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- From: robertw@informix.com (Robert Weinberg)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rc
- Subject: Re: Hover achieved... with my Glider!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.141857.24660@informix.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 14:18:57 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.090149.12274@rice.edu>
- Sender: news@informix.com (Usenet News)
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- Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
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- In article <1992Jul22.090149.12274@rice.edu> rusty@masc.rice.edu ( Robert
- Kelley) writes:
- > 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!
- > >
- > >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 i
- > >
- > >
- > >
- > >air scoops to keep the receiver cooler.
- > >
- > >
- > >
- > >************************
- > >* These are my opinions only.*
- > >************************
- >
- >
- > 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
-
- Interesting. At my site, Mike's comments came through loud, clear, and
- intelligible, with information that was important to me.
-
- BTW, Robert, you can get good results, when complaining about posting technique
- and/or etiquette, by e-mailing to postmaster@whatever_site. This also prevents
- embarassing the individual on the net, and eliminates wasted bandwidth (of the
- kind I am creating here:>)
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