Building the Monster.

Nothing like spending a lazy Sunday with a friend working on your bird. Also thank god for winter and rain, otherwise I would never work on them, just fly them! I am waiting for Chris at Extreme Flight RCto come out with the "no assembly required" kits.


Tim Cooper working on doing a modification to get that fat DA-60cc mounted in the plane.


She's looking good!



After a little effort we got it in! Still need to work out a couple issues but it's coming along. Note we used 1" stand offs for the DA-60cc unlike the longer ones used for the DA-50cc.

A Monster is coming.....

Here's a little package I got in the mail yesterday. Chris at Extreme Flight RC has turned out a ton of great airframes and this is one of his latest. The Edge 540T 59cc.



I bought the combo package with the DA-60cc motor. And let me tell you Chris has out done himself again!! I think I am getting sick...need to stay home from work....yeah that's the ticket.

Stay tuned as I build this bird...

The Outlaw E from Extreme Flight

People often ask "Why should I belong to a club? I can fly anywhere." While this may be true, you’re forgetting one vital thing to your growth in the hobby, friendship. Joining a club means you meet a ton of people with a ton of experience and knowledge. That experience and knowledge and into play when I was looking to make a motor mount for my Outlaw conversion, sure I could have made my own, but nothing like the one you see here.



These couple pictures are why you should belong to a club as a friend I met at the club made this motor mount for me. Thanks for the bang up job Larry and thanks Nampa Model Aviators!

Dr. Frankenstien it is alive!!!

"Nothing is more painful to the human mind, than…the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows, and deprives the soul both of hope and fear"....ok a little over the top?

Anyway Dr.Frankenstien or better known as Ken Simmons, has been busy in his lab and came up with this, a Rotormast V-22! This is the maiden flight! I can not wait until he installs the scale body!

2011 Polar Bear Fun Fly (Frozen Finger fun fly)

Today we, the few, the proud, the truly dedicated and slightly “not right in the head” ventured out into 10 degree weather with lipos in our pockets and a few gallons of nitro to participate in another Snake River Valley Modelers Polar Bear Fun Fly (Frozen Finger fun fly)

Awards:


First Polar Flight goes to Larry


First dead stick of the year goes to Tim Cooper, there is no tank too big for him.



First crash of the year goes to Bob, Bob says he lost it in the sun, most believe he wants a new plane for this year.


We would like to thank Ken Simmons for putting this together and more importantly a special thanks to his wife for making the chili! It saved many lives today. Also a thanks goes out to John Davis for commandeering his neighbor’s propane heater.

Living with a bipolar Heli. (ESC reset to defaults)

The unfortunate fact is any ESC that depends on software will have defects. I say this because I have been a Software Engineer for 25 years, worked on many products and have yet seen a software based system get released bug free, sorry Futaba that includes you.

This Saturday, when trying to fly my Logo 600, it showed its dark personality. Upon getting ready to fly, the ESC reset itself to the defaults, meaning Airplane mode and no soft start up. I usually set my helis up to arm the ESC based on the throttle hold, so I start the heli up in stunt mode 2, depending on the soft start of the ESC. Once the throttle hold is switched off my blades spin up and up and away!

Not this time the heli went wild spinning out of control. I was quick enough to shut her down and save the heli. Keep in mind that I have flown this heli maybe 12 times and all the sudden she goes nuts. When I took it home I found out that the ESC had set itself to the defaults. Then I immediately emailed Castle Creations.

As they said 3.24 had the fix for that situation, I did not want to be put into that situation again, so the tech at Castle Creations offered this advice for any ESC you are using.

“Set the motor direction to Reverse in the Castle Link & then set the correct direction with the motor leads. By doing this if the controller resets to default the motor will spin the one way so as not to drive the main gear. Therefore saving your heli.”

Seems like good advice!

Raining outside and this is what happens.

This is what happens when I don’t have anything Heli’s to build, waiting on parts for aircraft and it’s raining outside. I put batman in as the pilot. I wanted to make it cartoonish as I know this craft is going to have a short life hanging around me and Cooper.