I just want to let you all know that I’m going to the mountains on vacation for a week. I’ll be bringing the AitT and the F1 hydro and if there is an opportunity I’ll get some film for you all. See you all in a week!

The wife and I were doing some errands in the same town as a hobby shop. So I slipped in a comment on that it would be a waste not to visit the hobby shop, and she agreed! I needed some small stuff like some servo cable and a prop. After looking around in the shop for a while my wife says:
-I planned that we were going here so that I could by you some monokote. I want you to see your new planes so that you don’t loose them.

My wife is awesome! I never buy covering since it’s so expensive (At least if you compare it to buying cheep servos from china).
I’m so lucky that I such a lovely wife!

In episode 54 of Frank and Brian’s podcast called R/C FlightCast they mention my build of the Twin Boom Easystar and this site! I’m honored to be mentioned in such a good light by one of the best RC podcasts out there!

To listen to the show, click here.

Thanks to Frank and Brian!

Today my wife and I were cleaning the apartment, and when we were done we had a bag of old stuff that was going down into the basement. So I took the bag and heaved it down the seven staircases to the basement. We have our basement pretty neatly organized so when I opened the door and there were this big cardboard box standing in the way of where I was going to put down the heavy bag. Feeling a little irritated that there was a box in the way I asked my wife:
-What is this box doing... wait a second! Is that?! The airplane!!
My wife is sneaky! And oh so wonderful! I did not expect the airplane until earliest the end of the week.


Which airplane do you think it’s going to be?

I was so exited that I almost felt ill! This is what I saw when I opened it:


She freaking bought me two airplanes! And the two I wanted! She is the best wife EVER! I’m so glad right now!


Now I need to order some electronics from china.

On the evening of the crash of the Twin Boom Biplane I was pretty downcast, and when my wife came home, she could instantly see that something was wrong. So she asked me what had happened. I told her about my day and about the crash and she didn’t even laughed. Instead she look at me and said: - I’m going to buy you a new airplane.

My wife is the best!
That managed to cheer me up quite a bit I must admit.
And I asked what airplane she had planned to buy, and she said:
-I’m not telling, I want it to be a surprise!

I don’t know what airplane she is going to buy but I have been raving on about both the Multiplex Twinstar and the Blizzard and I think it’s going to be one of them.



Oh I’m so exited!

Which one would you pick?

I just posted a review of the Multiplex EasyStar in the Review section.
Hope you like it!

To read the complete build-log of the Twin Boom Biplane Easystar, Click here.

Today I decided to maiden the TBBEZ*. Unfortunately the wife was away and all my friends were at work so I had nobody to film it for me. But the weather was to good and I didn’t want to waste a perfect afternoon by not flying as much as I could.

The first trouble came when I tried to get the plane into my Renault Clio 1.4. Don’t get me wrong it’s a great car but when you have to spend 10 minutes trying to wiggle a airplane into it made me dream of a bigger car. In the end I got the plane to fit at the same time as myself and I put the pedal to the metal and scooted of to the nearest field.

At the field I did a range-check and did the long version of the preflight check to be sure that everything was spot on, and it was! Time to throw this baby bird out of the nest.

I took the absurd-looking plane into my hand and gave it full throttle and gave it a gentle toss.

This was the shortest flight I have ever had. The second It left my hand it made a crazy tight loop and smashed right into the ground!



Both carbon tubes shattered, the wings tore at the mounting of the booms, both top and bottom wings got tore and dented, prop broke, camera-pod broken, pan servo broken and body tore at several places.

This was the lamest crash I have had. What an anticlimax!
When knowing the results I now see what went wrong;

• The vertical CG was to high with the camera, video TX and battery on the top wing.
• The motor angel combined with high thrust.

These things made it go into crazy loop mode.

I think I’ll order an other FPV platform now.

If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing!

Want to read the complete build-log? Click here.

After crashing my FPV Easystar again, I decided to give it up and sacrifice the parts to feed this monster. I hope to get 20% more lift by placing an extra pair of Easystar wings on top of the stock pair at the hight of one wing chord.


Balsa is nice.


All the supports in place.


I used my hotwire cutter to roughly cut the wing holder of the body of the old Easystar.


A new camera-pod.


Glued on.




The top wing in place.


Done!





This is without a doubt the ugliest plane I have ever seen!
We’ll see if it make it up by being great in the air.

Will their be glory or disaster?
Only time will tell...

Today I took a trip to the local hobby-shop that is located about 30 kilometers from my home. I bought a 11*7 prop and some balsa. The Turnigy C3530-1100 on 3sA123 only gave me 168W with the 11*7 which was a lot less than I expected considering that the 10*5 gave me 140W. I’ll give it a try and see how it feels in the air.

In the meantime; Care to guess what I’m going to do with these balsa sticks?

Something went wrong and it ended in tragedy.



The video TX took the hardest beating. Oh the irony, oh well I got a few flight out of it.


It does not look to bad but the tail is smooched, the motor mount is broken and the wing holder is cracked at several places.
I think it is time for a new FPV ship. Something with a litle more thrust?


The PCB were damaged and the antenna connector was ripped of. I’ll try and fix it.

Finally the Twin Boom EZ* got of the ground and in to the air!



One bummer is that the motor only puts out 140W on the 10*5 prop and 3sA123.
I will try another prop the next time. Maybe a 11*7?