Rebel Flying Club Useful Information

This page has a collection of links to information and documents, that I feel maybe useful in your quest to build the perfect remote control aircraft. If you have anything else that could be added to this list, then e-mail me and you will be accredited with the concept, if you are the originator. I hope this information comes in handy!

Club Info.

New membership application forms added. E-PDF version and the PDF version (Print out and fill in by hand).
I thought that I should add the Club rules, as they may come in handy for people who want to visit or join the Rebel Flying Club. If any members notice something wrong or missing for example the newly voted in rule of helping out with the KWRP, then send me the correct wording and I will add it to the rules.
I have created a New flying register. I have done this, because a couple members noticed that the register was not being filled out correctly. This is because of a lack of understanding. So I took the liberty to improve and simplify the register. The one segment which you may query is the frequency column. I added this as I want to start a database of frequencies at our club, so new members or even current members can choose a frequency that is not used or is in low usage.

Building Tips:

Balsa classification article.
Have you ever wanted to know how to cut slots for CA hinges? Cutting CA Hinge Slots is an excellent little article, that should come in handy, one day.
Recently, I wanted to add some Kevlar (for additional strength) into my Stepp 3 that I was making. This method was shown to me by a couple of aircraft structural fitters. The aircraft structural fitters work with composites on the F/A-18 Hornet, so you would expect that they should know what they are doing when it comes to Preparing Kevlar for use.
I found an interesting article on Errorless Wing Construction and I thought you may find some use out of the article.
Here is a handy Servo re-wiring article, that will allow you to rewire a servos to allow you to plug the servo into the receiver that you use.
Coverite shows you, How to cover a wing.
Pro-Film have the own Covering techniques page.
Another interesting snippet of information is how to Make fibre glass moulds for R/C aircraft fuselages.
Lost Foam Moulding. Is the process making fuselages from foam, then fibre glassing over the foam. You then dissolve the foam using acetone leaving you with a fibre glass shell.
Listed below are five articles on how to vacuum bag a wing.
Vac bagging
Vac bagging tails
More vac bagging
Still more vac bagging
Even more vac bagging

Radio Tips:

JR-388s program datasheet V1.3 (3.5Mb). Stop writing your program settings on a piece of paper and start using this Excel template. I have temporarily ditched the idea of the print and save function, as Excel does a pretty good job of it, with out my help. Hopefully fixed the colour on the buttons as they seem to come out dark blue on a friends computer (Don't know why though). Fixed up some errors that I noticed when I went to put in my programs. The errors occured because I followed the JR manual for designing it and there is lot to be desired with there datasheets. Found a better way to describe the contents of the drop down boxes. Unlocked a number of cells, that should of been unlocked.
Frequency list for 29 & 36Mhz radios. It is in .pdf format.

Electric tips:

So you want to delve into electric flight. Well here is a Table, showing the most popular batteries from Sanyo and links to the data sheets. PDF format.

Miscellaneous:

So what does F3B or F3J mean, when it comes to RC gliders? Do you want to know the rules you have to work within, to fly one of these competitions. Download the official FAI rules (.Pdf format). Here are the Australian specific rules (also .Pdf format) so you can learn the local rules.