Video – Greggor McGrath on the Rave Ballistic FSO
In this video Greggor McGrath of A Main Hobbies gives the new Rave Ballistic FSO helicopter kit from Curtis Youngblood Enterprises a short review. The long awaited special edition version of the Rave ENV 700 is available now and in addition to the standard ENV features sports an electric specific design, sliding battery tray, direct servo drive and several other performance enhancements.
Source: A Main Hobbies [amainhobbies.com]
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - add a comment
Video – Timo Wendtland & Mikado Logo XXtreme
Here is a video of Timo Wendtland flying Mikado’s Logo 800 XXtreme equipped with SpinBlades 800 “MattBlack” main and Edge 115mm tail blades, Savöx SB-2271SG swash plate and Savöx SB-2272SG tail servos, a VStabi 5.2 “XXtreme Version”, YGE 160A HV controller with VStabi Gov, Scorpion 5035 XXtreme version motor, and two 7S 39C 5100mAh Schweighofer “Whiteline” LiPos.
Source: TWHeli [ youtube.com ]
Monday, May 14, 2012 - add a comment
Mikado Scorpion HKIII-4035-560kv motor
Mikado introduce the Scorpion HKIII-4035-560kv brushless motor which is custom-build for the use with Logo 600 and 600SX helicopters. Optimised for 10S use with 11T or 12T module 1 pinions the 560kv motor weights 432g, sports M4x25 and M4x30 mounting patterns and is available now.
Source: Mikado [mikado-heli.de]
Monday, May 14, 2012 - add a comment
Fusuno Goblin 700 & Voodoo 600 options
Fusuno have released G10 fibre glass parts for the Goblin 700 helicopter as well as carbon fibre options for the Voodoo 600 heli. Available for the Goblin are 2mm side frames, a 1.5mm battery bar, 2mm vertical fin and tail case as well as 2mm low profile landing gears. The parts are cut from G10 fibre glass and painted using a special hardcoat dye to let them look good over a long time. Available for the Voodoo 600 are a carbon fibre vertical fin, front and rear landing gear and landing skids. All parts are cut from 2mm fibre material and direct replacements for the stock parts.
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Saturday, May 12, 2012 - add a comment
Video – Tareq Alsaadi & Goblin 700
Here is a video of Tareq Alsaadi doing the setup for the upcoming Goblin 770 heli. He uses a 12S battery, 770mm main blades, Outrage servos, 160A ESC, a VBar 5.2, 12/12 pitch and a headspeed of 1900RPM.
Source: Tareq Alsaadi [ youtube.com ]
Saturday, May 12, 2012 - add a comment
Video – Alan Szabo Jr. Black Shark’d
Alan Szabo Jr. released a video showing him as he puts a Black Shark fuselage equipped T-Rex 700E through its paces. Although a F3C canopy the heli is capable of doing mild 3D.
Source: Alan Szabo Jr. [ youtube.com ]
Friday, May 11, 2012 - add a comment
Hacker B20 series heatsink
Hacker introduce this heatsink element for their B20 series motors. The 16.9mm long aluminium parts sports 7 rips and makes for better heat dissipation of highly stressed motors. It of course is useable with all 20mm diameter motors.
Source: Hacker [hacker-motor.com]
Friday, May 11, 2012 - add a comment
Video – Set up the BeastX FBL system
Recently A Main Hobbies have released a series of three educational videos on how to setup the BeastX FBL system for model helicopters. Greggor McGrath, A Main Hobbies customer service rep and helicopter team pilot, goes over the basic setup steps for BeastX flybarless systems, then dives further into the setup menus in the second clip and last but not least shows and explains the advanced features of BeastX-equipped systems in the third video. See part two and three of the video after the break.
Click here to view part 2 and 3
Friday, May 11, 2012 - 1 comment so far
