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!!!

Monday, October 27, 2014

Big Easy...the Goblin 630

I maidened my new Goblin 630 today and it was totally uneventful!  Kinda anti-climatic actually!  I guess with good assembly and preparation, that is how it should work out, lol, so I am grateful and satisfied.  I had my G500 and X5 with me today too.  First I put 3 packs through the G500 and 2 through the X5 to get my bearings and confidence since flying is getting irregular now in the Fall.  Had not flown since 8 days ago.

Those flights went well, so I busted out the Goblin 630 from the bed of the Nissan Kingcab, and installed the 2 Glacier 4000 30C packs.  After announcing I was doing a maiden and to be wary, I spooled up the 630.  Sounds pretty impressive compared to 500 size helis!  Liftoff and the flight were smooth and without any surprises, very good.  I made an easy flight with no flips or stall turns, just some slow piros, and calm forward flight.  It's easy to fly slow and make tight flat circles.  Did a few fast piros and the rotation seems fast enough for my flying, being no 3D pilot.  Ran 4 minutes and 30 seconds like usual for my 500's, and landed softly.  Meter showed 3.81V per cell just like when I run the packs singly.  Sounds like a good thing to me.  After a short rest to calm down, I loaded the 630 with 2 Turnigy 4000 40C packs.  I am too dense to tell much difference between the Glacier 30C and the Turnigy 40C packs.  I would say the CG was probably more nosewise and therefore stable with the Turnigy packs, but I can fly both without a performance difference to my dumb fingers and brain, lol.  Now time will tell if I prefer the 630 versus the 500 size helis!
Dummy me forgot to snap some pics at the field today, so this will have to do!
I flew the X5 with tighter gear mesh today for the first time.  Due to the inability to removed the motor plate with motor from the frame, and no access to the mesh otherwise, I used the very crude method of using a nail punch with a hammer to slide the motor back for a tighter mesh, via the heads of the two socket bolts that are exposed on each side of the CF frame.  Crude but effective!  Anyway the X5 sounded just a little different with a slight drone or up and down hum, but not in any way a binding noise.  Flew well like usual, so the gear mesh will suffice for now.

The G500 was its great self, smooth but responsive and active, just not touchy like the X5 borders upon.  I still love the Dragon canopy, boom, tail skid, and LG that Tad and Becky gave me last Christmas, making the G500 very visible in the air and on the tables at the field!  Best looking heli there on any day, lol.  That's for Tad to frown upon.  ;)




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