Aloha and Welcome to my small speck of cyberspace! Dec 8, 2010 is the birth date of my blog. Never had one before, but my son encouraged me to have one, and it seemed like a good way to at least keep a log of my RC airplane building and flying. With the initial design kicked off by my son, I'll carry on from here and have fun with it. Now that I have it, I will use it to also keep track of my oil painting efforts, and any other ideas, hobbies, travels, or whatever else that come up. LIFE IS GOOD!

Update on 02/25/2011. It's been a few months since I began this blog, and I am enjoying creating and having it! I like documenting the things I have done in my hobbies, and sharing with my small family. I think Jer and Tad actually view it fairly regularly, as a means to see what I've been up to lately. At worst, it serves as a reference for my own use.

Update on 12/22/2011. This blog stuff is habit forming. My blog is a year old now, and I make an entry about every other day or so as that seems to be the frequency of doing something in one of my hobbies. Like my hobbies, this blog is a lot of fun, and it has become in itself another hobby that I enjoy.

Years are flying by...update on 01/11/2013. Still enjoying maintaining this blog even though hardly anyone sees it. I don't advertise it anywhere or to anyone, and it is mainly just a way for me to keep my own notes and thoughts on my flying, painting, and cars. If a stranger happens upon it, I think it is by pressing NEXT at the top of the current blog they are visiting, lol. It's a great device for me.

August 2014: still here! Took up flying RC helicopters one year ago and got hooked. Had flown micro Helis up to then, but got serious with 450 size for a couple months, then bought the Goblin 500 and Gaui X5 . Also got my Boxster in April 2013. Most importantly, Ariel was born 12/02/12 followed by Skylar 07/20/13, and they are little beacons of joy in our lives. Life is indeed good!!!

Saturday, March 5, 2011

C'est Pau!


Yahoo, basically the AeroWorks Ultimate 50cc is pau, fini, done.  I got the receiver in and everything hooked up: 8 servos, optokill switch, two 6.6V LiFe batts, one 4.8V NiMH and 3 heavy duty switches.  I have the basic assignments of the servos to the channels and sticks and switches on the new Airtronics SD-10G transmitter.  Programming the simple stuff like servo reversing and centering is real easy and intuitive on this radio.  I put the optokill engine kill onto a switch at top left like on my Futaba, but this one is better because it is spring loaded to return to neutral, i.e. it turns the ignition back on after I deflect it to turn the power to the ignition off.  This will assure it is back on for the next start.  On the Futaba, it is not spring loaded so it stays where you leave it, and I have tried to start the Extra 330L a few times with the ignition still off. 

I have two Y harnesses connecting the top and bottom right ailerons together, as well as the top and bottom left ailerons.  I actually have enough channels on the 10ch receiver to plug each of the 4 aileron servos in separately, and I could then slave 3 of them to one master, but I am going to see if the pairings work ok.  I think they are already.  If I used 4 channels for the ailerons, I would have to Y harness one of the batteries into the receiver.

At this point I need to program DR and EXPO into the rudder, elev, and ails.  I also want to reassign them all to one 3 position switch...I don't want to fumble with 3 separate switches.  Mechanically speaking, I need to check the whole plane over and threadlock whatever I have not done already, such as the servo arms into the servos.  I found a warp in the TR ail and already corrected it with the heat gun.

The plane came out BEAUTIFUL, especially with my home brew vinyl decals, haha!  The Ultimate looks aggressive just setting on my pool table.  :)
Fuel dot behind Pennzoil decal.




That's a red LED indicating the ignition is ON.

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  1. TCMarch 5, 2011 at 9:28 AM

    Awesome! Congratulations. Already for this season of flying. Can't wait to see it fly. Good job on the decals.

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