---------------------------------------------------------- Lightning-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Sun 09/16/07: 3 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 07:06 AM - Re: It's going to the paint shop! (Jerry Van Heeswyk) 2. 09:23 AM - Re: It's going to the paint shop! (Jim Langley) 3. 11:13 AM - sending units (Tex Mantell) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 07:06:44 AM PST US From: "Jerry Van Heeswyk" Subject: Re: Lightning-List: It's going to the paint shop! Great picture, Jim. You have more guts than I. What do you do if the engine quits, besides writing a big check? Being a homebuilder type, my modeling took a little different route than yours. My interest was in giant scale. I wrote a couple of construction articles for the mags, and had a cover or two. Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Langley To: lightning-list@matronics.com Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 11:36 AM Subject: RE: Lightning-List: It's going to the paint shop! Thanks Jerry. Yeah, my RC helis were almost always orange and white. Yes, I will post a pic to the group once it is done. Also, the pics will be on my website too. Here's one that I did for FLYRC magazine. I never could keep it flying right-side up. Jim! www.jimslightning.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- From: owner-lightning-list-server@matronics.com [mailto:owner-lightning-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Van Heeswyk Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 9:16 PM To: lightning-list@matronics.com Subject: Re: Lightning-List: It's going to the paint shop! Jim, I REALLY like your paint scheme. I guess it is the R/C modeler in us. I always painted my models in vivid colors so that it was easier to tell orientation at a distance. I guess I have become conditioned to like fancy paint jobs. Yours will be a dandy. You need to send a picture when it is all done. Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Langley To: lightning-list@matronics.com Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 7:16 AM Subject: Lightning-List: It's going to the paint shop! Well, we finally settled on the final paint scheme. Even though I kind of liked the red scheme the best, I was out voted by the Baltimore Oriole fans in my family and we ended up with white and orange with black trim. I'm hoping to see the aircraft painted and ready for the panel installation when I get back from my trip to Maine. I guess it's not so bad since I like the colors too. The final orange will be a bit brighter than the pictures I have attached. It's kind of consistent with how I have painted all my R/C helicopters in the past anyway... I have a MGL Avionics Odyssey on order and will be installing that in the cockpit along with some backup gages and a Garmin SL-40 and GTX-327. I'll have a complete update with the panel layout on my website later this month. Since up until last month, all of my flight experience has been in Cessna aircraft, I have started flying an Evektor SportStar to get used to the low wing/stick and rudder setup. I'm not a fan of the higher rpm Rotax, but the rest should be somewhat similar, just slower. Unfortunately, it is the only thing available that resembles a Lightning, (although quite a stretch). I'm sorry i will miss most of you at the fly-in this year. I need to save my vacation days for the Jabiru engine seminar in October. Next year I will fly my Lightning there! Cheers Jim! http://www.jimslightning.com ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 09:23:42 AM PST US From: "Jim Langley" Subject: RE: Lightning-List: It's going to the paint shop! Nice! Well, if the engine quits, there is usually enough rotor momentum that I can pop the heli back up and over and auto-rotate safely to the ground. I have had the engine quit before, but never while inverted. I did some articles for MAN and FLYRC on GS fixed wing, but the only thing as big as your airplanes was a 42% Exta. Jim! _____ From: owner-lightning-list-server@matronics.com [mailto:owner-lightning-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Van Heeswyk Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 10:06 AM Subject: Re: Lightning-List: It's going to the paint shop! Great picture, Jim. You have more guts than I. What do you do if the engine quits, besides writing a big check? Being a homebuilder type, my modeling took a little different route than yours. My interest was in giant scale. I wrote a couple of construction articles for the mags, and had a cover or two. Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Langley Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 11:36 AM Subject: RE: Lightning-List: It's going to the paint shop! Thanks Jerry. Yeah, my RC helis were almost always orange and white. Yes, I will post a pic to the group once it is done. Also, the pics will be on my website too. Here's one that I did for FLYRC magazine. I never could keep it flying right-side up. Jim! www.jimslightning.com _____ From: owner-lightning-list-server@matronics.com [mailto:owner-lightning-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Van Heeswyk Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 9:16 PM Subject: Re: Lightning-List: It's going to the paint shop! Jim, I REALLY like your paint scheme. I guess it is the R/C modeler in us. I always painted my models in vivid colors so that it was easier to tell orientation at a distance. I guess I have become conditioned to like fancy paint jobs. Yours will be a dandy. You need to send a picture when it is all done. Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Langley Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 7:16 AM Subject: Lightning-List: It's going to the paint shop! Well, we finally settled on the final paint scheme. Even though I kind of liked the red scheme the best, I was out voted by the Baltimore Oriole fans in my family and we ended up with white and orange with black trim. I'm hoping to see the aircraft painted and ready for the panel installation when I get back from my trip to Maine. I guess it's not so bad since I like the colors too. The final orange will be a bit brighter than the pictures I have attached. It's kind of consistent with how I have painted all my R/C helicopters in the past anyway... I have a MGL Avionics Odyssey on order and will be installing that in the cockpit along with some backup gages and a Garmin SL-40 and GTX-327. I'll have a complete update with the panel layout on my website later this month. Since up until last month, all of my flight experience has been in Cessna aircraft, I have started flying an Evektor SportStar to get used to the low wing/stick and rudder setup. I'm not a fan of the higher rpm Rotax, but the rest should be somewhat similar, just slower. Unfortunately, it is the only thing available that resembles a Lightning, (although quite a stretch). I'm sorry i will miss most of you at the fly-in this year. I need to save my vacation days for the Jabiru engine seminar in October. Next year I will fly my Lightning there! Cheers Jim! http://www.jimslightning.com ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 11:13:26 AM PST US From: "Tex Mantell" Subject: Lightning-List: sending units Mark, thanks for the info on the sending units, mine are already epoxyed in. Maybe a note in the assembly manual to test them before installation would be in order. 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