https://www.kenops.io/tags/rc-planes/Recent content in RC Planes on kenopsHugoenTue, 12 May 2009 22:05:00 +0000https://www.kenops.io/posts/why-pre-flight-checks-are-good/Tue, 12 May 2009 22:05:00 +0000https://www.kenops.io/posts/why-pre-flight-checks-are-good/<p>This video was taken by Mr. Brown while we were at the Cherry Creek RC airfield (<a href="http://www.denverrceagles.org/">http://www.denverrceagles.org/</a>) last week. If you watch the video you&rsquo;ll see the starboard aileron at full deflection.  The guy who flew the plane had a hard landing earlier that day and didn&rsquo;t forgot to do another pre-flight control check before this flight.  I do a lot of pre-flights now mainly because I&rsquo;ve crashed my share of planes making stupid mistakes. My first famous blunder with a RC plane was from a elevator that was responding backwards, so when I pulled up, the plane actually wanted to go down.  Simple fix - you click on a reverse switch on the transmitter and you&rsquo;re good to go.  Since I didn&rsquo;t care to do a pre-flight check, I only realized the issue after I managed to get the plane in the air.  When I realized what I did I figured, up is down and down is up&hellip;  Got it.  Seconds later, the plane started to climb, and I instinctualy went down on the controls. Well, down was up&hellip; so the plane continued to climb and basically looped - right after take off.  Now it was pointed right at us! Death from above I thought; Clear the deck!!!  I managed to miss everyone involved, and the plane crashed.  From that point on I vowed to always make sure I check the plane before flight to help insure the control surfaces are working like they should.</p>https://www.kenops.io/posts/my-a-10-foamie-and-f4u-corsair/Sun, 03 May 2009 16:22:36 +0000https://www.kenops.io/posts/my-a-10-foamie-and-f4u-corsair/<p><a href="http://pics.gridleak.com/photos/526894175_9AKdy-M.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="http://pics.gridleak.com/photos/526894175_9AKdy-M.jpg" title="A-10 and F4-U"></a> Here&rsquo;s my new A-10 warthog just completed and the F4-U Corsair I&rsquo;m building.  The A-10 is my first ducted fan plane so I&rsquo;m excited to see how it does.  I expect to &ldquo;mod&rdquo; it for Colorado&rsquo;s altitude.  I got the A-10 kit from <a href="http://nitroplanes.com">NitroPlanes</a> and while the parts are a bit cheezy, the foam construction is very good. I&rsquo;m also very excited about my F4-U Corsair.  Debi got this plane for me years ago, and I&rsquo;ve been frustrated about not getting it built - I plan to have it flying by next month!  It calls for a .40 size engine so of coarse I&rsquo;m installing a .60 MDS or a .70 Supertigre so it should scoot around just fine.  More to come.</p>