Model Forum / Radio Controlled / Air Models / June 2007

I must be losing it  due to advanced age...but I have a scratch built
Lazy Bee and on occasion it tries to nose under...and I had an Elder
once that used to do the same thing in flight.  I recall I was told it
was because the plane was either nose heavy or tail heavy...I

Building an old PT-20 trainer with my son and decided to convert to
electric power so we can fly at the local schoolyard and not annoy the
neighbors with the noise of glow power.
I've been doing some research and have come up with the following list

Please allow me to introduce our company.
My name is Julia Zhang and I am the Wenzhou office manger for Sun
Designe Ltd. of Middlebury , Connecticut 06762 USA .
The purpose of my email is to introduce you to our Wenzhou , China

I'm going to build a 1/6 scale Comanche and would like to keep it
close to the full scale with retracts, flaps, and a flying tail.  The
rub is that my club has a grass strip and I have read that retracts on
grass is a no-no.  Is this true for both mechanical and pneumatics?

I was setting up dual servos on the ailerons of a 4 star 40. I plugged
a Y connector into a Berg reciever then I plugged brand new Futaba
3004 servos into the Y using extensions. I turned on the transmitter
and plugged the battery in the receiver. Nothing happened when I moved

Unbelievable!!
http://www.nachofoto.com/foto?i=4b73b24a9fbb

I think I did a split S, a few rolls, and lost orientation
It hit ground at very high velocity, almost perfectly vertical.
Confetti, with a 20 foot debri field.  It is finished.
The good news is that I removed the toe-in and set the wheels back and

Is there such a gas plane/helo that can do the following?
1) Can learn to fly quickly for someone with no experience
2) Can be flown out of line of sight with an on board camera
3) Can take video of the ground, beamed to home station

Is such a device available? name/price/where?  would be most helpful.
thanks  rich

I wonder if anyone can help me. I have a 1971 2 channel Futaba M Series
with stripped gears in one of the servos, is it possible to use a modern day
servo and swap the plugs over as I cant find any servos with FD 22M on any
of the sites etc.If so what am I looking for. Many ...

I have a Trex 450 SA.
As the heli leaves the ground the head stays pointing in one direction
and it stays level.
The heli goes left, stays level and pointing straaight. Just like

The filming of this chopper in flight has a frame rate that nearly
matches the rotor speed making for seemingly amazing footage.
Check it out:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/598291/can_you_explane_this/

I was joining two wing halves yesterday and mixed up a large batch of
30 minute epoxy. The temperature in the garage was about 90 degrees. I
had just finished coating the spar that joins the two halves and had
inserted it into one wing half and was coating the inside edge of the

I wonder where this is..
anyway have a look...
http://www.wxpnews.com/GALEHT/070619-RC-Plane

Had a crash today. Plane was totally destroyed. Only thing I can say is,
Double check your trims if you still use analog trim levers. When I was
starting my plane, the tx fell over and I didn't think to check to see if
the trims had gotten knock off their settings. Anyway, it made ...