I much preferred gliders way back when. No noise, no messy fuel, no
starting problems. You could operate them with a simple 2-channel digital or
pulse-proportional setup, or better yet a 3-channel so you could control
spoilers. The old ACE 3-channel pulse-proportional gave you a positional
throttle control that would do the same thing. I built an analogue decoder and
analogue servos to do just that, and it may still be around here somewhere.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
>
>Somehow I managed not to see your post, ChrisT.
>
>I like the idea of electric motors for RC aircraft. A colleague at work,
>an ex-USAF doctor (a Texan) who has worked as a British civil servant for
>17 years, has many, many RC aircraft in his office, powered gliders
>mostly, but one or two light aircraft models. He has built his own but
>he likes the immediacy of the ready-to-go versions.
>
>I like the Carbon Cub model, but the idea of gliding is rather
>attractive – as long as I’m not in the glider myself :-)
>
>>
>>> At the far end there is a large public park, which is more of a
>>> catchment basin for storm runoff from the freeway. It doesn't have much in
>>> the way of sports facilities, but it does have a ramada and graveled patch
>>> for radio-controlled model aircraft:
>>>
>>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/32725293895/in/dateposted-public/
>>>
>>> The model aircraft present this day are all electric-powered, which
>>> for me is somewhat new:
>>>
>>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/32572173302/in/dateposted-public/
>>>
>>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/32345553060/in/dateposted-public/
>>>
>>
>
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