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Posted on March 28, 2009 by aaronredbaron
Spending a week in Las Vegas competing in the Align Ultimate Helicopter Competition, I learned a valuable lesson. Consistency is key! Its not that I did not practice, but I made a major error by not practicing EVERY…
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Posted on March 13, 2009 by aaronredbaron
Exhaust systems on model airplanes and helicopters can be messy. If you don’t go to the trouble of sealing your muffler’s header to the engine, you will likely end up with some sludge seeping out where the two meet, and…
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Posted on February 16, 2009 by aaronredbaron
Most of the fuel powered models hobbyists enjoy use alcohol based fuels which require silicone fuel tubing. A simple fuel tubing keeper made of the tubing itself is an effective method to preventing the tubing…
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Posted on January 22, 2009 by aaronredbaron
The plastic ball links that make radio control helicopter heads possible are one of the cheapest components on your helicopter, and yet one of the most critical. Every radio control helicopter on the market requires free moving, universal…
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Posted on January 19, 2009 by aaronredbaron
Pirouetting, or spinning the helicopter around on its yaw axis, is one of the foundations of advanced flying. It is a very simple and yet complex maneuver at the same time. As the Helicopter rotates through the pirouette (often abbreviated…
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Posted on December 11, 2008 by aaronredbaron
Although some flyers are happy with the factory sticks on their radio, I have always experimented with differnent arrangments. I fly with a pincher grip, although its almost a half pincher, half thumb grip. For well over a year now,…
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Posted on November 21, 2008 by aaronredbaron
One of the trends in this hobby has been the emergence of micro indoor helicopters that utilize a co-axial counter rotating blade design. The popularity was kick started in 2001 when the tethered Hirobo XRB was released. Later in 2004,…
Continue ReadingPosted on November 7, 2008 by aaronredbaron
In this video I present a common method used to help with orientation.
Fully wrapping my head around this concept was one of the instrumental steps I took to get comfortable doing 3D with…
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Posted on July 8, 2008 by aaronredbaron
I received my Great Planes Seawind EP floatplane for my birthday in November 2007, and quickly had the airplane flight worthy. I didn’t have a chance to test fly it for some time…
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