Glacier Girl

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Grounded,
Ouch, that's where I was buying mine too.
Tower .125" x 24" tubes = $3.49
Kite supplier .125 x 48" tubes = $2.85 and price drops the more you order.
Take a look. http://www.goodwindskites.com/goodwi...ultrudedcarbon

RayRay

GG,

I bought mine from the LHS for $2.49. They measure 2.8mm x 24" and are made from MidWest also.

I installed the CF rod in my new Stryker in the underside going left to right near the back of the plane. My fear is that I dremeled too close to the motor mount area, about 4" from the trailing edge, and in doing so will cause this sensitive area to weaken. I could always fill the grove with CA for added strength.

The grove for the CF rods measure 3.5mm deep. I will post some pics later.

Your thoughts,

RR

RayRay

Hey guys,

I finally painted my new Stryker. It was supposed to be midnight blue but that color doesn't do well in the air.
Sooo, the color is now Ferrari yellow with blue wingtips on the top and Navy blue / Ferrari gold on the bottom. I would like to thank Rosario Casagrande from Ferrari Motor Works for his time and impeccable paint job [sm=thumbup.gif][sm=thumbup.gif][sm=thumbup.gif][sm=thumbup.gif][sm=thumbup.gif]
I hope the plane flys as fast as it looks.


Thank you,
Ray Ray
"Tailwind"
[8D]

Glacier Girl

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RayRay,
If you are running the rod also through the fuselage front to back, you should have no problem.
I just did a rather not so perfect landing, hard enough to snap the Mega motor shaft, didn't even budge the foam.

RayRay

GG,

When you get a chance can you please post some pics of the underside of one of your Strykers. I want to see how far from the back of the plane you installed the CF rod horizontally.
More pics to come....

I just realized that I should of posted this in the Stryker thread. Oh well, I could always direct them here.

Ray Ray
"TW"

RayRay

Hi All,

Here's a view of the Stryker from the bottom. Pics were taken in high resolution.

Features:

BP-21 brushless motor w/30amp ESC
Hitec 555 Rx
HS-81 servos
Dymond 3 cell 2000mah lipo
Balsa elevons with Dubro hinges
24" CF rod across aft of plane
7 x 6 prop or APC 6 x 5

Total cost for this build: $196.74 (without Tx)
Total cost without electronics: $43.74

Flying this bird for 15min: Priceless


Still thinking of a name for her. Original name was "Midnight Express" but now that the paint scheme has changed I was thinking of "Fire Fly", "Yellow Bandit or "Yellow Blaze". Bottom is still Navy blue so if I can't think of anything better, I may stick with Midnight Express or perhaps "Sunlight Express" would be more appropriate.

Any suggestions? Please nothing whimpy like "Sunflower or "Daisy". Its a fighter plane, remember.

Tailwind

Diggidy

RayRay,

I like the paint job. If you're a little apprehensive about flying her. I'll maiden her for you.

Digg

RayRay

Digg,

Apprehensive? Yeah right. I can't wait to fly this bird, but thanks for the offer.

RR

mmmm pie.
I like pie.

Airbourne in Japan

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hey RayRay, how about calling it 'the blue and yellow stryker that is wickedly fast' or 'blue and yellow thunder' ???

finished the gws me109 which makes 3 planes to maiden and a re-engined badius to trial. currently working on the timy and fragile hyperion cap, a plane that will be able to do a good impression of a box of matches with one crash, but it looks good. about another 2 hours. got the timy but stonger spitfire from ak models (he's so cheap and his planes are good), next up for building. this could be a speedster, haven't decided yet and anyway i've run out of himax 2025-5300 motors.

Airbourne in Japan

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hey Diggedy, check out these hacker videos of big glow planes with electric motors. note the setups, some of them are staggering http://www.rccraze.com/hackervideos.html

afineman

Hey All

Went out this morning to take some pictures so I could participate in the "Pictures from around the world" thread on RCGroups.

These pictures were taken with my Nikon Coolpix 5600 mounted on my Godzilla stick.

Enjoy

AgCat1982

Excellent photos, Hollywood!

iflyatcae

My flat spins are where you lower throttle, left aileron, left rudder, and pull up a little. All I did was not pull up enough and had too much throttle, then got too fast and when I pulled back, too many Gs.

AgCat1982

OK. I was just wondering. In the full scale world, a flat spin is something you should not be able to get into unless something is wrong with your plane. If you do, the odds are almost certain that the end results will be fatal.

You are doing the right thing to get into a spin, from which you recover by pointing the nose down, leveling the wings and adding throttle. A flat spin can occure if you are tail heavy. The fact that you are "flat" means there is NO air moving over the wing or tail surfaces, preventing you from pointing the nose down! Of course, I am talking about full scale and have not tried to spin my models. Yet.

Diggidy

Hey guys,

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Airbourne in Japan

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well no flying so far this week, and i've got 5 free days. moday was too windy and yesterday was raining all day. i'm into building some wooden planes now, after a session on foam planes. nearly finished the hyperion CAP, which looks really nice, but the wood is really thin. next up is the ak models spitfire and then the cub. after that, maybe the ak models mustang, although i'm still sorting out the parkzone mustang so it flys without crashing. the only thing with woodn models is that the electric ones, especially the smaller ones, often use really thin wood and i'm not sure if they'd be worth fixing after, say a nose in. the ak models are ok as they are so cheap ($54), but the $100 other ones are too expensive to buy replacement parts were available. the only wooden electric i've flown is the wattage wild cat, which has a really strong wing but weak plastic / wood fus, but i'm very careful with that but it's still fun. the 2m beast is built like a tank as is my other thunder tiger plane, the glow tiger trainer. looks like the winter mass production is drawing closer !! it takes me a long wile to maiden new planes, but i've got a 5 year plan to build and start flying my planes. you only need a few really, but i look at them like my cd collection (200+), i'll eventually fly what i fancy when i fancy. in truth, i have to keep an interest up for potentially 15 years as my heart is really in flying real planes and gliders, but alas....!!

ktaylor

Hi doug, and everyone else in here,,, OH MY G....... !*&^^%$ there are 193 pages to this thread?????????????? NOOOOOOO!! I have managed to read about 50 of the pages from the other thread on badius,,,, I"ll never catch up. Actually it's fairly enjoyable reading. Lets me learn from your mistakes before I make them. Yea Brent & ray Ray I am hooked. I think Liz might be regretting buying me that Mini-Piper that got me started on this. OK, gotta go,, otherwise soon I'll be hearing " honeeeeeey. come spend time with me...." cya,, Ken

Glacier Girl

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Grounded,
Here's one for your buddies at the flying field.
"Rising Sun"
The one in the back round is "Nasty, my high speed foamy. Equipt with folding wings, which activate in dives. Makes the hole in the ground so much bigger.

AgCat1982

Where, GG?

Glacier Girl

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UP there Sticks, What you need glasses?

Airbourne in Japan

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nice one gg. perfect weather this morning off flying the wild cat and glow tiger trainer...more later !! oh yeah, nearly 1000 posts, do i get a medal or a cheque from Hazy. talking of whom, were are you Lou and what the heck has Hazy been doing recently ???

Glacier Girl

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Grounded,
1000 posts means you are officialy an "old fart", like me and Sticks.

Glacier Girl

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One other note Grounded,
Balsa is harder to fix then foam, and the "Clench Level" or "Pucker Factor" goes way up on maiden launch.
Best of luck on them.

RayRay

Dougy,

Lou hasn't been online for the last 2 weeks due to computer problems. He should be back this week.
Hazey OD again, back in rehab. Poor little guy.

Tailwind

Diggidy

RayRay,

Please don't call Hazy little. I was talking to Lou a while back and he said that Hazy is only 4 feet 9 inches tall. Supposedly Hazy has a complex about it. He'll be crying in his glue for a week now.