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  1. zdsweet

    Avoiding Maiden Flight Nerves | Pre-Maiden-Flight Checklist

    Everyone knows that feeling...hours of time spent building and prepping your RC plane for its first ever flight. Worrying you may lose all that time and effort spent putting it together in a single crash on your first flight isn't fun. 😧 We teamed up with the Marymoor R/C Club in Redmond...
  2. B

    First electronics, first scratch build, first crash

    Hi Guys, I just had my first experience building and trying to make it fly. I've been watching FliteTest videos for months now and would like to thank them for making the R/C plane hobby more approachable. My plan is to scratch build the FT Flyer and learn from there but i got impatient waiting...
    • brox
    • Thread
    • first flight first scratch build hotwire newbie styrofoam
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Mentors
  3. VertigoFlyer

    First Flight

    Hey folks, M Horizon Hobby Sport Cub S arrived yesterday along with a Spektrum Dx6i transmitter. I was able to get the binding and the configuring done easily. I verified here at home that all the flight surfaces worked as intended and that the prop spun up. I did a bit of taxiing in our little...
  4. BanditJacksRC

    FT Simple Storch.. First Build - First RC Flight - First Forum Post.. EVER!

    First build, first flight, first forum post! I have never built or flown any RC plane before, but wanted to get into the hobby. I came across FT after doing some research online, and like many others I immediately was infatuated with the Foam Board planes. I decided to build a Vans RV-10 from...
  5. JohnRambozo

    First Successful Day with the FT Spit

    There are a lot of firsts going on here. My first post on the FT forums about my first successful day flying my first R/C plane, the FT Spitfire. I say first 'successful' flight because today was the day I flew without breaking anything. The first two attempts had some interesting results...
  6. OrcaSea

    FT 22 v.2: Frustrating first flight(s) HELP!

    Greetings, I had a frustrating evening with my new FT 22. It was a clear day, very light, steady winds. The FT22 was built using the quick build kit as a template. I used the 'small' Hex 24gr. motor and 9 gram servos with a Turnigy 9X radio and Turnigy 3-channel receiver and a Rhino 610...
  7. M

    electric 18 rotor two-seater first flight by radio control

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a34E4FaOqP8 http://www.e-volo.com/
    • m1k3n3ls0n
    • Thread
    • first flight multi-rotor
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Videos
  8. L

    First steps, or crashes...

    So I bought myself a HK Tuff Trainer as a first plane. What could go wrong right? Well after I bought the plane I found a bunch of threads about the problems with the machine. Well I have it now so I will persist with it for the time being. So I shall detail my experiences with it here...
  9. A

    My first flight with FT Versa!

    -------------------- If I did something wrong its becasue 101 thread redirects me to this empty page, so please be gentle about my post :) http://flitetest.com/forum/misc.php?do=showrules -------------------- It was really fun! and here is the video; This is a cut-down version but the...
  10. F

    Just got my first Quadcopter :) Dynam RC 6 Channel Quadcopter

    its a Nitroplanes - Dynam RC 6 Channel Quadcopter Video Link of first flights!... http://youtu.be/4VJCo_qy1lE