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Blades, Night Flying and Painting > Post a Night Flying Pic (plus a question)

Madman
Veteran
Location: Roswell, GA

Here is my night flyer. Shuttle RG with clear blue canopy and fins on an OS32 with pipe. It also has a RAM spot light that I turn on and off to see the ground for landing. I don't leave it on for 3D as the damn thing is BLINDING. Anyway, I am interested in seeing other subjects from you guys as I am getting ready to setup my XLSE60 with a night rig.

Also - Question: Why the hell doesn't somebody make night tail blades? I have heard all sorts of excuses about 'too small to retain structural integrity' etc... but I am SURE you could do it with a battery on the hub and only wires running through the blades to an LED tip. Anyway, I'm not an engineer but I sure would like a set.

MadMan

11-16-2001 Over year old.

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Augusto
rrAdvertiser
Location: San Diego, CA

Man that's one nice night flyer.
I like the two color combination on the fins.

Avant Aurora Ultimate

11-17-2001 Over year old.

JCadwell
Key Veteran
Location: Richland WA/ Morro Bay, CA

You seem to be very into this, so maybe you can take this idea and run. What about using a luminescent paint on your tail rotors. You can buy paint that either absorbs light energy and releases it over time, or light that shines in uv. What if you painted your tail rotors, and either charged them with a light, or shined LEDS on them. I know they make IR diodes, I am not sure about UV arrays. If you had LEDs that put out UV, or filtered a light source powerful enough to emit useful UV with a gel, you might be able to have glowing tail rotors that were passive. You could balance them perfectly, and nothing would be on the tail to break.

Good luck.

http://www.glowinthedarkpaint.com/

http://www.pro-design.com.au/wfire-info.htm

http://www.seal-krete.com/glowpt.htm

http://lumscent.3322.net/

http://www.capricorn.co.uk/glowbug/

http://www.coolwireusa.com/faq.htm

11-17-2001 Over year old.

Madman
Veteran
Location: Roswell, GA

Thanks for all the URLs! That will save me tons of time.

11-17-2001 Over year old.

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HighFlier
Senior Heliman
Location: Chicago, IL.

Night lights

All I got to say is AAAAAAAAAAAAsummm, VERY KWEL

,and I cannot wait till I can see some nght flying in person. The only place I know where to hav had a chance to c it, was at the Michigan Fun Fly,
this past yr and the weather did not work in our favor

.
Nice work MadMan!!!!!!!!!!
Keep'm Fly'n
Ken

11-17-2001 Over year old.

Ken B
Elite Veteran
Location: Phoenix, AZ

Got ant other pictures?

I was looking at that Pic and wondered just how you have all the light ropes ran. Do you have some detailed pictures of your routing.

I know how about Night flying set up 101

Ken B

11-17-2001 Over year old.

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Madman
Veteran
Location: Roswell, GA

You know, that's a good question. I'll try and take some DAY pics of my night flyer and send them to you. The trick is to use vinyl glue, which likes plastic and the rope and dries quickly AND is removable. Have to hold it down with scotch tape for about an hour as you lay it.

This post was about OTHER people posting too so I hope someone else does.

MadMan

11-17-2001 Over year old.

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Madman
Veteran
Location: Roswell, GA

Here are some 'day' pics of my canopy per your request volkul and also one showing the spot light feature I turn on/off from the Tx for landing:

11-21-2001 Over year old.

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Augusto
rrAdvertiser
Location: San Diego, CA

Pretty nice setup.
Did you cut the two yellow wires on the horizontal fin to length?
If so then how did you connect them to the rest?

Avant Aurora Ultimate

11-21-2001 Over year old.

Madman
Veteran
Location: Roswell, GA

The entire system is custom cut to length and has numerous "Y" connections. If you have ever tried to solder this stuff, it's a nightmare though. I highly recommend that you take accurate measurements and let the lovely lady at glowire.com custom cut them for you. I have done it both ways and found that for the $1 per custom connection extra she charges, it is a no brainer. It takes me 1/2 hour + to do a 3 wire Y connection. The wire is a copper inner that's workable surrounded by phosphorous stuff and then wrapped in the two smallest wires I have ever tried to work with, even with a magnifier.

Just let them do it at glowire.

My setup is like this:

9V driver 1 ---> canopy blue (about 8 feet) ----> canopy yellow (about 4')
3V driver 2 ---> tail boom support strut green (about 4 ') ----> horizontal
fin 3 way Y ---> blue (24")
!___>yellow (7")
!___>yellow (7")
3V driver 3 ---> tail boom wrap-around pink (about 3 ') ----> vertical
fin 3 way Y ---> blue (25")
!___>yellow (8")
!___>yellow (6")
Jomar switch on channel 9 to RAM spot light - all on 9 V battery.

In other words, I have two 9 V batteries and 4 AA batteries in these various systems being run on 3 glowire drivers and a Jomar/Ram spot light combo. Also use glowsticks. Adds lots of weight but it's worth it for the effect and redundancy.

11-21-2001 Over year old.

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Augusto
rrAdvertiser
Location: San Diego, CA

Good tip the one about custom lengths available at glowire.com.
Thanks a lot.

Avant Aurora Ultimate

11-21-2001 Over year old.

JestRR
Senior Heliman
Location: Florence, Oregon

Ram lights

Where is the site for the ram lights?? I have done my own strobes but my other lights are alot to be desired.

Mike

Mike Spinner
Florence OR
NORTHWEST AERIALS/ SCALEWORKS

11-22-2001 Over year old.

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Madman
Veteran
Location: Roswell, GA

http://www.ramrcandramtrack.com/

11-22-2001 Over year old.

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DrScoles
Veteran
Location: Redmond WA

Here is my 91 Freya night Ship. Uses three 9v drivers. I don't even use lightsticks anymore, this shows up very well, and I doubt all three are gonna go at the same time.

I did a lot of night flying over the holidays, the neighborhood kids really like it. I just wish is wasn't so cold!
Mike

01-08-2002 Over year old.

Madman
Veteran
Location: Roswell, GA

Whose glow wire are you using and what thickness? Looks great.

01-08-2002 Over year old.

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DrScoles
Veteran
Location: Redmond WA

Janet at Glowire.com has been very helpful. I use all the heavy duty stuff, these are all 8 or 10' lengths.
the green and aqua blue show up best, the orange really looks red... In my experience, unless you dedicate a driver to each piece of rope, it isn't bright enough. This thing shows up unbelievably well.

If anyone wants a night canopy for a Freya, I'll send it to you for $10. Its shortened ala Todd Bennett. All the holes are drilled, just needs the rope...

01-08-2002 Over year old.

fitenfyr
rrProfessor
Location: Port Orchard, Washington

Mikes Freya....

Mikes bird looks great at night...of course so does his flying.
Mike I will take that canopy off you hands if you still have it.
Sent you some mail.
Jason

Jason Stiffey
Fly Fast....Live Slow...

01-11-2002 Over year old.

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DrScoles
Veteran
Location: Redmond WA

Jason,

If you want it, I can just give it to you next time I run into you.. I just wanted the $10 to cover shipping...

I don't have room to pack it to vegas, but I'm sure we can arrange a way to get it to you sometime soon.

Mike

01-11-2002 Over year old.

fitenfyr
rrProfessor
Location: Port Orchard, Washington

Done deal...

Mike,

I will come see you as soon as I can fire up the boat to get over to Marymoore...

Seriously I will get with you in the next couple weeks. Talk to you in Vegas. We can tweak my Sceadu.....

Jason

Jason Stiffey
Fly Fast....Live Slow...

01-11-2002 Over year old.

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AVSPhoto
Heliman
Location: Akron,Ohio

Night flyers

Here's how we have some fun! check my gallery

01-16-2002 Over year old.

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