For anyone new to-
or taking their first steps into

Electric RC

whats a flying club ?

Reflex Films said...
whats a flying club ?

Its where you fork over $350 a year to listen to old timers complaining about the youth of today and where false teeth are found after a flying event.
Once you listen to that a few times you find a new development area or empty park, fly 3 times more and get hot chicks walking their dog...

I'm on to you

Edit: was that you flying Reflex? if so you do fly very clean.

youngbull said...
Well thought of video although never fly that close to your self and do not practice circles around yourself (Do that in a club and your gone) bad practice to learn.

I just brought my local hobby shop 3 weeks ago, so to see anything rc related on ye old Seabreeze makes me smile.

The zen of flying - funny fella.

How is the new venture going - i have heard a lot of talk of Hobby shops closing in the wake of Hobby king doing super cheap imports into oz out of HK

- i met a guy at the park who was raving about how cheap he got his new plane and TX from HK - he crashed his plane a few times trying to rog - it was just pulling left and into theground after take off.

He asked me to try and fly it for him - nervously i agreed - plane took off and just rolled hard left into the ground - no amount of aileron correction could stop it.

i told him that the plane was unflyable out of the box. He tried a few more times until there were bits of foam everywhere.

never saw him again. Sad really.

I love hobby shops - they are a little bit magical - so its a shame that the internet seems to be killing them at the moment.

With the wind being such an important part of the hobby you might think an RC section could be warranted here on Seabreeze.

I used to fly crash a pair of Kiwi produced "Canterbury Sail Plane" gliders, kit form- made from a type of polyfoam that you couldnt break if you tried (and we did our best)

One was a flying wing type- the other a conventional wing and tail, both used a 2 channel radio.
Launched from about 20' of bungee cord pegged to the ground, with brickies string to lengthen it.

Both haad been flown hundreds of times by myself, then passed onto mates.
litterally hundreds of crash landings, cartwheels, bouncing off walls, goalposts, stuck in trees, into lakes and a bus while we were learning.

worst damage was an aileron's tape came loose- fixed in seconds and flying again immediately.

Great fun- best stuff ever to come out of Kiwiland
The price of 'leccy r/c stuff has dropped heaps since then- and is much more reliable and powerfull too.

Get into it crew!

Stephen

youngbull said...

Full Throttle RC, Lawnton --- Sorry Laurie just one and only plug member of 7 years

Please say you took over Hobby Garage? they are a bunch of .............. over priced and under stocked and usually very old stock as well. I did pull of a couple of bargains through them years ago but gave up when they started going over to the car side more.

If you took over them I will be a customer again and blow the cobwebs off my planes.


Also with the Hobby King stuff, you really have to pick and choose to get something good. I bought a 50mm EDF from them and although a very nice plane, the tail wing was bent from shipping and the electronics poor as well as the blades in the EDF needed balancing, flew a few time crashed a couple of times and now shelved with the I cant be bothered any more stuff. I usually fly a home made 32" Nigel Hawes "Fizza" (needs a reco as it has been shelved for so long) and a Ele-Bee Combat wing for speed.

youngbull said...


The zen of flying - funny fella.

When I was a boy model aeroplanes had strings attached, RC was barely invented. I had a bit of an dabble but lost interest when a cranky old coot passing by, who knew more about aerodynamics than I did, declared that a brick on the end of a piece of string will fly if you spin it fast enough. I think the same comment still applies.

The RC plane looks like it's modelled on a Slick 360 aerobatic plane? But it is being flown in a style fully employing the fact that it can produce more thrust than the 1.1 kg weight of the craft. I looked up the power of the Slick 360 and a wikipeadia formula that allows you to get the thrust equivalent of a propellor. Had to assume that the most efficient aerodynamic speed of the slick 360 was 60m/sec and came up with a thrust to weight ratio of the 465 kg Slick of 0.5. That's empty weight, with pilot it'd be less.

Nothing wrong with flying something with the luxury of a thrust to weight ratio greater than 1, but if you're going to model stuff shouldn't you try and get the power right? Then you wouldn't be able to fly around hanging off the engine with the aerodynamic surfaces in stalled mode for 80% of the time.

Not sure if you could ever get a Zen spin to stick on the hi tech world of model aircraft. Nice try but you might as well have got the guy with the short arms to do the commentary

Reflex - Thanks - great viewing your depth perspective both on film and more so when flying - I recall zoning out until what I was focused on left my vision - more than once the plane collected a tree when I miss-judged its distance. - That I always found tricky with power planes (0.75 - 5.0cc). - The advent of electrics and the refined throttle control - luxury. Mostly stuck to hill soaring with gliders because U could fly them as close as U do with power (nice skill)!!


Ian K. The ones with strings (fine piano wire) were great fun - Combat control line - trying to chop off the other guy's streamer w/o crashing - almost impossible.

Did U have a relay controlled model plane? - U wound up a large rubber band - powered the relay in the plane -connected to the rudder. 1 push on the transmitter button - released the gate on the relay = 90 deg' 2 pushes 180 deg 3 = 270 4 - back to base. After 'n' pushes the next push took it back to 0 degrees. 1 push = left - 3 pushes right. McGregor used to make these - could have used 'sn's polyfoam ....

Young Bull - a local enthusiast started retailing from a market a few years back with the ethic you mention moved into a small warehouse once established - great approach - good fortune with Full Throttle.

Reflex - we R all looking forward to chapter 2
(and when U R done and dusted a bloopers skit too (U can't be that good all the time!!)
Cheers
AP

Reflex Films said...
This one is kind of an unofficial episode 0 - a definite blooper at the end.

Love the vid!
The "blooper" at the end brings back lots of memories!
Many of unintentionally landing in vinyards when fuel ran out in the aerobat, or missjudging the "zoom" space needed in divebombing and speed landing comps.
(we would get two aerobats up pretty high- then see how quick we could land- kinda like verticle chicken)
I learnt to carry a bucket and big rubbish bag in the boot of the car pretty quick

You must have deleted the bit in the vid where the cat gets the glue mixing matchbox stuck in its fur and goes troppo trying to get it off.

stephen