Radio Controlled Soaring Digest January 1999 Issue
Issue Contents:
Learning to fly in adverse conditions does a lot for confidence and skill.Les tells of having to fly a contest on plowed and leveled dirt fields.
Steve Jerry S. Dave Garwood plan the construction of their U2 scale model.use of 1/100 scale plans were transferred to a CAD file and scaled to 1/12″Rohacell was used on the fuselage plug which was cut out on a bandsaw. The HQ 10/2 used for the root and HQ12/2.5 at tip with 2% washout.
Good tips on what makes a good landing – a good pattern planning aheadaltitude management proper alignment with runway practice.
A round Optima lead acid battery is discussed. Features: tough wont spillbetter suited to high loads deep cycles than Deep Cycle Starter bat.
Martin leads off a new column The Natural Side of Thermal Soaring with adiscussion of lapse rates wet vs dry land thermal trigger w/ an example.
The strength requirements of a foam cutting bow is described. Stress-straincurves with yield are explained. Wire sags behind end during cut.
Paul MacCready of AeroVironment is developing proof of concept high alt.solar-electric powered crafts. Pathfinder Pathfinder+
Pt.5 of series is about mounting the wings to the fuselage. Clamps used toset carrier tube in fuse to set alignment. Skin planking is placed. Pilatus
1/5th scale Pilatus B-4 before covering is on the cover of RCSD. The model has all wood fuselage. Construction photos and notes are on Web page
Radio Controlled Soaring Digest January 1999 Issue
