Vic. P.

I woke up this morning at 8 and could smell something was wrong. I got downstairs and found the wife face down on the kitchen floor, not breathing! I panicked. I didn't know what to do. Then I remembered Wetherspoons serve breakfast until 11.30.

There are two statues in a park; one of a nude man and one of a nude woman. They had been facing each other across a pathway for a hundred years, when one day an angel comes down from the sky and, with a single gesture, brings the two to life. The angel tells them, 'As a reward for being so patient through a hundred blazing summers and dismal winters, you have been given life for thirty minutes to do what you've wished to do the most.' He looks at her, she looks at him, and they go running behind the shrubbery. The angel waits patiently as the bushes rustle and giggling ensues. After fifteen minutes, the two return, out of breath and laughing. The angel tells them, 'Um, you have fifteen minutes left, would you care to do it again?' He asks her 'Shall we?' She eagerly replies, 'Oh, yes, let's! But let's change positions. This time, I'll hold the pigeon down and you sh-t on its head.'

A man walks into a bar and sits next to a man and his dog, after a few minutes the dog turns to the man and says Hi there matey, can i buy you a drink and have a chat, i have lots of great stories to tell you,.......such as the time i spent travelling with a team of Huskies to the north pole and back in temperatures below minus 50 celcius,..........or my time in the Hilamayas when i carried all the gear for a ten man team for their assault on the summit of Everest, now that was a real struggle i can tell you!,.......or perhaps you'd like to hear of my heroic action during the Gulf war when i single pawedly rescued a squad of soldiers from certain death by pulling them to safety with these very teeth, (points to teeth) after they were ambushed by insurgents"? "Wow", the man says to the dog, "you can talk"!! .........Wow the man syas to the owner of the dog, "your dog can talk"!!! "Yep" he says, "d'you wanna buy him"? "What"? says the man "how could you bear to part with such an obviously intelligent dog which can ACTUALY talk"? "Easy" says the man "he's always lying"!! Edited By Vic. P. on 18/02/2011 15:34:04 Edited By David Ashby - RCME Administrator on 18/02/2011 15:43:09

What's the difference between a dead banker and a dead cat on the motorway?.. .. There are skid marks in front of the cat.

DEPRESSED PM A man on his way home from work in central London came to a complete stop in heavy traffic and thought to himself, "Wow, this traffic seems worse than usual, nothing's even moving." He notices a police officer walking back and forth between the lines of cars so he rolls down his window and asks, "Excuse me Officer, what's the hold up?" The Officer replies, "It's the Prime Minister, he's so depressed about all the recent corruption scandals that he's stopped his limo in the middle of the street and he's threatening to douse himself in petrol and set light to himself. He says the whole country hates him but he can't resign yet because he hasn't got a big enough pension to retire on. I'm walking around taking up a collection for him." "Oh, really? How much have you collected?" "only about a hundred litres so far but I've got a lot of folk still siphoning." _______________

Japanese scientists have invented a new type of camera with a shutter speed so incredibly fast that they are now able to photograph a woman with her mouth shut.

Looks like i'll be fitting these back on the Sebby with more snow forecast later this week.Got to say it's much smoother off snow with skis than with wheels rattling on a frosty frozen flying field.

Thanks for the replies Tim and Plummet  We had a feeling it might be a bit underpowered so we should really be lookig at something around a 40 to 50 size electric set-up for it.  

Hi folks,A friend of mine is building a JP Prangster and wants to convert it to brushless powered.  I have a Hacker power set with an A30-14L motor and an Xpro 40 amp esc going spare and i'm wondering if it will be enough to power this model with say an APC 14x7e ?  Although the Prankster has a higher AUW than the Sebart Katana which the power set is recommended for, would this set be enough to power the Prankster comfortably as a trainer?  Has anyone else converted this model to electric and if so what power train did you use?  Any input would be much appreciated and thanks in advance

Posted by Delta Whiskey on 07/12/2010 08:50:04: For all things chopper related, begineers to pro's I recommend a visit to http://www.rcheliaddict.co.uk/   I agree,  .... you'll get a much more informed response from the folk at RCheliaddicts

Hi Tom.Is this beginners guide intended for contra rotating helicopters only?  If not then there are a few points which need to be clarrified.  First, it says " Never drop the throttle stick or let it spring back for the landing" the bit that's wrong here is spring back. The throttle stick should not have the spring engaged at all and therefore should not be able to "spring" anywhere, if it did, then it would make for a very dangerous set-up!!!  Second, when it says "throttle off immediately to save the motor and the rotor shaft." this would be fine for a contra rotating helicopter but not for a collective pitch helicopter. A collective pitch heli should have a properly set up Throttle hold switch and pitch curves. By using throttle hold, you cut the engine or motor but keep control of pitch allowing the pilot to flair the heli close to the ground as with auto rotation landings using 9  to 12 degrees of POSITIVE pitch which will also slow the main rotor blades down much quicker resulting in less damage to the drive train and blades. Suggesting that cutting the throttle is the way to do it is in fact wrong for collective pitch helis because in "normal - hover" flight mode this will give you  2  to 3 degrees of NEGATIVE pitch at zero throttle which will encourage the blades to keep turning and increase the descent rate resulting in a much harder crash.   Edited By Vic. P. on 06/12/2010 16:22:33

Oh, and one more thing Michael...........if you haven't already, then i'd suggest you join RcHeliAddict.co.uk you'll get far more advice on all things heli related

Hi Michael,The servo ball link is in the right place, don't change it, it's there for a reason and the travel adjust menu should allow you to set the end points, you don't need to do this mechanicaly. The reason it's at 10mm is to avoid the servo having to use a large arc of  travel to achieve rudder deflections, with it set at 10mm the servo dosen't need to travel as far and therefore you get a faster rudder response which you need if the gyro is to be efficient at making corrections in Heading hold and rate mode. The travel adjust should remove the difference in travel on right and left inputs due to the tail offset at neutral, ie, it will usualy have more travel to the left than the right once the tail offset has been set. Press and hold the "set" button for 2 secs and then press it again (about 3 times i think) until the travel adjust led is on, now move the transmitter stick carefully to the left first to the point you want the travel to reach which should be just short of full travel, then move the stick to the right until again it's just short of full travel and then press the "set" button. Now switch off the reciever and switch on again waiting about 5 secs for the gyro to re-initialise  and you sould now have the travels set.  Bear in mind that once you have adjusted the rudder offset in "rate mode" by moving the tail servo mount to get the correct deflection to enable the heli to hover without any tendancy to yaw that the travel end points will have changed  so you will then need to reset the travel adjust points again. Hope this helps.Vic.

Sounds good Dan!!Just remeber to use the space bar after commas and full stops and you'll do fine

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