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 | Full throttle and unattended. |
| Burning down the house. |
You start your engine, peak it up and head for the flight line carrying your plane and transmitter. When you reach the flight line, you place the plane on the ground. Its nice slow idle gives it no tendency to roll, and because it is a little nippy, you decide to put on your flying gloves. You put the transmitter on the ground (standing up) with the antenna up so that it's nice and unstable and proceed to put on our gloves. Nothing can go wrong. You are standing right there (hopefully you didn't go back to your flight box for gloves!). A slight breeze, a .01 earthquake or a flying insect tips your transmitter onto its face (99% of the time it'll fall on its front, the side with all the sticks), and suddenly your engine is a full throttle and you are in the middle of a dandy fire drill! Lay your transmitter down when unattended. Sierra Signals, Frank E. Chase, Editor; Carson City, NV.
After charging the 12v starter battery overnight, I pulled the alligator or in my case push clips out of the sockets in the power panel. About 10 minutes later I went back out into the garage and smelled something burning. Over on the work bench, the two exposed male ends of the charger were touching and were burning my wood workbench, next to some rags and who knows what else. Proverb, unplug power-cords and chargers from the wall when charging is complete to avoid burning your house down. John Corliss, Member.
This section is the humility area
of our website. In airplane modeling as in life, there are defeats and
victories, you know... smooth landings and cartwheel landings. Hopefully,
these excerpts from our monthly newsletter will help you minimize the defeats
and maximize your victories on the flying field.
| Battery Log. |
| Trim not remembered. |
| Rubberband man! |
"The other day I was checking my Road Runner out and getting it ready to fly. I couldn't remember which battery I had in it and when was the last time I discharged and then recharged it. I had made up a battery inventory/record sheet some time last year after I crashed my Extra 300 but I couldn't find it (It's a good idea if you have more than one plane, and most of us do, that you make a record of what type plane, battery, servo's etc.) Then if you have problem or want to see when was the last time you discharged and then recharged your battery, you have a record (remember these Nicad batteries need constant care). Check you batteries before you fly and after two or three flights so you don't get surprised like I did with my Extra 300. That was the reason it crashed". Dave Teich, Sr., Newsletter Editor
"I was helping Paul get his plane ready and he looked at his transmitter during flight check and placed all his trim tabs back to zero. As he took off his plane, it wouldn't get but about 10 inches off the runway. It finally stopped about twenty feet from the western fence line. As we walked over to the plane Paul mentioned to me. "now I remember why the trim tabs were set that way" He was lucky on that flight, no damage just his feelings hurt. Just goes to show how easy it is to forget why wed do some of the things we do." David Teich, Sr.. Newsletter Editor.
"All excited about testing some minor modifications we'd made on our trainer, My son and I were revving and tuning the engine to make sure it was right. About ready to pull out onto the runway, Tom mentioned that we might want to put a few more rubber-bands on the wing to secure it. Looking down we noticed that it had one rubber-band on each side. If Tom weren't there we'd have been making more than minor modifications. Relax, think, don't rush, we tell ourselves now before setting out to fly again." John & Luke Corliss, Members."
Memories
remembered.
The Mile-Hi R/C Club is one of the
oldest clubs in Denver with a lot of history. Here are some stories that perhaps
you'll find interesting reading.
I received an excellent letter from an old member of the club the other day. His name is Christopher Dahle. He presently lives in Del Norte, Colorado. Maybe some of the older members would remember him? He started building models when he was in the fifth grade in 1973. At that time John and Norma Kelly and the Tom Thumb hobby shop on Olive St. and E. Colfax. He tells how he worked at the shop sweeping and saving his nickels, dims and quarters so he could purchase his first plane. It was a Sig. Kadet. In the fall of 1974 he had saved enough money to purchase as radio, a Kraft. He tells how he used to ride his bicycle out to Lowry Air Force Base where the club used to fly. Now, picture this young lad on his bike, with the plane tied to the handle bars, with fuel and transmitter in a back pack and hd the wing under one arm. He rode almost every evening out to the field to fly. Now that's what I call determination to become a flyer. That was in 1975- or 76. That was the last year the club was able to fly at Lowery. They start to fly out at Sky Ranch Airport, but since he was too young to drive his flying days were curtailed for a while. When the club acquired our present site he tells of how they attempted to level the field by pulling a piece of cyclone fence behind a pickup truck with a bunch of cinder blocks and kids to hold it down. If you will look just to the East of our latrines you will see what is the remains of several large concrete slabs. Chris says they were brought in on a glass hauling truck and used as a pre-stress concrete pit area. I always wondered what they were and now we all know. He tells of the first club member to fly off our present field. Rob Kelly flew his full scale Cub off the field. Chris was second, flying his 15 powered highwing taildragger. Talk about Ghost Flyers, how about those stories. You know fellers, this club has a great past and it is very interesting to look back and remember things like this. Thank you Chris Dahle for telling us about yourself and our past. Dave Teich, Sr. Newsletter Editor.
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