Making Night Blades for R/C Helicopter
I’ve been thinking of making night blades for my R/C helicopter. Back in 2003 I made a set of wooden night blades for my Raptor 60 using RGB (Red-Green-Blue) LEDs and an Atmel AVR micro-controller to make them change colors and shift patterns. The blades were pretty simple but they worked. I even slapped together […]
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Replace the Bearings in A Scorpion Motor
Posted on September 11th, 2011 in Custom Projects, Radio Control
Over the weekend I had to Replace the bearings in a Scorpion motor and made a video. The Scorpion HKII-2221-8 motor on my Mini-Titan 450 was making some weird and unhappy noises so I ordered up a new set of ceramic bearings from Boca Bearings. The bearings were pretty easy to replace. There is a […]
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NorthEast Rotary Flight Fest – NERFF 2011 – Photos from Saturday
Posted on July 31st, 2011 in Radio Control
I went to up the NERFF event with Ollie on Saturday, July 30 to check out the Northeast Rotary Flight Fest. We had a great time there were a lot of friendly folks to talk to and some great flying as well. I wished I had brought my own helis as the event wasn’t exclusive to just 3D smack-down type pilots and people with all levels of experience were flying.
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Capitol Jets 2011 Albany, NY Photo Dump
Posted on July 16th, 2011 in Radio Control
I went to the Capitol Jet’s turbine fly-in today with my friend Ollie and Bryn and got some great photos and a bit of video of the jets. There are 50 photos below showing the quality of the craftsmanship and some of the cool models that were at this show. Please enjoy the photos. A […]
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MCPX Blade Helicopter Review Pics and Video
Posted on July 8th, 2011 in Radio Control
I picked up the Blade MCPX helicopter a couple of weeks ago and wanted to share my experience good and bad with it. I’ve flown and reviewed a friend’s Blade MSR and thought it was great so when I had the chance I bought the bind-n-fly (BNF) version of the EFlite MCPX since I already […]
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