All about radio controlled aircraft
What you need to check before your maiden flight. The success of your flying is very much dependent on the quality of your setup. If everything is haphazard, expect some crazy things to happen during your flights. You can probably find some sort of excuse – “it’s that dead spot where you turn onto the …
We have now installed the Blueberry flight controller into my old Great Planes Trainer 40. It seems to be functioning properly, including with the GPS, and I'll be running it through a variety of flight tests next week. In the meantime, here is the video showing you what we have done: https://youtu.be/K5HfN2SJfUs For those of …
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I do quite a bit of RC flying, including most of the basic aerobatic manoeuvres. But I have yet to get comfortable with the more difficult ones, especially many of those used in 3D flying. I’m now on a campaign to improve that situation, so I’m beginning with understanding all I can about what is …
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My journey from Spektrum to Radiomaster/EdgeTX eventually brought me to consider using a drone style flight controller. Here is how it happened. Back in the good ol' days, when Moses and I were boys playing with planes, I had a couple of HiTec radios - one for each of my planes, and I got to …
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This document is intended as a reference document for those who have viewed the associated video on our YouTube channel. Having watched the video, you can use this to remind you of the details as you are doing the mixing in your own radio. Mixing_Basics_with_EdgeTX_and_RadiomasterDownload And here is the video: https://youtu.be/M_RmNeG4ydM And, if you haven't …
I love my Radiomaster TX16s, but while it is fantastic to do everything apart from buttering my toast, every once in a while I come up with a challenge that is frustrating. This week it has been the matter of getting my dive flaps working the way I want on my SBD Dauntless dive bomber. …
Most of our planes are going to just need the simple flight controls and perhaps flaps and/or landing gear. That's pretty easy to do. But recently I repaired my VQ SBD Dauntless dive bomber, and went through the setup routine again. It is complex. Not only does it have dive flaps on the wings and …
This handy little test board is inexpensive and practical. I bought mine from Aliexpress. These instructions include information that they provide online along with my own observations. Note that the printed instructions provided with the unit were in Chinese, and the website that they provide a link to is quite unhelpful. What it is good …
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About a year ago our club president listed a number of items on our group Facebook page that were being sold by a former hobby shop owner in our area. One plane that caught my attention was this C-47. I was wanting a twin, and I love warbirds. Furthermore, I had actually ridden in a …
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Today I was testing a new power setup for an old sailplane. The results were strange and disturbing. The sailplane is one that I used to fly with my boys when they were entering their teenage years. And I'm thinking that even back then it was old - acquired second hand. We would either launch …
