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Model Jet Makeover — A face-lift for an aged Favorite

Friday, January 17th, 2014

In this stream age of complicated ARFs and painted-in-the-mold airframes, it’s common to see glossy new models during a margin each weekend.  In many cases however, in a routine this leads us to slight tried-and-true airframes in a dilemma of a workshop.  What happens to these models that were once a star of a fleet?  […]

Loop with Two Quarter Rolls

Thursday, January 16th, 2014

Flying a Loop with Two Quarter Rolls Over a past several years, precision indoor RC aerobatics has turn intensely popular. My initial indoor foe was during a 2004 Electric Tournament of Champions (ETOC). Pilots achieved routines choreographed to music, that is mostly referred to as aerobatic freestyle. In 2006, in further to a indoor RC freestyle, […]

Fly this updated loop!

Thursday, January 16th, 2014

Even yet this scheme is dictated for indoor pointing aerobatic competition, a setup routine for both an indoor aircraft and an outside park flyer are similar. Flying indoors customarily requires some-more control aspect deflection due to a obstacles that exist, that is excusable for a 4.5-ounce foamie. (Photo by Xavier Mouraux)   Since we are […]

Scale “Samson” from a Avatar movie

Thursday, January 16th, 2014

When Ralph Kayser saw a scholarship novella film “Avatar,” he knew he had to try and build one of a high-tech aircraft that were featured in it. The outcome is this 33-inch-long Samson, which features Uwe’s homemade molded part and RC helicopter equipment. Uwe powers it with two Dymond AL 3530 motors on a 3S 2100mAh LiPo for 4-minute […]

It’s a lorry … it’s an octocopter … it’s a Black Knight Transformer!

Wednesday, January 15th, 2014

Yes, this real, and yes, it has flown (using 4 of a 8 motors). Advanced Tactics of El Segundo, California, has created this rolling, flying VTOL aircraft able of unmanned, unconstrained operations. They call it, “The world’s initial roadable straight takeoff and alighting (VTOL) aircraft that’s able of alighting tighten to where it’s needed, afterwards pushing a […]