RE: 1st annual Idaho Falls SPAD RACE Pics
Cool Guys.
Posted on: 8/3/2012 7:55 PM by Author "Clean" in the forum "S.P.A.D. Aircraft - Coroplast design"
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RE: World's First Flying SPAD Jet
Well I say it's STILL the FIRST FLYING JET SPAD ....to fly at SPADfest.
Posted on: 6/17/2012 5:54 AM by Author "Clean" in the forum "S.P.A.D. Aircraft - Coroplast design"
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RE: World's First Flying SPAD Jet
Just one of the Awesome things that happened at SPADfest this year. What a beautiful week of fantastic weather. Burned over a gallon of glow fuel alone and the better part of a gallon of Gas mix. Literally flew the tail off my Flipper, darn thing was going so fast. This a big jet and it was cool to watch go.
Posted on: 6/13/2012 11:03 AM by Author "Clean" in the forum "S.P.A.D. Aircraft - Coroplast design"
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RE: SPAD Sickle with pics
Build it straight next time? Pull or roll? If it's rolling then you've got a little bit of a warp in there somewhere. If it's pulling then maybe a bit of engine off thrust and then address the alignment of the verticals. My present Flippers are straight as a string till they get going really fast then they tend to stray a bit from the straight and narrow, it may just be one side is deforming under pressure more then the other OR that I have a bit of a warp in my building board OR that it's just really hard to get a straight, dead level wing out of a folded piece of plastic. Doesn't really show up that much with lower speed planes but can really get to you at higher speeds. then again, the sickle was designed for combat and in combat we got really used to flying planes that were cobbled together from other planes and the remnants of other planes. I've flown remnants that really didn't qualify as whole planes too. To have an airframe that is pretty much straight was good enough, they didn't stay in that condition long. I am usually pleasantly surprised by how good these folded up airplanes can fly. My USS simply floats on landing even without the flaps down and is a fun Touch n Go aircraft. I can manhandle my DPS around to be a good bomb drop plane and target for the "painting crew" and again my Flipper is just a blast. Still, it's nice to get a good, straight aircraft made of light materials to see how nicely they can fly. But with my schedule and the times I can get out, it's is fantastic to have an airplane I can fly all day, hang up and forget for 6 months and know that the covering hasn't sloughed off, the glue joints haven't started to let go and there isn't something broken inside that I can't replace for next to nothing. The limiting factor for me is time not money and I have airframes that I get rid of because I want something new and there just isn't room. Not that I haven't had airframes that needed retired as well. You sickle, with a good engine in it, can reach the kind of speeds that will have you trimming from one side to the other if there is a bit of a warp in there. If it's pulling one way more then the other it's the Verticals and the engine offset. More then likely you have a bit of right rudder in there that was un-intentional and while at low speed that doesn't make much difference as the speed increases the amount of force also increases. The amount of torque from the engine on launch will yaw and roll your airplane to the left. Scale ships look like CL Rat Racers when you let go of them flat, they turn a good 20 degrees before the airspeed over the Vertical straightens them out. If you put some right thrust on the engine that will help mellow out left yaw at lower speeds. Engine side thrust effects DECREASE as a percentage of speed, the faster you go the less they matter where the aerodynamic forces of your air frame increase with speed.
Posted on: 5/29/2012 8:24 AM by Author "Clean" in the forum "S.P.A.D. Aircraft - Coroplast design"
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RE: Tattoo
he plays banjo in a band
Posted on: 5/27/2012 1:28 PM by Author "Clean" in the forum "S.P.A.D. Aircraft - Coroplast design"
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RE: looking for cox 049 or speed 400 spad plans
Thats SWEET!
Posted on: 5/13/2012 1:41 PM by Author "Clean" in the forum "S.P.A.D. Aircraft - Coroplast design"
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RE: STTB site down
It wasn't fast, didn't climb like a rocket but was just a good stable flying plane. Ahhhh, so it wasn't a Flipper then. Presently the original site is back up. Frosty, who is also the man reporting on RCGroups and SPADworld.net got ahold of the site hoster and paid the bill so that the access was turned back on. Unfortunately the GoDaddy registeration dies May 18th. He is finishing getting the plans he doesn't have and then we will rehost it on a SPADworld.net page so that it will be active as long as the SPAD bbs is active. Maybe we can also get a hiearchy setup so that if someone wants to quit or unfortunately dies there will be folks that can take over, it depends. With cheap buy n flys available now the need for a decent flying, semi indestructable airplane keeps minimizing. But I remember days of C class combat ships committing demolition derby style combat in the dusty Kansas skies of August. Memories that rank right up with the births of my children and grand children. Good times.
Posted on: 4/27/2012 5:47 AM by Author "Clean" in the forum "S.P.A.D. Aircraft - Coroplast design"
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RE: Which battery pack for Battle Axe?
PERFECT Because the only flames in combat should be the ones you target is going down in!
Posted on: 4/25/2012 6:00 AM by Author "Clean" in the forum "RC Combat"
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RE: Which battery pack for Battle Axe?
Ahhhhh, Hobby King snipes another victim. Make sure and get one of these chargers or equivalent. This is what I use to charge for our Friday night electric combats.
Posted on: 4/25/2012 4:32 AM by Author "Clean" in the forum "RC Combat"
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RE: STTB site down
Yes, it is. If you need specific plans ask me OR visit the spadworld site and ask there where you might get faster response then waiting on me. We are working on a solution that will put the plans on the SPADworld site so that as long as it is up both will be there.
Posted on: 4/19/2012 4:12 AM by Author "Clean" in the forum "S.P.A.D. Aircraft - Coroplast design"
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RE: delta wing
Theres also a company out there that has larger flat plate deltas that they cover with target squibs. They fly by and folks with Shotguns shoot at them. When they hit they get a shower of wonderful flashes. TopDawg or the Bulldawg or the CoroRu (spaduk has the plans for that) build fast, go fast but are not really maneuverable for Combat. Sickles and Flippers are ok for combat, though my Flipper I think is a bit heavy, Sickles were some folks favorites. But Deltas suffer when you go and turn them. They bleed way too much speed off when you pull tight on them, then you're just sitting there while someone with a conventional setup comes by, snips you and flys away. Chunky C has the SPAD plans on his site plus a ton of other plans at http://spadfest.rcspads.com/index.php?cat=25 SPADuk site http://www.spadcombat.co.uk/spad/ Chris's site with some of the plans http://www.chrisspad.com/planes/main/mspp.html I've got to sit down and do some work for the original plans, it's enough for now to know they are out there plust Draftman has them in DXF format.
Posted on: 4/14/2012 6:12 AM by Author "Clean" in the forum "S.P.A.D. Aircraft - Coroplast design"
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RE: OPEN CHALLENGE TO ALL PUNKS..........
[quote]ORIGINAL: combatpigg [quote]ORIGINAL: yankee samurai Fox .36 is not a legal combat engine. [/quote] It is where I fly combat. At any rate, please don't call the cops on me. [/quote] HA! Call the cops on ya? Heck, the KCMO cops are still trying to figure out the source of the noise complaint!!! Couple of those in the circle were always fun to watch and listen to.
Posted on: 4/4/2012 7:02 AM by Author "Clean" in the forum "RC Combat"
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RE: AirCore 40 Trainer Instructions
Battery charger is dead or your switch is dead or your battery is unplugged. In any case, I believe the battery is on the power pack BUT it might also be needed to balance the aircraft and be somewhere else in the model. You need to find it, take it out and hook it directly to the wall charger and see if it will cycle up. You also need to test it and see just how much it is capable of storing. It could move the servos a bit and then only last enough to get you airborne, stable and then pointed in no particular direction when you lose all control forever. I don't trust wall chargers since the last time one bit me like that. Instead I use a field charger that has cycle testing always. I've got older battery packs then yours and they are in working order. I've got younger table weights that need to go to Radio Shack for disposal too. Once you get it back, don't forget to range check everything. Good luck.
Posted on: 4/4/2012 4:46 AM by Author "Clean" in the forum "S.P.A.D. Aircraft - Coroplast design"
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RE: SPAD Diamond Dust
For high vibration where you still have foaming, like racers, folks do use bubbleless tanks. This is simply a tank, with a disposable baby formula bottle liner in it and your intake line inside the liner. You put the pressure line to the outside of the liner and it all goes into an appropriate size tank. You still want to use one of those brass or filtered pickups as it spreads out the fuel drawing area. Now to fuel you need a syringe. Get one or two big syringes and fill them with fuel. Put the syringe on the fuel line, suck out ALL of the air from the liner, invert the syringe and put only fuel back in. Put a hemostat clamp on the fuel line and swap syringes, suck out any air from the fuel line and fill your bladder, repeat as necessary. Tank runs and is adjusted just like normal but there is no air with the fuel hence no bubbling. You can buy specialized tanks to do this, or you can just make your own like they used to before someone made specialized tanks. You could also try running a bladder but usually the needle valves are too course for bladder type pressure fuel adjustment. You might also try putting a squirt of Armor All into your full gallon jug of fuel. Here you would shake a full gallon of fuel and see if it turns into a milkshake. If it does add a squirt of Armor All, recap and shake again. Usually just takes a squirt for the silicon agents to stop the fuel from foaming. However your shaking of the jug is a dang site slower then a wide open motor and you could need more then the squirt. Problem is sooner or later the silicon that calms your foaming problems also starts to build up on your glow plug and motor parts, so you don't want to just start pouring the stuff in.
Posted on: 4/4/2012 4:11 AM by Author "Clean" in the forum "S.P.A.D. Aircraft - Coroplast design"
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RE: Why me and why now?
Toss your internal set screws and replace them with proper bolts. You can tighten them till the collar splits, and it will, and not strip the head out. I use the solder and washers, actually I drill and punch tin stock not washers, on my CL planes. It is lighter and won't come off during flight. Reheat the solder and it comes off. Fly a decent pattern in CL and have a wheel come off on landing and you've lost your flight. You 'CAN' file a flat spot where the wheel collar locks down. Probably doesn't hurt anything as most of us never change the size of wheels on your airplane and many will wear out wire gear before they wear out an airplane. I've not really seen that be necessary. The only time I've been bit by wheel collars is when I've relied on that terrible little set screw that uses a cheap tool of not precise size to fasten the screw with. You never know if you get the screw tight or did the wrench slip or did you loosen the screw when you had to wrench the wrench free. Replace the set screws and you will be happy. I've used Dubro or Midwest or anything I had lying around. If it was from a Chinese kit and I had a fitting swap I've used that too.
Posted on: 2/11/2012 8:11 AM by Author "Clean" in the forum "Tips & Techniques"
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RE: Low wing spad?
They don't float so well.
Posted on: 2/8/2012 4:23 AM by Author "Clean" in the forum "S.P.A.D. Aircraft - Coroplast design"
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RE: Low wing spad?
They don't float so well.
Posted on: 2/8/2012 4:22 AM by Author "Clean" in the forum "S.P.A.D. Aircraft - Coroplast design"
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RE: Low wing spad?
HObbico used to own all the rights to the AirCore planes and the patent rights to just about anything you can do to Coroplast and make an airplane part out of it. Shoot, I think even opening using it to fair landing gear by sliding the wire through a flute and bending it is covered in the patent. They let us use the contstuction techniques as we weren't making any money on it, just building our own planes and we didn't have any of their airplanes up on the site. That being said I used to have a file of the construction plans and dimensions of their F-16 look alike somewhere. Too many years and computer rebuilds ago I'm afraid.
Posted on: 2/4/2012 4:05 AM by Author "Clean" in the forum "S.P.A.D. Aircraft - Coroplast design"
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RE: 2948 Hellcat!
Flying a commie for mommy are ya? I loved my Norvels.
Posted on: 1/6/2012 6:00 PM by Author "Clean" in the forum "RC Combat"
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RE: Keep fuel and oil out of your plane during engine burn in
Breaking in on a stand eliminates all other variables that are found on an airplane and especially a new airplane, hence safer. That really shouldn't have to be explained. You CAN break in on the plane, many do. You CAN walk across the street at any point, many do. Safer to do it at the crossing.
Posted on: 12/30/2011 5:57 PM by Author "Clean" in the forum "Tips & Techniques"
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RE: Is combat dead?
On the other hand, you bring me a better mousetrap and I'll pay attention. You've just brought me the same pie dream that was broached here not 3 days before IN this very thread.
Posted on: 12/26/2011 1:17 PM by Author "Clean" in the forum "RC Combat"
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RE: Is combat dead?
[quote]ORIGINAL: 378 [quote]ORIGINAL: Clean Oh NOT that Lasertag crap again! Wait, DeJaVu? [/quote] You got a better idea besides just smashing expensive hardware together and hoping it survives? It's too unsafe to use actual projectiles. [/quote] I will not again waste my time explaining the facts of life to ignorant, arrogant children again. Rather you can read through this thread and any
Posted on: 12/26/2011 1:15 PM by Author "Clean" in the forum "RC Combat"
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RE: looking for cox 049 or speed 400 spad plans
That is a better engine AND you can get parts for them if you look in the 1/2A forum of this BBS there is a supplier of new parts, or there was half way through the year when last I looked. Everything Norvel up to and including .25's in parts and engines. So you is set of good engines and parts. I always loved the cox engines but hated the fact that just as I got everything working good, it was time to reset that stinking ball joint and blammo, I'd ruin the engine. I know folks that know how to do it good though, just a matter of patience, practice and better then moose like reflexes. So, failing all three I swapped to Norvel where there isn't any stinking ball joint! I just say no to those Cox suckers. Still, don't get crazy and build light. There is a little cox bipe on youtube by user named xjet. Take a look at that and what it does and remember with the Norvel you'll have about twice the power as the sure start he has. Won't make any difference in the glide ratio with a lot of weight though, so think light!
Posted on: 12/25/2011 9:00 PM by Author "Clean" in the forum "S.P.A.D. Aircraft - Coroplast design"
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RE: Is combat dead?
Could get to be as popular for me as my love of Cubs!
Posted on: 12/24/2011 8:46 PM by Author "Clean" in the forum "RC Combat"
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RE: Is combat dead?
[quote]ORIGINAL: 378 I want to see combat done with much more scale looking stuff in the .40 to .90 size range, aircraft too expensive to be smacking into each other. That, combined with the lasertag 'weapons' and FPV control, will make for MUCH more realistic and interesting dogfights from the non-RC'ers perspective. Anyone who appreciates air combat could watch and enjoy. [/quote] Oh NOT that Lasertag crap again! Wait, DeJaVu?
Posted on: 12/24/2011 8:44 PM by Author "Clean" in the forum "RC Combat"
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RE: Is combat dead?
We weren't using names for a reason. Nice to know some pilots don't screw EVERYBODY. See how I didn't use a name to avoid harming the innocent?
Posted on: 12/24/2011 6:16 PM by Author "Clean" in the forum "RC Combat"
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RE: Is combat dead?
[quote]ORIGINAL: HoundDog ]Maybe the age is low because Like Cherios, Kombat is for Kids. Ya know those Agressive typs with, Murder in their eyes. [/quote] The closest I've done to stryker combat was slope combat and I assure you the only place where age difference kicks in is on the lower side of the slope. Them young legs make it up and down the slope a lot faster then as older guys. Holding transmitters though the oldest to the youngest play. Not much damage ever from slope combat. The gliders are all made out of EDP and bounce when they run into each other. When I was flying RCCA one of the strongest competitors was the ole dude that ran a hobby shop in Nebraska. He would have kicked yer but for saying combat is for the young.
Posted on: 12/24/2011 7:41 AM by Author "Clean" in the forum "RC Combat"
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RE: Low wing spad?
Plans, not that I know of BUT just build what you're going to build, notch the wing and fuse just like you would a Demon but build the wing RNAF style or all 2 mil instead of the old tri-faceted airfoil that worked great for C class combat but is heavy and the biggest difference between the original and newer spads.
Posted on: 12/23/2011 4:06 AM by Author "Clean" in the forum "S.P.A.D. Aircraft - Coroplast design"
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RE: Is combat dead?
[quote]Clean, do not forget about the RC combat pilots talking to the judge to convince him of a cut, or two, or three, or four or five! [/quote] Oh yea, that asshat! He ran out of friends I believe. Happens when you constantly bend em over. I like how I usually did it, I'd see streamer floating in the air, ask where that came from cuzz my tail was long enough and my judge would say, '
Posted on: 12/22/2011 9:13 AM by Author "Clean" in the forum "RC Combat"
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RE: Is combat dead?
I think the problem with the FAI event is we tend to like bumper car combat in America. There planes bump into each other , disintegrate and then they're out of the round while there is still streamer out there. Therefore they fly a little more conservatively while doing combat. We on the other hand determined that our planes are going to touch once in a while so we built tanks that could take it, gave them more power to handle it and then continued to vary from the idea. In other words, we Americanized the event. We love it, that's the way it is. However in CL combat those guys were always dedicated to the idea of 1 heat 1 plane. It's really more about the engine. They'll have 6 planes and one engine that they swap between heats because an airplane coming back whole after a heat is kinda weird. It's exciting, it's dirty and the competitors actually wrestle out there while playing combat unlike RC where we stand, gentelmanly 10 feet apart and whisper things like "Good shot, sir" and 'Well Played" while flying. Never will you hear anything like "You mother was good to me last night" during an RC combat event.
Posted on: 12/22/2011 4:29 AM by Author "Clean" in the forum "RC Combat"
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