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Posted by Old_Pilot | May 26, 2015 @ 10:46 AM | 6,485 Views
Smaller airframe......bigger fan

OK....here's how we set the rates and expo:
Ailerons:
R=30/E=20, R=45/E=25, R=70/E=25...flew the ailerons on low rate
Elevator:
R=40/E=25, R=60/E=25, R=80/E=25...flew the elevator on mid rate


StealthStream 5 Maiden Flight (4 min 47 sec)

Posted by Old_Pilot | May 24, 2015 @ 11:27 AM | 5,930 Views
One of our club members is retiring and moving to Arizona....so he brought most of his fleet to our Fly-in yesterday...I got this for almost nothing.. freshened the paint and will re-trim it this week.....supposed to be windy and rainy until Thursday
Posted by Old_Pilot | May 20, 2015 @ 03:10 PM | 6,230 Views
A few of us had a kinda sorta contest to come up with an RC version of the $10 Wal-Mart foam glider called the Raptor......I decided it needed to be a twin, and now sorta looks like the TU-95 Bear....but with only 2 motors....so it's called the TU-47 1/2 Cub.....Started on it Monday....waiting on CW/CCW props and 20A ESC's....but that's why I like to mess with foam....motors are 2200kv Grayson Mini Jet, 4.75x4.75 props and a 2200 mah 30C 3S.....we'll...Continue Reading
Posted by Old_Pilot | May 07, 2015 @ 02:43 PM | 6,066 Views