Vcontrol current sensor is in!

Tonight I installed my Vcontrol current sensor in my Trex 550. Once I install the needed apps on my radio, I won't need to fly by a timer, but actual current usage!  An alarm will sound when I reach the capacity I set for the battery I'm flying. 

The Goblin Black Thunder 650 size heli is here!

It's massive! The box was 3ft long!

The blades are 27 inches long while the boom is about 30 inches!

The tail fin is 10.5 inches tall!

The canopy is 3 feet long?!

I'm so looking forward to building it!

550 repair 90% competed!

The frame, boom, and head are rebuilt!  The servos are even in the frame!  Only the rest of the electronics and control links need to go on and she'll be ready for setup :)

Goblin Black Thunder!

I finally decided to get a 650/700 class heli running on 12s!  Woohoo!  The rotor diameter is a little under 5ft!  It's about a foot bigger than my 550 heli :)

It will still be a few months before its flight ready though as I'll collect the electronics for it when I can get them on sale. 

Here's a list of the parts I plan to fill it with:

Vbar Neo with Rescue- delivered

BK 7002HV coreless cyclic servo x3- on order

BK 7006HV coreless tail servo- on order

Hobbywing Platinum Pro V4 HV 130A ESC with 10A BEC

Xnova 560kv motor

SAB 22t pinion- on order

Pulse 4500mah 45C 6s batteries x4

RC Proplus 6mm connectors- on order

Trex 550 head and frame tear down

I competed the rebuild of the tail boom on Sunday and also installed my KDE tail pitch control upgrade kit at the same time as I replaced the damaged parts from the crash. 

Next I completely tore down the frame and rotor head for inspection. Luckily the main shaft, feathering shaft, head block, blade grips, and blade grip arms were not damaged in the crash. Just the main gear stripped. 

After rebuilding the rotor head, I planned another part order to rebuild the frame.  It should arrive later this week, then I can get my 550 back together :)

Trex 550 rebuild finally begins!

I finally decided to begin rebuilding my Trex 550, 9 months after crashing it. I started by removing the front gearbox from the frame, then removing the bent boom. 

Next up is rebuilding the tail case with my new KDE upgrade kit, then placing the 1st order to replace all the damaged parts that I can see so far.