Friday 16 December 2011

RCP Pak Fa V1 is here!

All of us who entered the forum V1 video contest recieved a very nice suprise, a free copy of the Pak Fa V1 plans.

Thank you Dave and Scott!  It was a wonderful suprise.

The plans have now also been released to everyone and you can pick them up here:

http://www.rcpowers.com/forum/showthread.php?10082-T-50-Easybuild-V1

A couple of us are in the air with them already.  F1wannabe from the RCPowers forum is doing some impressive mods and experimentation with his, it's a really interesting process to watch.  His Maiden video gives a really good look at this new beastie;


It's more work than most other V1's because it's got some interesting new features.

Unlike the others, it's not an "elevon only" plane.  It's still run from 2 servos but it's a 4x4 system (elevons on Aileron and Elevator) which is also connected to the canards.  It also has a KF airfoil as standard but the plane still comes out of a single sheet of Depron.  It's also recommending a 3s as the stock where all the other V1's come with a 2s and 3s recommended battery.

While it was a bit of work to get the 2s to balance the CG right I have to say this plane flys well off of the smaller battery even though it only recommends a 3s.

Apologies for the video, I'd been waiting days for the wind to back off and I had to squeeze in video for 2 planes into about 20 minutes when the wing backed off for a while ;).



All in all another great plane from RCPowers!

Grey.

Sunday 20 November 2011

New RCPowers V1 plane!

Some great news, RCPowers are going to be releasing a new V1 plane, the T-50.

If the new V2 T-50 is anything to go by it should be pretty slick!

Tuesday 15 November 2011

I finished the dry-run video the other day.  I lost some video due to a memory card issue so...  it was kind of like therapy.

Tuesday 8 November 2011

Did a bit of work and added a video in the last week.

I've been giving a lot of thought to the RCPowers V1 plane video the guys on the forums are running too.

Got me some ideas on that one!  Now if the weather would only clear up so I could do some flying!!

Wednesday 26 October 2011

After maintaining my wife's blog for quite a while I thought it was time to make my own!