Author: Kees
-
Gliders gliders everywhere…
Due the the fact all noise has been banned from our field, (except of course from the geese, motorcycles, tractors, mopeds, powerboats etc..) one has to adapt to the situation. Therefore no moaning, just use whatever you can. I´m having lots of fun with my Orion/Insider. After the mishap a while ago, things seem to…
-
‘t was a lovely day..
..but it was cut short by something unexpected. When I launched the Insider for the first flight of what promised to be a lovely day, I got as far as 10 feet up, then a loud bang, lots of stuff falling from the forward area of the glider, unsettling silence, and then nothing.. Luckily I…
-
Two hundred twenty in 10 secs.
No cheating! So with approx 40-48 Amps on the clock I get up to a very nice altitude in 10 secs. I’m sure someone will laugh at these numbers, but for me they are quite acceptable. I now need to dial in the ascent a bit, make sure it stays on track. For the rest,…
-
4 Cells it will be!
Grabbed the battery by the leads, and did some radical surgery! The truth is, I did not have a 4S handy, but 2 pieces of 2S were waiting to be used for something. It’s one of these things where the warning label says: Only do this under the supervision of a responsible adult. Since I’m…
-
Just before the storm
There’s a code yellow warning in the making says the weatherman. Don’t want to know what it is, but it sounds cold. I decided to go out anyway, and had a pleasant few flights. The plane must like the Jeti, since we are now finding thermal activity, when none would be suspected. I should not…
-
Taking advantage of early spring.
Hey, you never know, better to catch it while you can. It was actually quite pleasant last weekend, considering the time of year. Finally managed to get the Jeti and the Insider into some form of happy co-existance. (Nothing to do with the stick-wiggling meatware of course) Anyways, I did reset my CG to where…
-
A good days work was done..
Managed to recover another website. This one was in the medium difficulty group. Tomorrow I’ll go for the Real Stuff! In between some time to work on the Insider, it’s mostly general maintenance, checking all the bits and bobs, making sure things are working as designed. It’s amazing how much bits I managed to hide…
-
Happy 2014..
.. to you and yours and all the world. May this year bring you lots of happiness, good health and lots of great flying! With the festivities out of the way, it’s time to return to rebuilding websites. My progress is too slow, I know. I need to do it differently. Not sure how, I’ll…
-
Xmas 2013, and all is well.
Except we don’t have any snow, it almost feels like autumn, or early spring! Bit windy though.. We’re still on the server-recovery road, and as you will know, every road has it’s hidden potholes. I discovered after doing the first websites, that something was automagically creating fake users on a website?? WTF, that’s impossible! A…
-
Hello world!
Folks. the server crashed. Badly. All websites gone. This was a cloudserver. Can’t happen they say, but it did. It feels funny, someone surgically removed all directories and logs and all those vital bits for running a server. A crash just wipes out some files, or complete disk, not exactly precisely my website directory with everything.…
