Arron Bates stopped by to fly his Large Scale 100CC gas airplane. He showed us some impressive tricks and shared some flying tips.
We were finishing up our next swappable and Arron came out to test and help us with some final design suggestions for our FT 3D Swappable (which we'll be releasing very soon)!
You may remember Arron from our coverage at Huckfest 2012 where we showed off his custom air brake that he setup on one of the other airplanes that he flies with the 3D Hobby Shop Team.
His 100cc gas plane features a custom paint scheme and a boxing kangaroo.
One tip with large scale gas airplanes is to be sure the person holding the aircraft does it correctly. They need to secure the airplane by straddling the tail of the plane with their legs firmly against the rear of the stabilizer, so the plane cannot move forward. Holding the top of the canopy will add additional support.
Despite the wind, Arron was willing to try all kinds of flying maneuvers and aerobatics.
Arron took up Chad's challenge to try touching the tail to the nearby pine trees.
Arron setup his radio with customized button switches that allow him to perform a wide variety of tricks.
It was exciting to see such a large airplane flown so close to the ground and controlled with such precision.
Arron is a product developer and team pilot for 3D Hobby Shop and has a wealth of flying experience and knowledge. We hope to have him back again! You can see more of his flying at his vimeo page as well.
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Good flying man and Thanks Guys we needed some 3D
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Keep up the great work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;)
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If you get a chance please check out Ido's channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/3dbuster/videos
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- What are the options for tuning a servo gang.
- Can you test how much torque is needed to move a control surface? One option might be to measure amp draw up to servo stall, then monitor max draw during flight. Any other ideas to aid "right" sizing your servos?
- Are there servo sizing guidelines for rudder, ail, elev based on plane style and weight?
- What are optical cutoffs? What are the pros and cons to implementing one vs other options?
- When is programming differential aileron necessary? Is this relevant to giant scale more than other scales or more relevant to a particular airframe?
Thanks. -Mick
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- You should do some reviews on 3dhs planes
- How to pick and engine, and all the stuff needed to start it like in the power distribution episode, but express more choices
- I would like to see something on how to pick the right servos (torque, digital?, etc... you could branch off of this and include it in a whole episode about different servos and what they are used for/ kinds.
- Depending on how long Arron stays next time, he could do some mini episodes on how to do different maneuvers.
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It certainly brought back a lot of memories when Arron flick-started that engine.
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You've given me a few ideas for my next paint job since I come from down under. Thnx again!
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regarding the 3d swappable, I should be able to give it a test in calm air here soon, looking forward to it. I'll be passing and final feedback to the guys so that they can tweak the design.
jd7792 - yup, I'm Australian. the "Roo" scheme is on a few of my planes now, rather happy with it :)
I love all the ideas that everyone has posted into the thread. there's certainly some meat there that we can jump into with future episodes!
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