madrulzzz
Junior Member
Long time lurker and First time poster. I have been watching Flitetest from When RCSuperPowers and Alishanmao used to post regularly on youtube. I have been on and off the hobby for the past 7 years. My first plane was a nine eagles Xtra 300 ( https://produto.mercadolivre.com.br...gles-extra-300-radio-24ghz-4ch-acrobatico-_JM) Absolutely wrong plane to start with, needless to stay I flew it for 20 seconds before i ran it to the ground and broke it into 14 different pieces. My Next try was a 450 Size heli from RC Bazaar (http://www.rcbazaar.com/product.aspx?productid=2512), again striped the main axle gear, no replacement parts were available, in short FAIL. Then I took a long break and later on got a FMS easy trainer also got Fatshark 5G FPV set with goggles (was working in the UAE and had some disposable income to splurge) and this was a great success. Had some real good fun with this plane. I had also got a sky surfer to fly during my Annual month long vacations in India. I had also got a Hobby King Trifecta in UAE. When I left UAE for good, I gutted the FMS and took all the electronics with me and also carried the Trifecta tricopter with me (It was fold-able, so I was able to carry it in my Check-in). I had also acquired lot of spares during my time in UAE.
In the 7 years I had got three great transmitters, Flysky 6Ch (Still have it), Avionix 9Ch (http://www.rcbazaar.com/product.aspx?productid=397), and Turnigy 9Ch. Once while flying my skysurfer in India, two locals came from the nearby highway to watch me fly, but they managed to distract me and steal my Avionix transmitter.
After my return to India from UAE (2 years back), I did my Masters, Got a job, Married my GF of 11 years. Present day, I am in Bangalore with a Good Job (But Not much disposable income, have a mortgage). The only thing that bothers me,is the beat-up skysurfer that hangs in the balcony. But Last week, I got this renewed excitement about getting back into it. Dusted my transmitter, rounded up all the spares I had and watched all the flitetest classics again. Really wish Josh scott was still a part of the show.
Okay, so now I have motors, servos, TX & RX. I was evaluating the options I had. RC Bazaar is still selling the Skysurfer (Stocks keep coming and going), but as always they never have spare fuselage/Wings. I didn't want to, again, crash and then forget it because of unavailability of spares. So I turned to Scratch building. First road block is that there are FT speed build kits available through RC Bazaar (Rightly priced but depron and no Beginner planes), Vortex RC india (http://www.vortex-rc.com/, As costly as a Sky surfer kits and no spares again). So I thought why don't I build it from the free plans. Decided.
So, in India there is no Dollar Tree foam board. But Vortex Rc stocks something called Alpha board (India Made Paper laminated foam board) (http://www.vortex-rc.com/product-category/building-materials/paper-laminated-foamboards/) this is supposedly heavier than Dollar Tree foam board but stronger. Every other source i checked in India has only Depron. For the FT explorer depron wouldn't work as the wing span is too long for it to work without a carbon fibre or fibre glass spar). So I ordered it, they ship 10 sheets minimum. This was still cheaper than the FT Explorer kit they were selling, by about 9$.
This Thread will be updated till I finish building and flying the FT Explorer.
In the 7 years I had got three great transmitters, Flysky 6Ch (Still have it), Avionix 9Ch (http://www.rcbazaar.com/product.aspx?productid=397), and Turnigy 9Ch. Once while flying my skysurfer in India, two locals came from the nearby highway to watch me fly, but they managed to distract me and steal my Avionix transmitter.
After my return to India from UAE (2 years back), I did my Masters, Got a job, Married my GF of 11 years. Present day, I am in Bangalore with a Good Job (But Not much disposable income, have a mortgage). The only thing that bothers me,is the beat-up skysurfer that hangs in the balcony. But Last week, I got this renewed excitement about getting back into it. Dusted my transmitter, rounded up all the spares I had and watched all the flitetest classics again. Really wish Josh scott was still a part of the show.
Okay, so now I have motors, servos, TX & RX. I was evaluating the options I had. RC Bazaar is still selling the Skysurfer (Stocks keep coming and going), but as always they never have spare fuselage/Wings. I didn't want to, again, crash and then forget it because of unavailability of spares. So I turned to Scratch building. First road block is that there are FT speed build kits available through RC Bazaar (Rightly priced but depron and no Beginner planes), Vortex RC india (http://www.vortex-rc.com/, As costly as a Sky surfer kits and no spares again). So I thought why don't I build it from the free plans. Decided.
So, in India there is no Dollar Tree foam board. But Vortex Rc stocks something called Alpha board (India Made Paper laminated foam board) (http://www.vortex-rc.com/product-category/building-materials/paper-laminated-foamboards/) this is supposedly heavier than Dollar Tree foam board but stronger. Every other source i checked in India has only Depron. For the FT explorer depron wouldn't work as the wing span is too long for it to work without a carbon fibre or fibre glass spar). So I ordered it, they ship 10 sheets minimum. This was still cheaper than the FT Explorer kit they were selling, by about 9$.
This Thread will be updated till I finish building and flying the FT Explorer.
