Sunday, August 8, 2010

More planes



Derk / Ben with their Pattern plane, flys really nice, got some flight time on it...

Flew this one, dont know what it is but nice touch and goes

Derks P-51, this is designed after the a test P-51 flys nice



Almost hit by a Yak!

So im filming this Yak flying and doing some hovering and here is comes right at me, I put the iphone on the ground and knelt on the ground, he pulled it up and into a hover over by him, close and wild flying...

Flying Sat Aug 7th in New Mexico

Roy and his blue foam plane

100cc extra
Stan and his .60 superstar



Extra 330 100cc


35cc Futana


AMA Safety / Brian and his Sopwith Camel ---nice !





Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Airplane Checklist !


Airplane Checklists for the field



Chris flying a Futaba EP


New motor


So there is always a story right. Last night I was at the field flying the new addiction. The plane was flying great and I decided to put on a 12.3.25 EP prop on the front of it. Well if I knew more about electric models than I would have known that you have to check the AMP draw on the ESC and the motor with each prop. ( i did know but never paid attention) Should have because I takeoff and boy she was flying great for 3 mins until the motor melted...yes the copper wires inside the motor melted. So i had a dead stick landing which was no problem with a huge runway here at Kirtland AFB. I go home with a bad motor.

So tonight I headed to the local hobby store and asked for a new motor and ESC to set this plane up right. Well I got a huge motor and a huge ESC, one that you could put on a 40 size gas plane. And this plane weighs less than 2 pounds...so pretty cool. I couldnt do all the work at the hotel to the guys let me do it there and use their tools and such. I asked a lot of questions and learned a lot about the proper setups. Like Kv's to Amps, etc...how different size windings can help or hurt your flight time.

So I get this new motor and ESC on and a new prop and check the system out with a watt meter. It all checks good. I go out and fly at a local field .

Below is the old motor and the new one, big difference.


The Grand Forks AFB flying club...D and Mr Gaylord having fun.

New Addiction airplane
the setup was really easy, with some minor problems, i wanted to show the deflection of the aileron 45 degrees worth at high rate ( I use 60-70% expo on this rate with this travel)

Monday, July 26, 2010

Welcome

Hello there
I just wanted to start a blog about RC airplanes...Let me know what you think and send me your ideas for diffrent setups and anything related to the RC world.
Thanks