More Gear

So its been a while since I last posted anything.
My 9XR and my module had an issue and one of them blew up! So I've ordered a new module and a new circuit board for the 9XR which will hopefully cure this issue.
In the same order, I thought it might be rude to only get a few things......so I've got one of these coming:

A Hobbyking Radjet 800

Pretty fast little thing and I'm looking forward to building this one up.
Also as the parcel was big enough and the next item was cheap enough, I bought a Laser cut wood kit:

A Hobbyking Idol - 3 Channel

A really simple little plane, hoping that the kids will be able fly this one eventually.

Quad Build

All the parts have arrived, build went smoothly....but for the motor mounts not working out!
I needed to make 4 adapter plates to sort this issue out.

It was an easy build, but to get wires and everything mounted tidy it took a little work.

I had to drill holes in the carbon rods in the centre to allow the speed controller wires to pass through.

The QBrain/KK2.1 also need a little trick doing to keep them to work well together. That is taking the positive and negative from the 3rd Motor input wire of the QBrain and transferring to the first motor plug. Otherwise the KK2.1 won't power on.

All ready for its tuning flights, I put a little white tape on, to aid in co-ordination.

I still need to balance the props (waiting on delivery of my prop balancer), but with a little tweaking it flies really well. A bit like a heli but without the butt clenching moments!

Now I need to set about making up some brackets etc for the mounting of both my FPV camera and my recording camera.......

Foamy Build

Build is super easy, with mostly just a sharp knife and hot glue and gorilla glue for the high stress areas.

A couple of spars glued into wings and fuselage add extra stiffness where required.

Build is complete, everything mounted.

Decided to use a decent Acrylic paint and just painted it with a brush.

A different scheme for the underside of the wings to help orientation.

First flight was a bit hairy, but once I got the CG correct! and a little trimming, it flew perfectly.

Heaps of power, slows right down, super aerobatic!

A great little plane that can do it all. Definately not recommended for a beginner.

Foamy has arrived

My Foamy Extra 300 has arrived from Foamworks.co.nz.
I ordered it with the correct motor and prop combo and have all the rest of the gear from previous setups.

The build has started and its very easy, using hot glue mostly with a bit of gorilla glue in higher stress areas like the wing join.