Anybody knows what this could be?

I found the picture at http://f3a.sakura.ne.jp/radiocontrol...7/x200617.html

Which item, pipe mount or the data collection unit ?

scott

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So clean. . . so clean. . . .
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I truely believe these Jap' pilots take a series of picture (engine/internals etc) straight after delivery from the custom builders.
They then, always use those stock pictures when publishing images in magazines, on the web etc.
I just can't believe a human being can keep the engine compartment that clean during normal competitive training and comp' work.
Mind you, they tend to have a new plane custom built every five min's so what the problem?
Certainly not money.

Oh they keep it that clean all the time....having seen their support crews in action at the WC's

Their models are works of art....after seeing them in person everything else seems rather 2nd rate by comparison!

I'm using the same header and short pipe on my Astral XX. Believe me, no leaks, no oil residues. And the biggest advantage, no need to use a teflon connector either.

Adrian

Hi,

The question was : what's the electronic device just near the short pipe !

Scott, you think it's Data Collection Unit ? Can you give us more informations ?

Works exactly like the Internet Exploder (oh, sorry, Explorer). It secretly collects data from the plane and sells it to the highest bidder. After a while, your plane will get infected and starts doing strange things, to the point you have to buy new equipment.

Adrian

ha, very funny.

I'd love to find a place in the US I can buy that pipe mount system. Following that link, I just fell in love with some of their field gear like the airplane stands.

Just spoken with my Japanese colleague and whilst she is of the non-modeling fraternity, she reckons its something that needs to be in place as a requirement of being in a club. I'd guess that its some kind of R/C fuel shut-off valve.

UKPatternflyer

Maybe even some kind of alarm device??

Just runned thru Babelfish and it look like this:

That is a plane finder made by Tettra. When attached to a spare channel, this plane finder buzz when remotely switch on, to ease the pilot to find the plane or its remains. Another design have battery power indicator too so when the battery is below 4.7V the buzzer sound too. A gimmick device.

As to the cleaniness of the plane, this is common amongst most Japanese pilots. They take pride in keeping clean and tidy on every part of their plane. Also patternships built by Japanese professionals have second to none quality, everything is so tidy and clean, and they have many "secrets" into building a plane.

An Austral XX built by Mr. Naruke easy fetch US$10K, but even one wants to buy, the waiting list is usually one year, and the prospective owner have to be "preapproved" by Mr. Naruke before getting into this list...

Well, that counts all of us out then.