New ParkHawk

[EJay]

I went to the NEAT fair this past weekend and had a great time. My fiance' loved seeing the Parkhawks fly and encouraged me to buy one, saying that if we had one of these she would learn to fly it. So I purchased one from Eflyer1234 whom was a vender at the fair. I put it together monday and it took a while since the assembly instructions were very vague, actually in my opinion they stunk. But I was able to figure it out, with the pictures online in this forum. The bird seems to be made of quality materials and designed very well. I did the maiden flight today and was very impressed at how well it flew. To me the Parkhawk is very easy to fly, although landing softly may take a little practice. I have read in this forum about others having problems with them flying straight, but ours flew and turned fine.

PS: My fiance' has a parrot and is a bird nut therefore she had to have one of these. After putting it together I shook it in front of her parrot and it went plum bazookie. I bought a buddy box cable today so that I can teach her to fly it. (My fiance' not the parrot, he he)

I can post pictures and flying video soon if anyone is interested.

EJ

[Tom Cardiff]

I haven't seen a video of one flying yet and would be interested.

[eflyer1234]

EJay,

I understand where you are coming from with the directions. They do stink! This is one area that is being addressed. Sean has it ingrained to FTFM, the first F being Fix.

Please let me know if you have some video. I have one video up on my website. It can be found under the picture/video section. I am looking for some more videos. One customer is going to send me a video of up to 4 Park Hawks flying together.

Thank you again for thinking of me when buying your Park Hawk. Best of luck, and lots of fun teaching your fiance.

-Jeffrey

JGRC
www.jgrc.biz
jeffrey@jgrc.biz
727-781-5722

[FIN FLYER]

Howdy Ejay;

I also purchased a Parkhawk at the NEAT fair as did a fellow club member. I haven't assembled it yet but I'm looking forward to flying it!... Fortunately I glanced at the instructions while I was at the fair and went back to eflyer1234's booth to snap some digital photo's so I'd have an easier time figuring it out when I got home!
(yes, very stinky manual!) :confused:

Yes, seeing others fly it makes me think landing will be the tricky part...

Glenn Fin

[frankenfoamy]

I have some good video on my site.
Look under ARFs

http://rcguy100.tripod.com

[Tom Cardiff]

Thanks Frank


Nice Video.

[Jerry Rose]

Sweet!

[EJay]

Here is some video of mine, even though the landing is not very gracefull. I have gotten better at it now. (About 8 megs)

http://members.cox.net/ejm/ParkHawk.WMV

[FIN FLYER]

Nice video Ejay!,

Can you offer any advise regarding balancing and flying the hawk? I haven't assembled mine yet but would like to learn from others before giving it that first toss! :D

Looks like you were getting some pretty good altitude!
I didn't see the landing, the video cut off just before that.

Glenn

[EJay]

I have 6 1020 kokam lithium cells that I am going to try in a 3s2p config on a gws 300 motor when I get the chance, should get about a 20 min flight, we will see.