Project Easy Star glider Mods and setup
With the summer months well underway with the hot weather and lots of wind and thermals abounding. It made me want to get the Easy Star back out. This was a project I had started … Read More...
Yearly Archives: 2014
Civilian Drone captures boat fire in California
A boat captain who evidently is also an RC enthusiast or FPV enthusiast captured a boat fire of a $24 million dollar yacht that was docked close to him. The boat's captain, Kurt Roll, captured … Read More...
Commercial drones on their way to becoming mainstream
Recently, on June 10, 2014, the FAA gave the go ahead for the first commercial use of drones over land to BP in Alaska. The drone will be used to survey pipelines and roads among other duties for the oil … Read More...
New Monster Hawk V2 build and overview
So after having built my first "Monster Hawk" out of a Dynam Hawk Sky, I wanted to build another Monster Hawk with beefier supports as well as try a different flavor of the Grayson Hobby Monster Jet motor, this time, … Read More...
New Techone Popwing V2 to be released soon
I don't know if you guys have seen on Nitroplanes channel the new version 2 of the popular Techone Popwing which looks to be in preproduction form. The wing definitely looks different and maybe a bit more radical, but it … Read More...
How to setup Spektrum radio dual rates and expo switch position
As I describe in the Youtube video below, many beginners or ones who have just bought a new computer based radio that can do many of the nice features that really improve flying, don't fully understand what those features do … Read More...
How to repair a damaged control surface
Well, as you guys know I have been trying hard to improve my 3D skills as of late and so I have been putting my 3D planes through the paces. Lately I have been flying my Dynam Sbach quite a … Read More...
Dynam Sbach 342 Overview and Review
Fellow RC'ers! Hope all have made it through unusually cold winter and into Spring finally! I wanted to make my first post this Spring in relation to a new 3D plane that I have been flying for a few weeks … Read More...
Get Ready for Spring RC flying!
This has been a long cold winter for sure! For us RC guys that have been itching to get back behind the sticks, in many parts of the country there have been very few opportunities to do that lately. Of … Read More...
Proto X Nano Quadcopter review and tips
If you have been mostly a plane guy or gal and want an opportunity to get into quad copter flying or see if it is something that you might like to get into, there is a great little quad copter … Read More...