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Old 06-03-2007 | 11:26 PM
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victorzamora
 
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Default RE: Reversing rotation on a glow engine

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Sorry about that...I was in a rush right as I was posting it, and decided I wouldn't preview it. I guess I should have checked something that complicated. Ignore the dots, they're just so that it reads the spaces. I definitely don't blame you for not understanding the last post. It's still pretty hard to understand....considering how annoying the dots are, but it's hard enough to explain in real life...so I won't be offended if you don't get them. A guy here built a HUGE B-25 from original plans...had 24 servos and 2 g62's in it. Like a 15 foot wingspan, though I can't quite remember. It was almost ten years ago, and I just turned 17 so...I was little. Plus, I wasn't in the hobby yet...so it was just "big" to me. He got up and flew a couple laps around the pattern when an engine died. This guy was a great pilot, he was actually the first person here in El Salvador to fly R/C and was devout to flying every weekend. First person there, last person leaving. He was doing a low pass, when the engine died. He gave it full throttle because he was at the end of the runway and he had to clear the electricity cables. When he gave it power, it torqued it into a full Snap-Roll headed directly at the ground. On the maiden take-off on my Kyosho Spitfire .46, i gave the throttle a QUICK boost from like 50% throttle to full...and it snapped. His plane became splinters. Mine was perfectly safe (my plane that is, my pants had a wet stain in them and my heart decided to punish me by not beating). And, eventhough full-scale planes are worried about efficiency, one big reason for the inwards spinning props is because most military planes have a bit of help for the pilots that commercial planes don't have.

Isn't that what everyone wants?? time and money. Calm, warm and sunny days would be nice, but if every day were calm, warm and sunny, when would we ever get a chance to build?? Weather here has seemed to be pretty windy, so I guess I'd sacrifice my lovely rainy-building days to get some pretty-flying days.