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Post by Richard on Sept 26, 2004 16:26:01 GMT -7
Fall is here in the midwest with those great fall tempatures, 60's in the day, and good sleeping at night with the window open. 90 size Super Tigers seem to be apeairing more often at the local grass strip. They seem to make good power if proped correctly, and best of all is their price, in the $160 range through the web. A RCS140 showed up stuffed in a Funtana 90 a couple of weeks ago. the little gasser would position the Funtana in the vertical, could hoover at 3/4 throttle, but the pilot wanted a bit more, and was still in the prop searching stage for the right one. The RCS had just gone through the break in peroid, and Ron had just run his first tank full of 50-1 through the carb. Fuji engines are also showing up at the field. The 32A has been replaced with the B model, and boasts 300more rpm and a step up from the 18X8 to a 18X10 prop. With the brotherhood, Thats Pro-Bros, Seems the Thunder Tigers are out and looks like OS.50's are in. These torque rolling 3d'n pound for pound best power to weight birds are fun to watch, and fly. My K&B .48 is serving good duty on my 3rd Sig SE. The new Saito .82 is showing up in 6 pound planks of all kinds, but the jury is still out, as the engine is still new. Whats going on at your field, who's making fall power, and who's not?
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Post by swooper on Sept 28, 2004 7:51:55 GMT -7
Saturday evening a Funtana .40 was up, powered by an AXI brushless motor. Hover at 1/2 throttle, take-off in 10 feet, and quiet enough you had to search for it in the air. Pretty impressive!
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Post by Ricfly52 on Oct 9, 2004 9:09:04 GMT -7
Saturday evening a Funtana .40 was up, powered by an AXI brushless motor. Hover at 1/2 throttle, take-off in 10 feet, and quiet enough you had to search for it in the air. Pretty impressive! We have been seeing quite a few electrics showing up here at the southern Nevada flying sites. I personaly have only messed around with a couple of the smaller park flyers, but they are a lot of fun. In a few years I plan to move back to central Idaho, and I think electric would be a great way to go, mainly because of the quietness of them. The little field in Hailey is nestled in a canyon with mountians all around, and the sound of loud engines sorta takes away from the wilderness experience. Plus the cost of setting up a 40 size electric is starting to moderate a bit. Something like the Funtana or such would be a fun project. |
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Post by Grug - American Neanderthal on Oct 9, 2004 11:58:38 GMT -7
Heheh, do chain saws count?  |
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Post by Ricfly52 on Oct 9, 2004 13:32:09 GMT -7
Hey, no doubt that when you live up there, it's nice to cut a cord or two of wood to keep the chill off in the winter  . Now I have never used a battery powered chain saw, but I am sure it's a coming! |
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Post by Grug - American Neanderthal on Oct 10, 2004 6:51:39 GMT -7
Ewww, is there no manly aspect of noise and smoke that is left untainted? ;D
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Post by Britbrat on Oct 12, 2004 15:23:37 GMT -7
I have used an electric chainsaw (plugs into an extension cord no, less). It ain't the least bit quiet, but only the wood smokes.
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Post by Grug - American Neanderthal on Oct 12, 2004 17:56:04 GMT -7
Funny you should mention that. [funny anedote] Someone gave us one of those electric chainsaws this summer. So I am in the house eating lunch one day and I hear what I thought was a siren, but sounded funny because it was drawn out instead of pulsing. So I go out and look around and it's quiet. So I go back in and I hear it again, go back out, walk around the yard, but its all quiet (insert obligatory "too quiet" here). No sooner do I get in the door, I hear it. I walk back out and it's quiet again. So now I am thinking its aliens or something and I hear it again, I catch some movement on a shed, my wife is trimming branches off the chicken house with the saw. [/funny anecdote] |
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Post by jetmex on Oct 12, 2004 19:08:58 GMT -7
Hmmmm...electric chainsaw. Wonder if the motor will fit in an airplane......?? I could put the extension cord on one of those inertia reel thingies.... I've been doing a little tweaking on the ST2000 in the Robin, but I think the next motor noises I want to hear will be coming from a G-23 or G-38 gasser.  |
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Post by Grug - American Neanderthal on Oct 12, 2004 20:34:26 GMT -7
Heheh. I have G2300 that is Ok, I did put Perry carb on it becaue of the midrange slobering thing, but haven't flown it since. but its awfully hard to beat a Zenoah, especially in thiose kind of planes.
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Post by ctdahle on Oct 13, 2004 8:01:18 GMT -7
Hee hee hee, it's a blizzard here today which means skiis on the Cutie tomorrow!
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. Now I have never used a battery powered chain saw, but I am sure it's a coming! 
