Subj : Re: No new photos...
To   : Mindless Automaton
From : Mindless Automaton
Date : Thu Sep 22 2005 12:45:00

Mindless Automaton wrote:
> Angus McLeod wrote:
> 
>>   Re: Re: No new photos...
>>   By: Mindless Automaton to Angus McLeod on Wed Sep 14 2005 13:47:00
>>
>>  > Are you strictly plane or have you tried any helicopters?
>> No, I'm not interested in helicopters.  I know that they are very 
>> challenging to fly, but they're boring.  Like R/C cars, there is 
>> virtually no construction involved.  If you hit it you buy a whole 
>> bunch of new parts and replace the broken ones.  And they're 
>> yawnsville to watch in the air/  When a heli is doing it's greatest 
>> trick (hovering) it's standing still.  IOW, parked.    Okay, it's 
>> parked 2 feet off the ground, but parked is parked and it gets old FAST.  

Alrighty, I picked up a Dragonfly #22d heli (from China made downed US spyplane 
parts).  The broken english instructions are great.  I can see why there is no 
construction involved. :)  I ran across a free sim program I thought I'd post a 
link for if anyone wanted to check it out:

http://n.ethz.ch/student/mmoeller/fms/index_e.html

Unlike the one that came with the heli, you can use the keyboard for this one.
The one I have uses the remote via serial.

> 
> Maybe they are good for chasing the cat without ramming the fuselage up 
> the.. :o
> I could actually use something to chase the squirrels.. :)  Maybe you 
> can get one with a tree trimmer attachment..
> 
>>
>> I really don't have a problem with *other* guys flying heli, but the 
>> bloody things spend the entire flight whizzing about right over the 
>> strip (preventing other people from using it) and make a deafening 
>> racket in your ears that makes it virtually impossible to hear your 
>> own engine while you're in flight.  I honestly wish the heli pilots 
>> would go fly somewhere else, because they're a pain in the ass.
> 

After crashing 100 times in the sim I can see why the guys just hover over the 
runway!  There's a lot of little knobs to play with on the remote to move this 
thing around.

> 
> Interesting..  ever try using model rockets as anti-aircraft weapons? ;)
> I couldn't imagine how to design any guidance for that..
> 
> I guess you could slap on a little cam and do some fly bys on the nudie 
> beach or something..

The heli guy also threw in a little cam.  Except there are no mounting 
instructions, so I'll have to figure something out..


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