Flying Models

Flying Models

Covers model aviation for beginners and advanced modelers: radio control, control line, free flight. Also remote control boats and cars.

Price: $ 37.95

This is my very first scratch-built RC Airplane - Extra 300 - built from the plans posted on RCPowers.com. This video gives an overview of all the components and their placement. Thanks to Dave's detailed "how to build" type videos I was able to build this airplane from scratch.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Question by garajustin: If you crash your nitro rc aircraft will the AMA pay for the damages if your insured with them?
Also, if they do can you tell me which of there plans covers the nitro rc plane and how much does it cost?

Just to let you know AMA stands for Academy of Model Aeronautics.

Their website is: www.modelaircraft.org

Best answer:

Answer by Vance
No. AMA's insurance does not cover the Aircraft. The insurance you get is liability insurance for a coverage of 2.5 million dollars. It only covers you in case the aircraft you crashed causes damage to someone else's property or person. The insurance would pay for that damage to the property your aircraft caused, or the hospital bills of the person your aircraft hit. The AMA will also help you with legal help I believe in case of a law suite. This information is on the AMA's website.

Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!

WIRED GeekDad Booth Duty


Image by jurvetson
MakerFaire is Geek Heaven. This TV coverage does a good job of sharing the excitement.

At the GeekDad booth, Erik and I demonstrated the construction of some rockets at different scales… and met many interesting people. The first guy that came up to the booth asked a number of questions, and after a while, he casually mentions that he used to work for Wernher von Braun, the scientist who designed a number of rockets, from the V2 to the Saturn V superbooster that took us to the moon.

Next to us, Chris Anderson (editor in chief of WIRED) showed how to build a quick and dirty UAV, with a RC plane + LEGO Mindstorms NXT robot kit + a cell phone strapped to the belly. The cell phone has GPS so the plane can fly to pre-designated coordinates. The cellular system is the wide-area wireless link. And the built-in camera can take photos of targets of interest.

(Here are some of my GeekDad blog posts)

Trex 500 Electric RC Helicopters  

Article by Wahyu Agung Widodo

It's need about 4 hours time to assembly the rc helicopters, but it not include electronics and radio settings. You don't need any more rc model planes plan to build it, because you can get some guides to assemble your Trex 500 rc helicopters. The Trex 500 is electric rc helicopters model, so you don't use a big rc engine in it.InstallationI find the L bolt is very bad, so be carefull to use it, just don't push it to much. In My friend's r c helicopters, at leat there are 3 bolt that bad and very difficult to open it after you use it. About the servo, use JR 3401 because it is fix in the frame, so you don't need to modify the frame again. Just adjust the ESC settings in default, because i feel its enough.I have some trick to modify your Trex 500, here they are :

1. to make easy in your battery assembly and to protect the battery, you can place the Battery Tray down about 1 cm, and add thin foam inside your rc helicopters canopy 2. To make more strong the "swashplate" especially if your rc helicopters got crash, just add adequate CA glue in your RC Helicopters "swashplate" ( be carefull about the bearings, don't put your glue here)

The Maiden FlightIt's good for doing flip and roll with setting your pitch 12. The power is good and maybe like Trex 600 electric rc helicopters, i think it's because there are about 20 to 30 kv in the electric motor used in Trex 500 and Trex 600 . The flight done about 5 minutes, but you can use another battery to more long your flight, such as use FP 3200 or 3300, so you can fly about 6 to 7 minutes

ConclutionsTrex 500 are more stable in flight that Trex 450, and the power performance is more than Trex 600 electric rc helicopters. So i think, prefer to fly Trex 500 electric rc helicopters than Trex 600 electric rc helicopters

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