Radio Control

There are quite a few photos that I’ve uploaded and they’re in the gallery below, just open them and use the left/right buttons at the bottom of the viewer pane to move between photos. There were a lot of great pilots at the NEAT fair and some really fun events as well.  The helicopter section [...]

Continue Reading NEAT Fair 2010 Photographs and Videos

Tags: drone, FPV, Helicopter, Octacopter, Photography, Plane, Radio Control

I’ve been flying quite a bit and not paying much attention to the load I’ve been putting on my speed controller. Today I plugged my CC50 ICE into the computer to check out my last few flights. I was quite surprised. Most of my flying did not load the ESC as much as I had [...]

Continue Reading Analyzing Your Radio Controlled Helicopters Current Consumption

Tags: e325, Electronics, heli, Helicopter, mini-titan, Radio Control, rc

These outrunner brushless motors were shipped straight from China and took about two weeks to arrive and cost about $12 each shipped. Here are a couple of high resolution photos of these motors, they have a nice flat gold color to the ends and the bell is chromed a good overall appearance at first look. [...]

Continue Reading Trying Out Some Low Cost Outrunner Brushless Motors from eBay

Tags: brushless motor, Helicopter, model, outrunner brushless motor, Plane, Radio Control, rc

Hi folks, as you may know from watching the videos, I put my Twist 60 into mother earth a couple of weeks ago which resulted in some damage to the brushless electric motor I use to power it. Most of the damage was to the bearings, they sounded kind of crunchy.  I also replaced the [...]

Continue Reading E-Flite Power 90 Brushless Motor Rebuild

Tags: Electronics, Radio Control

Have you seen the Parrot AR.Drone?  The Parrot is an Augmented Reality + FPV combat product that is controlled via Wi-Fi from your iPod, iPad or iPhone touch. But they say they are working on support for other platforms, hopefully Android is in the list, and I bet it is. It’s bound to satisfy some [...]

Continue Reading AR.Drone New Augmented Reality + FPV Combat Product

Tags: AR.Drone, drone, FPV, Helicopter, quadracopter, Radio Control, rc