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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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 …
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 …
I happen to own three North American P-51 aircraft. Oh, I should mention that they are radio controlled models! None the less, they are exciting to fly, and I love to make low level passes with them and imagine what it would be like inside flying them. Unfortunately, on one rather windy day earlier this …
