"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" wrote in message
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"RogerN" fired this volley in news:mJWdnT_T-
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Harry Higgley's book

Yeah, I've got Higgley's line, too. Good stuff.

The 'master modelers' down here who showed up at the DeLand field (back
when I lived there) are Bob Fiorenze and Bob Violet, both of jets fame.
In addition to the big "Jets over DeLand" annual show, the two Bobs would
show up on odd days for prototype testing. We happened to have the
longest paved model runway (in decent repair) in central Florida.

Even those master-modelers with consummate flying skills can have
problems, especially at real airspeeds of 200 knots. I've seen more than
one of those high-dollar jets (once only ducted fan, but some now real
turbines) come down as 'silver rain'.


LLoyd

That's awesome, I used to have a "Jets over DeLand" video. I'm around 1-1/2
hours from Metropolis and they have a big, for this area, jet fly there
every year.

I did a little search for the YS 4-stroke and JB Weld, found lot's of people
using it like loc-tite. I did see a mention that it's not permanent because
the heat weakens it enough to disassemble.

My best helicopter has a 4-stroke, I got it barely used from an eBay seller,
the reserve wasn't met but he offered it to me. The buddy I fly with that
used to burns more than a drum of fuel knew the heli and the builder. It
has the exhaust nut JB-welded but I've not needed to remove it so far. I
can remove all the bolts out of a side frame and remove the engine with the
exhaust attached.

All my glow fuel heli's are old school where the cyclic and collective pitch
is mixed mechanically by levers, today they use "CCPM" Cyclic Collective
Pitch Mixing on the radios, 3 servos of the swash plate all moving up and
down together for cyclic and moving differentially for cyclic. My newer
electric heli's have this but not my glow fuel collection.

I found this on Tom Ingram:
http://www.cs.iit.edu/~amadist6/CM/c...masIngram.html

They don't hardly make em like that anymore, now it's buy a RTF or ARF, slap
together and fly. I don't fly much anymore except for micro electrics
around the house or field across the street.

RogerN