FFF Warbird – Hawker Hurricane

I haven’t been able to fly my RC planes in a few months due to mainly time restraints, but the other day I decided to build me a warbird and fly it. After looking around on RCGroups and talking to a few people, I decided on building a Hawker Hurricane. The original plans for the […]

Posted in Airplanes Tagged airplane, Fan, FFF, fly, foam, Fold, Hawker, homemade, Hurricane, plane, RC, scratchbuild, scratchbuilt

.45 Evolution Nitro Engine Cleanup

; So sitting in my attic for the past ~8 years or so is a .40 sized RC trainer plane. It has been flown like only once about 8 years ago. I haven’t attempted to fly it because I really don’t the the right size of field at my house, but since I learned that […]

Posted in Remote Control Tagged .45, 40, assemble, c, clean, cleanup, dissasemble, engine, evolution, nitro, r, RC, size, up

Steerable Tail Wheel

I’ve been working on my balsa airplane and I’m almost finished! I still have quite a bit of ‘finishing touches’ to do, but I’m getting pretty close to flying it. One thing I built for the plane was a steerable tail-wheel. The steerable tail-wheel was easier than I thought it’d be, and I think it […]

Posted in Airplanes Tagged airplane, build, diy, how, plane, RC, steer, steerable, tail, to, wheel

Covering Balsa Plane

So I was going to show y’all something I built this week and show y’all how to make one yourself, but I went to the hobby shop this afternoon and got side tracked by some of the goodies I bought. Today I got in the mail my first covering iron – a Coverite 21st Century […]

Posted in Airplanes Tagged airplane, cover, covering, how, iron, ironing, monocote, monokote, plane, RC, seal, sealing, to, ultracote

Minnie Mambo Balsa Build

For Christmas I got a box of balsa and I am currently in the process of building an airplane with it. I started building the airplane about a week ago and I have got quite a bit of work done on it. This is my very first balsa scratchbuilt airplane and I am learning a […]

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DIY 1/2A Engine Glow Clip

As you may know I have a small 1/2A engine – a Testor’s McCoy .049. I have been wanting to start it ever since I got it back in the spring. Well yesterday I ordered some fuel for it! I ordered a quart of Sig Champion 25 which has 25%nitro and 20% oil (1/2 castor […]

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OS MAX .15 FP Cleaning

A little over a week ago I went to a flea market type business in my area where I bought an RC airplane that had a nitro engine on it. The plane is balsa and the engine is a OS Max .15 FP. I have been flying electric airplanes for close to two years now, […]

Posted in Remote Control Tagged ., 1, 15, 5, airplane, back, backroom, clean, cleaner, cleaning, cool, engine, F, fly, FP, fuel, gas, glow, Max, motor, nitro, O, old, OS, P, RC, run, S, start, starter, starting, tune, tuning, work, workdesk

JR Radio to USB – FAIL

This week’s post is different than all of my other blog posts. Normally I show you something that I have made that worked like I had hoped. . . .well not this week. I planned on showing you what I had been working on at the end of last week and over the weekend but […]

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Tip: X-Acto Blade Disposal

This is something that I made about a year ago and I have used it just about everyday since. I go through quite a bit of exacto knife blades but throwing them away used to be a problem. I can’t throw them straight into the garbage because first of all it would/could cut the garbage […]

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Tip: Cut Holes in Foam

  There has been many times I have needed to cut a smooth hole in a piece of foam. When I am building RC planes I normally want to cut a smooth hole to run a pushrod or wire through the foam. When I need to do this I don’t want to just shove a […]

Posted in Tips and Tricks, Tools Tagged airplane, angle, angled, anglle, back, backroom, brass, build, c, control, cut, d, diy, foam, hole, holes, home, homemade, i, made, make, plane, plug, r, RC, remote, room, round, sharp, trough, tube, tubing, work, workdesk, y 1 Comment
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