Goblin 570 driving a modified Vario fenestron with a belt. SpinBlades 600, 8 minutes on 3500 packs. It flies surprisingly well in the wind. Egodrift, YGE 105 governed by iKon2 FBUS connection TDMX. Radio is X20RS, full telemetry and integration.
(When it looks easy, it's not)
Enjoy
Montage shot by my longtime RC buddy, Eric Balay.
Cant wait to try it at the field. My only gripe is the main ratio and recommended kV. It comes with a 12T pinion for a ratio of 9.33/1. So I ordered an Eclipse 4230EC-370kV to compensate. Good news though, I learned there is a 10T pinion available which I ordered. Head speed in hover is 1175 and love the feeling of highly precise mechanics. It's about time a manufacturer offers decent quality at...
Cant wait to try it at the field. My only gripe is the main ratio and recommended kV. It comes with a 12T pinion for a ratio of 9.33/1. So I ordered an Eclipse 4230EC-370kV to compensate. Good news though, I learned there is a 10T pinion available which I ordered. Head speed in hover is 1175 and love the feeling of highly precise mechanics. It's about time a manufacturer offers decent quality at sensible price.
What a dream to fly at this time of the year in Northern California.
This was probably my best scale flight of the year at HSM 25!
Such an amazing aircraft and the display in the air it's quite impressive!
HeliStorm was the first RC event my wife ever attended. To top it all off, she tried flying for the first time. I had to insist that she try the Fly Wing Huey. After a brief lesson from Gonzalo Martinez (she doesn’t trust me), she was slicing through the sky!
After purchasing the kit from a friend here in Australia in Sept 2024, I spent many hours isolating a very bad vibration, it was 80 on the Ikon vib scale, I eventually found the problem and fixed it, on the way improved the tail gear mesh, balanced the blades. The net result was the highest vib is now the motor at 1-1.5 on the Ikon scale. I was never ever happy with the kit lights, so upgraded...
After purchasing the kit from a friend here in Australia in Sept 2024, I spent many hours isolating a very bad vibration, it was 80 on the Ikon vib scale, I eventually found the problem and fixed it, on the way improved the tail gear mesh, balanced the blades. The net result was the highest vib is now the motor at 1-1.5 on the Ikon scale. I was never ever happy with the kit lights, so upgraded them with a AR light kit, with a SX5 style search light, a big improvement. The video is my 10th flight with the model, since certification as required here in Australia as the model is 9.1 kg, models over 7 kg need to be inspected.
The slight wobble on take off was me trying to find the switch assigned to the lights. I’m getting 8 min on 12S5000.45C @ 1070 rpm with around 45% remaining, so could increase the flight time. A bit more practice to smooth out my flying🤞
Thought I’d share this great video of my 500 size Sikorsky HO3S-1 in the air at the St George Electric Event:
An excellent video of one of my Mercury Recovery flights out at St George, UT:
Main rotor = Ø 320mm
Weight = approx. 228g (ready to fly including battery)
ATTENTION. This is not a toy for children under 14 years of age. 😁😇
Another relaxing flight before the weather changes to winter
Finally have my Baby Lama in the air and 95% dialed in. Really happy with it.
I was supposed to be testing the hoist, crane and water cannon, but my fingers didn't cooperate so this is some cool flight video.
Mike'd Up for scale RC helicopter pilots puts you in my head while I fly my turbine helicopters. This stream-of-conscious, live flight series will give beginners an idea of how maneuvers are processed and advanced pilots will enjoy relating to what goes on in their heads when flying.
Thanks to all the guys who gave me clips!
HeliClassics Mi-24
Another video of my EC145-T2. Enjoy.
My buddy caught a few seconds of my Mi-171. I haven’t had her out in quite some time! Love this machine!
It still needs to find ideal dampening so the software can best process accordingly.
Ladies and gentlemen. This is what happens if you only get to fly once per month...
Nothing fancy just some flight circuits needing practice.
This is the last time I flew on this field in Belgium as I am relocating once more...
Just to give you some perception... the trees are 40 m from the take off point (25 at the closest point). Behind them is a rather busy canal and behind the canal is the...
Ladies and gentlemen. This is what happens if you only get to fly once per month...
Nothing fancy just some flight circuits needing practice.
This is the last time I flew on this field in Belgium as I am relocating once more...
Just to give you some perception... the trees are 40 m from the take off point (25 at the closest point). Behind them is a rather busy canal and behind the canal is the main highway connecting Paris and Brussels...
I was the only helicopter guy in the club.. the rest are plankers (a merry group of fine gentlemen)...
I still need to paint the main rotorhead... and detail the cockpit. Hopefully I get to do this before I move again. This helicopter is and will be my grab-n-go-fly heli and I never intended to add any scale details... but I failed at that already.
A rather boring 7 min flight is attached to this post.
As you might have noticed the bright yellow fuselage is still hard to see and with the trees as the background I was not comfortable flying the military paint schemes...
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Bambi bucket!
FY R.
Uwe B.
Michael K.
Gonzalo M.
Randy C.
Scott S.
Michael R.
Loren F.
Christian S.
Good H.