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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Jerry Leuty on November 01, 2010, 06:40:34 PM
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Gentlemen, and any ladies out there in stunt land, a moment of silence is in order if you please.................OK now that that is over let me testify. Late this evening I was at my favorite flying site. It is over grass with black dirt so common here in north Texas. I was enjoying doing the pattern with a profile Oriental that Dale Gleason had given me this past spring after VSC. It had been hanging in Mike's hobby shop in far north Dallas located on I-35 E for quite a while. Not that I don't have several other great stunt planes available in my own hobby land but who is going to turn down a freebee? Anyway this ship is a slow turner on the inside maneuvers. As you can imagine this can be hazardous in the vertical 8s and hour glass. On the second vertical 8 the plane did not clear the turf. The plane itself is very repairable with adding in some new motor mounts. But the LA .40 with low hours on it is toast. The opposite side of the exhaust engine mounting lugs were sheared off. I have cleaned and disassembled the engine and bagged it. I have plenty more engines. But don't you just hate it when you break an engine? I broke my first engine in the spring of 1968 in Long Bi en Army base camp in Vietnam. The little .19 quit in the overhead 8 and came in breaking off the cylinder from the block. The ground there was a helicopter landing pad and had been oiled down to keep the dust down. The left the dirt hard as concrete. I felt really bad as the plane belonged to a fellow soldier. He was not too upset since he had only given about $5 for it from another trooper returning home from his hitch. I certainly do not mind losing planes for that is a given but engines. Oh how hard that is to take.
Comments anyone...................Jerry
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The field in Miami is solid coral rock with grass over it. It doesn't give any.
(http://www.mastercontrollinelinksite.info/forum/OScase2.jpg)
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The really sad part here is that O.S. no longer makes them. Great engine, don't know why they quit.
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look on the bright side - now you can get a 46 to put on the oriental - much nocer engine than the 40.
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The field in Miami is solid coral rock with grass over it. It doesn't give any.
(http://www.mastercontrollinelinksite.info/forum/OScase2.jpg)
Is this the 35 version of the LA40 ????? LL~ LL~ LL~
Randy
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I KNOW that you know an S35 when you see it. I guess that's a feeble attempt at comedy.
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look on the bright side - now you can get a 46 to put on the oriental - much nocer engine than the 40.
'Cept it's not P-40 legal then.
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Looks like a job for_______JB weld!!!!!
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'Cept it's not P-40 legal then.
Cant believe there is a cheap 40 shortage! ;D
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Cant believe there is a cheap 40 shortage! ;D
Enya SS40 S
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Looks like a job for_______JB weld!!!!!
Might need to use "Alumiweld" for that one! y1
George
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The really sad part here is that O.S. no longer makes them. Great engine, don't know why they quit.
The control line market was dead. R/C was really on the upswing and power was the new king. It was obsolete for the new popular phase of the hobby.
Dennis
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The really sad part here is that O.S. no longer makes them. Great engine, don't know why they quit.
Ah!
I have parts to build a few more new ones and overhaul old ones. Shortage on the heads though.
Sweet sweet running engines.
Just not real good for smacking into the hard stuff.
David
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Aren't the 46s more stunt friendly?
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In my opinion, YES. H^^
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I am one for more power. That is why I no longer fly Fox .35s I still have two Foxes left and I suppose I should build something in a 42" W/S for these. But John Ashford said something several years ago that has stuck with me. He said; "I only build planes in the .40 size. That way I use the same support equipment. Pretty good thinking. I have several FPs and LAs that I bought new and off E-bay. In fact I have 3 brand new in the box FP .35s. I have built several Orientals and a few scratch planes thinking that I would use these .35s But somehow the used .40s end up in the planes. I know all about the .40 FP run-a-way and here is how I have cured it to some degree. I use plastic line spacers from Home Depot for venturies. They come .500 O/D and .277 I/D. Not too bad. But I take my Dremel tool and open the hole slightly. Once the O/D is turned down to fit the FP block a NVA goes in. I get a good strong steady fun of 5 seconds or so here at 650' above sea level and they pull strong in the overheads. I also have a couple of LA .46s left. It seems to me that the FP .35s and the LA .46s are more stunt friendly than either the FP or LA .40s Still depending on the overall aircraft weight and a less than 18 MPH wind all seem to fill my needs. The more I practice the pattern the more I realize that we need good dependable equipment to practice with. And then there is the E-Power that I am about to experiment with.
Here is another idea that I have been wondering about. The old FF planes had a timer on the that would shut off the fuel supply at a preset time. Why not set one of these timers on our stunt ships and then we would never have an overrun like I did in Albuquerque this past August.
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I think something similar was done back in the 70's. Still takes practice to get it right. H^^
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Enya SS40 S
Had you in mind when I said that Randy! ;D