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Home Made R/C Airplane.

June 7th, 2010

This Orange Plane was built out of cardboard and hot glue. I built it to see if I could build something that would fly. It appears to be a little off balance and too heavy for a .25 size engine. Also one of the ailerons came off, I will use better glue and reattach them [...]

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High speed flutter on the V tail of my BRISK2 3m slope machine during a dive across the slope. The tail planes are stiff and this flapping effect is caused by the camera not reading the flutter speed fast enough. You get the same effect when you hold a pencil loosely between thumb and index [...]

The planes are hard enough to film as they zip by but the helicopters are really nuts, fast, turn on a dime, it’s like mega dragonfly on steroids.

Okays, so I had a car with a flat battery. My jump starter died some time back, and all my friends who could have jump started the car were out. Now on paper I knew that the little batteries I use to fly the model planes should be able to have a good go at [...]

Skydrill 1/2A RC plane

May 24th, 2010

This is a recent flight of my Skydrill powered by a highly-modified Cox .049 reed valve engine. It has a Berg4 Lite receiver, Hitec 55 servos, and a 370mah NiMH battery pack. 3 channel operation of rudder, elevator, ailerons, no throttle. Built from a kit available at SelectHobbies.com. Note how the engine went rich after [...]

one of the young pilots who demostrated his flying skills at our club 40th anniversary day in baldock. this is a big rc plane. near the end of the video he prop-hangs it with smoke. awsome sight. then you can see how big this model is. ps it was quite a gusty wind when he [...]

I built this a couple months ago to fly at Point of the Mountain in Utah…a world class model slope flying site. Lift is created by the wind hitting the hill. This is a rather heavy plane that takes about a 20mph wind in order to fly…but it’s fast!!

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I putted a wireless spy camere on a Bleriot III Slowflyer and made this little movie. Oldeholtpade, Holland.