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Forum: RC Gliders, Sailplanes and Slope Soaring
03-12-2011, 06:44 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 2,490
Posted By tkilwein

RE: Gliding In The Rain?

Fly in the rain or snow with the raydiowarmer tx glove.
Rain has not bothered the electric motors-speed controls so far, just dry the motor when done or rust starts forming.
Make sure you have...
Forum: RC Gliders, Sailplanes and Slope Soaring
12-08-2010, 04:13 PM
Replies: 145
Views: 59,939
Posted By tkilwein

RE: NEGATIVE FEEDBACK: Northeast Sailplane Products

This is how service should be and is from MR-KITE.
Placed a order monday morning and received it wed, 3 days.
He replied to my emails in minutes not forever and it was a small order.
Thanks...
Forum: RC Gliders, Sailplanes and Slope Soaring
11-07-2010, 10:22 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 4,722
Posted By tkilwein

RE: Cold Weather Flying

Darock,

You will like the raydio warm glove.
Used in -15f so far, have a small stock pile of hand warmers for the feet now.
Forum: RC Gliders, Sailplanes and Slope Soaring
11-06-2010, 09:29 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,658
Posted By tkilwein

RE: Knots for Winch and line hookups

The blood knot is a good one.
Your going to love that AVA. Still learning what mine will do.
Getting better at finding light thermals with it.
Forum: RC Gliders, Sailplanes and Slope Soaring
11-06-2010, 09:20 PM
Replies: 145
Views: 59,939
Posted By tkilwein

RE: NEGATIVE FEEDBACK: Northeast Sailplane Products

NES, should be, Never Expect Service.
I ordered on aug 12 and left voice and emails with no answers.
Order 4C63ECBFADxxx placed on their web site order process.
I also got WE ARE SORRY WE ARE...
Forum: Brushed/Brushless motors, speed controls, gear drives
06-30-2010, 06:59 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 911
Posted By tkilwein

RE: Razor service sucks

If you charged by CC then call CC up and dispute-revoke the payment.
I would give them one more email just to be fair and let them know you are going to dispute-revoke CC bill if no reply.
That...
Forum: RC Gliders, Sailplanes and Slope Soaring
05-22-2010, 08:44 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 2,453
Posted By tkilwein

RE: Keychain video camera mounted on my radian

Do a search on ebay, you can get the camera for 6 shipped and a 8gb card for 3 shipped both out of hong kong.
Takes ~12 days from order. Fisrt one disappeared so I got a second one.
They do work...
Forum: RC Gliders, Sailplanes and Slope Soaring
03-26-2010, 04:24 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,282
Posted By tkilwein

RE: prop

stretched BOT 17+ft, not quite the same but here is my setup
350-375w 12x6 graupner folder.
Climb rate at 5K elevation is ~800-1000ft/minute using eagle tree seagull pro.
pure sink the day of...
Forum: Brushed/Brushless motors, speed controls, gear drives
03-22-2010, 08:52 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 781
Posted By tkilwein

RE: current drop vs. battery rating

Is the wiring capable of the extra current - suffient wire-gauge size?
Do you have excessive long leads? Longer leads mean more resistance-voltage drops due to IR losses.
Either C rating or...
Forum: Brushed/Brushless motors, speed controls, gear drives
03-22-2010, 06:32 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 11,647
Posted By tkilwein

RE: Aeolian 910KV Motor

I hate to say it but the old saying.
"you get what you pay for " is true more often than not.
I also bought a motor off of ebay that was claiming 800watts continous.
Total crap, runs 350watts...
Forum: RC Gliders, Sailplanes and Slope Soaring
01-07-2010, 09:30 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 2,880
Posted By tkilwein

RE: cularis

I had to trim the tabs a bit to fit correctly.
lots of flights in no wind to very windy and no issues to date.
Forum: RC Radios, Transmitters, Receivers, Servos, gyros
12-29-2009, 11:52 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 914
Posted By tkilwein

RE: Any good electrical TX guys ??

Pop the back off and see what encoder ic they are using then pull up the data sheet and see if you have options.
Forum: RC Gliders, Sailplanes and Slope Soaring
12-13-2009, 10:36 PM
Replies: 152
Views: 51,713
Posted By tkilwein

RE: show us your gliders

A couple die hards out for a bit of the white stuff.
Forum: Giant Scale Aircraft - 3D & Aerobatic
12-11-2009, 09:14 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,210
Posted By tkilwein

RE: towerhobbies_problem

Check out the tower club, I have saved hundreds on merchandise discounts and shipping.
Forum: RC Gliders, Sailplanes and Slope Soaring
11-12-2009, 09:08 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 10,972
Posted By tkilwein

RE: Bird of Time, stretched to 157

Looking good, what size motor did you end up with?
Waiting to hear on the maiden.

I got a 45K heater for the garage, just in time for the 30f weather here.
So the next one gets built in the...
Forum: RC Gliders, Sailplanes and Slope Soaring
11-10-2009, 09:01 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 10,972
Posted By tkilwein

RE: Bird of Time, stretched to 157

Looking good.
It is level/straight with the bottom of the wing.
The CG was off (tail heavy) and I had some down in to compensate before moving the battery.
I have the CG right at the back edge...
Forum: RC Gliders, Sailplanes and Slope Soaring
10-28-2009, 08:10 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 10,972
Posted By tkilwein

RE: Bird of Time, stretched to 157

Hi Dave,

Looking good!
A lot done.
I wrapped the shear webbing at the root with kevlar so the rod would not separate the end joints.
With the extra length on mine, I thought a little extra...
Forum: RC Gliders, Sailplanes and Slope Soaring
10-26-2009, 06:22 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 10,972
Posted By tkilwein

RE: Bird of Time, stretched to 157

Hi Dave,

Nice to see others modifing kits a bit.
I will check later for pictures.
I bought some carbon tow 12k recently and I am going to use that in the next build.
If you put a electric...
Forum: RC Radios, Transmitters, Receivers, Servos, gyros
09-12-2009, 10:34 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 844
Posted By tkilwein

RE: Upgrade....help please

You will hear lots on just about every brand, both good and bad.
I had Futaba & JR and made the switch in 94 to all futaba, with no regrets.
Futaba was first with SYN TX and RX back then.
My...
Forum: RC Gliders, Sailplanes and Slope Soaring
09-01-2009, 08:07 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 2,547
Posted By tkilwein

RE: Newbie question regarding flying in cold weather...

It was snowing when out that day and the snow melted when it hit the warmer.
Have not had a problem with condensation inside the glove yet and it has been in rain and snow.
Temp inside the glove...
Forum: RC Gliders, Sailplanes and Slope Soaring
08-31-2009, 09:04 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 2,547
Posted By tkilwein

RE: Newbie question regarding flying in cold weather...

Frooze my ARSH of a few times then bought a raydiowarm tx-mitt. SWEET!!!
You can even put in a pocket warmer if you want.

No thermals here.
Forum: RC Gliders, Sailplanes and Slope Soaring
08-31-2009, 08:45 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 10,972
Posted By tkilwein

RE: Bird of Time, stretched to 157

With a slightly enlarged tail the 157 inch version turned very nice.
The 17ft and enlarged fins still turns nice, but not super tight.
I prefered the 157 inch between the two. Never flew a stock...
Forum: RC Gliders, Sailplanes and Slope Soaring
08-31-2009, 02:08 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 10,972
Posted By tkilwein

RE: Bird of Time, stretched to 157

The rudder was enlarged a bit, ~2.5in taller and ~1.5 longer.
Unfortunatly he is the only one I know affected by the sign.
There were a few that had strong feelings on this topic when voted on. ...
Forum: RC Gliders, Sailplanes and Slope Soaring
08-31-2009, 08:21 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 10,972
Posted By tkilwein

RE: Bird of Time, stretched to 157

My latest one, stretched a bit to much.
Forum: RC Gliders, Sailplanes and Slope Soaring
08-28-2009, 08:21 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 13,637
Posted By tkilwein

RE: New airfoil for Bird of Time?

I built a couple stretched BOT's and used carbon stripping on the spars to strengthen up a bit.
Both are made from the current kit sold on tower hobbies.

Flaps on one and ailerons and flaps...
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