Practicing safe flying with the UMX Turbo Timber at a remote dry lake deep in the Mojave desert...

E-flite UMX Turbo Timber BNF Basic - Social Distancing during the COVID 19 Pandemic (10 min 35 sec)

Lightest FPV Freestyle Quad with 2S battery, Runcam Nano 2 25-200mW video transmitter. Flies even better than the old Tinyhawk 1 Freestyle. The FrSky D8 receiver is permanently installed and can be flown with almost any transmitter such as jumpers, Radiomaster, Taranis.
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Video - EMAX TinyHawk II Freestyle - EN subtitles

EMAX TinyHawk II Freestyle - bester FPV Einstieg (6 min 9 sec)

Scope of delivery


Propeller arrangement

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Local small airport was pretty active around the Memorial Day weekend, so my father-in-law and I decided to drop by and see what was going on. The guys there were really cool, let us talk to them about flight, military stuff, and even take pictures and video. Enjoy!

Full Scale Aircraft Fun at local airport... Stearman biplane, J3 Piper Cub, etc. (2 min 34 sec)

After a hiatus from posting blogs, I wanted to drop in a marker of my progress in video form. The intent is for this thread to be a timeline of my progression in the RC aviation world. These are posted chronologically. There will be edits, but motly additions.

Maiden crash of FlyFly F4U kit project (0 min 21 sec)

Eflite P-47 newbie enjoying quarantine (4 min 56 sec)

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A compilation of many of last year's flight:

EL-39 Compilation - Low Passes And Landings Of 2019 (7 min 32 sec)

2020 #8 Emax Hawk5 Emuflight Wind Park RIP 2020 0607(Queensryche - Walk In The Shadows) (3 min 36 sec)

Hi frsky fans
I need a bit of help,can someone forward me the details on how to set this sensor up on my x10.
What,and how to set the max/min voltages.
activate voice warnings.
Many thanks
regards
Sonny.

I downloaded the plans for this from areofred because I likes the lines of the fuselage.
The plane was designed by Jim Rice and appeared in RCModeler back in June 1983.
Apart from the obvious departure from balsa and glow to foam and electric, I also changed the styling of the wingtips and horizontal stab.
And to give it more of a 1930s flavour I added wheel pants.
Detail build log is here https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show...achine-in-foam

Wingspan: 1250mm
Airfoil: S-8035 14% Symmetrical @ 1deg incidence
Weight: 1320grams
Motor: Turnigy 3536 1200kv
ESC: Hobbyking 50A
Battery: 2200/4s
Servos: Corona 929MG
Prop: 9x4.7

I've had only three flights so far but I have to say that she really lives up to her name. A real dream to fly.

The Dream machine (1 min 39 sec)

An important announcement that unfortunately, due to recent events, has led to some bad news...

Important Announcement with some bad news.... (2 min 52 sec)

My first attempt at the FT Master Series...starting with the Corsair. Here's Part I of the build process...

FT Corsair Part 1 - Intro (3 min 50 sec)

Yesterday (actually early this morning) I finished the conversion of a used 2 meter Black Magic pattern plane to electric. Today was the big re-maiden.

I'm not sure who was more excited to see this old bird fly again: me, or the original owner, who was there to assist me with the flight and setting all the mixes to get it flying straight. It didn't take much. Just a bit of up elevator trim after take off on the first flight, then we checked CG - right on. Knife edge needed some aileron mix in same direction as rudder, and up elevator. High throttle needed some right rudder, and no throttle needed down elevator to keep it from pulling to the canopy on the down lines. By the fifth flight it was flying knife edge and vertical up and down lines straight as an arrow.

I still need to finish painting the canopy. And the biggest item overlooked in the rush to finish was adding an opening in the firewall and an exit hole in the bottom of the fuselage for airflow to cool the batteries. How I missed that, after all the past conversions and other electric planes I've put together, is beyond me. Must be getting old.

Anyway, the Black Magic is my first pattern plane. After years of flying scale aerobatic planes like the Extra, with their draggy airframes, it was amazing to experience a sleek thoroughbred again. (I got started in sailplanes, and there is nothing more clean, aerodynamically, than that.) The power to weight ratio, while similar to my 104" Extra, translates to...Continue Reading

Bee 490mm (5 min 58 sec)

Crash test Bee or 3D Bee (1 min 4 sec)

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Out to the hill again today
The forecast was for 10 to 13 mph by mid afternoon but arriving at noon we found the hang glider guy's packing up and heading home...
At the top we discovered a solid 20 with gusts up to 30 ....Oh Yea !
We had the hill all to ourselves .

The wind built as the afternoon went on ,with big thermals {and sink} passing through to keep the flying interesting .
The temperature was in the high 70's
A perfect afternoon of sloping .
After 3 hours of flying we headed back down the hill to our cars and packed up , I measured the wind at my car and it was blowing 18 mph on the flat .

Windsurfing my Eflite F-16 Falcon 64mm EDF Jet this morning with 21.4mph avg winds and 28.5mph gusts. High alpha and harrier-ing in the Viper, why not?

Eflite F-16 Falcon 64mm EDF Jet BNF Basic High Winds Flight (4 min 59 sec)

Thanks for coming out today Robert and getting this footage.. I knew you would be the only one in our flight group crazy enough to show up at the field today and fly in this mess with me.

Wow, I cant believe 4 years has gone by since my last entry. I have built around 2 dozen more planes since 2016. Mostly all FPV. Also built about a hald dozen DJI HD Quads. Anyway, here is my latest and greatest!
Had my Albabird out for the maiden this week and probably 4 more flights after that to get it tuned. Flies very nice now and just sips at the battery for having 2 motors. I am cruising at around 5 to 6 Amps at a speed of ~32mph. Running brother hobby 1300KV motors in it (7X4 3-blade props) and a 10,500mah custom li-ion battery. This is a keeper for sure!

In construction...

This is my Arrows RC Viper 50mm EDF Jet Maiden Flight Review.

Arrows RC Viper 50mm EDF Jet Maiden Flight Review (5 min 30 sec)

Review Notes for this Arrows Viper EDF Jet:

Pros:
- Looks great
- Plastic nose cone for durability
- Grips for easy hand tossing
- Fantastic value price, check links in the description!
- Powerful 50mm EDF unit
- Three plastic skids on the bottom
- It handles very similarly to the E-flite Viper Jet
- Designed for 3S packs so you can get a lot of packs for hours of fun without breaking the bank.

Cons:
- I prefer all screws to any glue, but it wasn’t bad overall.

Jet link: https://bit.ly/2X5JFi2

I am looking fo a carbon fiber wing tube can anyone help me with size and if there are any out there?

This is my Arrows RC Viper 50mm EDF Jet Unboxing & Review with a tease in the intro from the upcoming Maiden Flight!

Arrows RC Viper 50mm EDF Jet Unboxing & Review (6 min 57 sec)

Review Notes for this Arrows Viper EDF Jet:

Pros:
- Looks great
- Plastic nose cone for durability
- Grips for easy hand tossing
- Fantastic value price, check links in the description!
- Powerful 50mm EDF unit
- Three plastic skids on the bottom
- It handles very similarly to the E-flite Viper Jet
- Designed for 3S packs so you can get a lot of packs for hours of fun without breaking the bank.

Cons:
- I prefer all screws to any glue, but it wasn’t bad overall.

Link to Arrows RC Viper EDF Jet: https://bit.ly/2X5JFi2

World's smallest stabilized FPV HD video camera! Only 18 grams, the Insta360 GO FPV now has smooth flow with both FlowState AND FPV Stability Modes
Smooth, cinematic, HD videos and 5-minute HD recording time, makes this the most versatile, stabilized HD camera perfect for micro FPV drones!
BOTH FPV Mode (5-min video) AND FPV Stability (follows flips, rolls, & loops)!
FPV features described, how to use them, and side-by-side demo flights of FlowState & FPV Stability
Example mounting options displayed too

Insta360 GO FPV (SMOOTH FLOW!) (14 min 52 sec)