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Old 06-24-2006 | 06:01 AM
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From: Nicosia, CYPRUS
Default RE: Showtime

Construction on the showtime progresses. Servo issues solved -- matchbox does the trick - this is also a pretty easy way of aligning the elevator halves. I test fired the YS110 the other day and had the throttle reversed on it so it went up to full throttle and scared the ********* out of me! It also filled the shop up completely with a noxious white smoke that made me leave the shop for half an hour! I had a vent fan going, but the smoke from the YS was too much for it.

The YS vibrates quite a bit, though, and it split the balsa floor of the showtime -- gonna have to dremel out some more and put some glass cloth down. Also, hooked up the incidence meter to the wings and stabs -- DANG! my right rear stab is off 1.8 degrees. All of the other surfaces were within .5 degrees or so of eachother, but I'm gonna have to do something about that stab -- probably dremel that too and then glue it.