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Yesterday I began the process of learning to hover my RC helicopter inverted and made a video of the good parts of the 4 flights. I’ve been getting a lot more flying in lately with my Ace R/C Mini-Titan. About a month ago I was flying a bit late and lost orientation of the heli [...]

Continue Reading First Inverted Hover Attempts on My Mini-Titan Heli

Tags: e325, Helicopter, Radio Control, rc, Video

I’ve intentionally blown a few Lithium Polymer R/C battery packs when they have reached their end of life.  Unfortunately while my Outrage XP25 2200mAh packs still power my rc helicopter, they are beginning to puff and I don’t trust the pack to not burst into flames while I’m in mid-air.   To alleviate the temptation I [...]

Continue Reading Li-Poly Battery Burns down Lawn and Distrupts Time/Space

Tags: Electronics, Lithium Polymer, Radio Control, rc

Well, the new glider destined for FPV (First Person View) flight is ready.  I built a power-pod, and as you can see in the new video.  The power-pod is based on the Electrfily 35-36-1200kv Rimfire brushless motor that I had on the Great Planes Reactor Biplane. I built the power-pod out of some 3/8″ light [...]

Continue Reading Great Planes Spirit 100 Inch Glider With Power Pod

Tags: FPV, Radio Control, rc, Video

I managed to smash up my FPV (First Person View) plane, the Reactor Biplane a couple of weeks ago.  I had just remounted the motor after I broke the mount on a previous FPV Flight(Video (new window)). So once I had the motor remounted I went to test fly the airplane. I didn’t want to [...]

Continue Reading I wrecked the Reactor Bipe, Time For a New (used) FPV Plane

Tags: brushless, FPV, glider, Plane, Radio Control, rc

As of last weekend I have made my first FPV flights. It was really amazing, big grins all around and well worth the time and effort. Video below! This weekend was the first time I was able to fly in First-Person-View, also known as FPV. The basic premise if you haven’t read my other posts [...]

Continue Reading My First FPV Flights!

Tags: biplane, FPV, Radio Control, rc