Quitting Combat and taking up Stunt?

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Iskandar Taib · Oct 15, 2004 03:04 AM

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LAST EDITED ON Oct-15-04 AT 05:03 AM (CDT)

Here's what to build if you need an emergency Stunter:

Incidentally, I've put a bunch of pictures from the Singapore and Indonesian Nats online:

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/iskandartaib/album?.dir=/9975&.src=ph&.tok=phNqe5BBmP8Ji6HE

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/iskandartaib/album?.dir=/d0ab&.src=ph&.tok=phAwe5BBK1Gi6uKp

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/iskandartaib/album?.dir=/6fb3&.src=ph&.tok=phwwe5BBBIgat2cj

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/iskandartaib/album?.dir=/a42f&.src=ph&.tok=phPxe5BBMAXgulMP

Iskandar

LNeumann · Oct 15, 2004 06:58 AM

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One nice thing about it, if you crashed it and had to make repairs, who would know? Use whatever color of Monokote you have on hand in the scrap barrel. Keep 'em guessing. Did I intend to do it that way, or...?

Leonard Neumann

gcb · Oct 15, 2004 06:59 AM

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Isky, that's cute! Love those "flaps"!

George

iroquois · Oct 15, 2004 08:28 AM

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LAST EDITED ON Oct-15-04 AT 08:31 AM (CDT)

And I thought you were going to use an Ikarus 'Shock Flyer'...

Dave Day
Website: http://www.iroquois.free-online.co.uk

Iskandar Taib · Oct 18, 2004 03:30 AM

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LAST EDITED ON Oct-18-04 AT 03:30 AM (CDT)

>And I thought you were going to use an Ikarus 'Shock
>Flyer'...
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>

I had a better idea for the Shock Flier. In a recent Flying Models, there's a picture of something like 90+ people at some event in England holding what are known as "Ebenezers" - simple, sheet free flights, usually powered by a .020. They usually have names such as "Spitzener", or "Fokkenezer" or "Mustenezer". The article that came with the photo mentioned converting them to electric, using GWS motors.

Well, my idea was, take a Shock Flier, give it a bunch of dihedral, and fly it free flight. Hence the "Shockenezer".

Bigiron13 · Oct 15, 2004 09:26 AM

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Looks like the flaps off the old Flatiron. Bet it will do the pattern in under 4 min with a hot Nelson on it.

Bigiron

Bigiron13

ty marcucci · Oct 15, 2004 12:50 PM

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Get rid of the flaps and you have a near copy of the TEOSAWKI. Which by the by, is a great flying stunter.

dirtydan · Oct 15, 2004 01:40 PM

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We really must get some pictures of PW's Weird Stunter posted. It's a lot like a real big F2D model, O.S. 32 for power.

Mikey will remember it, I saw him fly it at Puyallup (pronounced "puyallup") show a few years ago.

Paul keeps threatening to fly it against me in Expert P-40; so far he has managed to wuss-out, never seeming to drag it along to the contests.

To be fair, I have been threatening to fly a modded--and Ruskie-produced--F2D model in P-40 and have yet to do so myself...

Dan

Steve Helmick · Oct 15, 2004 03:14 PM

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LAST EDITED ON Oct-15-04 AT 03:14 PM (CDT)

I can't quite make out the name on the converti-plane. Is it "Crossdresser" or "Sorcerer"?

Steve

http://www.nwskyraiders.com/index.html

Dr Spark · Oct 15, 2004 05:53 PM

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I have often attempted to pronounce "Puyallup", but it never seemed to come out right. The same goes for "Willamete". But what do you expect from a transplanted Californian?

It seems that I have started out wrong. I started flying C/L stunt back in 1947, and only experimented in C/L combat for a short while (1963 nats in Chicago). Maybe the secret is to have a background in combat or racing; like some of our more successful NW folk. Without a successful background in combat or racing, I guess I have an uphill battle in the C/L stunt world.

Dr. Spark

jehold66203 · Oct 15, 2004 05:38 PM

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The photos sure brought back memories of this past Worlds Championships in Muncie. Being mainly located at the F2C venue I can not speak about the other FAI classes. Seems I recognized a few of the faces that represented the Singapore Team(didn't go back to see if spelled right). They were a very friendly group and on a learning curve from what I learned from a few of them. Didn't get names as there were so meany people there. Yes, it was a once in a life time memory for me. Later, DOC

Iskandar Taib · Oct 18, 2004 03:36 AM

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>The photos sure brought back memories of this past Worlds
>Championships in Muncie. Being mainly located at the F2C
>venue I can not speak about the other FAI classes. Seems I
>recognized a few of the faces that represented the Singapore
>Team(didn't go back to see if spelled right). They were a
>very friendly group and on a learning curve from what I
>learned from a few of them. Didn't get names as there were
>so meany people there. Yes, it was a once in a life time
>memory for me. Later, DOC

They're working very hard at F2C. Even had a couple of English fliers there to give them some coaching the week of their Nats.

I was watching some F2C footage that one of them shot at the World Champs - what exactly was that constant hammering sound? Sounded like someone driving in metal tent stakes, and it's on all the tapes. You could see Stunt in the background. Some of those stunt flights looked VERY fast to me. You could see the effects of the wind, too - every now and then something (plastic bag, etc.) would get blown across the circle.

Where exactly are the new racing circles in relation to the L pad? I assume Combat was in its normal place, somewhere near the camping area and the Speed circles.

Iskandar