Savox Heli Motor!

Hey Everyone! I'm out at the field posting from my phone. A friend of mine is flying one of the new Savox motors! Check it out!

Dick Coles Memorial IMAA Fly In

Hey Everyone!

This Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (March 8th, 9th, and 10th) was the 22nd Annual Dick Coles Memorial Big Bird Fly In at the Manatee County Radio Controllers field. This is my home field, and my spring break landed right on that week so I was able to attend all three days. This is an IMAA event, so only quarter scale and up, or the standard 80" monoplane/60" biplane minimum rule was the standard for the event. This year was the first year I actually had an airworthy plane of that size, and therefore was able to actually fly my own airplane equipped with Savox High Torque Digital Servos in the event.

My plane was the 78" Extreme Flight Extra 300. Even though this is not a member of the EXP line of Extreme Flight planes, it is still an AWESOME flying airplane and, in my opinion, doesn't need any changes. As for this plane, like all my planes at the moment, the power system is electric. I run a Hacker A60-16M with a Castle ICE2 HV 120A ESC on 10S 5000mAh 40C Sky LiPo battery packs, and together they work to swing a Mejzlik 22x10TH Carbon Fiber prop. The servos I use, as always, are Savox digital servos. The ones I'm currently running are the SC-1267SG servos. These provide 277oz/in of torque at a stunningly quick 0.09 seconds. They also feature an aluminum midriff case for efficient cooling, and they work pretty dang well on this plane.

Also at this event, my friend Frank was very generous and let me get many flights on his big aircraft: a 91" Extreme Flight Extra 300 EXP with a DA-60 and an Aeroworks 104" Yak 54 with a BME-116. I want to thank Frank a lot for letting my fly his planes this weekend. I know I got over 10 flights on his aircraft. Also, I had a brain fart and left my batteries for my planes at the house Saturday so they didn't get any airtime that day, so Frank's generosity helped keep me in the air all weekend. Hopefully soon I'll find the time to go and chop up the footage we got this weekend.

As for the event, we had over 40 pilots, the field was packed with spectators on all three days of the event, the parking lot was a madhouse, and the concession stand sold out of food at least twice. Troy Hawthorne with his beautiful 110" B-17 with custom bomb-bay doors and moving and sound producing machine guns provided the candy drop for the youth in the crowd.  We had pilots all the way from Illinois come down for this event to escape the snowy weather they received on the days preceding the event, and we also had many club members enter the event to show off their big airplanes and strut their stuff in front of a large crowd.

The weather was perfect Friday and Saturday, however Sunday kept many pilots grounded due to high winds. But there was never a dull moment at this year's event, and I'd call it a huge success.

Soon I hope to edit together some videos from this event, and I'll post them here on my blog as well as on my youtube channel, so keep checking back.

--Tom K.

*NEW* Savox Releases!

Hey Everybody! I just got word that Savox is coming out with a brand new line of... stuff! Savox has been developing and testing these new items for a while, and they're supposed to be pretty awesome! They are HAND WOUND electric motors ranging from 450kv-3500kv and for classes of helicopters from 450 all the way up to the 700 class. They look pretty dang cool, too! Here a list of the new releases:

450 Class:  

BSM2940, precision wound with machine accuracy, 3500KV, 71g

500 Class: 

BSM3750 - PRO SPEC - Hand wound for consistency, available in 1200 and 1300kv, 184g

BSM4050 - PRO SPEC - Hand wound for consistency, available in 1200 and 1300kv, 215g

550 Class:  

BSM4750 - PRO SPEC - Hand wound for consistency, 1200kv, 270g

600 Class: 

BSM4760 - PRO SPEC - Hand wound for consistency, 1200kv, 358g

BSM5055 - PRO SPEC - Hand wound for consistency, 1200kv, 363g

700 Class: 

 BSM5065 - PRO SPEC - Hand wound for consistency, available in 450kv, 500kv, and 5300kv, 454g

Some special features these new motors include is a 10% temperature drop over the other leading brands of motors. How do they do this? Savox has designed a unique cooling design, including an aluminum housing, six angled ports, and an internal cooling fan. All these new, innovative solutions results in a 10% temperature drop over other leading brands. Savox Test Pilot Simon Vaamonde said, "After 110 flights with the Savox BSM5025 500kv motor, it still performs like new and continues to run much cooler than other leading motors and brands taht I have tride, definitely and impressive feat in my flying experience."

Savox already has a full line of RC servos, and has developed new motors to go along with RC helicopter applications through a broad spectrum of the helicopter size range. Savox designs, develops, and manufactures all their products themselves, and has a professional and experience R&D team striving to develop superb performance products with innovative technology and reliable quality as a main objective in their products.

Testing New App

Hey Everyone! I'm posting this from my iPhone. I figured I could keep this thing updated more often if I didn't have to sit at my computer and sign in. So here's a test post from my phone. Woot!

--Tom K.

*NEW* Extreme Flight Extra 300 78" Un-Boxing Video!

Hey Everybody! It arrived in the mail the other day, and I spent the last few days chopping up the video. Here's the un-boxing video! I'll have flight video in a few weeks once I get it built and all set up; but for now, here's the un-boxing video!




--Tom K.

*UPDATE

--Tom K.

PFFC 2012!!!!

Hey Everyone,

I was poking around RCGroups.com, and I got invited to submit a video to the Park Flyer Freestyle Contest. The PFFC is a freestyle contest for planes under a 61" wingspan, and all you have to do is take a video of you flying your plane, fit it to music, edit it using 2 or less cuts, and upload it to YouTube or Vimeo and post it on the thread on RCGroups.

So, yesterday I brought out my 48" Extreme Flight Edge 540T EXP with the Motrolfly 2820-680 and Savox servos featured in my "Wind Therapy" video. I haven't flown the plane in months, but I know from experience that normally one of the best flights of the day, for me, is my first flight right as soon as I get the stuff out of the car and the battery strapped in... must be a release from the monotonous half hour drive on the highway to get to the field. So my dad turned on the camera, and as it turned out, that first flight ended up being the flight I use in the video.

I didn't really have a song in mind, and figured I would go home and mix together some production music I have on my computer for the music aspect. However, when I got home and reviewed the video I learned that I wasn't going to need to mix any music, or even use the production music; AC/DC hit the nail on the head with their song, "If You Want Blood, You Got It" and it came out better than I expected.

Here's the video. Keep in mind the contest is open until September 18th, so you still have time if you want to participate. Pilots like Daniel Holman are also competing and have already submitted their videos. Below is also a link to the RCGroups thread if you are interested in joining in the fun.

Enjoy!

PFFC 2012 Forum Link:
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1639479

--Tom K.