Archive for November, 2007
I finally finished my MD500 body which I bought from Singapore Hobby last December 2006. Took me about 11 months, but it was worth the time. Of course I took lots of time off from this project while I was busy with other stuff. Anyway if you were to work on this full time, I think you can get it completed within a week or so of casual hours. Most of the time was spent cutting the body from the moulding. Stickers were placed in quite quickly and installation also didn’t take long. It was a fun project and it looks lovely just sitting there. Perhaps I should opt for an Airwolf body next for my Mini Titan when I’m done with it. Currently underneath the MD500 body is a Zap 400 (Shogun 400) V1.
November 20th, 2007
I was at an RC Helicopter Magazine site today trying to find out more details as to how to subscribe for the print versions but unfortunately they do not deliver to Malaysia. I would have hooked up right away if I was in USA or CANADA because the price was cheap at USD24.99 or so for 12 issues compared to RM30.00 or more per issue when bought locally at the newstands. That’s like USD105.00 Rediculous right?
Anyway the magazine said it was hooked up with Zinio and the first copy of their online version would be available in Jan 2008! That’s soon enough for me so I signed up for an account and downloaded their free offline reader and started to download some magazines to test it out. I would say the entire reading experience is somewhat. Nothing feels better than holding a hardcopy but it’s also comforting to know that I can carry the e-version of my magazines wherever I carry my notebook/pc. To make it appealing, the price is insane for some magazines at USD16.00 for 12 issues (on average). And you know what the interesting thing is? You can subscribe to PLAYBOY or PENTHOUSE at only USD19.97 for 12 issues! Who says you can’t get Playboy in Malaysia? haha.
I can’t wait to see how much the copies of the RC Heli magazine is… if it’s cheap enough.. I’ll definitely subscribe to it!
Check it out at: http://www.zinio.com
COMMENT ADDED 28 Dec 2008: I finally subscribed to RC HELI on zinio for approx USD25.00 about a week ago. As of early this week, I have already read The Jan and Feb 2008 issue which was sent to my Zinio Reader. Talk about getting the issues early! I can’t wait till the March 2008 edition. The issues are simply great. I do wonder when it will be released. It’ll definitely be earlier than the hardcopy will be hitting the shelves here in Malaysia. Reading the E-Version of the magazine is definitely different than bringing a hardcopy of the magazine to the toilet with you. A bit of getting used to but that’s easily achieved. The current Zinio reader is easy and friendly to use.
November 19th, 2007
I finally did it! Got enough balls to flip my heli upside down for the first time in my life today (12 Nov 2007). Its a day to celebrate! I not only did it once but at least 3-4 times and though they were hairy.. at least I can say I did it. Somehow it’s just different doing it on a real RC chopper as compared to the simulator. The adrenaline was definitely flowing!
One thing that I’ve get to get use to is the amount of negative pitch to feed in to remain inverted. I noticed I was going to the extremes with the negative pitch in fear that the heli would come plumetting down! I guess I’ll have to refine my pitch and throttle changes for inverted flight.
This picture shown here is actually a picture of my chopper from a video which my friend took. Decided against putting the video up as its a whopping 25MB large and the video wasn’t that great as he used my camera in video mode to capture it. Thus its small and unclear plus very shaky. I must learn to fly a little more stable haha.
Note: I was flying my MINI TITAN E325 on stock parts except for carbon blades. GY401, S9257 Digital Tail Servo, HS-65HB for CCPM and FlightpowerEvo25 2170 pack. I was unable to use my semi-busted lipo 1800 Flightpower pack as it the ESC cutoff came into play ever since I put on the S9257 servo. I guess it was draws more power than the HS-65HB I used to have for the tail.
November 12th, 2007
