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Post by Legot on Nov 30, 2010 5:32:26 GMT 1
Yes! I have legitimacy!
Or is it Legitness?
or leetness?
And you're the one who mad a feeble attempt to steel my cub trim scheme dill ;D I'm honored to be the subject of your jealousy
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Post by Dillzio on Nov 30, 2010 14:53:46 GMT 1
And you're the one who mad a feeble attempt to steel my cub trim scheme dill ;D I'm honored to be the subject of your jealousy Pardon me? Them's fightin' words Legot, you don't just go accusing the man who built Bumblebee of stealing a trim scheme. You show me some pics of your plane that resemble mine! BTW, my plane is named bumblebee now. It matches the black and yellow color scheme, the car badge, and I've made a tail out of fluteboard/correx that's black and yellow too (pictures will follow) |
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Post by ginginho on Nov 30, 2010 17:52:36 GMT 1
BTW, my plane is named bumblebee now. It matches the black and yellow color scheme, the car badge, and I've made a tail out of fluteboard/correx that's black and yellow too (pictures will follow) That may be what you call it, to me (and probably others) it will always be the gimp. ;D |
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Post by ginginho on Nov 30, 2010 17:53:57 GMT 1
Another AO player?  |
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Post by Legot on Dec 1, 2010 0:45:37 GMT 1
I dont play video games all that much, I've never even played Halo (or whatever you're talking about  You must admit, Dill's gimp and my cub do look a little alike, mine is just silver instead of black. Unless of course im insane and it's only the yellow    a homebuilt cowl is in the works However I never thought of using coro (what you call corex) as part of the cub...  |
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Post by leisureshoot on Dec 1, 2010 5:38:26 GMT 1
why build a cowl? They are darn near free!
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Post by Dillzio on Dec 1, 2010 9:46:00 GMT 1
That may be what you call it, to me (and probably others) it will always be the gimp. ;D LMAO! ;D You laugh it up Ging, it will make me enjoy our victory over you in the Ashes so much more! Yeah, seriously Legot, why build a cowl? I find that by wrapping a normal cowl in cloth-tape the thing can near on survive reentry into the earth's atmosphere (might need the silver colored tape for that though) And as for your other transgression, accusing ME of copying your cub! The only thing similar about our planes is that they both have yellow somewhere on the ailerons, and they are both super cubs. Mine is covered in black profilm, with a long yellow line each side of the fuselage that gets thinner as it gets closer to the tail, two vertical stripes underside the wings on each side, and one yellow stripe each side on the top of the wing that's identical to the one on the stock super cub. My cub only has yellow strips on the underside of the wings/ailerons, most of the underside of my ailerons is black, and all of the top of the ailerons is black. I think you'll also find that my cub is made in metric (15cm flaps, 25cm ailerons), with bigger (and therefore much cooler) flaps than yours. How how exactly are our cubs anything alike?  Oh, and BTW, your ailerons look leaky. I know it's a harsh thing to say but it's true. Why don't you just go fill the whole wing with holes? |
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Post by ginginho on Dec 1, 2010 11:49:50 GMT 1
LMAO! ;D You laugh it up Ging, it will make me enjoy our victory over you in the Ashes so much more! That's a bit presumtuous of you isn't it? Didn't you do something similar around a year and a half ago? BTW, What's the erm, fluid on the floor around your gimp? Did you get a bit over-excited when taking the picture? ;D |
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Post by Legot on Dec 2, 2010 1:25:58 GMT 1
BTW, What's the erm, fluid on the floor around your gimp? Did you get a bit over-excited when taking the picture? ;D lol! your brilliant ging! I think you'll also find that my cub is made in metric (15cm flaps, 25cm ailerons), with bigger (and therefore much cooler) flaps than yours. My prop, rudder and elevator are bigger than yours... I win  And smaller flaps are scale epicness. Your wheels must be tiny! I cant even see them... |
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Post by leisureshoot on Dec 2, 2010 1:40:04 GMT 1
Legot, you are missing a very important item: "wing bling"!
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Post by Dillzio on Dec 2, 2010 8:10:58 GMT 1
Hey Legot, I have a new tail now - did I mention it's oversized?  What did you make your tail out of anyway? Your flaps are too small to be scale epic. I've seen a pic of a real cub somewhere on the forum here where the flaps were the same size as the ailerons, I can hardly see those little appendages you call flaps! Do they even slow your cub down or are they just there for looks? Ging, don't worry about the last ashes mate, it's the present that counts, stop living in the past man! Oh and the fluid on the floor was some of the blood, sweat and tears leaking out of my cub. Speaking of tears, I had a pretty bad crash last night, did a low altitude loop, the plane started to roll one way, I gave ailerons to roll it the other way and it didn't respond. Hit the ground HARD, snapped off the nose, ripped out one of the flap servos and both ailerons servos are making a really horrible grinding noise and don't work too good at all. The servos were making a bit of a noise before I took off, but I didn't think too much off it. I thought it was just one of the flap servos from the flap riding up a little bit, cos the noise stopped when I pushed the top of the flap down level with the wing. Now I'm sticking with the theory that the crash was caused by an equipment failure, rather than me being a smart-arse (although in truth it was probably a little of both). Could it be that my Corona 928BB servos failed and caused the crash, or was the damage to the servos caused by the crash? This looks like a good case for air crash investigations. |
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Post by ginginho on Dec 2, 2010 13:53:58 GMT 1
Ging, don't worry about the last ashes mate, it's the present that counts, stop living in the past man! Oh and the fluid on the floor was some of the blood, sweat and tears leaking out of my cub. Not worried about the past Dillz, in fact (potentially digging a hole for myself) I'm not particularly worried about the current series. It's been a while since an aussie team has been as indifferent as the current one. Speaking of tears, I had a pretty bad crash last night, did a low altitude loop, the plane started to roll one way, I gave ailerons to roll it the other way and it didn't respond. Hit the ground HARD, snapped off the nose, ripped out one of the flap servos and both ailerons servos are making a really horrible grinding noise and don't work too good at all. The servos were making a bit of a noise before I took off, but I didn't think too much off it. I thought it was just one of the flap servos from the flap riding up a little bit, cos the noise stopped when I pushed the top of the flap down level with the wing. Now I'm sticking with the theory that the crash was caused by an equipment failure, rather than me being a smart-arse (although in truth it was probably a little of both). Did you do ground checks before the flight and did all the surfaces operate? Servo buzz is fairly common, normally caused by a surface binding a bit that's stopping the servo from centering, a stick wiggle normally will stop it. It shouldn't really cause one to fail so I'm blaming it on the smart-arse! ;D Could it be that my Corona 928BB servos failed and caused the crash, or was the damage to the servos caused by the crash? This looks like a good case for air crash investigations. You might have had one fail in flight, very unlikely that more than one would've though. It sounds like the gears have gone, so it seems the Corona's may be a bit on the fragile side. OTOH we don't know whether any others would have survived. TBH I'd put it down to the crash, that tends to be when servo gears get stripped. Do you have spares or is it weeks waiting on HK deliveries again? |
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Post by higgsbosonman on Dec 3, 2010 0:04:10 GMT 1
dillzio, my impact wasn't as bad as your's, but when i got home i found out it could have been a lot worse.
it's a good thing tree branches get brittle when it's cold out, because they broke my planes fall without burrowing into it. i had flipped it on it's back avoiding my parent's car, and appearantly i'd busted something important, like the ELEVATOR. the servo had popped loose from it's mount, but when i was on the ground, it still moved.
took off, doing pretty good. do a loop. weird. did i hit the dual rates? uh oh. stall. pull up! AAAAH! dad got a ladder and got it down, and nothing broke exept my skiis. lucky me.
My post-flight anaysis found i suck at mounting servos.
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Post by Dillzio on Dec 3, 2010 4:00:23 GMT 1
Did you do ground checks before the flight and did all the surfaces operate? Servo buzz is fairly common, normally caused by a surface binding a bit that's stopping the servo from centering, a stick wiggle normally will stop it. It shouldn't really cause one to fail so I'm blaming it on the smart-arse! ;D Could it be that my Corona 928BB servos failed and caused the crash, or was the damage to the servos caused by the crash? This looks like a good case for air crash investigations. You might have had one fail in flight, very unlikely that more than one would've though. It sounds like the gears have gone, so it seems the Corona's may be a bit on the fragile side. OTOH we don't know whether any others would have survived. TBH I'd put it down to the crash, that tends to be when servo gears get stripped. Do you have spares or is it weeks waiting on HK deliveries again? I did a ground check like a good boy, and everything was working as it should. The servo buzzing noise seemed to come from one of the flap servos, as when I raised the flaps (i store it with the flaps down to keep the blenderm stretched to the right level) one of them started buzzing. I suppose it is somewhat unlikely that both aileron servos would fail at the same time. I just don't understand why when I gave it full roll to the right 5m from the ground I got NO reaction out of the plane at all. Maybe I can blame the crash on a glitch in the hobbyking radio. Ironically, just before the crash, I was thinking about how awesome my hobbyking radio had been and how please I was that I didn't fork out all that money for Spektrum. Could it be that whilst travelling at speed, giving full up elevator and full aileron roll overloaded the BEC, causing the radio to glitch? I have two spare 928BB servos that I can use to replace the two aileron servos with, but I haven't checked the other servos yet. I've got assignments to work on the next few days, so I won't really be inspecting it until next week. It's gonna be a bit of a pain since all the servo wires are profilmed into the wing, but I should have known I couldn't keep the cub in mint condition for too much longer. I've just put in a order for some HXT900s, since all the other cheap servos are out of stock. It will be interesting to see how they compare to the Corona 928BBs |
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Post by ginginho on Dec 3, 2010 10:56:48 GMT 1
Did you do ground checks before the flight and did all the surfaces operate? Servo buzz is fairly common, normally caused by a surface binding a bit that's stopping the servo from centering, a stick wiggle normally will stop it. It shouldn't really cause one to fail so I'm blaming it on the smart-arse! ;D You might have had one fail in flight, very unlikely that more than one would've though. It sounds like the gears have gone, so it seems the Corona's may be a bit on the fragile side. OTOH we don't know whether any others would have survived. TBH I'd put it down to the crash, that tends to be when servo gears get stripped. Do you have spares or is it weeks waiting on HK deliveries again? I did a ground check like a good boy, and everything was working as it should. The servo buzzing noise seemed to come from one of the flap servos, as when I raised the flaps (i store it with the flaps down to keep the blenderm stretched to the right level) one of them started buzzing. I suppose it is somewhat unlikely that both aileron servos would fail at the same time. I just don't understand why when I gave it full roll to the right 5m from the ground I got NO reaction out of the plane at all. Maybe I can blame the crash on a glitch in the hobbyking radio. Ironically, just before the crash, I was thinking about how awesome my hobbyking radio had been and how please I was that I didn't fork out all that money for Spektrum. Could it be that whilst travelling at speed, giving full up elevator and full aileron roll overloaded the BEC, causing the radio to glitch? I have two spare 928BB servos that I can use to replace the two aileron servos with, but I haven't checked the other servos yet. I've got assignments to work on the next few days, so I won't really be inspecting it until next week. It's gonna be a bit of a pain since all the servo wires are profilmed into the wing, but I should have known I couldn't keep the cub in mint condition for too much longer. I've just put in a order for some HXT900s, since all the other cheap servos are out of stock. It will be interesting to see how they compare to the Corona 928BBs Hmm, I wonder if the servo that was buzzing on the ground did the same in the air and was stalled, pulling a lot more current than normal operation. This would align with your suspicion of the BEC copping out. I recall reading on another forum about a guy with a big plane and bigger servos measuring the current pulled by a stalled servo and finding it was pulling around 10 times more current that in normal operation. Moral of the story: More bits means more things to go wrong. I'm a little surprised you didn't respond to my "indifferent" statement. Although yesterdays performance seems to back my viewpoint. |
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What did you make your tail out of anyway?