Archive for 'Soaring' Category
Fun with the radian!
I recently purchased a Park zone Radian and I must say, A-MAZE-ING!!! I have had so much fun with it and attaching my phone to it and flying. That is right, I put my phone on it and here are some of the videos.
Radian Flight
Radian, Cliq XT – Jacobson Park – Lexington Ky
Radian Bowling
That is all for now!
Wanna go for a fling?
Just go the Great planes fling in the mail. I am looking to see what the best way to get it setup and ready to go. I have servos on order for it as well and soon hope to have the fling ready to go as my daily flier for while I am on break at work. If you have any ideas for setup please let me know, oh and I am going to start posting my materials on the fling build and the ROV build more often.
Update. 3-19-10
Was looking through the manual and noticed that the tail is controlled by string, and as I have never built a plane that used string for moving the control surfaces I am a little weary of using some. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Glen’s new project
Important Update, I would like to thank every one who has been helping and the list is growing for names on the plane. I have been asked to where some one would send a financial donation. I greatly appreciate the offer, donations I was thinking of were Ideas and tips and maybe a little hardware for the experiment. Again thank you for your generous offers, instead please use those resources for something more worth while, there are many disaster relief funds and the cure for cancer. Thank you all again for your support.
I am writing this post to let every one know that I am going to be starting a project that will involve a possible full design of a plane that will be able to be used almost like a UAV. That means an Unmanned Areal Vehicle, now I know what you may say “Glen, people have done a UAV already!” Well yes that is true, but I am not one of them. More info below
Update Sept 29th 2009—-
I have figured out what I have for an inventory of parts and so far so good.
Will be posting detailed specs soon.
Update Dec 13th 2009—-
I have been extremely busy with work and have not had a lot of time to make much headway on the project. I am going to be posting a lot of information over then next few days as I have a little bit of time that I have devoted to just the project. Also I am planning on making a video soon to update and show some of the parts that are avail. May just make a list with pictures not sure yet.
Thank you every one that has sent Ideas!
The Plane of choice is the Miss 2 donated by Dave Smith.
| Quantity | Part |
| 1 | HS-65MG servo |
| 2 | HS-125MG servo |
| 1 | 30amp Pro SB brushless ESC (eflight) |
| 1 | 10 Amp peak power stepdown |
| 3 | DS821 JR servo |
| 2 | Parkzone PKZ1081 SV80 |
| 2 | Parkzone DSV130M servo |
| 1 | Flycam 1 |
| 1 | Common sense RC 2000mAh battery
15c 2 cell |
| 1 | Common sense RC 2000mAh 2cell 8C Battery |
| 1 | Parkzone PKZ1031 1800mAh 3cell 15c battery |
Update 1-1-10
Wow typing ^ was odd! Happy new years all!
I have some sad news, I am having to postpone this project for financial reasons as money has become a lot tighter and buying an parts at this time is impossible. I am hoping to do some more work in the near future on the project but at the current time I am going to focus on some collecting ideas and such. Will post the ideas and may even make some drawings.
Update 3-9-10
Here is just a little video update.
Thoughts about the new site.
Dave and I went to the new flying site today and had a blast. The winds were up a little bit, but the planes handled it great, I had the spirit and dave brought… Well I can’t remember. We put down the tape and brought out the timer to see if I could handle a level 1 flight and with a little bit more practice on making the plane land in a certain spot I think that I will be able to do just fine. Even with the wind we were able to catch thermals and keep aloft for some time. and my longest flight was about 10 seconds shy of 10 minutes. The field is great and it makes me really want to get the spirit back into tip top shape and also grab a high start. I have a picture of the timer but it is well past midnight and work calls early tomorrow.
Enjoy and hope to see you out there some time.
Glen