In article <1992Jul21.124330.26940@linus.mitre.org> m14494@mwvm.mitre.org (Mike White) writes:
>Was out flying my Goldberg Electra last night. Getting braver, and tried
>flying in something more than a flat calm. The breeze was maybe 5 or 10
>mph, and there was a little bit of ridge lift comming over the top of a
>small rise. With maybe 1/4 power, the Electra would just hover motionless
>about 20 feet up, for a minute at a time! What a hoot!
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>I did have one nasty surprise: I'm using the Futaba 4NBLE radio, the one with the electronic speed controller built into the receiver. It works great, but... the radio has a thermal cutout, and when you operaten at low power levels for a while, the regulator chips heat up, and the the protection circuits shut down the motor. So, it was quitting about halfway through each flight; I had to land, let the receiver cool off, then launch and run the rest of the battery charge. Think I'm going to put in
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>* These are my opinions only.*
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I would like to call the net's attention to the line beginning, "I did have
one nasty surprise, though." This actually translates into about ten lines
of mostly uninformative gibberish. Will whoever this person's sysadmin is
either compel it to mend its ways or remove it from the net? RSK
