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What a fantastic Day at Boeing’s Museum of Flight. It was American Heroes Air Show at the museum. A day dedicated to the men and women that keep America safe by protecting our borders, fighting crime, rescuing us when we are lost or in peril, and saving lives when immediate medical care is required. The [...] Part of my latest toy delivery was a slightly larger heli than I’ve worked on before. Not wanting to get too far into this before I learned something about the 500′s, I purchases a basic intro kit. The current plan is to build this kit, screws up, put together a full parts list and [...] Tonight, I’m picking up where I left off yesterday [LINK], while I listen to some awesome local High School Radio (KNHC). Sunday nights from 6PM -> Midnight is Industrial and Alt music show called ‘On the Edge‘. Reminds me of a similar show that used too broadcast on KFJC out of Foothill College in [...] Since I was not 100% certain of the proper method of blade balancing, I’ve started up this page. You see, until 9:00AM this morning I was certain how to properly balance blades. However, after reading the ALIGN Trex450SE instructions, which contain this diagram, I’m not at all certain. Blade Balancing instructions from the ALIGN [...] I’ve had a few good flights, and few bad flights with the N450V2A. After locating a nasty wobble and some incorrectly manufactured parts, I’ve torn the bird down to just about the bare bones and have started a re-construction. Starting here with this picture, I have already performed the following. Replaced the Main bearings in [...] After fighting with the gyro for a day, I finally cleared the programming on the DX6i and re-did ALL of it. I learned a few more things along the way. This is the final, current configuration that actually let me fly! I won’t pretend to say this is an optimal or even suggested setup, but [...] FRUSTRATION!!! Tried to fly but all I managed to do was cause the thing to spin like some sort of evil weapon. Despite my best efforts to solve the gyro issue, it was just not stable! At least the P-51 was treating me well yesterday. Even few it behind a long row of trees (accidentally) [...] Setting Re-duex. When I thought I had it all figured out, I learned (in a rather painful way) that I in fact did not. At least no blood was spilled. OUCH. A 450 blade at full throttle can hurt. So, after a lot of testing with the heli double duct taped to the [...] The fourth day of construction starts with preliminary radio programming. Based on A LOT of information floating around on the web, I’m going to start off with the following settings for the bird. The manual for the radio itself is 139 pages, 80% or more of which are specific to the two primary programming modes, [...] I only spent a couple of hours working on it tonight. I spent most of my time cooking for the kids. Tonight was no gourmet meal. However about 1/2 the time tonight was spent doing prep for tomorrow night. With 5 prime cuts of beef soaking up my proprietary beef rub overnight, it should be [...] |
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