SCAT Electronic News June 14 1999
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SCAT Electronic News June 14 1999
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Wakefield School at the US Nats
For Sale: Da' Box
Correspondence
Enough Noise
Rubber Reporting
Wakefield School at the US Nats
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George Batiuk, many time US team manager and America's Cup F1B
winner will be conducting a one day F1B [i.e Wakefield] School on
Saturday June 31 at the AMA National
Flying site in Munice, IN. This is just prior to the start
of the Free Flight Nationals.
This school is primarily intended for junior flyers but
all beginners are welcome.
George will have 3 types of modern F1B airplanes present -
A Vivchar Ultra-Simple,
A first serious model [i.e. with D-Box wing and VIT]
A world class model.
The school will include information on:
building
trimming
rubber motor preparation
thermal picking
competition flying
Each participant will have the opportunity to fly one
of the above models. There is a limited number of
models for sale at this occaision.
For details contact George Batiuk at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
or 805 546 8231
For Sale: Da' Box
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Roger,
For Sale: Da' Box
(With apologies to Fred Salmon, and possibly John Oldenkamp)
I have a vintage 1992 Batiuk aluminum model box for sale to a good home. It's
about 12 x 12 x 47 (was to be an F1A box) and has never been used for
anything except to store assorted airplane parts. No mounts, holes, etc.
Unless someone jumps up and just HAS to have this right away, I'll have it at
the Nats, available for the best (first? only?) offer. It's a bit large for
my current F1J models, and I simply have too many model boxes anyway.
Jim Haught
Correspondence
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Mile Square and the Prop man
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I'm sadden to here about Mile Square as I started flying there when I
was 13. It will be a great loss to all modelers. To get to another
point, Fred Ginders (aka The Prop Man) custom Carbon Fiber and Fiber
Glass props have been a little slow on special orders, because as I have
said before, these are hand made and finished props. Fred wants me to
thank all his customers for their patients and orders. Again, orders can
be placed through this E-mail address or you can call Fred at
559-645-1810. Thanks Again. Jim
Enough Noise ?
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Please, Ladies and Gentlemen, I appreciate the education I'm receiving
in $25 words that fill the pages of this News Letter (ie, mufflers and
noise) but these articles are going nowhere. Lets stay to the subjects
that can help everyone in model aviation and send the noise problems to
the proper agencies such as AMA or CIAM. If in fact we are having
problems with official sources, then direct solutions to the problem to
that source and let everyone know how to contact that source.
Rubber Reporting
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While trying very hard to not be mis-intepreted or giving a false impression
I seemed to have done so with my rubber comments.
Let me try and clear some things up.
I am a low key person, I will not be super enthousiastic about
any particular product. So just because I did rave that
does not mean the rubber [or whatver] is no good. I must appologise
to the non-native english speakers because I do tend
to be a little oblique when writing that kind of
report.
If the product is no good I will not talk about it.
I am never going to give an absolution recommendation that one should
buy a particular batch. Buying rubber can be very subjective. When I
used the February rubber [in February ! of course] it looked very good.
I considered it to be probably the most practical rubber ever, mainly
because it seemed to have very good overall quality even if the energy
was not as good as July 97. However flying that rubber in hot summer
temperatures recently makes it not look so good. In fact to use it in
the heat of the day here now I would think that cooling is a must.
So if I had said,... and people had bought it for the Israel WC then
they would be disappointed [unless they were prepared to drape
their fuselages with wet towels or noodles].
I did not mean to imply that John Clapp somehow misrepresents
the condition of the rubber. John tends to be somewhat enthousiastic
in general and this includes the rubber, we all expect him to do that.
In fact I find John more 'democratic' than his predecessor, Ed Dolby
in that John does not have favorites and will tell any flyer who
asks about the rubber the same thing, be that person a beginner or world
champion.
Now with all that stuff over,. and you have to read to the last line to get the
answer - I know of at least 4 people who have been testing rubber for
many years and who tested the May 99 rubber and consider it to have
the highest energy return ever. But what is important is the performance
in the airplane, where the torque curve is, how it handles temperature etc.
I flew with one 28 strand motor and got 460 turns and over 120 oz/in
of torgue. The model flew very very well, I think I broke a strand and
had nick on other strands. There was also a couple of
holes in the rubber. It appeared that motors from one end of
the box made up to 28 strand motors and the other 26 strand, but
I can't tell because I generally do not fly with 26 strand motors.
At this training sesssion there were two current US F1B Team Members,
one liked the rubber very much, the other was put off by the fact
he broke the first motor he tried. I think that it will be necessary
to work with the rubber to determine the best stranding,
how many turns and if temperature is factor, but that
is an exersize for the student!
When I got back home a sent a check of to FAI for 2 ten pound boxes.
So you can now use this report, my previous report and the
fact I ordered 2 boxes to calibrate my level of hype. .. and
save it for future reference.
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Roger Morrell
