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Computer simulation has gotten good enough to be useful for learning to fly RC. Some might even say a good sim is a modern necessity. Can ...
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Radio control flight is unbearable fun peppered with heart ache. Yesterday, my triple-redundant Optima Rx lost the ability to control what...
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Standing tall (for an ankle biter). Update 9: See 100 mph Z8RC Piggy Bee Update 8: Sadly the 5 x 2.75 prop has been causing...
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Update: Here is the Fw-190 with a Power 10 running on 3S (4S is not a Power 10 option). It achieves about the same speed as the stock airp...
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Completed model including guide wires, painted prop and 9 cylinder radial. Update 11: Paint and landing gear mods. I added two 2 mm c...
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With a 15" prop in the cards for my Monster Yak 54 from Hobby King, I picked up a nicely made $90 E-Flite Power 46 to spin it. The sto...
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UPDATE 8/3/2012: I learned that the Elevon jumper setting on the board causes the i86 to do your Elevon mixing for you. So you have to tu...
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Update 8/30/2012: See http://z8rc.blogspot.com/2012/08/aeo-rc-50mm-ducted-fan-combo-w5800kv.html for a great fan upgrade (and noise reduc...
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The HK P-38 flies beautifully, so it was an easy choice to sink $35 into a decent set of 32g servoless retracts . The stock retracts don...
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Individual model recommendations are based on an overall grade of B- or higher. This overall tabulation revealed that covers the 67th per...
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Update 3: See also: http://z8rc.blogspot.com/2012/01/blade-mcp-x-100-tail-blow-out-fix.html Update 2: mCP X with Z8RC truss upgraded to A...
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Individual model recommendations are based on an overall grade of B- or higher. This overall tabulation revealed that covers the 67th per...
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Good news! Despite concentrated efforts by the AMA to make it illegal for non-AMA members to fly RC models in the United States, new FAA le...
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Scam alert. After posting a few of actual reviews on RCGroups.com, I was met with this message: Critical of a paying sponsor, your post h...
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Update 8/30/2012: See http://z8rc.blogspot.com/2012/08/aeo-rc-50mm-ducted-fan-combo-w5800kv.html for a great fan upgrade (and noise reduc...
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Nice looking little plane, but the beauty of this bugger is more than skin deep pole·cat ( n). A chiefly nocturnal European carnivoro...
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Continuing and ending my mini-series on how to land, this article focuses on flying a good traffic pattern: the military Overhead. The Ove...
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The new Ares company has stormed onto the Ultra-Micro scene. Offering apparent competition to Horizon Hobby micros, I've found the new ...
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Completed model including guide wires, painted prop and 9 cylinder radial. Update 11: Paint and landing gear mods. I added two 2 mm c...
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Blade mCP X 100% Vibration Fix
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FAA Guarantees Your Right to Fly RC in the USA
Fixing those broken UM wheel pants
How to Land from The Overhead Pattern
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Soft Throttle
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Z8RC Thrust-to-Weight Ratio Database
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