OzMo

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Errr ummm Thats not how you got the monicker "Clean" is it [:@][X(][&:]

Clean

nah, thats a longer story that involves control line and a sunburn.

spaceworm

We have time. Tell all!

Sincerely, Richard

Clean

It's also boring, I tell it in the 'how'd you get your handle thread' which I think there is one here, there and everywhere. (ie, use your search)

Quickly, I burned really bad one year at SIG's contest, head included. The hair I had just sucked up the lotion leaving me unprotected. Next year I went pre-emptive and shaved it off. Now the lotion went right on the head and I was protected but the MrClean thing started there but really kicked into gear when I started flying Combat in Wichita and Kansas City with the SPAD guys. I wasn't Clean, I didn't have the handle applied, when I was flying Gremlins in the local KC club. But when we went to play with the Wichita guys I was introduced that way.

Kinda funny feeling when they're saying this guy is coming down to whup up on ya, and you don't realize they're referencing you.

cajun1

Thanks Patrick for the plans for the LE Crusher. I built one many years ago, and apparently lost it in one of my few shop cleanings. No self respecting SPAD should need to wear a sharp LE,,,,,ever. I've been using the triple score method for rounding but the crusher works better.

And thanks Clean for the Sickle plans. I guess mine got lost in the same shop cleaning. I've got to stop cleaning. Just gets me in trouble. The Sickle was one of the best of the best SPAD designs. A great combat design till combat went to the long wing glider fad. But it is a great, quick building plane for just boring fast holes in the sky. The "Reaper" was thinking when he put this one on paper.

Clean

If you ever get a chance, build and combat some light foamy Gremlins with medium power 25's on them. They'll launch easily enough but they won't be so high speed. They turn quickly and are great fun for pursuit combat. Best done with 1 on 1. You're not out trying to drape as many streamers on a wing as possible. You just need to get a cut on your opponent and keep yours away from him.

PatrickCurry

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NP Cajun.  I wouldn't mind having the LE crusher, I just hate taking up that much space in my shop.  Would be cool to see a wall mounted version that would be up out of the way.  Maybe you can post us some pictures when you get that done.  

FrankC29

One of my favortie Spads was a Sickle with a Thunder Tiger .36 on a mouse can pipe, That particular engine ran so well it would idle perfectly, then accelerate perfectly, pointing straight up at all times. I spent a whole afternoon doing space shuttle launches off the grass.

Clean

I'd just like to say a Flipper Deluxe with a Tower 46 won the SPADfest 2011 Speed Competition.

The computer crashed and threw away the speed passes by another design and the third competitor didn't get close enough to the mic I think, they both looked and sounded a bit faster but the Flipper pilot was doing 115 and flying the course well, Ya gotta do both things to win. I still feel bad about the stupid computer though. Gonna have to setup a backup recorder next time.

Gravityisnotmyfriend

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Yeah BOTH times! Do you really expect me to believe a computer glitch happened to me and only me BOTH times I went up so your precious flipper could win! Shenanigans!

Clean

IF I run the event again this year I'm going to have my video camera going at the same time so we have a secondary backup to read off of.

Won't work for YOUR planes but everyone else will appreciate the insurance.

PatrickCurry

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LOL Shenanigans.  LOL  Awesome.

Clean

Awesome to you.  I tell ya, the only thing worse then looking at a guy and saying my computer just locked up and threw your runs away is to look at him a second time and tell him the same.  Worked for everyone else.  Don't know why, didn't do anything different, but it locked up and left me cold.  I checked naming conventions and all, but it just locked up.

There was a radar gun there but i've never had good results from the radar gun and with this computer setup the only time I've had problems is with an electric plane that just wasn't loud enough.  I'm running software on my phone right now but when I buzzed it with my USS it didn't register the stick.  Either too quite or to low a pitch for the phone to pick up.

draftman1

with the sickle talk going on, I thought I would build one today. here is my version, its for SSC combat, a 48" w.s. and a magnum 15 XLS for power

PatrickCurry

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I just meant the word.   Awesome word Gravity was busting your chops with. Sorry 'bout the computer problems.  Only thing I might recommend there is booting into Linux and finding software that'll do the same thing you're doing now.  That *may* be more reliable....  I'm diggin on Linux.  On the other hand it's probably more of a "sh!^ happens" situation that everybody understands Clean.  Maybe it was a situation like the "quiet" or "low pitched" that you mentioned..... maybe that plane's engine or airframe was just emitting some kind of harmonic that didn't allow it to be picked up.  Everybody knows you're the first one who wants to give everybody a fair run and get the best out of every pilot and every plane there.  You do a great job with the competition.  Of course that doesn't mean you're not going to catch hell when "sh!^ happens" just like you catch hell for everything else.  

Clean

understood, I was just filling in the folks that were driving by.  Sides, if you can't give your friends a ration of S, who can you give it too?

MrGreenSpeed

I like it, let us know how it works [8D]

What did You use for spar height?
is it a tapered spar?
Jeff

draftman1

I finaly got to maiden and WOW! I was impressed! it would roll forever!. I just need a couple of very minor adjustments and its good to go!

1" on the spad and yes, its tapered on top and bottom, about 7/16' on the ends