My latest creation ..

[Romain / rXg]

very nice,
If you put a cam (wireless connected ) on it, will you call it the Jay'
Drone ? :D


On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Jay Vaughan <jayv at synth.net> wrote:

> > Super fab.  I used to build balsa planes when very young but have never
> had a motorised plane..
>
>
> My Dad and I had a serious passion for the RC universe in the 80's, and
> while my Dad went off in one direction with his massive turbo-
> ducted-fanjet Phantom F4 creations and so on, I went in the other direction
> with slope-soaring gliders, and wind power.  We had a lot of fun with it,
> and now that my boys are getting old enough to know how a hot glue gun
> works, its been a lot of fun to return to this hobby and realize how far
> its come - really some of the most amazing hacking experiences I've had in
> the last few years have come from building flying things.  The RCGroups.com
> guys are a superlative community, and I can't state enough how wonderful it
> is to have all these plane designs shared and available in an open manner.
>  It has been a huge amount of fun.
>
> So if you're interested in this subject and want to get into it, I can
> show you the path I took to becoming a competent builder and pilot - its a
> lot cheaper and easier than one may think at first.. building foam-based
> planes (cost of materials: about 5 bucks) and then flying them has been
> amazing - of course the investment in electronics is the most expensive
> aspect, but I've found ways to get started with it that are very, very
> affordable: take a ParkZone pre-built, ready-to-fly kit (includes
> transmitter), fly the hell out of it until it crashes, then re-use the
> electronics bits in newly built airframes.
>
> The plane I made on the weekend is using the Spektrum transmitter from a
> ParkZone Vapor plane, paired up with a speed controller (10eu) and a new
> receiver (8eu) and motor (20eu) and battery (5eu), and about 2eu worth of
> foam and other materials.  So, its quite affordable - of course you have to
> have a glue gun and a few good blades in your kit already, but generally
> speaking this is probably the cheapest fun hobby I've had in quite a while
> ..
>
> Also, an associate of mine showed me his direction: taking those old balsa
> plane kits and adding new-era electronics to them.. they look amazing and
> fly really, really well .. you can get a ParkZone Vapor for about 50eu, a
> scaled balsa plane for about 12eu, rip the electronics off the Vapor and
> stuff it into the balsa plane and have a really unique flying experience ..
>
>
> ;
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> Jay Vaughan
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Romain
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