My new toy :)

[Stevenredx]

This thing is awesome... its a miniture remote control helicopter made by air hogs, bought it at wal-mart for $29 :rock:

 

[DOGO X]

Man! killing time! :biggrin:

 

[Stevenredx]

Man! killing time! :biggrin:

yeah i know... :bebored:

 

[nctourer]

Definitly one of my favorite ways to kill time :top:

 

[morcheez]

my friend has one of those ....too bad they arent any good outdoors though

 

[XDsm]

:top: Nice

 

[nxrunner]

This thing is awesome... its a miniture remote control helicopter made by air hogs, bought it at wal-mart for $29 :rock:

Didi you hit the door in the last pic?:hahaha:

 

[Stevenredx]

Didi you hit the door in the last pic?:hahaha:

naw.. i just flew it over to the cornor so i could try to get a pic of it :eviltongue:

Thing is a bitch at first to fly though... i practiced all day at work today so im alittle better :laugh:

 

[DOGO X]

Right know I spend more time on the CT and here than working! :biggrin:

 

[XRobber]

Right know I spend more time on the CT and here than working! :biggrin:

I used to spend a lot of time at CT.... now it seems to be all here, and once in a while I will pop on CT...

 

[Stevenredx]

I used to spend a lot of time at CT.... now it seems to be all here, and once in a while I will pop on CT...

i use to be on ct alot too but im here all the time now.. 100x better.. i do check in over there just to see who is left in the x-runner section. looks like post have really dropped there since this site opened

 

[K2]

Alright, here are a couple of my toys:

First my Micro Heli

And here is my unfinished CAP 232. I ran out of money before I could put the motor and batteries in it. Probably about another $1,000 to finish the CAP.

The bummer is that I'm poor now with a 1-year old and a stay at home mom. So all of my hobbies sit on bookshelves and hang from my ceiling until I can hopefully, one day, afford to get back into it again.

The heli needs battery upgrades, to lipoly (Lithium Polymer) and I need new chargers also. I still have a 6 foot span sailplane that I fly in the summer though. It's free to fly and I haven't broken it yet. :biggrin:

 

[XrunDan]

K2, What kind of motor will be going into your plane?? I have a small "HobbyZone AeroBird Swift" that i fly around, but i seem to crash it alot. Cost about $160.00, and the motor lasts about 12 minutse full throttle. Just has a 480 motor in it.

 

[Stevenredx]

thanks k2.... now i have nothing :laugh:

mine only cost $30 :eviltongue:

 

[K2]

K2, What kind of motor will be going into your plane?? I have a small "HobbyZone AeroBird Swift" that i fly around, but i seem to crash it alot. Cost about $160.00, and the motor lasts about 12 minutse full throttle. Just has a 480 motor in it.

I was going to go with a Hacker Brushless setup (probably B20 26L if I recall). That motor alone is $120. The batteries are about $300 for enough to fly for a couple hours and then $250 for a good LiPoly charger.

The heli is good to go but right now it's running on NiCads and I only get about 4-5 minutes of flight out of it since I upgraded the tail motor. With the LiPoly setup I could get about 15-18 minutes per flight.

The longest single flight I've had on my sailplane (believe it or not) was 47 minutes! :stoned: Neck hurt pretty bad after that flight. I had that 6-foot span plane so high in the sky that it looked like a grain of sand. It was awesome! Thermalling is a lot of fun but takes quite a bit of practice.

And Steven... keep to the $30 deals until you get good. Crashes on the $300 micro heli's are expensive!

 

[XrunDan]

$1000.00 seems awful steep for the synchros and batteries for that plane...BETTER be gold plated internals!!! LOL

What do you do, take the sailplane up on a hill and launch it, does it have a prop?

 

[K2]

$1000.00 seems awful steep for the synchros and batteries for that plane...BETTER be gold plated internals!!!

Actually it's $1000 to finish it and get it flying.

The batteries are high output Lithium Polymer and are around $60 each. I would need about 3-4 for a good day of flying (couple hours). The charger I want is $250 --- that's $500 there. Then the brushless motor ($120), receiver ($60), speed control ($80), six channel radio ($250), and miscellaneous odds and ends...

Doesn't take long to burn $1000 in R/C stuff.

 

[K2]

What do you do, take the sailplane up on a hill and launch it, does it have a prop?

Nope, no prop. It's launched off of a length of medical tubing... essentially slingshotted 200 feet in the air. It's called hi-start:

The hi-start has a parachute so that it floats down to the ground after the sailplane detaches from the the hook. It climbs out at about a 50 degree angle to the ground. Pretty exciting!

 

[XrunDan]

Doesn't take long to burn $1000 in R/C stuff.

LOL, ISNT THAT THE TRUTH!!! I need to learn to keep mine in the air so i can stop buying new propellors and aileron components....good thing im not crashing my C152!!

 

[DOGO X]

I used to spend a lot of time at CT.... now it seems to be all here, and once in a while I will pop on CT...

I had to kill 12 hrs daily + when off work have to come down to the office to call the family, but latetly I spend more time her just like you once in a while to CT. I had see that there is not to many thread on CT in the X forum!