stinger
Another Crash Landing
Rebuild No 1
Crashed (again)
On this fine labour day public holiday, myself and Goose went down the park to fly our aircraft’s. The weather a little windy, but I wont blame that on my poor piloting skills. I got Goose to hand launch my stinger 64 for me, and that was great. I could fly it straight (lol), but when it came to turning it I seemed to be putting it into the ground, and because it was airborne, the crashes were a little more damaging. We didn’t get any video unfortunately because by the time Goose hand launched it and got to the camera it was already in pieces. On the other hand Goose managed to fly both his quadcopters without any damage. I think he will be posting some footage of that tonight on his website fangin.com. We met another fellow RC fan out there who also took a chopper and a plane. He flew both of those without any problems either. For me it’s back to the garage and rebuild, yet again.
Mayday
In Pieces đ
Lol … I think this is the only way to start this post. Well I finally built up enough courage to take my new jet, Stinger 64, down the park for it’s maiden flight. As soon as I got down there I saw that there was no one there, and that was what I was after the most. Without further hesitation I turned it all on and hand launched it. It lasted two seconds in the air. At first I thought it didn’t have enough guts behind the motor, so I hand launched it again and it still didn’t want to stay in the air. Instead it dragged itself around the oval, which did look funny, but still I wanted air action. Once again I hand launched it and aimed it a little higher into the sky and held back on the elevator. It seemed to belt straight down into the ground which I thought was odd … until I looked at the transmitter and noticed that the elevator switch was reversed, and I really, really should have looked at the rest of the switches, because they were reversed too! Anyway I thought I would give it one last launch now that the elevator was fixed. It didn’t last long in the air again and dragged along the ground until it caught some oncoming wind and took off, which was great, except the ailerons were reversed too. Bang was the next noise I heard.
Ahh well, I have learnt a few lessons and I hope to rebuild it to get some air time out of it. The main thing is I had fun.
The Hunt is Over
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Whilst going for my bike ride today I found a location to fly my jet. It is Boronia Grove Reserve, no more than 5 minutes drive from the Blackburn Rd exit off the freeway. It even has a car park, so no long treks through mud or long grass, and it also has a toilet block and drinking fountain. What more could I want … Well I would like the wind to disappear for it’s maiden voyage. Or as usual I will just have to wait. Patience is not one of my virtues.
Yeah Boy
My First Jet
I got pretty excited yesterday my special package from Hong Kong rocked up. More importantly I had my jet built in 10 mins, and in another 10 mins i had it all trimmed out ready to go. The unfortunate part is the park I was going to fly it in has bigger trees and smaller amount of open space than I remembered. So this weekend I’m on clear space searching mission ( with the jet in the back of the car ).