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Feb 06, 2011, 05:08 AM | |||
I've been quietly following and admiring your work herb
You know I am a video-maniac myself, so my jaw was dropping when I fired up youtube and saw your baby as newest vid to my subscriptions. Im am still sitting here, drooling...the video is great, and the flight and landing is just perfect! Maximum respect! I Hope you don't mind if I put your video into this thread for all the others to see this awesome piece of work
Feb 10, 2011, 01:28 PM | |||
... and here's the maiden flight video.
The video quality is a bit poor since my hd camera was still on the wrong settings (lcd display mode). But on the whole I think the maiden went pretty well - given all the uncertainties of a scratch built.
Feb 12, 2011, 01:37 PM | |
I'm working on that ...
I also looked at the Kavan electromagnetic brakes, but they are way too big for the MiG-21's wheels: http://www.hobby-lobby.com/wheels.htmBrake.htm http://www.kavanrc.com/cgi-bin/dpsma...rch_02Index_01 With some patience I can probably make a similar, but smaller, set myself. The designs seems quite simple & lightweight. |
Feb 16, 2011, 06:53 PM | |
Hi Jonathan,
What airplane gyros do you use these days? I have some (3) older MPG-6 cirrus ones ($30 at the time at HP) http://store.alshobbyshop.com/browse...iezo-Gyro.html with a pot to adjust the gain, but they don't seem to like my futaba FASST FS617 receiver !! The servos tend to go full right if I increase the gain past 50% or so , so there's a serious trim issue [They are NOT digital servos]. Did you have the GWS ones? If not, what type and where did you get them? Did you try the Hobbycity Ones http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbyking/s...idproduct=9094 or http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/s...idproduct=9093 Mine look a bit like the first one (PG-03J). Thanks HWH EDIT: I see, you have these : http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/s...idproduct=6755 How did you get them to work with a Futaba FASST receiver ? Mine are perhaps too ancient ... but I thought they worked fine for me on good old 72 MHz . |
Feb 17, 2011, 01:20 AM | |
Jonathan, Thanks for the detailed reply !
So which gyro brands/types are you using ... one is the type I linked above, and the other? I was indeed confused by the product description/discussion of the above $18 HK gyro which on the one hand has adjustable rate, yet does not work on a knob, only on a switch. Weird. I am thinking of trying a small gyro on the aileron channel in the MiG-21 ... but I don't trust the Cirrus one I have. Also, don't think I really even need to adjust the rate on a channel, a pot set on 40% or so should be fine. I have flown edfs with gyros on the ail and the sweet spot is usually around 40-50% rate, not more, above that they tend to overcorrect. The Hobbico gyro below I had for a long time (since 2003) and have occasionally put in in jets (the JePe A-4 below), it is german made ("ACT wingo gyro", http://www.acteurope.de/Fuzzyenglisch.pdf ) and, besides adjustbale gain on the ch 6 knob on my Futaba 9c, also allows for flapperon mixing (2 ail connections). This Hobbico/ACT one also seems to still work fine on 72MHz - but not on the fasst fs617 receiver ! http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showp...&postcount=164 . |
Feb 17, 2011, 12:17 PM | |
Thanks again ... Yes high gain is not fun, that's why I start from zero and go gradually up, tx knob or gyro pot.... past 40-50% I never use.
Well somebody else seems to have the same problem I have, trim changes when the gain is increased: http://hobbyking.com/hobbyking/forum...s.asp?TID=2513 Does not state what radio he has though. Seems a common malaise. EDIT: I think I now figured out part of my problem ... on the gyro I use (MPG-6) it does NOT like that you adjust the gain while the gyro is plugged IN, it wildly changes the trim. The correct procedure is : to turn the gyro or receiver OFF, adjust the gyro gain (higher or lower), and THEN turn on the rx or gyro ON again. Now no trim changes after power up ! . |
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I imagine Kyrie Irving at tip did something similar to that right there! Off 38 points Tuesday night, Uncle Drew went bonkers against the Blazers for a season-high 55 yesterday, with LeBron James in street clothes. Klay who? 55/4/5/2/0 on 17-36 FG (11-19 3PTM 10-10 FT). That's 17 treys and 16-16 FT the past two games, for a ho-hum 93 points. That's a H2H matchup winner right there! As I mentioned in early December, I was fully buying in. Sure there was the horrifc Cavs playoff sched to consider, but that was mad early in the year. Now it's time to reconsider. At that point I was saying second round value was legit to pay, but I think you might be able to take a sucker for first round value, especially if they're a points whore. Most metrics have Kyrie at around 7-8 in overall value, and if you can swing that into something that fits the playoff schedule a little bit better, now is the time when the proverbial iron is hot. So while Kyrie is calling out Lillard, he's also calling out top-seeded fantasy teams to sell him off like the hot bubble stock he is. Investing jokes! We're an ecletic mix of references here at Razzball Nation… Here's what else went down last night on a busy Wednesday of fantasy basketball action:
Please, blog, may I have some more?Nene
Ugh. I've said numerous times I hate when injuries prove any calls right or wrong, but my BJ tooting horn, ya know – the one that says sell high – isn't looking bad anymore.
If you missed it over the weekend, Brandon Jennings tore his Achilles and is out for the season. And this isn't one of those LaMarcus Aldridge thingies where he can just decide not to have surgery and keep playing. Let's hope Aldridge didn't inject some sort of juice in that thumb! ADHD alert, JB! More on L.A. later… So with BJ done, the Pistons only have to change one letter and put in the D.J.! D.J. Augustin is an obvious must-own in all leagues, and while I've been one of the hardest "Wahhhhhhhh! I'm Jarrett Jack!" pushers, Augustin vaulted him right away, even before last night. Tore up the Craptors for 18 points in the first half in a redonkulous 35/4/8 line with 5 treys. D.J.s no longer welcome in Canada! Wedding costs are going to be out of hand… No more Jazzy Jeff! "Who got maple syrup all over the turntable, eh?!" If you're reading this and there's still a D.J. on your wire, as The Crystal Method would say, "NOW IS THE TIME!" Here's what else went down over the crazy weekend of fantasy basketball:
Please, blog, may I have some more?Last year, I think Jonas Valanciunas might have won the "most annoying player for JB" award. Eh, Jeff Green was up there too… But we've got a clear front-runner for 14-15!
If you had money on Brandon Jennings racking up the first double dimebag of the season, then all praise be onto you! Great game against the Magic, as he gashed their "defense" for a 24/0/21/0/0 line. Pretty empty to me, only two cats in there! First 20-assist game this season, doubling up the dimebags and making BJ's value as high as Katt Williams. You're probably looking like this as a Jennings owner right now! He's only the 4th guy to put up a 20/20 game since 2000, and I guess all my sell Jennings high hooblah is looking a little dumb now… I still think if you can get one of the higher-tier guys like a Jeff Teague you have to do it, but otherwise I guess it's a strong hold and ride the wave. Upside of two dimebags on any given night?! That's a friend you need to keep for life! Here's what else went down last night in fantasy basketball action:
Please, blog, may I have some more?Yesterday afternoon was a frenzy! A frenzy because no Mozzy! About as crazy as I was last Saturday about Fozzy! Go Panthers!
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Please, blog, may I have some more?Happy New Year's Eve, Razzball Nation!
May your champagne be stocked, your last night of horrific eating before a New Year's resolution be gorged, and your lists of things to reflect on be lengthy. Number one on my list right now is my groin is healthy! Rough, rough injury for the Charlotte Hornets and fantasy owners' front lines with Al Jefferson out at least the next month with an adductor strain. Not that you need it, but Dr. JB is linking a little pic here [FAMILY FRIENDLY!]. Enough groin talk already!
When I heard Big Al was out for a month, I made the same face as Bill Walton's Basketball-Reference picture… Lots of shock waves across the Hornets, with Bismack Biyombo likely starting at the 5. I don't think he plays 30 minutes a night, but the boards-n-blocks upside puts him into the Rudy Gobert conversation. Like Gobert, Biyombo won't be winning a game of knokout anytime soon… Shooting 44% from the FT line this season, and under 50% in his career. A big winner here is Marvin Williams, who should be owned in 14ers and worth a bookmark for shallower. Off 8/14/3/3/0 Monday night, the Hornets are going to move Cody Zeller into a lot of C minutes as the Hornets have no real front-line depth. Williams hit a couple of treys in that game as well, and as with all Hornets, is in line for a few more shots with Big Al's 16.3 FGA distributed to the masses. For deep leaguers, don't forget about Noah Vonleh who was sent to the D-League recently for a little seasoning. He's expected to be called back up momentarily, and as you'd assume with a team losing their best player, the Hornets are likely to fall even further in the Eastern standings. Vonleh might get some experiential run as the season presses on to develop the 9th overall pick in this year's loaded draft. Here's what else went down last night across the NBA:
Please, blog, may I have some more?I hope everyone in Razzball Nation had a fantastic Christmas! Hopefully Santa brought you many-a-counting-stats presents and stuffed your stocking with the same vigor as John Henson.
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Please, blog, may I have some more?It's like that scene in Moneyball when Beane-y Baby is talking to David Justice and says something along the lines of, "You pissed off the other team so much, they're paying 2/3 your salary!" Except the Pistons are going to pay 3/3 of Josh Smith's salary…
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Please, blog, may I have some more?I've got the ring in the cake. The scoreboard operator has got it cued up for the 2nd quarter under-8 timeout. The plane with some really carcinogenic toxins is ready to pollute the atmosphere in a "Will U Marry Me?" loopy smokestream.
An unsung contributor this year, DeMarre Carroll racked up another under-the-radar line last night for 14 Pts, 11 Reb, 3 Ast, 3 Stl, 2 3PTM, and a partridge in a pear tree! No TO, and other than blocks really hits all the Silver Bells and whistles. Hitting a career best 1.6 treys a game, it's a Christmas miracle his FG% is at 46%. The dimes don't do much either, but there's no reason not to to Sleigh Ride him while he's hitting most of the cats this hard. Even a Silent Night or two won't scare me away, and at only 61% ownership in Yahoo, I feel like there's still a lot of leagues where he could bring Joy to the World. So sing a holiday carol for DeMarre, and even though nothing is too sexy, I felt like I needed Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (full disclosure, I had to look up a list of Christmas songs for this bit, I'm such a Grinch). Here's what else went down last night in fantasy basketball:
Please, blog, may I have some more?"Did you coach the Celtics to a win last night, B-Rad?!" "No… But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night!"
Since returning from his bad ankle sprain, Marcus Smart has had quite the timeline. Returned last Wednesday and played five minutes, and Stevens said he didn't look ready. And when you're not ready, you get demoted to the D-League. And when you shoot 1-12 FG in that D-League game, you still get a promotion. I want to work for that company! Any time you get reprimanded, you just have to explain why you're currently better than 1-12! Then DNP Friday, and 8 minutes of nada Sunday. So of course, everyone expected that he'd play 35 minutes and go 23/4/5/1/0 shooting 7-14 FG (4-8 3PTM, 5-5 FT) without a single TO last night. And everyone expected Rajon Rondo, off a triple-double, to be benched in favor of Smart down the stretch and for both the overtimes. Well, the Celtics did almost upset the Wiz at home! Key word… almost. And sure, Boston had a big 4th quarter with the subs to make it a game, but an L is an L! Rondo owners collectively throw things at their computers – no one is safe from a Stevens line-up bamboozle. Before you run out and grab Smart, consider that timeline this past week. And don't forget before last night he was shooting sub-30% FG and 21.4% from deep with only 1.1 dimes a game. Given some of those were in low-minute spells, but it was still only 8 dimes in 114 minutes to 6 TO. So don't pull a Stevens and feel like the smartest one in the room by dropping, well virtually anyone in a 12 or 14 teamer for him, unless you plan to stash. Rondo could still be moved, but I never bet on a trade. It's like betting on a successful hostage trade in an action movie. They never work out! Here's what else went down last night in fantasy basketball action:
Please, blog, may I have some more?Totally off the wagon! My sobriety is over. On my bender this weekend, I ate a roasted chicken off the bone for dinner, lost my voice yelling trying to talk to Germans, tried to order steak at a carnival stand, and woke up the next day hating life. Well, that was actually my time at Oktoberfest, but more or less the same thing!
We all know how much I love Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. He's probably my most talked about fantasy player since last season that hasn't fully broken into 100%-owned fantasy relevance. And of course, after a slow start and swearing him off – with me finally admitting to my KCP obsession – he turns it back around culminating in another fantastic line against OKC for 19/3/5/1/0 shooting 6-12 FG (1-5 3PTM 6-7 FT). Did have 3 TO, but one was a very questionable charge on a nasty layup in transition. I think Kevin Durant took it – MVP call! In the finale last year, KCP went 30/6/0/2/1 on 11-19 shooting with 5 treys against OKC. Slim – how many times have I brought up that game now?! I worked Yahoo highlights on that one when my company did them last year, so harkening to the memories of that 30-burger is like reliving your ultimate drug trip. "The trees were melting into the sky!" So of course seeing him rip apart OKC once again has my teeth grinding more than a cokehead stranded in Antarctica.
KCP's got steals in 9 of 10 games now, his TO rate is fantastic (3 was a season high yesterday – averaging 1.0 TO a game before last night), but I'm recently liking how much more he's getting involved inside the perimeter. Through the first 15 games, 47.4% of KCP's shots were 3s, but through the last six, 35 of his 80 shots were treys taking it down to 43.8%. And in that time his USG% (estimate of the percentage of team plays used by a player while he was on the floor) – something I don't look at too, too often – jumped from 18% those first 15 games, to 20.3% not including yesterday. I watched a lot of last night's game, and he was more involved in the O than any other Pistons game I've seen all year – and due to my addiction, it's been a lot. While it was yet another loss, they still gave OKC a run for their money – given the Thunder studs are still shaking off some rust. So I'm back to being a KCP addict! Let's hope this doesn't start impacting my work and ruining my relationships… I won't go rehab again! Here's what else went down over the weekend in fantasy basketball:
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Stored away in the back of my mind I have a long list of things I want to tackle in life. I guess you could call it a 'bucket list'.
It includes items like run a marathon, raft the Grand Canyon, climb to Everest Base Camp and dive the Great Barrier reef.
A few months ago, 'drive a 7hp, three wheeled glorified lawnmower 4,000 km across India' was nowhere to be seen on that list, and rightly so. It seemed absurd to even consider such a mechanically unreliable mode of transport across a country plagued with traffic madness, 45 degree heat, prevalent violent crime, cows, cockroaches and hotel rooms resembling third world prison cells.
Oddly enough, and without much in the way of persuasion, this was exactly what I signed up for: The Rickshaw Run, a charity drive from south to north across the Indian sub-continent.
There were to be six of us in our merry (or mad) bunch.
Four of us were friends from varsity, while the other two were ring-ins, friends of friends travelling in the depths of South East Asia soon bound for India.
Upon telling my family, friends and workmates what I had planned, the responses included "rather you than me".
As part of the event you are encouraged to fundraise for Cool Earth, a charity fighting deforestation across the world.
We were all pretty keen to tag a Kiwi cause to our mission as well, so we happily decided to pass the hat around for the Make-a-Wish Foundation. Given the nature of their work, we were able to draw a few parallels between what we had planned and what these kids were wishing for. So really it all just made sense and it was great to have them on board.
The trip kicked off with a hiss and roar and one hell of a good knees up in Fort Kochi, down on the south west coast of India.
The following day with headaches pounding in the 35-plus degree heat, our two rickshaws named Claudia and Sally, with their freshly painted tiger faces, roared into life first pull (this soon became a rare event). Without hesitation we were on en-route to Shillong, the finish line a very distant 4,000 km away in the north east of India.
What the following 14 days threw at us was nothing short of terrifying, bizarre, tiring, intense, demanding and very often mechanically perplexing (how can you still be driving while your axle is lying on the highway?).
We regularly used 'The Fun Scale' and more often than not found ourselves referring to the day as having been "another day of Type II fun". Google it.
In saying all this, India, its people, culture and food were all utterly amazing. We were taken into people's homes, given food and cold drinks, bombarded with talk of New Zealand cricket players and given looks of astonishment when finally able to communicate what six white boys, dressed in khakis, were actually doing riding two rickshaws painted as tigers.
Thankfully our journey didn't attract any major problems. When I say major, I mean not like the other Kiwis who were held at gunpoint, or the Australians who were run off the road by a bus on the first day, or the mad lot who bribed their way into a tiger reserve at night...and then broke down.
We did have our fair share of setbacks along the way. Rickshaws aren't renowned for being the most reliable vehicle known to man. Though, there is the benefit that nearly every Indian is handy with a spanner and is more than willing to share a laugh while helping reattach your exhaust/axle/wheel/carburettor/sanity which may have fallen out along the way.
We proudly crossed the finish line having covered 4,100 km over 14 long days. Those frosty cold bottles of Kingfisher could not have tasted better!
However, we were sad to say our goodbyes to Claudia and Sally, they had served us well on our sub-continent journey.
It was a wild, intrepid trip that I cannot say is for the faint hearted but it comes highly recommended. We ate curries in tin huts on the side of the road. We slept in bug ridden local lodges. We played cricket on their dusty, arid pitches. We saw the real India.
A huge thank you to everyone who kindly donated towards our charity drive. At the time of writing this we have raised nearly $5,000 total for Make-a-Wish and Cool Earth.
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Unauthorized leaks are never not a drag for artists, but you know what's even worse? Unauthorized leaks with embarrassingly poor sound quality. If you've heard this unreleased cut (and potential Streetlights inclusion) before, do your best to forget it, because what we have here is the bona fide, artist-approved real deal. Anyways, this record crosses the starting line with such energy that "You Know it's something special." from bar one. Dogg Pound emcee and former Death Row head honcho Kurupt launches into his opening verse without hesitation, and gives his take on the classic lyrical topics of riding, smoking, and lovemaking with fast-paced panache. You'd expect plenty of chemistry between a producer and emcee working on a collaborative LP, and that's exactly what you get here—Terrace Martin proves perfectly in tune with his partner, delivering a breezily energetic percussion-driven beat with that unmistakable West Coast feel, and a catchy, funk-laced hook to boot. Streetlights hits stores this summer, and if you're a fan of classic Cali hip-hop, You Know you'll be picking up a copy.
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- Redwood City is a California charter city located on the San Francisco Peninsula in Northern California, approximately 27 miles south of San Francisco, and 24 mi north of San Jose. Redwood City's history spans from its earliest inhabitation by the Ohlone people, to its tradition as a port for lumber and other goods, to its place as the county seat of San Mateo County. Today the city is known as the home of several technology companies such as Oracle and Electronic Arts. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 76,815. The Port of Redwood City is the only deepwater port on San Francisco Bay south of San Francisco.
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