Flying Today this was at 0800 in the morning, busy

Jet Starting up/take-off/low pass

Yak 100CC Freestyle

Has a DA 100cc Engine with all the other goodies! flown on Sat at the NM field

RC fourm question about big planes

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_9900528/tm.htm

Funny line

Propellers are notorious for inflicting serious bodily harm while vigorously defending their space" George Aldrich

Airplane Checklist !

Airplane Checklists for the field

http://www.rcunited.com/showthread.php?t=225

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)

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