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!!!

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Great Flying Day!

Today made 2 great days of weather and flying in a row at the KRCA field!!  I flew my Intruder again, as well as the new Sbach.  As I get more flights on the Sbach (4 today), I am liking it, but it still is not perfect yet.  Perhaps the CG still needs to move forward a little, but I also think the Tower TS-160 servos do not center well.  In other words, neutral elevator is slightly different when coming from an up and a down deflection.  I managed to tone the problem down a bit today by making the low rate even lower, and by moving the control rod to the most inside hole on the servo arm.  One definite positive is how great the DLE-30 is starting, running, idling, transitioning, etc.  I think it is still a bit rich, and it is still breaking in per the black exhaust behind the pitts style ports.  No problems like I have seen some others have with this engine, thank goodness.

Flew the Intruder either 3 or 4 times, and it did well with the new 13x10 APC, however, I think the 13x9 was perfect for it with the same horizontal speed but more vertical pull.  I will order some since Jer said Tammies does not sell any, per his visit to the store today.

That night, I decided that I will switch the two elev servos out of the Sbach and put new Airtronics 94762's in.  They have the torque, have metal gears, and are slightly lighter than the Tower TS-160's.  I am hoping they will center better and get rid of the "touchy" elevator.


Update on 4/30:  It's done...I just finished switching out the servos.  The Airtronics do center better, back to the same place from up and down commands. I will fly the plane again, then consider additional nose weight after that.  Yahoo, I am anxious to fly this plane again.
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