I would like to say hello to hopefully new friends. My name is Fred. I used RCFlyerFred for my handle; however, I am a near nu-be, in fact I hoping some of you will help me select and purchase a good controller/simulator, to begin my RC flight training.
I will appreciate all responses and if you have some gear that is in good working condition, you want to pass on or sell let me know.
What I am specifically looking for is a: RC simulator and controller that will run on a MAC/OS 10.4. (it's the latest MAC OS) I've had some problems with older software. If you can help, get back to me. (sooner better than later)
RCFlyerFred

I didn't feel confident with velcro so here's how I mounted my camera. I like this better. This was originally posted in the Keychain Camera thread but about anything gets lost in that one anywhere from a few hours to a day or so.
I bored a few holes wrongly. I am on the peak of some allergy or cold, and not thinking well. One reason for using my "best plane" for the experiments.

The camera is held on at the rear by a 2-56 thumbscrew, and up front by two or three rubber bands. Depends on how good the bands are. I may find an O-ring to fit instead.

hi.
i want a share some first impressions about flatout planes....
so after a long sitting in web i decided to build some cheap planes from depron, like extra300.... (i never did RC flying except sim or even build rc planes before)
so this was my very first

but problem, that plane is from fragile depron and weight becomes about 340g...
so, thing i learned... heavy plane need less power to smash, during a slight crash... (flight time was about 2min)
so next extra300 plane i build from backpackers carpet, for experimentering material (cos i cant buy EPP foam here in my country, or doing it in web, costs a huge postage $$)

FLYING CARPET (4 min 6 sec)

problem yiu can see in 3:20... wings shaking so madly and elastic material dont allow steering...
so now i am on SLOFLY 28
what will becomes, do know, but main target is to keep it light as is possible, cos material is the same fragile Depron


conclusion?
it is probobly cheapest to go into shop, or even into web shop and get everything you need or even ready to fly... but i like building my own thing,,, and i agree:
expieriance is what u get wen didn't get what u want.

This little cutter works well. Also cuts foam rubber great.

Hey guys/gals. I kinda been gone for a bit. I got sent out to one of the outlying FOBs (Forward Operating Base) to do Medevac Chase. We provide security, escort and casualty evac for our Med guys. Only flew 16.5 hours in a week, but if the Med dosnt fly much, thats a GOOD thing!

Had a good time out there, helped a lot of people, met some great guys from the Louisiana National Guard and still got to fly some.

We also had a NATO reporter/camera guy with us for the week named Josh. Awesome fella and man he does nice work!

Here is a picture of our crew we had out there for the week.

Laine.

Here's some footage of Blake having some fun with the 42" Yak-55m. I love the smell of sulphur in the morning!

[B]EDIT: Here's a vid of Doug(Voodoochild on FG) doing some landscaping with one I built for him-SORRY BOB

Smoke on the Water (5 min 36 sec)

Yak 55m inside the Rec Center (6 min 24 sec)

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Since the Top-flite B-25j Mitchell has 2 choices on which engines you would like to place in the plane itself, either a 2-stroke or a 4-stroke. I'm thinking more of the 4-stroke for more high quality performance from the plane but since the plane is going for $600.00 ARF already it's going to be one hell of a price with both 4-strokes plus servos ect. Please feel free to give feedback...

managed to fly both planes today before heading out to the gun range as hunting season opens soon.

Check out the new motor mount. After wondering how to make an easy on / easy off mount, I found a post about this.

All I did was mount the motor to the cap of a twist cap of any pop/soda bottle and cut off the base of neck on the bottle with a hacksaw.

Mount the neck on any plane and switch motors with a twist of the wrist.

After the incredible support of darksiede, to help me acquire 'posh' equipment, Chompers and Faethor came along with a setup to allow 3 channel flying
Thank you guys !
Received in the mail on Friday and Saturday, were a Cessna brick, PZ Minium Tx, 70Mah lipo, 2 PZ field chargers.
I fixed the troubled elevator servo, by finding the almost correct sized motor gear on a Westclox clock. Some fettling and the servo was fine.

On to a project !!
I saw the sidebar link to offplane's cub with big wheels and that started the Alaska Cub
How could anyone not like the big fat wheels and STOL performance...a real spectacle, discovered some while back on YouTube.


So, what did I have to build a semblance of such a thing ?
Cessna brick
70mAh lipo
Silverlit SingleWing prop, motor and gearbox

Hmm, ok, but the airframe side was going to be a very old and well flown piece of foam, bought for a $1 last year.
14" wingspan and I believe it was an Estes free flight glider.
I made some new wings and a new whole tail section, from Hefty brand 10" oval poly plates (Walmart). The fuse is all that was salvageable and that's dirtied in a big way.
Control rods and horns and all that ? new area for me.
Well, my idea presented itself, when the toy car that had big foam wheels on it also had springs for the suspension...unfurled and carefully straightened the springs...control rods
Horns are pieces of toothpick.
Everything got assembled yesterday and today and maidened tonight.
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The Slick Flies ! It Flies Awesome !

I had a couple minor things go wrong on the first maiden ... but on the second maiden ... it flew perfect !

I love it and can't wait to really try some 3D stuff with it ....

3DHS 42" Slick (1 min 36 sec)

At 3:00 in the video the Slick appears .....

I also built a new 3D foamie ... A 3D Batix Dialbo ....

It flies awesome too !

It also had a couple issues but once solved its really fun to fly !

Pictures will be posted later ...

Well I wanted to make something that could be flown in the street and front yard where I live.

I wanted it to be able to land real slow. Climb well enough, but fly slow is the key. Undercamber comes to mind.

Simple, cheap materials, gear on hand, quick. Heck I want two so I can do combat with a friend when they come over.

Saw the Blue Baby thread in Scratchbuilt Foamies, and figured why design something, there is already a plan, and everyone says it flys well enough to make it a primary trainer. Sounds good to me. Besides my daughter keeps wanting to fly my planes and she needs something crash worthy.

Warbirds combat, right, so here it is Blue Baby Combat Warbirds. One Russian, One German. Not WWII stuff, but what if tomorrow these two ex-rivals decides to go for it...............................

Started with the GWS IPS Drive system, 1 plane (German) is an 'A' Drive, 9x7 prop for speed. The other (Russian) is an 'E' Drive with low volt EDF 12mm (high KV), also 9x7 prop, ala Dave Robelens Pattern Babe design.

Maiden for both was this afternoon. Though wind was blowing 5-10 mph, and kicked up to 7-14 mph by the time the Germans took to the sky. Not disappointed, they fly like I figured. Flying on the wing again, feels good.

Joey? Sammy? Ready to do battle.............................

Fred

Added a few pictures of a Flaot Plane conversion. Went to a 12mm geared brushless inrunner on the IPS drive, added a real spar to the wing, and floats.

hi. guys .I bought super miss last week and I would like to know if super miss flies with too much wind?

As a small child I fell in love with the Guillow's models. I was seven years old and my dad allowed me to own my own X Acto Blade and he bought me my first Guillow's model, the J-3 Cub. I still remember how he sat with me and showed me how to remove the parts from the die cut sheets (before they were laser cut) and how I painstakingly cut those formers out and destroyed each one and spent most of my time repairing the formers and not building the airplane. One thing that rings in my ear today is my dad telling me how these models do not really fly but they are fun to build and I would sit there daydreaming how I wish I could figure out a way to make them radio control.

Fast Forward 35 years and one day I am surfing the internet and I found a chat group affliated with Guillow's models and they were successfully converting Guillow's models to RC. Then I found RC Groups and did a search for guillow's models and found a thread of list of the different models and their builds. Well I decided I would dust of my Hellcat and try to build and convert it to RC (I have a thunderbolt as well).

This past Saturday night I finished stringing the fuselage and was considering a hatch for the battery. I decided (with help from milesperpound) to create a hatch that traveled from Former B2 to Former B7. I wanted the full canopy to be part of the hatch. I proceeded to use my dremel tool and cut into each former level with the ground and then cut the stringers. I am going then create another B2 and B7 top half (recess it back on each side a bit) apply some earth magnets (purchased from RC Timer) and hopefully I will have the hatch. The question is what to cover the hatch with. Presently it is stringed, but I am thinking of sheeting it. Will think it through. Here are some photos of the work.

More progress posted on the Tummelisa. Got a friend at work, Thanks John, who is drilling out my schmancy propeller. I do not have a drill press and I wanted to get it right. Should be able to do a dry-fit soon to test the prop washer and nut for scale appearances.

On a side not any input on this project is welcomed!

Flying at Cape Blanco was a blast. Looking forward to next year

DJ

This was Mike and Tom flying off the cliff of the Bandon hotel. Very recomended.

More pics

So Travis was given a very used Eflite Extra 260 profile. It had seen some much better days before we got our hands on it. I enjoy fixing planes, trucks and helis so I got my grubby little hands on it and went to work.

Stock this plane has 14 braces and when Keith gave it to us it had 6 and all of them were either broken or had come unglued. Apparently he had it set up where he could just wall it and it would break off 4 braces under the wings. His idea of fixing it was "More Glue!" so I had to break most of it off and start from scratch. I had to replace the bracing running down the fuse with some slightly larger carbon rod but it was the smallest rod the LHS had. But Keith was nice enough to give us the park 370 and a ESC that he used on it with the stipulation that "When you crash it and destroy it, give me the motor and ESC back." That will work great for us

So after weighing it I have found that its a little on the heavy side. Recommended weight w/o battery is 182-220g, actual is around 240g w/o battery. Recommended weight w/ battery is 220-270g, actual is around 325g. I wanted it a little heavy due to the fact we dont have anywhere inside to fly so it will be flown only outside.

I'm back again with our recent trip to Oregon. I had a great time with Mike Williams, Mike Naylor, and Tom Tubridy. I didn't take as many pics as Mike Williams, so I hope you appreciate the cool ones I did take.

DJ