NEAT Fair 2010 Photographs and Videos
There are quite a few photos that I’ve uploaded and they’re in the gallery below, just open them and use the left/right buttons at the bottom of the viewer pane to move between photos. There were a lot of great pilots at the NEAT fair and some really fun events as well. The helicopter section […]
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Analyzing Your Radio Controlled Helicopters Current Consumption
Posted on September 13th, 2010 in Electronics, Radio Control
I’ve been flying quite a bit and not paying much attention to the load I’ve been putting on my speed controller. Today I plugged my CC50 ICE into the computer via the Castle Link to check out my last few flights on my Thunder Tiger Mini-Titan e325. I was quite surprised as most of my […]
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Trying Out Some Low Cost Outrunner Brushless Motors from eBay
Posted on September 13th, 2010 in Radio Control
These outrunner brushless motors were shipped straight from China and took about two weeks to arrive and cost about $12 each shipped. Here are a couple of high resolution photos of these motors, they have a nice flat gold color to the ends and the bell is chromed a good overall appearance at first look. […]
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AR.Drone New Augmented Reality + FPV Combat Helicopter
Posted on September 11th, 2010 in FPV, Radio Control
Have you seen the Parrot AR.Drone Quadricopter ? The Parrot is an Augmented Reality + FPV combat product that is controlled via Wi-Fi from your iPod, iPad or iPhone touch. But they say they are working on support for other platforms, hopefully Android is in the list, and I bet it is. It’s bound to […]
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Some Labor Day RC Flying
Posted on September 7th, 2010 in Radio Control, Video
Some friends and I flew some RC aircraft to celebrate Labor Day. We had been out on Sunday and got some flying in too at our ‘south’ field with a few other friends, and this video is from up ‘north’ at our other field. On Monday my buddy Ollie and my buddy Bryn who we’re […]
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