Your mistake was buying the Stealth. No wonder you didn't find it.[]

Matthew

Speaking of Twistoholics, I received my Twist Plug N Play today. I bought it on Ebay "new" for $129.00. Pretty good for a 279.00 kit huh? There was a catch, the fuse was broken in half. I bought a brand new fuse for 40 bucks, so now I can piece it back together. Yay!

The plug and play has the Evo .46, I have the OS 50 SX in my Yellow Twist. I do not know anything about the Evo. For fun I might just chuck the Evo and put a 4 Stroke in the plug and play Twist.

What do you guys think? Are 2 Twists to Many?

Crazy?

Nah Cornduster, never too many. I wish I had another one I could put one of my idle two strokes in. I wonder how it would perform with a Webra .35?
The shop teacher here was out on the football field flying his little electric. He got it up a bit high in the wind and the last he saw of it, the little guy was flying backwards, valiantly trying to make it back to the field.
Sayonara

Two Twists? I have four and Jack211 has five. Course I have to put the pieces back together. I've been telling Jack that we should buy a dozen, just so we'll never be without.....it's still a possibility. Peace

You know you're in bad shape when you are startled awake out of a sound, winter's sleep. You turn the light on, put your feet on the floor, and think.

Wife says, "What's wrong!?"

"I don't know. I can't remember if I put the charger on the Twist--and if I did, did I put it on for the nickel metal hydride or the nickel cad. I gotta go check.

"Then there's that loose ski I forgot to tighten. Gotta be ready to fly tomorra. Oh, then there's the head bolts to check, 2.5 mm allen wrench. I haven't done that in a while. Best do it while I'm thinking about it. Maybe I could...."

Wife, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaarrrrrrrrrrrgh!"

Still up?

Corn, I envy you that P and P Twister. I need those new white/green/ blue colors.

Oh, and for those of you who love to hear who flew and how, Downtrodden and I flew into the last minutes of light tonight, 20 degrees, cold, a 10 mph east wind, cross to the road. I spent the morning on a buddy cord with a teenage flyer who's father bought my Model Tech Magic. He did well--without worry of planting the Magic, his first 3D plane, on the pond. I DID get in a couple flights with the Katana V2, but not with the Twist, which I was saving for time with Downtrodden in the afternoon.

What Downtrodden doesn't know (and don't tell him) is that I flew the Twist OS .61 again after he left. The wind had died to nothing, and I just couldn't stop myself from going up one more time, hovering and inverted spinning forever, into those pink clouds and sunset sky. I had to get up 200 feet before the yellow and purple shimmered in the sunset sky.

Without any wind, she landed hot, in shadows, on the snow-covered pond--and ran out toward the road, much further than planned by this expert pilot, hit a clump of snowplow ice/snow with the port wing, broke the nylon screw, and the wing dropped off, servo leads hanging, the engine still running. She sat there, idling, as if saying, "How do I get up again without my wing?" Wounded, she was, and was I.

I cracked the ply brace next to the wing support. CA and baking soda fixed her this evening. She's ready for tomorrow--and some videos which we hope to share with you all soon. You guys REALLY have to see what Downtrodden can do with a Twist.

Y'all sleep well, sleep fast. Tomorrow is another Twist-flying day, if you're lucky.

Jack

Aircraft Hauler 1 (gutted out Lumina Van bought for $100) is warming, the batteries are charged, the hot chocolate is in the thermos, an extra gallon of fuel is loaded, the air is calm, but the sun has abandoned me this morning. The chill will be permeating and I can just see those poor CA hinges becoming more and more brittle with every flight. Fortunately, wind chill doesn't affect the mundane. It should be a fun-filled, albeit bone-chilling day here on the frozen Swedetown ponds of the north.

Jack, what's the secret with CA and baking soda? I haven't heard that trick... is it like an accelerator?

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It makes an excellent filler. Just pour the baking soda in place of where you'd normally use tri-stock (balsa fillet) and saturate the powder with thin CA. Rock solid and super strong. If you never want to buy accelerator again, just pour enough water to JUST disolve any amount of baking soda.....instant accelerator. Sorry, Jack I figure you're probably still thawing out. ( Jack211 introduced me to this baking soda idea.) I don't know about you, but If I jumped right in the sack with the missus after freezing my keister off...she'd give birth to an Eskimo.

Gary, not only is baking soda an "accelerator," but also becomes a rock hard (though sandable) material for filets and pockets you need filled. Downtrodden tells me the accelerator spray we use has baking soda in THAT--though my bottle doesn't say so. Could we make our own spray accelerator with rubbing alcohol and baking soda in solution?

I secure my Sullivan tail wheel wire with the stuff, too. Make the hole, put some baking soda in there with a fine needle, insert the wire, let CA, thin, percolate down the hole. Then add a dollop of baking soda to the top of the wire, where it bends over the rudder--which seals it from castor, too. When I jammed my Uproar, inverted, into the ground--at speed--that tail wheel wire was STILL soundly into the rudder. To recover the Sullivan wheel I had to pry it out of that balsa with a big screwdriver. It came out with baking soda AND balsa still stuck to it.

I made Downtrodden a believer--and that AIN'T easy to do with anything that comes from MY mouth. Watch out for the fumes.

By the way, why don't we see Fyrwalker in here any more. He okay? I hope he's still panicking cows with his Twist.

Jack

"...So can I."

Love it, Waldo. Downtrodden and I had hoped to get some videos today--in cloudy but sunny skies, like yesterday, but after 9:30 when we got to Swedetown Ponds it was cloudy and snowing. Damn cold. The gentle wind (7-9 mph forecast) had become over 10, gusting to 18--which doesn't bother us. Visibility was okay, so we flew and flew, leaving about 3:30.

Damn, I wish I could SHOW you and Gary what Down is doing with his Twist. Almost every flight has something new. As you know, sometimes the wind and conditions of flight give you an unrepeatable move. Downtrodden always finds those moments. Today he fell straight down, on his tail, out of a hover, for 60 feet or so. I had ONE the other day, hovering. The Twist hung on her prop, started cavitating and rotating, torquing, at the same time while FALLING. She made two revolutions, nose straight up, before I had to recover her from the death-defying fall.

Gary, I didn't read Down's entry before I answered your question re: baking soda, but you see how convinced HE is of the value of baking soda and CA. It didn't take me as long to convince him of THAT combination as it did to get him to try his OS .61FX (a brand new engine in his hangar which needed a ride) on his Twist. And, Gary, you HAVE to put the OS .61 on the Twist. You MUST. It's the perfect combination of power, thrust, weight, and fuel economy. Do you believe 25 minute flights? It will change your style of flying. And tell Fyrwalker.

Jack

P.S. (Down) Nice pic of Nancy in the paper. Don't you DARE touch her with those frozen fingers!

This morning I was going to charge up the old Twist, then notice the Twist's pappy looking all sad and mopey. I charged up the Pizazz instead and had a good day out at the dry lake. No wind and about 70 deg.

Tim, beautiful pic. And I hope that 70 "degrees" was centigrade! We had maybe 20 degrees here, F.

And how do you rate the Pizzaz vs the Twist? That looks like a plane I could love. What size 4 stroke is that? A Saito?

I'm flying an OMP Katana V2 (profile) now, too--just so I don't wear out my Twists. It's a great plane. KE's much better than the Twist, but in other ways fails. I have a SuperTigre .45 on it and its under powered. I put an ST .51 on it, but can only get 9 mins flight time. Not good.

Jack (and never tell me temperatures over 40 degrees, F., in winter)

Jack, I'm sure sorry the weather was so nice here today. I won't tell you about the shurbs and trees starting to bud out, or the trout season about to open. The Pizazz has an .82 Saito with a 14x4 Pro Zinger. With 15% nitro, it won't spool up too well with a 15x4 PZ at this altitude. I can't fly either plane to their abilities, but they fly very much the same to me. The Pizazz is a little easier to knife edge.

Tim, that's one thing with your heat and altitude: the engines don't enjoy being over-propped. Here we can run a Master Airscrew 13 x 5 on a SuperTigre .45--all winter, but when summer comes, we have to go down in prop size or the engines and glo plugs revolt.

I'll have to drop by your place some day and fly in that incredible (winter) weather.

Jack

Cornduster Congrats on the 2nd twist, rock n roll I say,

Ghee Grose Yup thats the box and plane I saw, that is now a Target for me at target, Thanks.

Jack & DownT Thats great about the Baking soda trick, I've used it in epoxy, but I never thought of it with CA, it helps the sanding well with epoxy, and congrats on the flight times. I can't wait to see some videos, I'm going to have to invest in a good Cam so I can show you guys some of these hippy Yankee moves too.

TimC What can I say?? You Bas%$#@ !!!!!! 70 DEGREES and flying, I'm with Jack on that one, were going to have to come and experience your winter,


OKAY, Saturday Morn i woke up and the sun was a beaming, (8:00am) by 8:05 I was out of bed and dressed, checked the wind and we were at a gentle 27 mph, snow storm on its way, the temp was 4 degrees But i was ready, all charged and plane completely put together, I was hell bent on anything stopping me from Twist action today!! I didn't care,,, I was gonna FLY !!!!! WAHOOOO,,,,,!!!! brought up all my stuff out of the basement, ran into the garage, where I was going to fire her up and and shoot down the driveway to the lawn turn her around and taxi right down the yard in front of the house into the back yard and over the cornfields,,, whats this,,,,[:-] wait,,,,, no,,,,, [&:] I NEVER BOUGHT FUEL ,,, NNNNNOooooooooooooooo,, [:@] I'm just doomed,,, [:'(] doomed I say, the band had to play so I didn't have time to go today, Moms B-day and the Big V day is this week so money is gone.. now it is Sunday morn 3 degrees I still have no fuel and there is a fresh 4 to 8 inches of snowy powder all over the freaking place. now all my stuff is back in the, basement fuel will have to be bought next Wednesday as it wasn't in the budget for this week,,,,, dooomed,,,,

Well, On a bright note, Our band was asked to open for Marshall Tucker this August, so we excepted,,,, BUT THATS NOT FLYING,,,, UGHHHHHHHHHHH

And 9:30 - 3:30 is some long time flyin in this weather Jack & Down,, My hat is off to you guys... I wish there was a smiley face bowing pic, It would be in this post... but here [:-]

Monday[&o]! It's going to be a long week. This ripe brain needs a break from schoolin' with all those young folks. The U can do/23cc project is on hold and to make matters worse...I have to shovel the drive before I leave. (Again, in the dark.) It's so gosh darn cold that even after driving a half hour, the car won't warm up and as long as gas is $2.30 a gal. I'm not going to let it idle! So what does this have to do with the price of chicken guano in Peru? Nothing, but it does help to release the negative vibes after putting it to electronic paper. Consider it therapy. So please folks, don't hold back this week...get out there and fly your little hearts out and please make sure you come here and write about it so that I may live vicariously through you. Merci beaucoup. Peace.

By the way TimC that is an awesome pic....

Waldo....checked the wind and we were at a gentle 27 mph, snow storm on its way, the temp was 4 degrees. But i was ready...

Aaaah, my kinda day, for sure. I'm proud of you, Waldo. You're a worthy Twistaholic. Love those "gentle" gusts.

Jack

It was a chilly 68 deg. yesterday, hazy skies, birds singing, butterflies flitting, bees buzzing, flowers starting to bloom, children laughing and playing, dogs frolicking, trout jumping so I thought "Why not show what you're made of like Jack211, Waldopepperaxel and Downtrodden?" I loaded up and, despite the chill, had a nice time out at "Crater Lake" (most of them mine).

Re: Moderators

Twistaholics and all who tread here:

We should take a minute to thank our hard-working "moderators" in the Twist thread, one of the longest and most active on RCUniverse. They work quietly behind the scenes, reading every submission, making sure the prose is civil and the submissions are within the bounds of RCU Policies. [I URGE YOU ALL TO FOLLOW THE LINK SUPPLIED (after "Please resist the urge to curse...") TO GET THEM ALL.] Moderating is a tough but critical job--and they don't get paid for it.

On another RCU thread, I just had an unfortunate experience where the moderators, trying to keep the thread on topic, went a bit far, deleting, without notice or apology, material that may not have been specifically on topic, but did encourage the humanity, humor, and general "community" of the thread participants.

So, hats off to you MODERATING Twistaholics. You have found the perfect balance of tolerance and editorial authority--and thereby maintained the humanity of this thread, and the joy of friendly banter, creating true comrades, world-wide, in this fraternity of plane insane fliers. We owe you.


Jack

Thanks Jack,,, But I didn't get up there I never minded the wind after I learned how to land back in 1972, As a matter of fact the wind helps with so many different cool effects on any aircraft, why I was hovering the Sig Kadet long before 3D was around, I tell you with a good 20 - 25 mph wind you could fly that plane like a kite, well come to think of it you could do it in a 5 mph wind as well, its Huge and lite, I have often landed that plane like a Heli in a high wind and I'm talking nose straight into it at full power, I still have that plane today, I now have added a bomb dropping hatch to her and release parachuters out of it. [8D] just for something fun to do. But the wind offers incredible looking maneuvers you just can't do on a calm day. I also have ripped wings right off a plane flying in 30+ winds The Eagle 63 couldn't take a OS .40 full power going with the wind on a small dive, I was trying to see how fast it would go, I'd have to say it was doing about 65 when the wing ripped right in half and left the aircraft then I stood there with my mouth open watching the pieces from the wing flutter around and the fuse must have got up to about 100 cause I never shut the motor down, anyway when it hit the ground the motor was completely buried in the ground not one piece of it was visible, I like pushing the envelope, it tells me what companies know how to design and Carl Goldberg, Sig, has been favorites of mine since the start, Great planes makes some nice models too, but they are very fragile, I wish Hanger 9 would put out some Kits cause the Twist has impressed me to no end. Talk about pushing the envelope I think the Twisty pushes my envelope.

DownTrodden - Mondays would be great If it was a flying day,, but its usually not, Dang it all..