Kerosene

My cheap Yuntong Smart Balancer from HobbyKing.com (luv ‘em!) arrived a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been using it a lot, and I’m happy to say that it actually seems to work. The ability to balance “offline” (while not charging) is surprisingly useful, because I can balance my LiPos while my charger is busy doing [...]

I finally got around to giving my Losi Micro-T a run last week. And I’ve gotta say I’m impressed.

I wanted a cheap 3D plane – so I bought the cheapest, nastiest 3D plane I could find. For AUD $69 I got a crazy deal – a Reach Whirlwind, brushed motor and prop, ESC, a 2 cell lipo, and 3 micro servos. And surprisingly it’s not as nasty as I expected. It’s been too [...]

I’ve been on an RC spending spree in the last few weeks … After getting a Losi Micro-T, which is too fast for indoors, too small for outdoors, but an engineering marvel – I went a bit nuts and bought a few cheap eBay helis – a Syma Dragonfly for outdoors, an Airlark for indoors, [...]

Looks like a new RC spending spree is in the works. Losi have just announced the incredibly cute Micro-T, and I’m absolutely getting one as soon as I can. An ‘off road’ indoor micro is something I’ve been wanting for ages. More info at www.teamlosi.com.

I’m not a big fan of the United States, or anything that comes out of it. But the Corvette C5-R looks enough like an egg to get my attention, so I bought one, raced it, and have now damaged it enough to classify it as a basher. The C5-R is now my race shell for [...]