We have ten acres of hard surface to fly from and the run-ways are all macked out. It's a great way to practice cross-wind landings; doing a carrier 'deck' on a run way whould be cool. CKS

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Carriers!!! - 7/17/2003 9:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		I sometimes fly off a abandoned concrete access road that is 300' long and 12' wide, with a 10' deep drainage ditch on each side, and there is always a cross-wind.

We use this field on days that we feel the need for a challenge. Kind of like a carrier landing because the choices are soo limited.

And when the drainage ditch is full, you really go into the "drink".

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carriers - 7/19/2003 5:10 AM   
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Status: offline 		dont forget a carrier has a launch catapult and also a catch hook to stop

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Carriers!!! - 7/19/2003 9:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hi Guys, since life itself is a challenge, i don't need it when I fly, I progress at my own pace.
I don't know about a catapult........an arresting hook would be OK. I'm gonna' talk to the club about doing something like that. The pilots will have to be kinda' elevated to be able to see the 'deck'........it's not control line. CKS

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Carriers!!! - 7/19/2003 10:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		I think it would be even cooler to have an assault ship
this way I could part a hover or some other cool amphibs and also land a helo

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Carriers!!! - 7/19/2003 11:05 PM   
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Areesting gear experiment - 8/6/2003 7:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		What I'm going to be doing on sunday might be a good test of how arresting gear works with rc airplanes. Im going to have a thick strink attached to two disc-brake pads (12lbs each) whick are going to be on two different sides of the runway widhth wise and the line taut in between them, supported by two 5-invh redwood stakes which are pounded into the ground. When a plane lands, the line will slide off these stakes. The airplanes is going to be a pbf (it has two advantages for this kind of experiment: strong and Cheap) with the tailskid bent forward so it would work like a tailhook . I will send some pictures (if I don't forget) of how it looks like.

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Carriers!!! - 8/6/2003 7:08 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hi, yeah that seem like a good idea. We have ten acres of concrete to fly from so setting that up should be a breeze. Lemmy know how it turns out. CKS

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RE: Carriers!!! - 1/21/2004 2:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		50 ft plz, lol you could make a backyard flyer squardron but you would still have probs landing lol keep dreaming

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RE: Carriers!!! - 1/21/2004 3:54 AM   
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Status: offline 		Actually...I hate that I can't find it.....but there was a thread on here that was about a whole different subject, but it changed to the subject that you're talking about......Aircraft Carriers......I really hate that I can't help ya....but I KNOW that there is a thread or somethin on here that has a picture of a guy that build like a 100 ft. R/C <<R/C I say carrier that was fully capable of landing R/C planes......IT WOULD ACTUALLY FLOAT TOO!!!!.....I hope someone else knows who I am taking about who build it......But I KNOW THERE IS ONE MADE.......AND IT IS POSSIBLE

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RE: Carriers!!! - 1/21/2004 5:36 AM   
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RE: Carriers!!! - 1/21/2004 8:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		what about converting 3 pontoon boats to bolt together theirs you strip onthe water not scale l;ooking but imaginthe party afterwoards
and its chaeper than getting a $80,000 boat to do this
probly a couple of scrap daddys could doit for ten grand

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RE: Carriers!!! - 1/22/2004 1:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		I have been doing much on my project lately, but I have restarted it now. I will use chain instead of brake pads, so the farther the airplane goes, the more weight its pulling, so it stops gently. I have also designed a retracrtable tailhook/tailskid, which would be retraced on the ground, so it would be a tailskid and would be vertical in the air, to catch the wire, and would be powered by gravity or a small spring.

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RE: Carriers!!! - 1/22/2004 6:48 AM   
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Status: offline 		id go with a spring or tension rod so no unexpected non grabs cach you on the water

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RE: Carriers!!! - 1/22/2004 8:42 AM   
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I'm not sure I understand
Right now I;m still inte ground-based stage of testing

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RE: Carriers!!! - 1/22/2004 11:27 PM   
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Status: offline 		sorry i meant for when your landing over water
if you just let the hook fall on its own weight theirs the chance it will wip up as you try to grab the cable and miss if your not carfull you end up a sub

id put foam in the planes you plan on doing this with untill ythe landing part is well proven

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RE: Carriers!!! - 1/23/2004 6:48 AM   
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id put foam in the planes you plan on doing this with untill ythe landing part is well proven


Nah, I'm using a PBF, so cheap and easy to build, if it goes down, I'll build another one
I just need to get the servos and the engine inflatable rafts.

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RE: Carriers!!! - 1/23/2004 7:00 AM   
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RE: Carriers!!! - 2/13/2004 8:13 PM   
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