RE: Atchafalaya Basin RC Pattern Championships (Baton Rouge, LA) May 18-19
Final results.
Posted on: 5/19/2013 12:23 PM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: Atchafalaya Basin RC Pattern Championships (Baton Rouge, LA) May 18-19
Day one is in the books. We had a great day, but one unfortunate mishap where Don Ramsey had a mid-air. I only listed Don's name because it was an ultra-rare solo mid-air.
Posted on: 5/18/2013 7:03 PM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: Atchafalaya Basin RC Pattern Championships (Baton Rouge, LA) May 18-19
After hours concert by Bryan Hebert and his daughter Heidi.
Posted on: 5/17/2013 6:58 PM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: Atchafalaya Basin RC Pattern Championships (Baton Rouge, LA) May 18-19
Dinner time!
Posted on: 5/17/2013 3:59 PM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: Atchafalaya Basin RC Pattern Championships (Baton Rouge, LA) May 18-19
Photos from Friday practice. From what I understand we should have a heck of an FAI contest this time including Brett Wickizer, Earl Haury, AC Glenn, Paul Villarubia, and even No-show Raiko Potter is rumored to be coming! In addition Clint Higdon is here and Mike Hare should be coming with Raiko. Al Glenn and Bryan Hebert are here, both former US Team Managers, NSCRA Secretary Scott McHarg is also here, plus many others. If you're on the fence about coming, drop what you're doing and get down here, it's going to be a great weekend!
Posted on: 5/17/2013 2:45 PM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: F3A Results - SPOILER
[quote]ORIGINAL: Jeff Boyd 2 [quote]ORIGINAL: JAS It was REALLY windy the last round. I'm gonna look into those cool little wind meters that the soaring guys use. It's always fun to know what the actual conditions we fly in are. [/quote] I'd rather not know,Jas . . It would do my head in ! ;-D A friend once saw a bird launch itself and crash in the wind . . he said ''That's it, I'm packing up . . even the 'experts' can't fly in it'' lol JB [/quote] When I was judging the first round of F I actually saw this happen. Between pilots I noticed a bird come up from a patch of tall grass just off the edge of the runway. He was trying to fly into the wind. After flapping his wings as fast as he could for about 15 seconds and getting nowhere, he gave up and landed.
Posted on: 8/8/2012 9:17 PM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: F3A Results - SPOILER
[quote]ORIGINAL: TonyF mjfrederick, You use such a crude term as ''urinate'', even when all I have been doing is praising Brett and Bryan for making the team. That is simply untrue and is insulting.[/quote] I used the term urinate, which is the correct term, as opposed to the crude term because I assumed the crude term would be filtered by RCU and I wanted to get my point
Posted on: 8/7/2012 11:09 AM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: F3A Results - SPOILER
[quote]ORIGINAL: TonyF I could have gone into more things, like the comment that glow has better low end torque. Again, the science would show you how incorrect that statement is, but we're not believing science anymore. [/quote] Tony, Bryan has said many times and in many more forums than this that he doesn't always use the proper technical terms, and his spelling and grammar are terrible. What Bryan refers to as torque may not necessarily be torque under the scientific definition, but he did a sufficient job in explaining what he meant. Yet, you keep harping on those types of mistakes and trying to use them to prove a fallacy in his explanation. I don't know too many guys who own a dynamometer to actually measure the torque produced by the electric and IC motors we use. Much like the lack of a truly science-based R&D design process in F3A, it's just too damn expensive. Fly what you like. Fly what feels good for you. But don't come in here and urinate on Bryan's accomplishments just because he can't communicate his findings to your satisfaction. So, as long as I'm here I'm going to bring up something that's been eating at me that you said: wings don't produce lift in a downline. You're right, from your myopic definition (force that opposes gravity), lift is not being produced in a downline (not much anyway). Do you think that the wings stop performing the same aerodynamic function just because they're pointed at the ground? No. There will be, for lack of a better term, a "horizontal lift" component in the downline. Maybe I should call it drag? Maybe thrust? We've all seen the diagrams in the flight training manuals showing the 4 forces on the airplane during flight, but that only applies to horizontal flight. Do the wings actually produce lift according to your definition in a downline? You bet, but not much. The "lift" being produced in a downline used to be the induced drag from horizontal flight. It's just not enough to oppose the thrust from the motor and gravity. Bryan's methods have sought to find a good balance between all the forces acting on an airplane in all attitudes, without cheating by adding a mix. For the most part, he's done it. His methods can't fix all airframes, but they can get them close enough to reduce the pilot's workload. That's why Brett pushed so hard to have that bipe ready for the Team Trials. That's why Brett was able to take an airplane he only had a handful of flights on and make the team. There were many questioning whether or not Brett's decision to fly the Alferma was the right one. His dad and I both expressed our concerns (not to Brett of course) as we chatted during the rain delay on Wednesday. Brett showed us it was the right choice.
Posted on: 8/7/2012 9:52 AM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: trimming question
[quote]ORIGINAL: Bill Clark I'd be dialing 1-800-ASK-BRYAN [/quote] LMAO [:D]
Posted on: 8/7/2012 7:28 AM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: F3A Results - SPOILER
[quote]ORIGINAL: highfly3D Did anyone took videos would like to see videos of top 3 pilots.... [/quote] I took video of Brett's second F flight from the finals. Bryan Hebert posted it to youtube and there's a link in one of the other threads that he started. That's the only one I've seen so far.
Posted on: 8/3/2012 8:10 AM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: Great Team Trials!
[quote]ORIGINAL: flyncajun Thanks Matt We will do Our Best torepresent the US. Andrew and Jason also flew very well ,I think Andrew is probably the best flier in the world at the Moment ,we will have a strong team Bryan [/quote] I judged the first round of F, and was able to watch most of the rest of the flying. I have to agree with this statement 100%. In that first round it was fairly obvious it would be a 3-way race to second and third, but Andrew was so darn consistent, and so good even in the strong winds that it was apparent he wasn't going to be denied another championship. Great flying by all, and we're especially proud of Brett here in District 6 for his 3rd Team USA appearance in a row! Geaux team!!!
Posted on: 7/30/2012 2:02 PM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: Post your Nats Photos here!
More photos coming tonight from Day 3 and Team Trials, been really busy and didn't get home from the Nats until last night at 9:30.
Posted on: 7/30/2012 1:57 PM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: Great Team Trials!
[quote]ORIGINAL: n233w Yes, you could see the wind from the video. Thanks for the great video! Brett was scaring me though with waiting so long to put the gear down.  [/quote] Don't worry, he scared ALL of us...
Posted on: 7/30/2012 1:53 PM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: Post your Nats Photos here!
[quote]ORIGINAL: mbritt  Glad you guys came to Anderson! I learned allot and had a good time watching you guys fly. Come back and see us :) [/quote] Thanks for letting us practice there! Nice facility, sure we'll be back.
Posted on: 7/28/2012 11:26 AM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: Post your Nats Photos here!
Yeah, my buddy said he was looking for me... [:D]
Posted on: 7/25/2012 8:25 PM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: Post your Nats Photos here!
[quote]ORIGINAL: Fixed Wing Thanks for posting all of this Matthew. Please keep posting anything and everything you can. BTW, looks like you're doing good in Advanced. Way to represent D6. Dean [/quote] Thanks Dean, hope to get some more today!
Posted on: 7/24/2012 4:13 AM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: Post your Nats Photos here!
A few more Alferma photos for your viewing pleasure.
Posted on: 7/23/2012 2:58 PM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: Post your Nats Photos here!
Yes, that is Brett, and yes, those are retracts! It's quite a sight when you see it lift off the runway and suck those gear up! That is Bryan Hebert's new biplane design, the Alferma, though I hear over at the F3A flight line they're calling it the "Alfredo".
Posted on: 7/23/2012 2:52 PM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: Post your Nats Photos here!
Last few pics so far. Didn't get any pictures during the first day of competition.
Posted on: 7/23/2012 2:17 PM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: Post your Nats Photos here!
Unfortunately practice at site 4 wasn't without mishaps. Monte Richard lost his Patriot, and another pilot (sorry, didn't catch the name) had an ESC burn.
Posted on: 7/23/2012 2:16 PM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: Post your Nats Photos here!
And more.
Posted on: 7/23/2012 2:14 PM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: Post your Nats Photos here!
More.
Posted on: 7/23/2012 2:12 PM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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Post your Nats Photos here!
Here are some of the images I took during my 2 days of practice. The first few are from the practice site in Anderson, IN. The rest are from Sites 4 and 3.
Posted on: 7/23/2012 2:11 PM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: Comp ARF Valiant
[quote]ORIGINAL: Freddy Had a few more flight attempts but my new YS is acting up, all deadsticks after a few minutes. I did move the CG aft by moving the battery aft of the wing tube on the vertical tank support, lightened spinner backplate, and 1 oz weight in the tail, so CG is probably just aft of the wing tube aft edge. Needed less down in inverted and all the tracking including up and KE still great. Maybe this will affect my spins/snaps? Too soon to tell. I PM's Bryan Hebert but no feedback yet. [/quote] One thing Hebert will tell you is you don't move the CG just to make elevator "feel" right for inverted flight. That's what God invented exponential for. Moving the CG too far aft on an Hebert design can cause some very bad spin and snap characteristics, and the rolls won't be near as pretty. He's actually in the process of re-trimming the prototype (since he was kind enough to lend me the airplane he was originally going to fly this year), so his mind is definitely on this plane at this time, and he will probably chime in here. I know he added tail weight to his this past weekend, but most of his radio gear is right at or in front of the wing tube with the exception of the elevator servos.
Posted on: 7/3/2012 12:12 PM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: TALON EXTREME by Randy Hicks Designs
[quote]ORIGINAL: ROOKIE PILOT Thanks Guys for the kind words. The plane does look every bit as good as I imagined ten months ago. Today was it's maiden flight and it flies as good as looks. I'm sure Brandon will chime in and give some detail of the flights, as he was the one behind the transmitter. It is a good feeling when all of your hard work goes up in flight. Randy Hicks Team TALON extreme [/quote] Sweet!!! Will it be at Georgetown this weekend?
Posted on: 6/28/2012 6:50 AM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: District 6 Points Standings
Well, this is what I get for opening my mouth... I guess I am the scorekeeper now. The spreadsheet for district points standings has been updated through the Turf Flyers' Contest. It is available on the [link=http://nsrca.us/index.php/districts/d6]District 6 Website[/link].
Posted on: 6/25/2012 10:48 AM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: Just another day at the field
My airplane coming in for a landing.
Posted on: 6/23/2012 9:15 PM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: Just another day at the field
Oh, and we did do a little bit of flying.
Posted on: 6/23/2012 9:13 PM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: Just another day at the field
Some even got some much-needed rest.
Posted on: 6/23/2012 9:12 PM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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RE: Just another day at the field
This was almost as much a social event as it was a practice day. We had a good lunch of hamburgers and potato salad, and spectators and pilots alike sat around chatting away.
Posted on: 6/23/2012 9:10 PM by Author "mjfrederick" in the forum "RC Pattern Flying"
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