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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

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

Some friends and I flew some RC aircraft to celebrate Labor Day.  We had been out on Sunday and got some flying in too at our ‘south’ field with a few other friends, and this video is from up ‘north’ at our other field.  On Monday my buddy Ollie and my buddy Bryn who we’re [...]

Continue Reading Some Labor Day RC Flying

Tags: aircraft, airplanes, fly, heli, Helicopter, hobbies, model, rc

I’ve been working on the Spirit 100 glider to convert it to an FPV platform for the last couple of weeks.  Today I finally was able to get the plane up with the First Person View gear and the results were awesome. Having so much wing area is a huge bonus when flying FPV because [...]

Continue Reading Spirit 100 Glider – First FPV Flights – OT’s Discus Launch Glider

Tags: Electronics, FPV, Plane, Radio Control, rc, Video