Check out this fun scratch built project.
American Junior RC
Hand Made R-985 Dummy Radial
Photo provided by Donald Kurtz, local scale builder. He’s building a Beech 18 and needed two dummy radials. No engine kit was available in the correct scale. The metal parts are K&S aluminum and copper tubing. The brass you see on the plug wires is brass rod. Cylinders are hardwood dowel, heads and rocker boxes are balsa. Engine block is the top of a plastic drink bottle with a thin plywood washer to form the brush-less motor shaft exit. The entire engine comes apart just in case he needs to service a cylinder. The rocker box’s will not be visible when the cowling is installed and are simply there to hold the push-rod tubes. Great job Don!
Windows 8.1 Charms Bar KILLED! DISABLED! DEFEATED!
AFter extensive searching, I had to figure this out for myself. I believe this is the first and only solution to eliminate edge swiping annoyingly opening up the right hand Charms Bar and taking control of your pointer. 1/25/2014. It wasn’t actually all that difficult. Follow instructions below.
Windows 8.1 Charms annoyance defeated! Control panel (or begin typing “control panel”), select “Mouse”, Then select” Device Settings” tab. Then select “Settings” button. Un-check “Enable Edge Swipes”. This effectively disables the charms bar annoyance because it is not now triggered by the swiping on the right 1/4 of the touch pad. I also unchecked “Tapping”. Just re-positioning my finger to move the pointer was causing occasional selections of items on screen. Way too sensitive on the tapping feature and no way to adjust the sensitivity that I have yet discovered. So there you go, I’m now happy with Windows 8.1. The desire to do this as asked about in many forums and on YouTube but there are no published answers that I could find. I noticed in a YouTube video somebody had a menu up with these check box’s and was able (with some help) to find it today. Enjoy!
Keith Shaws Radical RC 1905 Wright Flyer in Canada
Keith Shaw flying is 1905 Wright Flyer at the 2013 KRCM Electric Fun Fly.
Club Link: Kingston Radio Control Modellers in Canada
Setting the Hook
Hi Dave,
I know you are interested in getting young folks interested in Model
Aviation. Last Saturday my club helped at the NASA Space and Rocket Center
Aviation Challenge event. Here is a photo of me planting the seed with a
little one (he was thrilled). Later I introduced his dad to flying and we
“set the Hook”.
Archie
V22 Osprey Arrives at USAFM Today
Enjoyed watching a CV-22 Osprey arrive in front of our shop. The United States Air Force Museum is across the street from “US”. Osprey pilot dusts the snow off our roof. 😉 He put on a short airshow, bank angles easily up to 70 degree’s and a nice dirty pass with the rear ramp open. What a view we have here.
CV-22 Osprey arrives at National Museum of the U.S. Air Force DUST OFF PHOTO Here
Getting a Type Rating and Flying the DC-7
Getting type rated in a DC-7.
1SQ V-Cam Lake Rescue
Van Hershberger Sends an interesting photo.
“Even this flight into the lake didn’t kill off the 1SQ, I’ve had 20
flights since with video, all is working like new : )
Van”
FPV Multi-Rotors Used to Help Solve Real Environmental Problem
The critics of FPV’s who stupidly call them “drones” (drones are autonomous or aircraft towed targets) fail to realize all the good environmental use they are currently being put to. Check out the video below. Used to put hunters on target to eliminate feral hogs. Wild bore destroy crops and are a serious danger to children, pets and the elderly. Outstanding job of applying our hobby in a positive way to clean up a problem.
This is why we need to make certain our federal employees in all branches do not take it upon themselves to decide for us what we can and cannot do in these area’s. Not having aggressive hogs roaming around forcing people to hide indoors and destroying crops is an important part of the “pursuit of happiness”. Allow no Liberty Objector to stand unchallenged on this issue.
Two Wrights Flying Together At Mid-America 2013
Photo’s by Dennis Summer. Thanks Dennis!
Great fun getting to fly formation with another 1905 Wright Flyer. We’ll, it was fairly windy and flying was actually more like herding cats around the field. But we got them reasonably close enough to each other for a few fine shots.
