What's New and Who's Doing It?
This month my Cloud 9 column tells about possible airplane use for the Plantraco MicroBlimp rc system, amazing new flight records, the NIRAC Indoor RC Championships, more about the Plantraco Butterfly, Joe Malinchak’s half-size Butterfly, electronic flight timers and John Krouse's model, A Dynamic website, Australian David deWit’s sub-gram channel RC, Fly-Dragon modifications. NEAT Fair details (indoor and outdoor). Read
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BSDmicroRC MicroAct
Gordon Johnson reports on the BSD (Bob Selman Designs) micro actuator and compares it with other actuators. Most importantly he provides a link to his earlier (2003) report on actuators which explores them in great detail; the articles amounting to a “bible” of magnetic actuator information which is a great reference source on the subject in general. Read
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Flying Stryo 'Pony' Conversion
Pete Carpenter tells us about his experience in converting the Pony rubber powered free flight design (from Hobby Lobby) to 2 channel RC, using the Micro-Joule rc system and the 5:1 geared Firecracker motor from Cloud 9 RC. As a relative newcomer to RC, Pete’s insight is helpful to guide others of like experience. Read
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The Homeboy
Ralph Bradley provides some history of his neat Homeboy pusher design that evolved from an all-balsa original version to an all foam variation using commercial components from Bob Selman Micro RC Designs. Ralph has produced many attractive RC model designs and his description of this one offers good insight into his success as a designer-builder. Read
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MICRO WORLD
A Cloud 9 Monthly Newsletter dedicated to the wonderful world
of the smallest model aircraft; those weighing no more than
6 ounces and using no more than 30 watts if powered by electric
motors.
Executive Editor: John Worth
johnworth@cloud9rc.com
