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!!!

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Yak

Took my Yak-54 out today primarily to tune it. Slightly breezy but I got to fly her for two flights anyway, as I tried to find a sweet spot in the needles. High end seems good after some fiddling, not rich, not too lean. The mixture screw was a pain and I still don't know that it's as good as it gets, but it's close. Seems that whether I go in or out, the transition during quick change from low idle to full throttle causes the engine to run very slow, and sometimes it never gets to full speed unless I back down to some mid throttle position, then go WOT again. On the rich side of the mixture screw, the engine smokes a lot in the transition; on the lean side it smokes less in the transition. BUT in both cases, the engine just runs slow till mid throttle is given, OR it picks up speed extremely slowly. The cure seems to be just advancing the throttle slightly less than instantaneously going to WOT, and then the engine transitions nicely at the current setting. Not impressive, the tach seems to show only about 7500rpm at WOT with the 16x8MAS. I think I may need to try a smaller prop. The plane however has pretty good speed with the current prop and needle settings.
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