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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Mike Haverly on March 03, 2013, 08:00:49 PM
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I bought a new camera today, a good excuse to try it out on a nice day. Norm Whittle designed this model a few years ago as an IC, a piped Magnum .36 and it flew great. Pete Peterson has since built one. Norm converted his to electric
power and drew up a nice set of plans, being a straight wing is a simple build.
Here are some specifics:
Starfinder, approx 650 sq. in. and 58 oz. (for now).
Power is E-Flite Power 25, Castle Creations 50 Ice Lite esc. and Hubin FM-9R timer. Prop is APC 12 X 6 for starters.
Battery is Thunderpower 5S 2700 ProLite
I hope to get some flights in the next week or so.
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Another picture
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One more
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What a great looking plane. Love the Chipmunk paint scheme. Can't wait to hear the flight report.
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I bought a new camera today, a good excuse to try it out on a nice day. Norm Whittle designed this model a few years ago as an IC, a piped Magnum .36 and it flew great. Pete Peterson has since built one. Norm converted his to electric
power and drew up a nice set of plans, being a straight wing is a simple build.
Here are some specifics:
Starfinder, approx 650 sq. in. and 58 oz. (for now).
Power is E-Flite Power 25, Castle Creations 50 Ice Lite esc. and Hubin FM-9R timer. Prop is APC 12 X 6 for starters.
Battery is Thunderpower 5S 2700 ProLite
I hope to get some flights in the next week or so.
Great job!
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Outstanding!
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Very Nice! Should present very well. Are the plans available?
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
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I'll get in touch with Norm, it is his design. Pat Johnston has a file for the ribs to be laser cut, which I used. It is actually designed for wing mounted gear, I chose to use CF fuse mounted gear mostly because I had a set.
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Really, really nice! H^^
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Looks great Mike,, see you soon at a contest near YOU
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Sweet! y1
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Looks good, Mike! Let me know when you want a stooge. :-\ Steve
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Very stunning Mike. An outstanding job.
Larry Fruits
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Beautiful ! #^
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Gorgeous!
Mike, could you please post a pic of the nose showing how you hold the battery, etc?
It looks so "clean", I 'd like to have a better look if it's OK with you H^^
Marcus
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MIke great looking airplane, just like all of your efforts..Top Notch.
Now, what kind of camera did you get?
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Brother Mike,
That looks really awesome. I cannot push myself to put that good a finish on a profile! Looks nice and I am sure it will fly great!
BIG Bear
RNMM/AMM
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Another great looking plane.
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Mike,
Impressive!
Great looking model!!
Double outstanding!
Charles
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So, Pete gave you the plans? He, he. Looks very good, Mike.
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Looks GREAT Mike!!
Derek
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Marcus, here are a couple of pictures of how things hook up. I like things as simple as possible.
Tom, I bought an inexpensive Canon, less than $200.00 but it has some pretty nice features.
Bill, I can't bring myself to bring any less than at least a reasonable effort to the flying field. In this case it was good practice for my new buffer and more experience with my vinyl cutter. No, there are no "stickers", that is what I call vinyl pretending to be "decals". I made a paint mask for every detail, including the canopy trim. Kinda fun actually. I plan to do a product review for Stunt News on the cutter.
Thanks everyone.
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Well MIke , that's really something great.I might as well just have the pilots choice award made with your name on it this year.Keith
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Thanks Mike.
Really neat installation, love it!!!
Congrats on the great ship.
Marcus
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Bill, I can't bring myself to bring any less than at least a reasonable effort to the flying field. In this case it was good practice for my new buffer and more experience with my vinyl cutter. No, there are no "stickers", that is what I call vinyl pretending to be "decals". I made a paint mask for every detail, including the canopy trim. Kinda fun actually. I plan to do a product review for Stunt News on the cutter.
Thanks everyone.
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Mike,
We talked before, I need to upgrade my cutter,, which software is your cutter running?
I like the new bird, thanks for sharing
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Mark, my cutter is most happy with a .DXF but the easiest way for me is Corel. I can copy and paste directly, but I have to make sure everthing is converted to curves and grouped. The software that comes with the machine is kinda stupid, Corel is vector and transfers easily. Also, it will open Autocad files, very useful.
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so you can "print" right from Autocad?
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Tremendous effort, beautiful install. Birds like this really blur the line between Profiles and full fuse...
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Mark, my cutter is most happy with a .DXF but the easiest way for me is Corel. I can copy and paste directly, but I have to make sure everthing is converted to curves and grouped. The software that comes with the machine is kinda stupid, Corel is vector and transfers easily. Also, it will open Autocad files, very useful.
HI Mike,
First, I usually do a pretty decent job on finishing even my profiles. But, yours is exceptionally nice. ;D
Second, I have worked in coreldraw for quite a while now, does it actually cross over to CAD? (I do know it is vector based, not raster)
Thanks!
Bill
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Mark, my machine will import from Corel but I've had problems with the transport from time to time. I found it easier to just copy and paste. Sometimes it gets confused with open geometry so I make sure everything is closed, could be something I'm doing too. Still a lot to learn.
Bill I wouldn't say it crosses over to cad, but I can pick dimensions and move things around. It is not a true CAD in the, actual "drafting" sense but it seems to open autocad files. I'm sure you know more about it than I do. The software that came with the plotter/cutter is limited when it comes to applying any personal touches to a design. It will do basic shapes and quite a few different fonts they want you to buy more expensive software to to do anything extra. Corel made a lot more sense, more versatile.
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Nice, Mike, very nice.
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I'm very impressed...beautiful aircraft !
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Just superb Mike. Love that color scheme.
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Wow!
Very Kewl.
You just raised the bar for profiles. y1
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HI Mike,
First, I usually do a pretty decent job on finishing even my profiles. But, yours is exceptionally nice. ;D
Second, I have worked in coreldraw for quite a while now, does it actually cross over to CAD? (I do know it is vector based, not raster)
Thanks!
Bill
Bill;
Corel files are vector based not raster based, so Corel will allow you to save to either .dxf or .dwg format, and that is the format native to Autocad and its derivatives.
The results can still be a little "jervous and nerky". So, finishing the conversion into something useable and editable in Autocad sometimes requires some third party LISP programs or other "creative approaches".
For example, some of the curves created in Corel would not always work some CNC based machines. So, for something done in Corel, we had to convert it to a .dxf file. That would take everything back to simple curves, arcs, lines, polylines, etc. Then the CNC could handle the file and make the cut.
Walt Umland's laser cutter seems to handle everything, including splines. Things develop with time.
Bob
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Bob, you are correct (of course) Corel will save as a DXF, DWG and many others. I tried both and imported to my machine and got bad results. For some reason, the machine makes some of the curve facetted. Cutting and pasting seemed to eliminate that particular problem. Like I said, it could very well be something I'm doing. I had the same problems with some of CNC programs when I was still working in a machine shop. As it turned out in that case it was usually a programming error, or a post process problem.
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Great looking plane!
Steve