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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: MarcusCordeiro on November 02, 2013, 05:04:00 PM

Title: CL + RC = CLRC???
Post by: MarcusCordeiro on November 02, 2013, 05:04:00 PM

Don't know what to think of this... ???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcpK4N-Yg3A

Marcus

Title: Re: CL + RC = CLRC???
Post by: Scott Richlen on November 02, 2013, 05:30:20 PM

I wanna see the part where the spike pulls out!

Title: Re: CL + RC = CLRC???
Post by: john e. holliday on November 03, 2013, 07:42:08 AM

If I could find the video, it has already been done.  Even doing loops and inverted flight.   Still not control line as it is using radio for the up and down.

Title: Re: CL + RC = CLRC???
Post by: Phil Krankowski on November 03, 2013, 09:40:05 AM

RTP
Round the Pole

Some people are dedicated to this stuff.  It is pretty neat.

Phil

Title: Re: CL + RC = CLRC???
Post by: FLOYD CARTER on November 03, 2013, 10:04:51 AM

Why didn't he use just one line?  That's pretty clever.  Could that become a new AMA Nats event?

I'm actually part way there.  I fly an electric stunter with 2.4 GHz R/C motor control instead of the usual Hubin timer.  But I still use 2 lines and conventional elevator/flap control.  The R/C transmitter is clipped to a spare belt.  Looks hokey, but it works.

Floyd

Title: Re: CL + RC = CLRC???
Post by: Derek Barry on November 04, 2013, 05:21:14 AM

Mark Weiss built one for the Joe Nall over two years ago. It is a small plane with a .15 on it I think. I was able to do loops, squares, eights (vertical and horizontal), and fly inverted. I crashed on the square eights...

Derek

Title: Re: CL + RC = CLRC???
Post by: RknRusty on November 04, 2013, 05:38:54 AM

Quote from: Phil Krankowski on November 03, 2013, 09:40:05 AM

RTP
Round the Pole

Some people are dedicated to this stuff.  It is pretty neat.

Phil

Yeah,RTP like Phil said. One of our English friends over at coxengineforum had no place to fly but a tiny garden plot. He wanted to enter our Cox engine flight-time contest, so we watched his thread while, through trial and error, he got his RTP setup with a small 1/2A plane worked out. Not as easy as you would imagine on first thought.

My phone refuses to play the video, so I don't know if that's our buddy or not.

Rusty

Title: Re: CL + RC = CLRC???
Post by: Phil Krankowski on November 04, 2013, 05:31:07 PM

http://www.coxengineforum.com/t5190-ian-s-cox-flight-contest-progress

Title: Re: CL + RC = CLRC???
Post by: the original Steve Smith on November 04, 2013, 08:19:31 PM

Boring!

Also, typical RC landing (semi-controlled crash)!

Thanks!

Steve

Title: Re: CL + RC = CLRC???
Post by: john e. holliday on November 05, 2013, 08:33:48 AM

Hey some of us did learn to land while flying RC planes.   Like control line, it takes practice.   

Title: Re: CL + RC = CLRC???
Post by: Douglas Ames on November 07, 2013, 02:36:56 PM

Geees! What size are those cables? Are they surplus from the Golden Gate bridge?

Title: Re: CL + RC = CLRC???
Post by: FLOYD CARTER on November 07, 2013, 03:27:01 PM

Jim Walker made a pylon control for one of his Fireball planes.  He was outside the circle with a control "stick".  The whole thing was simple, all using 2 wires, although I don't know how he made the "slip ring" conversion to circular.

Floyd