Thanks. Was a great weekend of flying. Great company, great field, great weather, and great planes !
Anwar, you right, pineapple box ought to be landed on grass. We'll keep that in mind next time !

Taped my nokia n73 phone to my easystar 


and here is a video from Diwali holidays at Nagpur 

Nice stuff Sunlikestar..Finally some videos of our pancard club.

This was the weekend of targeted parachute drops (not in the video below, it just shows the initial test).

Cool. What was the weight of that doll ??

Not much.  We added 10gms lead weight the next day, and it will still drifting away too far.  That made targeted drops all the more interesting though ! 

May be instead of the 10 gms can you add a Assan rx  3 micro servo, a single cell lipo, and a10 amp ECU to guide it to land where you want ?? You may have to try with long servo arms and max movements to get the desired effect.

Finally my Pilatus porter was in air today morning at airoli ground. Thanks to Ashish who is a good hand launcher, and cameraman  Saurabh with his Nokia N8 for capturing the maiden of Pilatus. i hope the videos will be uploaded soon by Saurabh well edited.

About Pilatus:
Perfect Shape
Perfect Flight
Smooth Controls
Smooth Flight.
Tough
Beauty
Perfect trainer (Balsa)

NEXT : Will install two servos for airlons for Flap.

Well last friday, i decided to fly my cessna in my college ground for the first time. Students and teachers gathered at the ground. I was very nervous . However, the hand-launch was perfect, did some circles and loops and was flying pretty comfortably, then for some reason i lost radio contact with the plane. I turned left with both aileron and rudder input but the plane just kept going straight in the direction of the window of the girl's hostel  . I immediately reduced throttle and luckily there was a tree just in between my plane and the hostel. The plane hit the tree, the leaves absorbed the impact and it fell to the ground with no serious damage. I repaired it the same day and hope to have a flight next week. Someone in the crowd remarked that the plane was well-directed . Seems like my Cessna got distracted by the girls hostel. However, after the crash everything seemed to be working perfectly.

Sandeep with his Hybrid...

Fuselage: Slowstick
Main Wing : Piper Cub
Tail and stabs: Coro built

Ashish's Video

Sandeep with his Pilatus. Maiden Flight.

What is the feedback on the Porter ?  Can it make a good first plane, or a second plane for a beginner ?

Pilatus porter is a very stable plane. It can surely be a first plane (trainer) for a beginner. Very docile and forgiving. However, since the size of the model is small, there may be some orientation problem if flown at greater heights.

flew my Glidiator ver 2.0



built thread-

http://www.rcindia.org/self-designed-diy-and-college-projects/my-g2/

Thanks Saurabh for fantastic Editing as usual.
Well hitting the elevator for the first time was really difficult for me as it was my first Balsa and a maiden also.
But when a perfect hand launch was given by ashish, and Pilatus was in air, i feel comfortable and proud to be the owner of Pilatus.
I appreciate Saurabh and Ashish also for motivating me in flying this bird successfully.

Sandeep

Thanks for your modest comments Sandeep You flew really well

Here is Saurabh with his MIG-29

Enjoy watching

the music is not suited

Quote from: anwar on November 20, 2010, 09:52:29 PM
Not much.  We added 10gms lead weight the next day, and it will still drifting away too far.  That made targeted drops all the more interesting though ! 

Try making some slits in the parachute for to the point and straight dropping.

Worried that the slits would widen over time, and tear up the chute ?

Quote from: bmanoj2 on November 21, 2010, 08:32:11 AM
May be instead of the 10 gms can you add a Assan rx  3 micro servo, a single cell lipo, and a10 amp ECU to guide it to land where you want ?? You may have to try with long servo arms and max movements to get the desired effect.

I want to try this  Any suggestions  ? I am bit worried about the lipo being dropped from a height, Not sure how much impact the drop will create. 

Why not just build an RC Parachute or Trike ?

Spent some time today troubleshooting a tail drift issue on a JR Vibe 500E, belonging to a friend.  Turned out that upgrading the skids to the bigger Trex 600 skids was one issue.  The more serious issue was that the tailboom had started to break ( ) at the point where the horizontal stabilizer was attached to it. The original was a plastic attachment, but it also had been upgraded to a Trex 600 metal horizontal fin holder (the one that wraps around the tail boom).  It was probably tightened a bit too much, and had eaten into the tail boom. This is something everyone should keep in mind.

After fixing these issues, the heli became very very smooth.

The heli has been built using highest quality parts... Scorpion motor, Castle 100A ESC, Spartan Quark gyro, JR8717 servos etc.

Here is a video of some test hovering :