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My lame crash, and crappy video camera.

Crashed

I crashed my plane yesterday flying at Kiwanis park in Provo UT. It wasn't too bad. as you can see the nose of my plane fell off, but nothing a little hot glue can't fix...

Just a side note for myself.

When Ben and I flew for the second flight at the high school the receiver seemed to not be getting a signal from the Tx. we thought that the electronics got wet from the grass and i just needed to let them dry. that was wrong. When I got home I realized that my Tx light was blinking very fast (almost so fast that it looked solid). I then googled my problem and found some forum that was talking about my same Rx and same problem.

All I needed to due was rebind my equipment, my Tx was in bind mode on accident.

so i rebound my tx/rx (queue dramatic music) and everything worked perfectly. (fist pump)

Ok back to my real situation.

Square one. back to rebuilding, because i do not want to risk rebuilding my motor mount just to have it break and cause me more problems. It is ok, my last build was a little sloppy. I am going to stay with the bluecore foam because I am saving my depron for another special day (probably will never muster the courage to build with my depron until all of my bluecore foam is gone, so a couple years.)

I have some good videos up on my youtube channel. search for TopherJentz and subscribe.

Is it bad if my 3 cell Lipo seems to be getting bigger and bigger? (it is almost twice its original size... still works great though.)

RC Powers F-22 EB

After a year or more of researching RC planes, I have decided to jump into the hobby and get a F-22 Easy Build from RCPowers.

I bought the kit because it was on sale for the same price i could buy all of the parts, and the parts were out of stock unless i bought the kit.

After i got my transmitter and my receiver it took me about an hour all together to figure out how to bind them together. I had to find the manual for my transmitter to finally figure it out. ( I was just plugging in the ESC in wrong...)

Here is a diagram i found of how to hook up your servos to the receiver to get the same set up that Dave Powers has on his F-22 EB.

I will only hook up the elevators and the aileron with my V-tail mixer to make my elevons, that is where i will get all of my control of the aircraft.

Oh yeah, and as I was testing my servos I smoked my ESC (speed controller) because the plugs touched each other since they were not hooked up to the motor, so I had to order a new one

but now i know what not to do... more pictures to come later, because i just recently finished building the body of my first pllane, now i just have to wait for the ESC to come in the mail and install my electronics