To all that own a Morris Hobbies Sledge 540 please read further. I received a prototype arf this winter and decided to try a counterbalanced elevator in the plane. I am very pleased with the improved performance of this tail and have decided to offer, at no charge, a simple plan available from me via email (if you have a cad program) or US Mail if you do not have a cad program. Do not call Morris for these, they will not have them at this time. I will offer either tail in the new kits, in fact you will have a choice of building it either way in the new kits. To get this new tail you must be a sledge owner, send me an email at [email protected] with the request, include your email address if you have a cad program, or include your US Mail address if you need a printed tail plan. Any questions on this please email me privately at the above email address, I rarely check Pvt Mess. from RCU so the service would be slower.
I know many of you will wonder what the observed performance enhancements are. Well, I have found it performs better walls, parachutes and tighter spins (upright only the inverted is no difference). If you have a built sledge, I am not sure it is worth the trouble to build a new tail but if you are as performance driven as me, it might be worth it. Hope this helps all of you sledge profilers. Thanks, Jeff Williams. (Sledge designer)

Jeff,
Any idea when Morris is scheduled to roll out the Sledge ARF?

Wade, I have no idea, and I am not hiding anything I promise. However, for what it is worth he wants it to be the next arf they do. Jeff

Jeff,
Come on man, give us some of that insider information! Do you really expect us to believe that dumptruck load of **** answer you gave us? Just kidding! That was my April Fools joke on you. Did I win a new Sledge kit for being a week late with it? I'm trying to be a comedian but I guess you can tell I suck at it!


I do appreciate the honest reply to the question though.

Wade

hey jeff, what kind of equipment do you use on your own sledges? servos, radio, engine, prop, rx, battery, etc?

Wade, comedy is not my strong point either. The arf I got was a quality check of a certain manufacturer. I was lucky, it was rtf in 4 hours, seriously.
Lagcisco, I use
Airtronics Stylus transmitter
Airtronics standard servos (94102Z), switch, receiver (92777Z)
720 nimh 4.8v batteries
MVVS 49 with mini tuned pipe and 5% fuel
I switch between the zinger 11 X 4 and APC 11.5 X 4
Sullivan and Dubro hardware
Sonictronics servo arms
My own Carbon fiber landing gear
Usually ultracote, sometimes towerkote and monokote
Jeff Williams

Jeff,
I've read several posts stating that the MVVS engines are a little touchy in getting set right, or in other words a little finicky in their tuning. What's your take on this?

Wade

Certain models of the MVVS line are fickle. The 49, 91 and 160 all have new carbs and are great, easy to tune. I almost never use my electric starter and rarely touch the needles.

Jeff, I received my plans today..Thanks..............John

I forgot that you use Airtronics radio equipment. That's why I started to like you in the beginning... <G>

Where do you get those servo arms Jeff? I'd like to give them a try...

The strength and smoothness of Airtronics servos has always impressed me. Their recievers have always been tiny, while the other guys have just recently come out with little ones calling them "micro" and all that. Airtronics also gives you high capacity batteries to begin with...I guess it's our little secret.

Any idea what RPM that .49 will turn that 11.5x4?

I gotta tell you guys.....the post above, that appears to have come from me, DID NOT. I received an email indicating that I had received a post to a thread that I had subscribed to....this one....and upon reading it I realized that I did not write that post. Hell....I dont even own an MVVS....JWilliams can vouch for that.

Dont know whats going on...but I think maybe I need to change my password or something.

Scott Kimball

Scott,
That's wild! Looks like we have an imposter lurking about. You sure you don't have split personality and your other side did it?

Wade, sure I have a split personality.....but you can rest assured the he knows nothing of RC nor MVVS'. As a matter of fact he only knows two things.......BEER and WOMAN and a few other odds and ends that are only associated with those two.


I changed my password last night just in case. But looking at my post count, he couldnt have posted anymore than just a couple.

Would the real TAILSPNR please stand up ! ! !


PS....to make probably the strongest case here...those who know me, know I would NEVER use the word fickle pirate:

Scott, that is the weirdest thing that has happened to me on RCU. I wrote that yesterday as a reply to Wade and it showed up under your name, go figure. I have no idea how I did that. I mean I did not mean to, oh well.
Bottlerocketwar, I get those sonictronic servo arms thru Morris Hobbies, or your LHS should be able to order them. I love them, I was a Dubro arm user till I tried the sonictronic arms. I have not tached the mvvs 49 with the apc yet but when I do I will post the numbers. The engine has great transition too.
John, glad to hear you got the tail plan. Jeff W.

Tailspnr - I'd change my password again if I were you! Just in case Jeff does it again<LOL>
Kevin

Thanks for posting this Jeff.

I sent you an email.



BTW: I can't say enough good things about how you have handled all the questions on RCU concerning the Sledge.
You developed a top notch airplane, and you have handled all the questions in a top notch fashion. Way to go Man!

Yeah,, now we know!! We've been watching you guys

I had it happen to me once..I was (I think) going to edit a post and I came up in a different guys post. I just backed out rather than hack his post, but it was weird.

Sounds like some kind of very rare RCU glitch. You guys must have made the RC Gods mad and they messed with ya!

its a bug! *gasp* put on your php hacking hat..

Hey Jeff- watch out for Latch66! He's sucking up for something! I guess he had second thoughts about my offer for him to move into my shop when I told him that he had to do windows! <LOL>
Kevin

LOLROTF

Kevin,

What? You aren't expecting me?? I'm walking up to your front door right now!

Man this looks like a great place to live!

I talked to tailspnr, and we figure it out. He used my laptop at the Houston pro bro to check in on RCU at the hotel. He never logged out so when I used my laptop yesterday at work it was still signed in under his name. At least it we know there is no bug.
Kevin, latch he always wants something. He wanted to live at my house too. OK nuff harrassment of latch, he is a great guy. Those tail plans are in the mail.
Jeff W.

Man! Y'all weren't suppose to figure my plan out!

I was going to be the "ProBro Bum".

I had it all figured out. I could stay with Paul a little while, then move on to Kevin's. Then go check out Jeff, and then down to see Ulf, then over to Gator's, then to Billy's, then to Scott's, then to Chuck's, etc. You get the picture now. I could cover my food, cot and flying supplies by helping build projects and by test flying new designs. It was such a great plan!




Thanks for the plans Jeff. I appreciate them.

You can stay here!! Of course you have to build for room and board, and I have 4 or 5 planes going all the time. So come on down, I got the glue, sandpaper and cot.

Here is the question of the decade.

How many planes could we all build if we did not get on RCU?

Me personally, 8 to 10 planes. How about you guys?
Jeff W.