tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54071555416622823132011-11-27T23:34:28.602ZAs an old time flier of a radio controlled airplane I’ve come back to the hobby to find much has changed. Here I am going to explore that change and look at what being the pilot of a radio controlled airplane nowadays means. I will be concentrating on electric planes as I feel that they are the biggest advance and also the future of radio control flying. I will however touch on all aspects at some time or other. I hope you find the visit interesting.Electric Flierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13857769078803071225noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5407155541662282313.post-41812267068644103702008-04-14T17:09:00.002+01:002008-04-14T17:16:00.895+01:00

Well, it has happened! The standard motor has died. Even though I used heatsink paste and an extra heatsink the heat load was still too much. As with all electric motors this tells us that it is simply not up to the job. No matter if the motor is in a plank or heli, if it gets excessively hot, you are overloading it. (Same goes for ESC and battery.) With a fixed wing plane you have the choice of

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What has, you unwisely ask? I, a dyed in the wool, confirmed plank flier, have bought an electric helicopter! I can hear the gasps of horror from here! And I don’t even have the decency to remain firmly in the closet!I guess it had to happen. When I started to think of RC flying I, looked at helis first. I even bought a book on building my own. That was after all, the option of the time! No ARF

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Model weight is an issue for me! I think that we have become so weight conscious that we are being a bit silly about it. I think that one of the problems has been the older electric powered models were a bit border line power wise and everyone got into the habit of paring the weight down to the absolute minimum. This has been reinforced by the growth of indoor flying using super light models for

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In my web crawling the other day I fell over a site selling plans for radio controlled airplanes. It was a good site but I very soon got the message that the editor was not supportive of RTF or ARF airplanes! (To put it in a ‘family friendly’ way!)I suppose that since he was in the business of selling ‘build your own’ plans, he could be forgiven for feeling a bit put out that folks could just

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Hi, As I was uploading another page to The Radio Controlled Airplane last week, I suddenly realised that things were getting a bit out of hand. After a bit of thought it finally dawned on me that ‘a bit out of hand’ was not quite the right way of putting it and I could no longer simply allow the site to grow in a sort of random fashion.The result is, I have been planning the site. And the more I

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Hi, Just a quickie today.I found another Blog that you might be interested in. It is called ‘Jazzy's Flight Deck’, and here is an exert from she says about radio controlled airplane simulators.‘Practicing with a flight simulator such as FMS or Realflight can make a big difference in your skills advancement. For beginners it can make the difference between crashing on your first flight and NOT

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Why? Because it is one of the best advances ever in the hobby of radio controlled airplane flying! I put the RC Simulator right up there with the invention of proportional radio control.When you are flying a real model, unless you are independently wealthy, you have to fly within your ability box all the time. It takes many, many hours of practice to build your box and then expand it into more

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I am a great believer in the use of new materials in the hobby of building and flying radio controlled airplanes. It is after all a high tech hobby! High tech goes with the hobby like strawberries with cream. But, man, do people resist new stuff! So, on to EPP or Expanded Polypropylene. While looking similar to EPS or Expanded Polystyrene, (Styrofoam) it has some great benefits for building model

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I was reading some reviews on a beginner radio controlled trainer aircraft earlier and I was struck by a danger that folks may not be aware of. The first review was by a total beginner who had never had anything to do with Rc flying before. He bought the plane, which, I might add, was a perfect first time RC trainer, and then had a really fantastic experience with it. It did exactly what he

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Yea Gods! This has been an interesting path getting this lot together! I reckon it was easier to build my first plane. Anyway we are up and running. (Well mostly!) So let us proceed …As a beginning, lets see what radio controlled airplane flying is all about and where you startWell, you go off to your favourite mega store, pick up one of those big glossy boxes that bugle ‘Ready To Fly! Radio

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If you had told me a year ago that I would be writing a blog here today, I would have had you instantly certified! However, try as we might, times change and here I am!As you see, this is the first post and is a bit of a sort of ‘rambling filler’ to put up something while I get all the technical issues of this dasterly system sorted out. I apologise for the lack of content at the moment but that

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