FT What Did You Do RC Today : Caution Offtopic At All Times

[clolsonus]

What part of Minnesota are you located in? (if you're comfortable sharing) I'm in the Twin Cities area.

Yup, I'm in the twin cities too ... tired arms this morning after an hour of roof raking (hah, not from flying though.) I work at the U of MN AEM UAV lab. You are welcome to stop by if you are ever on campus and interested in a tour of our projects -- we do actually fixed wing flying for a variety of aerospacey type projects. (flite testing I guess you could say?)

 

[PsyBorg]

I went to a swap meet yesterday and got a Sig Fours Star 20 for well, 20 bucks. I got a topflite cessna 182 kit, and a pt-40 kit. Cessna was 160 bucks and the pt-40 was 20. View attachment 126130

SCORE!!!! 😎

 

[Mr. Gandalf]

Thanks rockyboy and Grifflyer!

 

[OliverW]

SCORE!!!! 😎

Agreed! The four star has everything it. It just needed some covering touch up.

 

[dodgebob]

I built my first foam plane ..simple cub..half kit..half dollar store foam. I don't have the electronics or radio yet but. I have a plane to glue them into..lot of fun

 

[SlingShot]

I was impressed when flying the Phenix 60 at its climbing ability so I ran a weight against thrust test.
3S 1300 battery in place the plane is 343grams. Thrust? Well a whopping 625grams meaning it has power/weight factor of 1.8
The motor is a DYS 1806 2700Kv with a tribrade 5x4x3 prop.
I was dead impressed!!!!

But more impressive is how I measured this without chopping my fingers up.
I made a super-duper thrust stand from a short length of wood, a popcorn bucket and duck tape.... unicorn duck tape.
View attachment 126090
Stick this to your kitchen scales, tare them and then place your wing in the highly accurately designed device.
View attachment 126091
Ingenious eh????
😁🤣😁

 

[F106DeltaDart]

As my 2 months up in Yellowknife, Canada comes to a conclusion, thought I’d share a video on what I’ve been up to. Mikey Mcbyran of Buffalo Airways came and filmed an episode of Plane Savers about our cold weather testing effort! I was escorting him around the facility and Flightline, so I show up a few times in the background:

 

[Grifflyer]

I just went to my first indoor flying event last night!! there was about 20 people at the event and we were all flying in a football field that was split into thirds by two nets that hung from the ceiling.

I brought my slow bipe and a canard design that wouldn't turn so I chopped the nose off, to make it shorter and it flew great.

 

[OliverW]

I was flying the four star, and the motor lost power. So I came in to read stick then it locked out and did a very slow right hand turn from about 15 feet up. It then drove and broke the gear off. Thank God for epoxy. FIXED IT!

 

[LitterBug]

We've been busy cleaning/purging out my parents house after they moved in to a senior village. After seeing all the "stuff" my parents collected over the years, and seeing how much stuff we gots, this has given me the Urge to Purge my own space since my office quite possibly could qualify for an episode of hoarders. It has been the dumping ground anytime stuff just needs to disappear. I figure it's time to start NOT following in their steps, and purge off all the stuff n fluff NOW rather than a couple decades from now when (if) we move. This will become my build area and the other small pockets around the house of my stuff will be consolidated in one place making the wild goose chases trying to locate parts and tools a thing of the past. Putting up pegboard and skyhooks to keep all my builds orderly without being stacked in piles too. No pics of the mess now.... but later this year after getting it all in order, I'll post some results.

Cheers!
LitterBug

 

[OliverW]

Could not get my LongEZ to fly. Tried flying it for the 3rd time today and it rolled inverted and became unresponsive destroying one wing and damaging the fuse.

 

[Bricks]

We've been busy cleaning/purging out my parents house after they moved in to a senior village. After seeing all the "stuff" my parents collected over the years, and seeing how much stuff we gots, this has given me the Urge to Purge my own space since my office quite possibly could qualify for an episode of hoarders. It has been the dumping ground anytime stuff just needs to disappear. I figure it's time to start NOT following in their steps, and purge off all the stuff n fluff NOW rather than a couple decades from now when (if) we move. This will become my build area and the other small pockets around the house of my stuff will be consolidated in one place making the wild goose chases trying to locate parts and tools a thing of the past. Putting up pegboard and skyhooks to keep all my builds orderly without being stacked in piles too. No pics of the mess now.... but later this year after getting it all in order, I'll post some results.

Cheers!
LitterBug

You do realize as soon as you clean up and get rid of stuff you will need that item you got rid of the next day....Right!!!!!!!!

 

[rockyboy]

You do realize as soon as you clean up and get rid of stuff you will need that item you got rid of the next day....Right!!!!!!!!

Wisdom here - this happens to me every time I clean up the shop.

 

[dodgebob]

I put wheels and the electronics in my simple cub..still need a tx/rx..but it looks like a plane now

 

[Fluburtur]

I have been messing with electronics yesterday, took me the best part of the day to make that.

It isnt even for a rc project but I might use this type of leds in a plane later, who knows

 

[DamoRC]

Invited by friends to their boy's Cub Scout Troop RC Day. Brought a bunch of planes for show and tell and then spent the day buddy boxing the boys on the Edge (which eventually wrecked) and the Mini Arrow (which also eventually wrecked). Destroyed two planes to share the hobby with these boys - easily worth it - a lot of fun.

 

[LitterBug]

You do realize as soon as you clean up and get rid of stuff you will need that item you got rid of the next day....Right!!!!!!!!

Ahhhhhh grasshopper, in my case, the majority of stuff is not mine and really just needed purged to begin with. It would have come back out long ago otherwise.

Cheers!
Litterbug


PS. Freed up 6sq ft of floor this weekend....

 

[MorningViewFPV]

sun is out so this is what i am doing

 

[Hai-Lee]

Today I maidened my MUTTS!

It definitely has Ugly Stick lineage!

Have fun!

 

[PsyBorg]

I broke my arm today.