Phew. a flying Vid blog dump.

Well, dave and i have been flying pretty intensely the last few weeks. i upgraded my foam super cub in order to make it more aerobatic and to fly faster. in technical terms, i made her brushless and added ailerons. anyways, took a few flight to get the balance right, but eventually i did, got her all trimmed out nice, and man, its fun to fly. because the super cub is foam, its a lot less scary to fly, and she doesnt roll as much…

Super Cub, upgraded with new motor and ailerons!

i worked furiously last week to upgrade the super cub to have ailerons and with a new motor/ESC and receiver, to work with my dx7 (transmitter). mostly because the crappy transmitter it came with, well, was crappy, and we want to turn the super cub into an aerial photography platform. So, modifications it was, and i got everything ready just in time to get out before it started raining yesteday. Well, it all worked well, but, i was massively tail heavy. contrary to what i…

my fleet, and flying the funtana and demoiselle is fixed!

Well, it was finally time. over the last few weeks i finally worked up the courage to fly the funtana. well, that and it was finally nice enough weather on the weekend that we could actually go out to fly! so, last weekend, i brought out the entire fleet so far, minus the discus glider. my flying fleet so, heres what happened. dave flew his heli and plane around some, it was a kinda windy day, so i was seeing if the wind would die…