I just received a new CopterX450AE direct from China. I've been using CopterX parts on my other 450 for ages, so I'm a firm believer in the build quality of the CNC parts, and the bearings.

I bought a bare airframe, into which I'll be fitting my components, stripped from a 3DX-450 *spits*. The intention is to have a second bird for night flight, as I never get around to putting on lights on my main rig.


The kit itself is good, as I had come to expect, and comes without...

What is that you say? Well if you have not seen them, I have put (2) of the Ron Lund 2008 event videos are here. But I am gonna let you in on a little secret. Categorizing and organizing up front will save you time on the back end.

At Rons event I shoot 2 1/2 hours of footage. As usual I will never be able to use it all but there is no such thing as too much footage either When I am going though all the event footage I will label it like [Jason Indoor 1] then I will either watch...

I have a Trex 600E and have not purchased a battery yet. Which is the best battery to purchase?

It was almost 60 degrees here in the NW and I got home with about 30 minute of daylight left so I grabbed the flight case and headed down to the High School where I fly.

Not sure if it was because I was rushing around so much, but during the first pack I just got a bad case of the nerves and couldn't shake it.

All I could think about was crashing and I had to literally talk myself out of it.

Granted this was flight #31 and #32 and all I was doing was flying...

At last, I've crossed a major hurdle in my RC helicopter experience.

Today, at last, without it being an emergency, I pulled the hold switch and did my first planned autorotation.

I'd been getting a bit froggy with my 600 the past couple of days, with rolls, loops, flips, and even flipping it inverted for a few seconds before I rolled out to recover. I'd also been mixing it up with a lot of slow controlled flight near the deck, as I've been wanting to get much more...