Waynes must have run out of balsa kits because he’s looking around the shop for things to do. Next Victim, the Ace 1/4 scale clipped wing Taylorcraft. Basic framing was done by Paul Habel in the 90’s. He pulled it off the ceiling where it had been hanging since 1993Continue Reading
Several weeks back I met Dave Harrington at Gizzie field to Maiden his 104″ Extreme Flight Lazer in the red / white / blue “Thunderbird” Livery. We did our pre-flight check and deemed her flight worthy after making a few changes to the settings in the Advanced Radio “Smoothflight-RRS” gyroContinue Reading
I recently had someone ask the following question, “If an application calls for a 40 or 60 Amp ESC, if you put a 130 Amp version on there is that OK or will it damage it?” I’m not going to claim that I am an expert on MOSFET Transistors etcContinue Reading
One of the hardest things to do is to manufacture a part that is intended to fit an existing structure, particularly if that structure has compound curves in the X, Y, and Z axis or Three Dimensionally. In this article I’ll show you how I used 3 photographs to identifyContinue Reading
The Ultimate Battery Checker! If your like me, you cannot have enough LIPO battery checkers in your possession. I don’t know what it is about the little buggers but even if I attach them to everything I own, I never seem to have one when it is convenient. Additionally, someContinue Reading
I could listen to that “lumpty lump” idle all day. I finally got a chance to get out to the field and run in the new Saito 33R3 I obtained from Tower Hobbies over the summer. As many of you know, this motor is going to go in my 1/4Continue Reading
I love “Golden Age” aircraft which means that I also love a radial engine. I cannot stand that flimsy vacuum formed piece of plastic they provide with kits to represent the awesomeness that is supposed to be inside that round cowl. Back in the old days, I used to makeContinue Reading
The Need for a Project Being stuck at home, except for the grocery store and getting food at drive thru locations, meant there was only one thing to do…build something! Got down to the installation of the battery and called Mark Twain Hobby to buy what I usually use. TheyContinue Reading
Thanks for all the votes from our members. Your Presidents Spitfire took 2nd place out of 756 entries! My Hobbysquawk call-sign is “2FewDaysatFlyingfield” and as you can see, we pretty much owned the LIFT and DRAG brackets! Ultimately the AL37 / AWAC modification by Joey Jorgenson ended up taking homeContinue Reading
Lets face it. All servo testers are little electronic pieces of junk. Until now! At least that is my experience. I’ve probably purchased at least 3 or 4 of them and they ALL die eventually. Jump over to Amazon and they range from $7.00 to $15.00 and they are allContinue Reading
You may be sulking around the house because your favorite college basketball team isn’t playing because of the Coronavirus (or maybe not) but either way, if you like to look at the customization that your fellow flyers are doing to the planes they by at MotionRC, jump over to HobbysquawkContinue Reading
The Great Planes GeeBee has been sitting in my workshop for about 2 years now. I essentially got it for free from Tower-Hobbies with some hobby bucks I had that were almost about to expire. The plane seemed like a fun little critter but it had one major flaw. TheContinue Reading
During recent conversations at the field regarding “Puffed LIPO’s”, passionate e-mails from our members regarding dangerous LIPO destruction practices, derelict LIPO batteries being left at the field, high energy crashes leaving LIPO batteries significantly damaged, people making the puncture of batteries with a screwdriver a religious experience, and the impendingContinue Reading
Two years ago, I was doing a normal fly –by with my KATANA when suddenly the tail virtually exploded! It tore the vertical stab completely off and also partially destroyed the elevator: Fortunately, there was enough elevator control surface left that allowed me to have a fairly safe landing soContinue Reading
