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StanFoster
08-14-2004, 06:02 PM
Out flying as usual in my RAF. I was doing some stability test as requested of me by Jim Mayfield. Jim...I will e-mail the results ....it went very well.

It was just a nice cruise today.
StanFoster
08-14-2004, 06:04 PM
Anyone that flies is so fortunate...I never tire of this stuff.
StanFoster
08-14-2004, 06:05 PM
another view of my stab out the right side this time.
StanFoster
08-14-2004, 06:08 PM
Another view of that Parham stab that makes my RAF a pleasure to fly in any wind. :D
No..I wasnt outside the cabin hanging on to my wheel fairing. I have long arms.
StanFoster
08-14-2004, 06:10 PM
lots of small private lakes around
StanFoster
08-14-2004, 06:11 PM
another lake
StanFoster
08-14-2004, 06:13 PM
Paxton, Il
StanFoster
08-14-2004, 06:14 PM
I-57 near Paxton
StanFoster
08-14-2004, 06:17 PM
My stairshop is patched...you can see the blocks being layed for the new addition...I will move my stairbuilding into that new room while the crews restore my shop to like new again. :D
StanFoster
08-14-2004, 06:19 PM
Its hard not to smile after a nice evening cruise.
animal
08-15-2004, 12:12 PM
Its hard not to smile after a nice evening cruise.
Stan really great pics,love the shots out the back. pretty wild how the camera catchs the rotorblade and prop arc.
you said that tail is a parham unit, do you get Don's former magizine Homebuilt rotorcraft?
I am the one that designed and built the TH-135 Dusty2.
To bad funds ran out before i could get it flying.

fly safe and keep up the great pics.
quadrirotor
08-15-2004, 01:35 PM
Photo or description of the TH-135 Dusty2?
animal
08-15-2004, 02:13 PM
Photo or description of the TH-135 Dusty2?

The TH-135 Dusty2,was a helicopter I design back in high school, then redesigned it in 1997, it was a 2 place helicopter powered by a modified Mazda 12-A engine. it had a shaft driven tail rotor and was a monster.
8 feet to the rotorhead,82" across the skids,4 foot wide cab. had a 28 foot rotor dia.
but being unemployed and going thru a devorice, i did not have the funds to finish it. I sold the prototype and the design rights to a guy in pa. but he did not know anything about helicopters and i dought he will ever develope it.
I hate that as we did have it in the test phases when i sold it.
but I needed smaller chord blades and a better spragg clutch.
StanFoster
08-15-2004, 03:02 PM
Quad: Awesome project designing that copter.

Stan
StanFoster
08-15-2004, 03:05 PM
Tim: I do not get Parhams magazine...its no longer available..is it?

Stan
animal
08-15-2004, 03:14 PM
Tim: I do not get Parhams magazine...its no longer available..is it?

Stan
he has sold the magizine to Bob Stark From Olney texas. but he will be honoring all current subsriptions and RFI will forward any new ones to him.
address for RFI is
RFI publishing
p.o. box 263
indianola,ok 74442

and it is well worth getting, I have been getting it for many years and hope to continue to with the new publisher.

I contributed several storys on the TH-135 Dusty2 and it even was on the cover at one time.

who knows maybe when I get the Scrorpions I can do some write ups about the Scorpions.
StanFoster
08-15-2004, 03:26 PM
Tim: Thanks so much for that info. I will contac them this week. Are there back issues available?

Stan
animal
08-16-2004, 11:45 AM
Tim: Thanks so much for that info. I will contac them this week. Are there back issues available?

Stan
they use to have back issues, but since they sold out i don't know what they have at this time. this months issue was the last one printed by Don.
Hognose
08-20-2004, 10:34 AM
I saw Bob Stark at Oshkosh -- he involved with Golden Butterfly #1 BTW, can't recall if he is the owner or if he is the instructor giving the owner lessons -- and he said he went to Don and picked up "a whole truckload of stuff." I would guess that includes back issues. Bob is excited about the magazine.

cheers

-=K=-