New toy

I picked up a livescribe pulse pen a couple weeks ago for school. The desktop software doesn't work on my vista system, which is a shame, but it does however work great on my laptop running XP. This is a really cool thing, as it links lecture audio with my own notes, so I can go back and review material later on while working on problems. I hope that it helps make things a bit clearer in these math classes. We shall see if it was worth it.

On a side note, I now have enough space to dedicate a small area to my electronics projects. I am hoping taht keeping my tools and whatever project I am working on out that I will be able to move quicker with them and do stuff more often. Again, this remains to be seen.

Yeah, the night vapor is the perfect after work plane. It is great to be able to get in a little stick time even though it is dark out so early, and that I don't always have time to make it to the field.

Bad R/C day

Well, today wasn't my best day flying. I few the lil' squirt in the yard, and ended up in a tree. I had to use a basketball to get it down, so that caused some damage. Mostly easy to repair, but still, not idea. Thinking I should get a second one, just to have another airframe. I like it, it is a great small field plane, though I tend to fly it in too small of a field. Second time I have tried flying it someplace too tight and ended up in a tree. So think I need to treat it better and fly it at a park. Also seemed like it really needed a good trimming too. So maybe will do that. And just stick to using the night vapor in the yard. Sadly the wind picked up so it wasn't much fun to fly that tonight, so brought it down fairly early. Didn't want to have to get that out of a tree as well. And this weekend will be too busy to make it to the field. Maybe next weekend I will be able to.

Well.... I am back from Europe, and back to building. Had a great trip, just wish it was longer I could have flown a free flight model in the park, would have been different.

I ordered some free flight model kits, which came in today. Also got the parts to finish my Matt Chapman flatout. Hopefully can finish that this weekend. But got the build of the Retro RC skyace done today. I just have to do the finish on it. Will look great with some neon green. Will have to get some colored sharpies. But damn it is so tiny, i love it.

Pictures from Fly In

Poor P-51

I got in the light set for my ultra micro P-51 and realized that the stabilizers were damaged severely, beyond repair. I will hopefully be able to pick up a set at R/C Buyers tomorrow. I also realize that I really need to go through all of my batteries and figure out which are still good and which need to be tossed, and then get a bunch to replace the bad ones. Probably go with the 150 mah ones from Common Sense R/C as they have a nice form factor compared with the e-flight 150mah batteries.

I also got all of the tape covering on the Gremlin. It looks good, except it has way too many wrinkles. I hope some come out when shrinking with a covering iron, but still, not the best covering job in the world. But, it should fly, and that is all that matters since it will be my first combat event. Hopefully I can get some experience before then.



And two aircraft I really want, the Quickflick II DLG and the E-Flight UMX Beast. I will probably pick up a Quickflick in the next couple months to build. But the beast is so pretty, and impressive. The new receiver brick seems like something I should consider getting as well for a foamie or something. So many aircraft to build. I am trying to stay away from the ready made stuff, but some of the eflight and parkzone stuff is just perfect, especially the ultra micros.... hopefully one day I can build stuff just as good. Easiest might be a kit for the Plantraco hardware as a first ultramicro build. And then a foamie for the new spektrum brick. So many possibilities.

Shot a bunch of touch and goes today, went ok, not all of them were perfect. But more importantly I was able to catch a thermal with the supercub and climb to about 500 or 600 feet at about 25% throttle. Was really cool. I am a tad hooked. Thinking some gliders really need to be in the build queue soon. Just trying to decide if I should do a HLG or a powered glider. Really thinking the Quick Flick II DLG from Mountain Models. Will be good, just worried about flying out of a short field and ending up not being able to make it back to the field.