Some of you may remember my occasional mention of the Evil Plane-Eating Tree© that lives at my local flying club’s field. This tree has also been dubbed the “Charlie Brown Tree” in honor of the old Peanuts comic strip, which constantly eats Charlie Brown’s kite. Our tree is similar. in fact, I’m convinced that there [...]

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Some of you have been waiting a long time for me to finally finish my build log / review of the MSH Protos “500 class” electric helicopter. I’m pleased to say that the wait is finally over! Now maybe my friend Janos will be happy Anyway, feel free to peruse the article by clicking on [...]

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Yesterday, Sunday May 17th,  Align pilot Bert Kammerer was eating lunch at an IHOP in Orlando, Florida when his car was broken into. All of Bert’s helicopters and radio gear were in the car and were stolen! Please keep an eye out on the boards and eBay for any of the following equipment (excerpt that [...]

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Well, a bit of bad news for me today. It started out as a great day… I played hooky from work (actually had the boss’ permission) and the girlfriend kicked me out of the house to go fly. Among the helis I took was the 600e Flybarless conversion. If you recall, the first attempt at [...]

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Well everyone… all I can say is SURPRISE! I’m very glad you managed to find us in our new location, heligeek.com! A few months ago, I started kicking around the idea of getting my own domain and moving the blog from WordPress.com (an AWESOME free blog hosting community) and decided to give it a go! [...]

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Protos – Finally finished and all the bugs worked out! To get rid of the persistent wag, I took all the advice I could get my hands on. I moved the ball link on the servo in, I re-mounted the Spartan gyro on the steel plate, and I ditched the 9650 on the tail in [...]

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