Monday, March 19, 2012
Winds
Winds have precluded almost any flying opportunity for weeks and there is no break in the forecast.
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Horizon Hobby makes it clear that their little Gee Bee would not have been possible without AS3X. But they also claimed that flying an Ultra... -
Update: Two more trim buttons broken and a dual rate switch jammed immovably. This radio has a useful life of about one year before a switc...
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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... -
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... -
UPDATE: After pretty light use, the E-Flite 370 in the Ascent failed without warning between two flights. It landed fine, only to never r... -
Completed model including guide wires, painted prop and 9 cylinder radial. Update 11: Paint and landing gear mods. I added two 2 mm c... -
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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Updated the videos and expanded my comparison to the Hobbyzone Champ. Can the new Hobbico Flyzone Micro Super Cub RTF knock off the venerab... -
I remember buying balsa models as a kid and being soooo disappointed by the box contents; basically a stack of wood and directions. Not muc... -
Winds have precluded almost any flying opportunity for weeks and there is no break in the forecast.
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Using the principles of elliptical wing design to protect lift from tip losses and vortex aero to energize flow over a sub-wing, I have inv... -
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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UPDATE: See: http://z8rc.blogspot.com/2012/01/z8rc-umx-3sbach-342.html E-Flite's latest UMX is the Sbach 342 mono-wing aerobat. It l... -
Two new Gee Bees are available at about the same fly-away price, it's time to compare the E-Flite UMX Gee Bee R-2 BNF (EFGBR2) to the ne... -
I've gone to a soft throttle approach with my powerful airplanes. Some helicopter ESCs use a "soft start" to protect the ge... -
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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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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An epic battle is underway. The challenge: lie, cheat, steal to gain the upper hand... Each of these gorgeous warbirds is hiding someth... -
UPDATE: Also see: Half of DX8 users report "unresolved" problems UPDATE: Also see: Head to Head: Aurora 9 vs Spektrum DX8 ... -
Update: After several more trips tot he field, I am upping the Mosquito's overall grade to A . Update: Added a discussion of slow flig...
