» extra 300 http://theglog.org Greg's RC Airplane Tips/Tricks Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:29:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 First run of the YS .91 FZ! RAW POWER! http://theglog.org/2009/12/12/first-run-of-the-ys-91-fz-raw-power http://theglog.org/2009/12/12/first-run-of-the-ys-91-fz-raw-power#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:30:12 +0000 greg http://theglog.org/?p=338 Ok so after spending 2 hrs making my self $500 poorer due to needing a set of tires on my car, I drove down to Nexgen Hobby in Hagerstown, MD (http://nexgenhobby.com/) to get some fuel for my YS .91 FZ four stroker I put on my Extra 330s.

I picked up a gallon of Wildcat “Curtis Youngblood” 30% Nitro 23% Full Synthetic Oil for $27.00.  Not a bad price for 30% fuel if you ask me.

On the way home I got to thinking that the puny aluminum 6×32 Phillips head screws I used to mount the big 4 stroker to the engine mount  just wasn’t enough….so I stopped at Lowes and picked up some 10×24 “Grade 8″ Hex head screws and stainless “nylock” nuts.

Got home and went right to work replacing the mounting screws with the MUCH heftier hex heads.  After finishing, I pumped about a quarter tank of the Wildcat 30% into her and got going.

I followed the directions I found online for these “fuel injected” engines. Open the throttle to full, turn the prop over 10 times, close the throttle to Idle, turn the prop over another 10 times.

I attempted to start it initially with a few flips of my (gloved) hand, but had no luck.  I then proceeded to use my Hobbico electric starter and she fired right up.   Initial thoughts on the engine are OMFG!   I don’t have a tach, so I don’t know what kind of RPMs I was getting but spinning an APC 15×8 prop this engine can put out some SERIOUS thrust.  So much that I could barely hold onto the fuse with my non-radio hand.  Idle is nice and transition to full throttle is superb!

The high speed needle is sitting at 2 turns out right now until I have more time to get her dialed in just right.  It was about 30 degrees out so I got very cold, very quick and finished up after about 3 mins of running.

I cant wait to get this bird out to the field and into the air!

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]]> http://theglog.org/2009/12/12/first-run-of-the-ys-91-fz-raw-power/feed 0 Getting back to my RC Airplane roots. http://theglog.org/2009/12/10/getting-back-to-my-rc-airplane-roots http://theglog.org/2009/12/10/getting-back-to-my-rc-airplane-roots#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:22:01 +0000 greg http://theglog.org/?p=301 Ok so my father talked me into getting back to my original RC roots of building, flying (and crashing) R/C Airplanes.
He happened to have a few Duraplane parts laying around so I have since built 3 of them, crashed 2 and rebuilt 2. See a pattern here?

Unfortunately the balsa planes (wood) don’t exactly bounce back all that well.

Below are some pics and vids of the planes.

Durastik flying:

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Crashing a Duraplane Aerobat (engine was tooooo big)

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First 2 flights of the Phoenix Models Extra 330s with two deadstick landings (engine quit).

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