Broken 3- and 4-Blade Propellers
You have a sport or scale airplane with a 3- or 4-blade propeller…and you break one, and don’t have a spare, or they are no longer available…
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2023-11-29
Gyro? No Gyro?
Is a Gyro cheating? Or is it a helpful tool to our flying experience? There are more opinions than options. What’s yours?Continue Reading
2023-09-05
Radio Showdown – Going the Distance
How far can your radio signals reach? The Lighter Side of RC put eight leading radios through a controlled test to demonstrate the distance from TX to RX before interference and eventual signal loss. If you want to skip the testing and jump to the results go to time 1:06:40.Continue Reading
2023-08-24
Care and feeding of LiPos
Another great resource from Paul G about electric motors, speed controllers and; now, batteries John Beech | Monday, March 6, 2017 | As is often the case, these white papers begins with a question. Several questions led to this one, in fact. The first deals with LiIon packs (and theseContinue Reading
2023-03-21
Brushless Motor – How they work
Thanks to Paul for the continuing education on electric components.Continue Reading
2023-03-13
Brushless Speed Controllers, An Inside Look
Brushless Electronic Speed Controllers are probably the most misunderstood and overlooked component in an R/C Electric Power System. These little marvels of modern electronics handle huge amounts of power and current, while switching power on and off at a rate of thousands of times per second, all to make a brushless motor spin a prop to power our model aircraft. In this informational article we will look at the basic function of Brushless Speed Controllers, talk about some of the features they have, and dispel some of the myths and misinformation surrounding them…Continue Reading
2023-03-02
New Resources Available
Thanks to Paul Geders for pulling these items together. Racing rules can now be accessed from the Menu under Documents. Direct link provided: Revised Four Star 40 and Uproar Rules Additional resources are now available under the Interesting Reads – Interesting Things menu (midway down the Home Page). Direct linksContinue Reading
2022-07-20
Captain Marvel – Extreme Flight 125″ Laser
It started with a phone call: “Hey man, I’m in Cumming Georgia for work and I’m pulling an empty 20′ trailer. I’m in the Extreme Flight warehouse right now. You want anything?” That butthead Dustin Whitrock knew I was using the “Shipping Costs” as an excuse to not pull theContinue Reading
2022-06-12
All Things Four Star 40!
So your winter project is to get a competition ready Four Star 40 Racer together for this coming 2021 Racing Season and you’ve been online for the last 30 hours scouring the internet for Dilithium Crystals to go in the Warp Core for the powerplant you plan on running? HoldContinue Reading
2021-05-10
Wayne’s Top Flight P47 – Carolina Custom Kits Redux
If your looking for Spirits own Wayne Nenninger this winter, he can be found in his modeling lair working on his latest creation, the Carolina Custom Kits P47. For the unfamiliar, Carolina Custom Kits could very well be the last bastion in the Balsawood Kit manufacturing sector. While everyone elseContinue Reading
2021-02-13
Babe is Killin’ it this Winter
Babe Raab has been in full contact rubber-band powered aircraft construction mode this winter. You can see by his workbench here that the level of progress has been stellar. When your building like a wild-man, you don’t have time to organize. Just add another bench Babe and kick out someContinue Reading
2021-02-13
Use Photogrammetry to create and print 3D Models with only one measurement!
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
2020-12-30
The ISDT BatteryGO: An awesome little battery checking device.
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
2020-12-30
Nigerian Flyer – Kehinde Adebayo
Every St. Louis Spirits R/C Flying Club member we know has an insatiable itch for building model airplanes and flying them. It is an itch that must be scratched. Now imagine being a welding student living in Kabba, Kogi, Nigeria. Your a student with the same insatiable itch for flightContinue Reading
2020-10-12
Interesting Things:
Courtesy of Paul Geders, here is a rehash of the “Interesting Things” collection of tools and content from the old Spirits Website. Some of the information is dated but all of it is still relevant today.Continue Reading
2020-09-23