Yesterday I was prepared to spend some serious time flying my Trex 700n. With 11 flights on a newly rebuilt motor, a new radio setup, and being able to practice some new maneuvers while breaking in the motor without taxing it too much. But things didn’t work out as planned. Switching into idle 2 right after lifting off the ground…the tail started swinging to the left as if a link broke. So I slammed it to the ground before it got out of control.

Creased the boom, broke one tail wire...

Hey all,

The show is now back to the name from where it came. Jonathan from Yardbird Helicopters talks about their new 550-700 class helicopter as well as pricing and when we might expect to see these at your local flying field. Check it out and enjoy.

As per usual, it is on iTunes and right here for direct download:
http://rcfreakpodcast.com/home/RC%20...isode%2064.mp3

It's been a while since I've flow anything other than a sim.
On my Pantera I lowered my swash pitch down to +- 8 degress rather than the 11 or 12 degrees I had and lowered the others to +- 6 degrees.
On startup the Pantera went WOT, killed throttle, not sure how but my throttle servo was reversed. Fixed that and restarted, started right up . It was 90ish degrees outside and my engine was running rich. I like it that way so left it. A few test hovers gave me the answer I...

Yesterday was a great day to go flying! Eric and I decided to go to our other place to practice...and it was a good thing we did. Later Chuck stopped by and informed us our flying field was full, both sunshades! A field of nothing but plankers! We wouldn't have been able to fly as much as we did.

I started out with my Trex 700N FBL heli. I had just transferred the settings to my DX8 and was itching to try it out. First flight...the tail gain was quit low which I would rather have...

I want to test fly the 3 heli’s I added to my DX8, however, the weather here in the Midwest has been hot…90+ degrees, and windy…35+ MPH. So this was a good time to start working on the Compass 3D+ motor…a Thunder Tiger 53…modified. I removed the muffler from the motor and expected to see piston debris in the exhaust port, but I didn’t. Now I’m really curious as to what happened to this motor.

As soon as I could get the motor out, I opened it up and found nothing! What? No metal shavings...