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<DIV><SPAN class=149155217-25012005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Hi
Bill,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=149155217-25012005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
dunno, but I'm thinking it was in the late sixties. When and to whom did he sell
the company? Which flavor proportional was the radio you spoke of? I assume it
was an analog of some sort. You know, when you look at the architectures used by
the designers at the bleeding edge, back then, to get proportional control, it
was awfully inventive. Even in this all-digital age, there may be something
useful there.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=149155217-25012005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Dean</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Dean Pappas</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Sr. Design Engineer</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Kodeos Communications</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">111 Corporate Blvd.</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">South Plainfield, N.J. 07080</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">(908) 222-7817 phone</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">(908) 222-2392 fax</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">d.pappas@kodeos.com</FONT> </P>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> discussion-request@nsrca.org
[mailto:discussion-request@nsrca.org]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Bill
Glaze<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:58 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
discussion@nsrca.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: any merit in running dual battery
packs ?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Dean:<BR>Was all this after Dunham sold out Orbit
to the Japanese? I, (along with Chuck Boyer) used to be sponsored by
Bob, but a couple of years after going with United Airlines, (1964) I kind of
left myself out of the loop. In fact, our entire group started off in
different directions. (Motorcycles, private flying, race boats, etc. but
that's a different time and story.)<BR>I had occasion to fly the first
transistorized true proportional that I knew of ~1958 or so; Zel Ritchie
asked me to evaluate it for him. I flew it a few times and told
myself: "this is the way it should be done." Of course, I told him
also!<G><BR><BR>Bill Glaze<BR><BR>Dean Pappas wrote:
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<DIV><SPAN class=850534520-24012005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
can still picture the old Orbit ad in my head, the Pattern plane used as a
test case was a Super Duck. I think it was the successor to the Cold Duck,
which was presented as a construction article in RCM a million years
ago.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Dean Pappas</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Sr. Design Engineer</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Kodeos Communications</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">111 Corporate Blvd.</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">South Plainfield, N.J. 07080</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">(908) 222-7817 phone</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">(908) 222-2392 fax</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated
href="mailto:d.pappas@kodeos.com">d.pappas@kodeos.com</A></FONT> </P>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> <A
class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated
href="mailto:discussion-request@nsrca.org">discussion-request@nsrca.org</A>
[<A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="mailto:discussion-request@nsrca.org">mailto:discussion-request@nsrca.org</A>]<B>On
Behalf Of </B>Bob Richards<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, January 24, 2005 3:26
PM<BR><B>To:</B> <A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated
href="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org">discussion@nsrca.org</A><BR><B>Subject:</B>
RE: any merit in running dual battery packs ?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Dean,</DIV>
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<DIV>I did not know Orbit did that. I know Proline did. I loved those
Competition single-stick radios.</DIV>
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<DIV>Bob R.<BR><BR><B><I>Dean Pappas <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E
href="mailto:d.pappas@kodeos.com"><d.pappas@kodeos.com></A></I></B>
wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=746360619-24012005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Hi Ron,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=746360619-24012005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Nickel tends to fail short. That's actually good. Once upon a
time, Orbit sold its packs with diodes across each cell to protect
against failed-open cells.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=746360619-24012005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2> Try the Smart-Fly BATshare ... same bat time, same bat
channel!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=746360619-24012005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2><A
href="http://www.smart-fly.com/Products/BatShare/batshare.htm">http://www.smart-fly.com/Products/BatShare/batshare.htm</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=746360619-24012005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>later,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=746360619-24012005> <FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Dean</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Dean Pappas</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Sr. Design Engineer</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Kodeos Communications</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">111 Corporate Blvd.</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">South Plainfield, N.J. 07080</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">(908) 222-7817 phone</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman">(908) 222-2392 fax</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated
href="mailto:d.pappas@kodeos.com">d.pappas@kodeos.com</A></FONT> </P>
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