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Lithium batteries 🙂
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I have better things to do with my life than work, unfortunately a third of my life is work, the other third is sleep. That leaves the rest for flyin or other fun. 🙂Yeah, anybody is welcome around here anytime.
probably best to arrange a time as I could be anywhere.I filled up some extra space in my last box from HK and I have a couple of SE2 subs. Their share of the postage is about $9 each so if you’re in sydney they cost $29. They use the same RC as the A40 planes so their range is much better than the bit subs that jaycar sell. I’ve personally had one down to 2 metres depth, and I’m sure they can go deeper.
Must be some of the local sydney BESB boyz.
100 shots and they couldn’t kill the person they were shooting at ?As you can see from that car, the grouping is lousy ! 🙂 Looks excellent though !
The sniper….. one shot = one kill.
It takes me about 45 minutes to drive out there and then it has to be a basically a windless day.
I come from parramatta.
If you want to PM me with a mobile phone number
that I can SMS to, I’ll send a message when I’m heading out there. (and anybody else wants me to SMS them too).
It will give you about an hour’s notice. I may rock on out friday afternoon if it isn’t windy or rainy. I would like to say saterday too, but I may be flying bigger wings up at tamworth. (parragliding)Ch22 UHF CB is liason channel. 🙂
They cost $55. If you’re interstate you might care to order them from HK direct yourself to save on the cost of postage. I’m in Sydney (parramatta) and can arrange to meet up at some point in time around most places.
If your saving up for one, don’t feel that your going to miss out, I can get more in at anytime and they take about 7 days to arrive. When five people ask me for them, I just order them and if somebody changes their mind, there is always somebody else that will take it.I have the NiCd batteries for the txer, they cost $25. I think that price isn’t very good
because most of the cost is postage. The DSE batteries are exactly the same and cost $30.
I think the DSE batteries are better and well worth the extra $5.I’ve got several other planes that I’ve been test flying myself, or that friends have. So I can pretty much tell you how most of them handle and fly, and where you can get them cheap yourself or
get them sent in with one of my boxes if you don’t have access to a credit card etc.I’ll make another attempt to be there.
Was interesting to see what gear other people have. There is plenty of room down there to fly as well. I did a few laps with the B29, and there is more than enough room for the A40’s. I have another plane to test fly this weekend, a Dash 8.
The netball courts have a good surface on them for the mini-Z’s. Not as nice as a polished floor, but still excellent for outdoor.We fly near the gridiron (american footbal field)
at Jamison park. We use the cricket oval in front of the three trees beside the gridiron. I was flying there again this morning. If you have UHF CB, calling on ch22 will get somebody’s attention
who flys there.The A40’s arrived today kiddies, PM me if you want one
I know how you feel dude, my old man was/is an accountant. If the numbers ain’t black, he’ll be back !
Treat your old man as if he were a bank, they love to say no, but they really want to loan you the money. The planes are $55. You can use normal carbon batteries etc until you can get the NiCd’s from DSE.
So tell the old boy you’ve thought it thru and that you realise you don’t get anything in life
unless you work for it. (By this time he’ll either be listening or he will have seen through you plan).
The old days everybody used to layby stuff or save for it. I still do, very rarely do I use credit, unless I have to. In this case, you’ve decided, you have to ! hehehehe.
(consider it like selling your soul to the devil,
you want to avoid it, because it will always cost you more in the end.)The road to hell is paved with good intentions and you have to show that to the one you intend on extracting the cash from. Offer him security,
something like your bicycle. He will take it if you miss a repayment. Sounds bad, it should be.. it’s your punishment for defaulting.Now you have to work out what he’s to gain.
Education in economics is your gain, his will be interest. Again, this is going to hurt.
Lets treat your interest at something absolutely
absurb. 100%pa !! that means interest payment of
about $5 per month.
So th first month it costs you $60 (55+5)
you pay $20 and you have $40 left to pay.
Next month the interest is $5 again 40+5=$45,
payment $20, $45-20=$25
$25+5=$30
$30-$20=$10
$10+5=$15
$15-20=-$5 … and you’re back in the black !!!If you miss a payment, then you dad owns your bike, which he can then sell to pay off the remaining debt. + the interest he would have got (fixed interest loan) $75. If there is any extra money left after selling the bike,you get that back.
Think it through, I think you’re dad will loan you the money if you can prove that you understand how debt works and how he will gain from your willingness to learn.
[my god, I’ve created an accountant !!!]
Mahahahahahahahahahahah 👿If the worst comes to it, they are very easy to get hold of, and can get them anytime for you.
Drive mine, I’m only pit crew.
I’m too old to race you young punks. 🙂Are you raising the body, or lowering the wheels ?
And which other parts are getting moved with them ?
I’m not into building a BCG monster truck, but I was thinking about how to tackle that problem the other night. Mini CV’s down to the wheels, or an
extended gearing down to the lowered axels.If your just raising the body, then you might like to try using some standoffs, the type they
sell in jaycar might do the job. Just a guess 🙂Rather unusual.
I noticed that before the pictures didn’t load,
after picking up the first url and looking at the picture directly, that picture now works, but the other two still didn’t. So I went and visited those pictures too and now they all load fine.I’d guess a good idea might be to include the actual URL with each picture you link to.
looks cool !! I wanna see the lights flash !
What are we missing from the BCG city ???
We have cars, trucks, ambo, swat squad.
Any other ideas ?Type it in like this….
SRC=”http://your.url.here”
actually, just typing the URL by itself without linking it should do this automatically ?
http://community.webshots.com/s/image6/1/25/55/104512555GPUZao_ph.jpg
I’m having probs loading them. doh !
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Hmm… let me think about it. Start saving 🙂
That’s the one. I’m using it in my A40 now.
It’s exactly the same as the ones I got from HK.I’ll try an be there. I had some other plans for this weekend, but that depends on the rain etc.
Address and time… sunday arvo is best for me
but any other time I will try and be there.Actually, I think it was the other way around.
More humid air is less dense. I know that doesn’t sound right. Gases have the same number of molecules in them at the same pressure. (Something I can’t remember from HSC chemistry)
Water being two hydrogens and one oxygen weighs
less than air, which is two nitrogens or two oxygen atoms, in a ratio of approx 75/25.
So air that has water in it just weighs less, so humid air will rise and float on dry air !Sh1t, I didn’t know that myself. As a hang/paraglider pilot, I just know that humid air rises and dry air sinks.
To make matters more interesting, as the water condenses out of the air, it cools the air down.
Now both the water and the cold air head for the ground with some serious force ! It’s called a microburst, but the TV news don’t know sh1t about weather and like to called it a ‘mini cyclone’
(A really dopey name for such an event.)A Cuban, Russian and American are out fishing boat off the coast of Florida.
The cuban lights up a cigar, takes a puff and throws it over the side.
“Why you do that ?” asks the Russian.
The Cuban explains that they have so many cigars in Cuba that they can afford to throw them away.
The Russian cannot be outdone by the Cuban and
grabs his bottle of Vodka, takes a swig and throws the rest over the side.The Cuban enquires, “What for you do that crazy mutha ?”
The Russian explians that they took have so much vodka in Russia they can afford to throw it away.
The American won’t be outdone by anybody and he pushes the Cuban overboard !
“What the hell you do that for ?” askes the Russian.
The American explains that they have so many of them in his country they can afford to throw them away.
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You know why Mexico doesn’t have an Olympic team ?
Because everybody that can run, swim and jump is already in the USA.did I type that ?
I’m questioning what it was I ate for lunch now ?I don’t know the dead sea area, but I think that his idea of cool is to fly 100m below sea level.
My idea of cool is to fly on a morning glory. 🙂yep, I have a small change in level between two ovals at the school. If the wind is from the right dirrection it provides lift. IF the wind is from the other way, then it creates sink.
Wind blowing through trees causes BIG turbulence.
Often called ‘rotor’. Downwind of anything will cause it and that’s what makes you plane go ape sh1t.
If you’re on the upwind side of the trees they will provide lift just above and in front of them.
Unfortunately, my friends think that this means they can fly anywhere in front of a tree.
They get caught in the wind gradient and it lifts the wing closest to them and into the tree they go !!!I’ve got plenty of tips for new guys learning to fly. The most important is don’t be too eager to get in the air, else you’ll be more eager to get back down ! 🙂
The single channel RC helicopters were selling for $10 last time I was in HK. RC stuff is very cheap there. BCG clones sell for about $5 and the tomys for about $15.
I was flying on the hockey oval at my local school today. I guess I’ll blow my own trumpet and say that I’m an advanced pilot for A40’s
and flying in that amount of space is easy for me.I would recomend a cricket pitch size space to fly in for a begginer. It gives you lots of room for error.
A few of my friends have broken the wings on their planes already because they were too keen to fly and couldn’t wait for a calm day. Or learn to “fly the plane” instead they power on and the plane is in the air doing it’s own thing !
Flying in Humid conditions… straight to the most complex subject in aeronaughtics ! 10 points for that question.
Humid air tends to be hotter than surrounding air, (not always) and it is usually more bouyant.
(ligther) and thinner. (lower pressure).You’re probably familiar with hot air rising in bubbles as thermals. As the sun gets low on the horizon and it no longer heats the ground, things like trees which release a lot of water into the air create high humidity in that area. As the air cools around the trees, a thermal of humid air can pop off from the trees. But this is only useful to pilots of small aircraft like paragliders and RC planes looking for lift.
For everybody else, higher humidity (and lower air pressure and higher temp) cause the plane not to lift as well. There are some airports like Mexico City that have 12000ft runways.
Planes feel like they are driving to their destination. As they scream down the runway the plane barely lifts of the ground as they try to climb and they’ll collect some leaves from the trees in the park on their way out.
Compared to somewhere like Moscow in winter where the air is cold and dry, a fully loaded An-124 will takeoff like the space shuttle 🙂But for your little RC plane, you probably won’t notice the difference. Just stay away from those trees !!!! 🙂
US dollars ??
41/0.73=$56.15 aud.
Which is what I get them for. But I don’t get the txer battery and charger. doh ! 🙂
They actually cost even less than that. I bought my first one in the market in HK for $20aud.
It was 3cm too long to carry on in hand luggage and the silly woman at the security checkin wanted to make me put it in with the other luggage.
No way was I going to go back and stand in that HUGE queue, so I took the lid off and karate chopped the end off the styrofoam in front of her.
“THERE … now it fits !”“Ok sir, please go thru”
A serial therapest ? Are you suggesting (if this is their first counciling session) that after
they counsels you, they’ll go on to council other people. They make not like to repeat offend ?16 I would have though you were old enough to deck some creep that hassels you on a train.
These days I’m assuming there are even more freaks out there. Common sense is your best friend. Parents never want to do fun stuff with their kids. Either have an irresponsible adult
take you to events or go with a group of friends (more than 3) and make sure that you don’t seperate and lookout from each other.Thankfully weirdo’s and creeps are a very small minority and you chances of encountering them are small.
There is a pic of one in my RC water on the webshots page. I’m just going to add another.
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