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  1. JimD

    Event Coverage 2015 ~ Cumberland Summer Soaring

    Date: July 16-20 Place: HighPoint Aviation Airfield (located atop Knobley Mountain in WV near Cumberland, MD) This will be the third year for this event on this approximate date. Over the forty-eight years that the Cumberland Fall Soar for Fun has been held at this same location each November...
  2. JimD

    Event Coverage 2015 ~ Muncy Flyers Sky High Aerotow

    Date: June 4-7 Place: Muncy Flyers Airfield (located in central PA atop a mountain southeast of Muncy, PA) This was the second year for this event. The local club has a unique field location that lends itself quite well to aerotowing giant scale sailplanes. However, the best part of this event...
  3. JimD

    Event Coverage 2015 ~ New England Aero Tow

    Date: May 14-17 Place: R/C Prop Busters Airfield (located just east of Salem, CT) This is a well established event and one of my favorites! I arrived on Wednesday and departed on Monday so that I could be there for the full four days. It was a wall-to-wall tow fest! I was so busy flying that I...
  4. JimD

    Event Coverage 2015 ~ Michigan Radio Control Association Aerotow

    Date: May 2-3 Place: MRCA Airfield (located just south of Ann Arbor, MI in farm country) This was the third year for this event and the third year that I had the honor of being the primary tow pilot. The field was one large runway that has a wide open overfly area for the 180 sweep of the...
  5. JimD

    Event Coverage 2015 ~ Team Gorgeous Aerotow Weekend at SKSS

    Date: April 23 - 26 Place: Silent Knights Soaring Society airfield (located in White Clay Creek Park northwest of Newark, DE) I was only able to attend on Saturday, but it was a perfect day for what we love to do! It was a tow fest from morning till dark! The SKSS field features a huge flat...
  6. JimD

    Event Coverage 2015 ~ 6th Annual Cumberland, MD Spring Soar for Fun

    Date: Thursday, March 19 - Monday, March 23 Place: HighPoint Aviation Airfield (3 miles south of Cumberland, MD atop Knobley Mountain in WV) This is my home field, and we have pressed our luck for six years now weather wise. Five days were set aside for this event in hope of getting at least...
  7. JimD

    2015 Aerotow Events for Eastern Half of USA

    Looking for Aerotow events? Here is a list of known events in the eastern half of the USA, more or less. Spacecoast Aerotow Cocoa, Florida March 13-15, 2015 Club website: http://www.irks.org/ 6th Annual Cumberland Maryland Spring Soar For Fun Thursday, March 19 - Monday, March 23, 2015...
  8. JimD

    You Know it is too Windy to Fly When...

    When the wind sock looks like someone put starch in it: When it takes four guys and a cement block to hold the trailer door down! When the Port-a-Jon won't stay upright! When Fuzzy the dog says so!
  9. JimD

    Sailplane Aviation Concepts 1/3-scale Schweizer SGS-233A

    As soon as we heard the news that this 1/3-scale kit was going to be produced, we got on the waiting list. The force behind this effort is Gunny Bumburs of Aviation Concepts. Other kits include a highly detailed 87.5" span 1/5-scale Fairchild PT-19A and a 1/4-scale Schweizer SGS 233A. Aviation...
  10. JimD

    12 volt Power Source for Field Charging

    We attend a lot of three to five day events and may fly 5-8 hours per day. Most all of the fields do not have 110v A/C available, so you need to bring your own power supply for charging. A new Harbor Freight store open near where I live two years ago and everything was discounted below normal...
  11. JimD

    Electical Connections between Wing and Fuselage

    With our giant scale planes, long servo extension cables, and high power servos with their high current demand...how can we make the connection between the wings and fuselage to minimize potential problems. Like most modelers, we are always looking for a better more reliable way to do things...
  12. JimD

    How to make scale toggle switches

    This may come under the heading of too much time on your hands... ;) While sitting in the shop "think building" we noticed the pile of pushrod scrap we could not bring ourselves throw away...so we chucked up a short piece of 4-40 in the drill press and got out a file and did a little creative...
  13. JimD

    Redundant Receiver Installation

    When we started flying giant scale airplanes with big (85cc) gas engines and AUW of 40-45lbs, how to decrease the chance for radio failure was on our mind. First, there is the vibration, then there are the large servos and high current demands. Looking for a way to use the equipment I already...
  14. JimD

    Make a Custom Header for your Gas Engine

    When we first got into giant scale aero towing, our tow plane of choice was the 3.3M Pilatus Porter from TopModel. With a DA-85 up front, we were able to tow sailplanes up to and including the Bill Hempel 7.5M half-scale KA-6. The only problem was that the DA-85 had a loud growl that was rather...
  15. JimD

    Adding a Tow Release to the Hangar 9 Super Decathlon 100cc ARF

    We are using this aircraft as a tug for towing giant scale sailplanes. As for adding a tow release, we have had good service from the release that TopModel makes and which is available from Esprit Model http://www.espritmodel.com/tow-hook-release-heavy-duty.aspx The location of the top window...
  16. JimD

    Adding Flaps to the Hangar 9 Super Decathlon 100cc ARF

    If you have this model, or have seen one up close, you may have noticed that there are preinstalled mounts in the wing panels for flap servos and covers for these are included in the kit. We have modified two sets of wings to add flaps with great success. The first wing we tried this on was...
  17. JimD

    Adding Canisters to the Hangar 9 Super Decathlon 100cc ARF

    We have built two of these models and have made this modification on both. On the first, the rear part of the canisters were open to the interior of the plane. This didn't seem to cause any trouble (even on some very warm days), but we decided to make an enclosed tunnel on the second model. Here...
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