Find another vid and give it a go!

Thanks Paul. I understand now. All you have to do is draw me an 'Idiot Proof" map. Even then sometimes.......

This is your link:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh2KJuok6OI



After you click the "You Tube" button a box comes up on the screen.

All you enter in the box is "qh2KJuok6OI" part of the url.

At first, I tried that . It didn't work for some reason. I did it the same way as on other forums and it always worked. This one seems a little different. I probably used the wrong code or the wrong embed code, anyways, I used the one way I knew would work. I'll figure it out sooner or later.

You could also use the "You Tube" button and enter the code after the equals sign in the url and it will embed it in the thread so people won't have to leave the website to watch it!

cmdrmoosicvs wrote: [View Post]

My Brother just sent me this Video today. Now here's a heli pilot with a set of brass ones.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh2KJuok6OI

and a Garmin portalbe GPS on the dashboard, I love Garmin
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It's all good until you Land!

My Brother just sent me this Video today. Now here's a heli pilot with a set of brass ones.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh2KJuok6OI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh2KJuok6OI



yay, it worked!!

The $5 ding has been extended out to the end of February due to Stan's medical condition, so you're good to go.

PJRono wrote: [View Post]

I hope you can bring it to the February club meeting!

I'm hoping to be at the meeting if I can work out the scheduling -- I need to get my club application in before I get dinged the extra $5. I'll definitely bring along my cat if it's still in one piece.



Curt.

I hope you can bring it to the February club meeting!

Ya gotta love the sound of those twin prop's



My PBY has a sound all its own.
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It's all good until you Land!

Nitroplanes.com PBY:







I maidened this PBY off the lake near my house the other afternoon. I have to say that for a cheap hunk of chinese foam with $2 servos it's pretty impressive. My aviation history expert buddy says the markings are historically valid, and by my eye, the scale outlines are really good -- sometimes there are obvious flaws in the cheap foamies, but nothing that stands out to me (other than maybe the pilot is relatively too big inside the cockpit) with this PBY.



Wing span is almost 58" so it's pretty big for a cheap foamy, comes with twin electic motors and speed controllers already installed. The servos are also already installed. The total assembly time couldn't have been more than an hour.



It has a light wing loading and can fly really slow (scale) like speed. Here's what blew me away -- on one take off I advanced the throttle really slowly -- one click and wait, one more click and wait, etc. and just let it build up speed scooting along the snow. Before I new it it was airborne at maybe 1/3 throttle and slowly climbing by me at eye level, spinning those twin 3-bladed props. That had to be one of the coolest RC take offs I've ever seen -- just because it flew past me so slow and looked so scale. (And I'm talking about the model, not piloting here)



The one thing that I wish they'd done with this model is to make the wing floats retractable -- that's not a big deal I guess, but it would have been one extra nice touch to an otherwise pretty nice airplane.



As far as flying goes -- it's a big boat in the air and flies pretty much like you'd expect it to. With the big wing and scale tail, you need a lot of rudder in the turns to counter the adverse yaw -- you almost have to lead with rudder in the turns. You also see this in turbulence where the aircraft can get yawed and rolled around pretty significantly. For me I tried to go light on the correction and let it fly through the bumps, but there were a couple snaky moments on short final when the airplane got pretty discombobulated between roll and yaw in the winds. But in lighter winds (or no winds) it's amazingly smooth and scale like. I didn't push the aerobatics too much, but it easily rolls and loops. With the twin props free-wheeling at idle there is a ton of drag and you can drop altitude really quick if your approach is too high -- but add a few notches of throttle and you can fly a really nice flat/gentle powered decent right down to the water for a very scale looking landing. Those flat powered descents look really cool -- with the big fuselage hanging off the wing and the whole airplane flying/descending at just the right pitch angle -- it just looked so right.







So it's not going to blow your socks off with sport aerobatic flight performance, but if you are interested in something that looks and flies really scale and can handle snow in the winter and water/grass in the summer--and is dirt cheap--this isn't a bad choice.



Lots of detailed pictures here: http://www.nitroplanes.com/60a-d8943-catalina-arf.html

Sweet! Congratulations! Stick with it and you'll be able to buy all the RC planes you want!

And some for your dad too!



PS- Oh and my diesel truck could use some good stuff!

As in my son, Alex. He's currently in his 2nd year at Century College in their engineering curriculum and just got an acceptance letter to transfer to UofM in their College of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Sciences. He says that is one of the leading biofuel programs around although his first choice is UofM's College of Science and Engineering. He also has an app to UMD but not yet heard from the last 2 choices.



He has until May 1 to decide on the first offer. Congrats for our newest "potential" golden gopher!

Great to hear!

Hoping for a full recovery.

Unfortunately this is NOT an "open" fly, but they may let you participate.



On their website the ones listed as "OPEN" are for everyone with AMA.

Hey All!



Good news! Stan is heading for home tomorrow Jan 27th between 10am and Noon! !

Hobbico E-Fest

University of Illinois Track & Field Armory

Champaign, IL

Preregistration $20.00 or $25.00 at the Door 

Saturday, February 11 & Sunday, February 12, 2012



www.hobbico-efest.com

TCRC End of Winter Fun Fly

TCRC Model Air Park

Jordan, MN

Saturday, March 3, 2012



www.tcrconline.com

MARCEE Electric Swap Meet

Saturday, January 28, 2011 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Immanuel Lutheran Church, 104 Snelling Avenue S. St. Paul, MN 55104

Doors open at 1:00 pm for set up and sellers

Swap meet is from 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm and clean up is 4:00 pm -5:00 pm



www.marcee.org

Looks good Dan, Thanks for all your hard work!

Hello, I've been out shopping!

I picked up a few more items for raffle prizes.







A Transmitter Case, holds one transmitter (p.s. transmitter not included)

Several sets of Modeling Pins (These are the pins from Hobby Lobby that Bob LaBrash likes)

An ArmSafe Kit, 10 gauge wire

A tube of thread Lock

Yellow flexible LED strip, 1 meter



I hope to see you all at our next meeting!



--Dan

Not Yet, will have to wait until late March if I do decide to get it!