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  1. JimD

    Horizon Hobby Event Coverage - Horizon AeroTow 2015

    BTW, the Multiplex Cularis is a fantastic flying, quick building, easy to repair sailplane to learn aerotowing. Everything you learn from it transfers to the giant scale birds.
  2. JimD

    Horizon Hobby Event Coverage - Horizon AeroTow 2015

    We can do that!
  3. JimD

    Horizon Hobby Event Coverage - Horizon AeroTow 2015

    How about this...the Piatt County Airport has corn on two sides, big tall dense corn! This sailplane was lost on the corn field and the new Blade Chroma quads with realtime video was able to locate it quickly (after a long foot search did not locate it).
  4. JimD

    Horizon Hobby Event Coverage - Horizon AeroTow 2015

    Please come as my guests, I would be thrilled to have you come and see what giant scale soaring and aerotowing is all about! As a side note, most all of the giant scale IMAC planes could be used as tow planes. You may discover that you could do some aerotowing at your home fields...something a...
  5. JimD

    Horizon Hobby Event Coverage - Horizon AeroTow 2015

    The next big Aerotow event here on the eastern side of the USA will be at my home field. Cumberland Summer Soaring ~ July 16-20, 2015 HighPoint Aviation Airfield ~ located atop Knobley Mountain 3 miles south of Cumberland, MD Depending on the weather, we can have all out in your face slope...
  6. JimD

    Horizon Hobby Event Coverage - Horizon AeroTow 2015

    Event was held in Monticello, Illinois at the Piatt County Airport which is the home of the full-scale Illini Glider Club. Date was June 18-21, 2015. The Horizon Hobby Team provided the tow planes (mainly the Hangar 9 Piper Pawnee) and pilots. There were some passing rain showers that halted...
  7. JimD

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

    After spending a couple of days studying the pictures I took of the 2-33 that belongs to the Cumberland Soaring Group, it finally hit me that the interior is going to consist of six side panels and two seats. Here is the full-scale interior looking in through the rear door. Getting the seats...
  8. JimD

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

    In Texas...When links start breaking off the end of the logging chain they use for a wind sock!
  9. JimD

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

    Perfect slope day...these guys love wind!
  10. JimD

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

    Wind gauge dog... Fuzzy at 20mph: Fuzzy at 40mph:
  11. 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!
  12. JimD

    Custom Trailer with Slides

    Len and the CT crew drive 9 hours. Jeremy and the Alabama crew drive 12-1/2 hours. Meyer drives all the way from Arizona! 5 hours, that's just a nice little afternoon drive! ;)
  13. JimD

    Custom Trailer with Slides

    Earle, you only live 45 minutes from Cumberland! Len and his fabulous trailer full of planes are regulars at the Cumberland events so you can come and see them in person. Our first Cumberland aero tow event of the year will be held on Thursday, March 19 - Monday, March 23, 2015 (I know we are...
  14. JimD

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

    We rotated the fuselage 180 degrees to have better access to the forward part of the fuselage. Stringers, gussets, diagonal braces, and rudder servo rails were installed.
  15. JimD

    Custom Trailer with Slides

    In his element at an aero tow event...the shop is open! The locals at Len's home field pressed the work shelf into breakfast bar mode at the New England Aero Tow Event 2014 in Salem, CT.
  16. JimD

    Redundant Receiver Installation

    The 14SG will do dual receivers, just like the 10C, but without telemetry (in which case it doesn't give me more than the 10C). It will do dual receivers with telemetry, but the channel assignment is NOT 1-8 on both receivers, but rather 1-8 on Rx#1 and 9-14 on Rx#2...at least that is what I got...
  17. JimD

    How to make scale toggle switches

    Now if I could just get the scale wiring to work..... :D
  18. JimD

    How to make scale toggle switches

    Glue will work, also have used silver solder.
  19. JimD

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

    As to your question, "Will it tow?" We have had two tow planes about this size and weight and powered with 50-55cc engines. We were able to tow sailplanes in the 3-4 meter span and 10-15 pound range pretty well. Larger and heavier sailplanes become more difficult to tow, not impossible, but...
  20. JimD

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

    Time to add stringers so we started with the aft fuselage section. The holes in the stab mount need to be drilled on down through the hardwood blocks we added. To assist with getting these to be perpendicular, we used our drill press to drill holes in a piece of oak for use as a drill guide...
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