A HK450 just landed – bought second hand it required a new elevator servo RX and setting up I have stuck a K-Bar on it and am awaiting some Emax ES08MD II cyclic servos an Emax ES9258 and a flybarless head to arrive from eHirobo Its a fair bit bigger than the 250 Pics to …
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A fresh set of 3 Emax ES08MD II servo’s landed – along with a new FBL head as the original servo (Emax ES08DE) got trashed when the elevator servo let go – I went with the slightly different model of Emax servo’s for a few reasons – The originals I got second hand …possibly 3rd …
Continue reading New servo’s for the CopterX 250 FBLWas doing brilliantly, managed to move the tail away from me Managed a couple of piro’s (slight bounce/overshoot/wag – so need to reduce the tail gain slightly further) but it was remarkably stable in hover – there wasn’t much wind today on the field – and it flies hand off for AGES – VERY stable …
Continue reading CopterX 250 FBL Elevator servo stripped mid flight :(Groundbreaking news… just tail in hovered 4 packs back to back without incident! Did a bit of Tarot ZYX-S2 tuning, started with the happy-dog-tailwag in the gusts or after a flick of rudder so it had to get hooked up to the computer between flights..now its stable as a rock!..even managed a second or two …
Continue reading CopterX 250 FBL…I love itConfusing situation Flew a pack on the CopterX250 FBL – all went fine, landing was soft …and landed on both skids at the same time without tail striking grass or anything untoward, hands shaking and feeling really quite pleased it landed back on its skids and nothing went wrong I was proper chuffed with myself …
Continue reading CopterX250 turning into an Align modelHave posted the maiden flight (only short and only at hover) on youtube The Tarot ZYX S2 still needs tweaking… I will do the tweaks I /think/ it needs and post a part II 😀
Continue reading CopterX 250 FBL- it flies!Well after the last disaster with the last CopterX I had – I decided to have another go- but this time build it slowly and with love A kit has arrived from Ehirobo and so I got to roll up my sleeves and get building I started by stripping and rebuilding the flybarless head – …
Continue reading CX250 FBL buildJust got back in from the final day of indoor flying at Fareham Models It has been a regular Weds evening of flying at their indoor site for the past couple of months for myself, for others its was the end of an era having been going for 4 or 5 years I spent a …
Continue reading Last flight club…or is it?Wish I had discovered it earlier, but the local indoor flight club (mainly helis and quads) held Weds and Thurs evenings is closing its hanger this week Gutted about it – and really hoping that there will be a new place to go fly will open up Batts are all charged and got my fleet …
Continue reading End of an era – Last flight club tonight :(Seems there has been some development on the Deviation Forum- The Walkera Devo 7E has sprouted some twiddly knobs and gained some extra channels. See the post on Deviation TX forum Not to be left out I have gone and ordered an Adruino, A USB TTL programmer thingy and a bag of pots…stay tuned & …
Continue reading Devo 7E gets twiddly knobs!