YouTube Vids

Forgot I had these vids of me flying my Trex 450SA on YouTube :)

My next heli!

I plan to pick up another heli to add to my fleet. It's a micro-sized model suited to flying indoors, the E-flite Blade mCX. It's a smaller version of the Blade CX2, which I already have. While I can fly my CX2 in my living room, it's better suited to larger indoor areas. The mCX is tiny and I should be able to fly it comfortably in my living room, bedroom, and desk! I have another palm sized heli (Air Hogs Reflex), but is difficult to control. You don't fly it, you suggest where it should go, and it sort of heads in that general direction. LOL!

Link to Blade mCX--> http://www.horizonhobby.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=EFLH2280

Gone RC Racing!

I've been racing my rc cars the last 3 weeks and am currently building a new car! Stay tuned at my rc racing blog -->http://ra99gt-rcracing.blogspot.com/

New Thunder Power Battery

I picked up a new 910 mah 16C 3-cell lipo for my Blade CP Pro. I recently converted my CPP to a "separates" setup, using a new Spektrum receiver, Phoenix 25 brushless esc, brushed tail esc with direct drive prop, and Eflite 4100 Kv motor. I was testing out my new battery when I lost the tail rotor! The tail rotor popped off the motor shaft, and heli went spinning out of control! Luckily I was only a few feet up and brought it down with no damage. I replaced the tail rotor (this time I epoxied the prop to the motor shaft!) and I was good to go again. Still need to fly and cycle my new battery to figure out what to set my timer to. I want to set the timer to use only 80% of the batts capacity, to keep it nice and healthy :)

So it begins....

Starting a new RC blog related to my adventures in learing to fly an RC helicopter.

I started out with buying one heli, just to see if I could fly it. I found it on sale at the Hobby People near my house. I learned to fly this one tail-in (tail pointing at you), then quit flying when the time changed, as it was too dark to fly when I got home from work (couldn't really fly on the weekends). Then decided to get a more responsive heli to fly in the spring. I went on ebay and found a good package deal on a Eflite Blade CP Pro. Flew that one for a few months, but it wasn't very stable in the wind. I then bought an Align Trex 450 SA heli. This heli was bigger and should handle the wind alot better. It was also the 1st kit model I bought, and I'd have to build and set this one up myself! This heli had much better performance than the 1st two heli's I learned on! I then purchased a Eflite Blade CX2 co-axial heli, to fly indoors when I didn't feel like going outside. This heli is the most stable of all, which is great for some living room flying!

So what started as an impulse buy of a basic heli I saw on sale (always wanted to learn to fly an RC heli, since I saw one as a little kid), turned into a fleet of 4 helicopters! EF Sabre, Blade CP Pro, Trex 450 SA, and Blade CX2, and I still can't fly a circuit :(