Hoyt Park, Sunday 8/21/16

I headed to Hoyt Park to get more flights in on the 550. It flew awesome!  I had a bunch of fun flying it!  No new tricks though. Just some fast sport flying. 

Ming and John were there today also. And some guy came by looking for help with his co-axial heli mall toy. lol. 

380 motor rebuild testing

I headed out to Hoyt park last Sunday to test my rebuilt motor for the 380. It needed new bearings and a motor shaft. It turns out it was also missing a spacer which kept the motor can from moving up and down!  No wonder my motor belt kept changing position!

Anyway, the motor testing went well. My motor temperature went down by 25F with new bearings :). But I wasn't flying very well. I felt really nervous and shaky. I decided to limit my flying to figure 8s and hovering to prevent a crash :)

I also got a couple of flights in on my 550!  It flys awesome and feels light and powerful!  I do need some new batteries for it though, as the original 30C packs are getting puffy. The IR is still good and they balance ok though. Go figure. Lol!

Sunday session at Hoyt Park

I headed out to a rare Sunday session at Hoyt park. Normally I only fly here after work during the week. 

I brought out the 650 for show and the 380 / 550 for flying. The 380 was flying awesome, but I almost crashed it into myself trying an inverted hover!  Luckily my Vbar rescue saved it and punched it away. 

Then I flew my 550 at all my headspeeds. It also flew awesome, but the governor bogged a little on a banked turn at 2500 rpm. I'm guessing because my pack voltage was sagging since my packs are fairly old. It flew fine at my mid headspeed of 2300 rpm though, so I'll probably just use that for these packs. 

I also figured out why the Scorpion motor keeps running hot. The bearings are shot and the motor shaft keeps moving back and forth because a washer was missing below the c-clip!  I had taken the motor out of the 380 because my motor shaft shifted again and I wanted to figure out why. That's when I noticed that a washer was missing while shopping for replacement bearings and spare c-clips!

I ordered some parts from a shop in Vista and I should get them in a few days. But now I need an Arbor press so I can replace the bearings without damaging them or the motor :-/

Vbar Neo and BK servos ready for install

I completed the initial setup of my Vbar Neo and bound it to my Vcontrol radio.  I also installed the servo horns on each servo and installed the "Free Swash" app on my radio so that I can individually trim each cyclic servo to level the swash like I'm used to. So now I don't need a laptop to setup my heli!  I can do everything via the radio now :)

Trex 550 test flight successful!

The rebuild and setup was finally done and it was time to test fly my 550!  I crashed it in August of 2015, then finally started rebuilding it at the beginning of June 2016. 

Some upgrades I put in during the rebuild were thicker frames from the pro model,

KDE tail control upgrade, 600 boom from the pro, Vbar Neo with rescue, Vcontrol radio, and Vcontrol current sensor. 

The test was a success!  But the tail gain needs to be turned up and I need to do a trim flight. 

650 mocked up!

Last night I was able to finish building the tail case and mount it into the boom. Of course now I had to install the boom in the frame and put the canopy and blades on and compare its size to my 550! Lol!

Oh and my BK servos were delivered also :)

The 650 is huge!  The blades reach up my chin!  The 550 to my chest. I can't wait to fly them!

650 tail shaft done!

I was only able too assemble the 650 tail shaft with the blade grips and pitch slider. Next up is completing the tail case and boom. Just so I can mount it to the frame and install the blades and see how big this thing is!  Lol!