Maukaonyx's "Life is GOOD!": Good thrust!

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, June 28, 2016

Good thrust!

The looks of the StarStream are growing on my quickly!

The right thrust adjustment I made to the StarStream worked well today. If anything, maybe just a smidge more could be better but I am leaving it as is. Plane tracks well on takeoff and climbout. It goes vertical with just a hair left turn, but it is easily corrected with right rudder as the speed bleeds off in the climb. The better thrust line makes the plane more fun to fly. I have found one bad thing...the plane wallows on landing approach if no throttle is kept on, and then it will tip stall. And that almost got me a couple times in the strong crosswind today. It is not hard to keep some throttle on and blip in more as needed on final, but I must be mindful of this. Cannot get complacent landing this guy.

The sprinklers were on final approach close to the runway!

Preceded the StarStream with 4 packs on the X5 and 6 (three flights) on the 7HV. Both of those were a joy to fly again after 3 weeks hiatus due to sod farm operations! Rustiness fell off pretty fast. Just great fun flying both with hopefully enough control and gracefulness, lol. Got into loops, flips, and some inverted hovering again.

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