R/C Madness

[KONA77]

ROFLMAO.... you go  :smile27:

 

[Disturbed]

Man, you talk about excellent flying conditions this morning....

 

[KONA77]

Man, you talk about excellent flying conditions this morning....

your are so right,  it figures,  when i'm not ready.....  been working on the plane this morning.....  glued the canopy on after getting the iron out and removing some wrinkles,  and airbubbles and basically tightening up the ultracoat....  :smile27:

 

[duanehydro]

hobby iron, or clothes?

 

[KONA77]

Hobby iron....  working on the heli now.....  wind come up here.....

 

[Disturbed]

hobby iron, or clothes?

Hobby irons, heat guns, and incident meters.  All tools of the RC airplane hobby.  :smile30:

 

[KONA77]

hobby iron, or clothes?

Hobby irons, heat guns, and incident meters.  All tools of the RC airplane hobby.  :smile30:

i suppose that's the same as a control surface deflection meter,  got one of those too

 

[Disturbed]

Nope.  This measures degrees of washout of the wing.

 

[duanehydro]

working on shaping the new windscreen now... :smile28:

I just wanna fly.... :smile16:

Ya'll with ya'll fancy shit, and all..

 

[KONA77]

Nope.  This measures degrees of washout of the wing.

gonna have to explain washout of the wing  think.gif

 

[KONA77]

man the weather is perfect to fly right now  :smile25:

 

[Disturbed]

A properly built wing will have around 2 degrees of washout.  That means from where the wing joins the fuselage to the tip, it will twist downward to the tip.  The difference in angle of attack between the wing root and the tip should be around 2 degrees on most aircraft.  (not just rc aircraft have washout built into the wing). What does all this mean?  It helps decrease stall speed of the wing.  While flaring the nose for landing, the wing tip angle of attack has not stalled and is still providing lift while the inner portion of the wing is near stalling thus, a more gradual loss of altitude is noticed. 

Make sense? 

 

[Disturbed]

Wiki also has a definition and explanation of washout.  http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washout_(aviation)

 

[Disturbed]

Also, the incidence meter that I have is used when scratch building.  With the fuselage level and the wing attached, you can check the wing's angle of incidence.

 

[KONA77]

morning activities  :smile27:

 

[KONA77]

airplane machanics....PHEW,  right over my head  :smile20: j/k  i got it  :smile27:

 

[KONA77]

whatcha yall think about my airplane stand,  sure makes it easier to haul to the field and clean and work on

 

[Disturbed]

Nice stand.  clap.gif

 

[Crusader]

Jacobs Traxxis Stampede showed up yesterday. I didn't take it out of the box yet because I'm afraid that once I do.......well, you guys know what would happen. Lol.

 

[sturat]

got the XL mostly broke in, Ran three tanks on the stand then two on full rich, then started leaning it out some. Still have more to tune but it is running pretty fast right now and still not lean enough to shift into third. Dam thing is plenty fast as it is... Can not imgaine what it will be like after i have my first gallon gone and can really get into it. Still need to mess with the LSN but that will be another day. My ingnigtor went dead as i had to start it many many times on the stand. Was having trouble running at idle for more than a few minutes think.gif