Today I was able to work on my 500 for a couple of hours. Golf season has really hit full speed and with 2-3 rounds of golf eating up 10-15 hours a week I am finding it harder and harder to complete the build. I will admit that I am a little torn as I play golf I tend to think of the heli...

Anyway, today I was able to accomplish the following:

• Determined the final location for all of the electronics (RX, Gyro, ESC, Lipo alarm, buzzer, Eagletree V3, Eagletree LCD display panel,

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On January 2, 2008 I received delivery on a new HAAS TM-1P 3 Axis CNC Toolroom Mill. This is my first new CNC milling machine. I also have a used Seiki XL (Bridgeport Copy) 3 Axis CNC mill that I purchased as a test to see if I had enough smarts to really comprehend all this CNC stuff at the age of 62.

I have a little workshop with numerous machine tools i.e. Bridgeport mills, Hardinge and Clausing Lathes, drill presses, cut off saws, surface grinder, air compressor, several media...

My two sons ad I have flown the Eflite Blade CX RC helicopter and have had so much fun with it, we now want to move up to the next level. We bought the E. Sky Flight Simulator kit and that has been great for some in depth learning on flying rc helis, versus crashing them with limited exp. If anyone has any ideas for us, it would be much appreciated. We need to purchase the heli, controller and any other accessories that typically do not come in a kit, or we'll look at a complete kit, if that makes...

Hi everyone,
Can anyone tell me if you can use a swash plate leveling tool without any dismantal of the head or push rods. I have a T-Rex 450s.:arggg:

Over near IH 10 and Loop 410 about a half mile Northeast of that junction there are a few very large open fields where folks fly.

One of the hobby shop owners in town called them outlaw fields because it is not an "official" flying field. My answer to that is that these "official sanctioned" plank clubs do not have what heli guys want or need. Back in the day, the plank guys would bitch and moan about us chopper guys. They claimed it was unsafe to fly helicopters....