Showing posts with label tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tips. Show all posts

Sunday, June 03, 2012

Flying tips: Turn it dark

Here is the best solution for those R/C pilot who have visibility problem when flying 'line of sight' (L.O.S) at high altitude on white cloudy sky.  Just paint/spray almost 50-70% your plain plane with black or other darker paint against sky color and you will able to see your plane clearly against the blue,white or dusky sky because your plane wings or other parts looks contrast/visible.  But do not spary the whole plane with same color make sure you make a differentiation of colors on every surface of the plane so you could recognized which parts is up, down, left or right orientation.  Thus you will never loose, confused orientation or lost sight of your plane again.  Cheers.




Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Easy foam plane fix

The best thing about foam plane is no matter how you bad you dent, bent or distort the whole body parts you can always get a fast perfect fix by dipping the affected part of the foam into more than 100 degrees of boiling hot water.  In this case i had my glider wing crashed into other r/c plane from opposite direction and plumetted into the soil.  The wing badly bent on the root junction of the wing spar.

To fix it just wrap a slabs of thick cotton clothes around the affected damaged foam. Then pour a hot boiling water (probably beyond 100 degree) above the clothes so that the hot water soaked inside temporarily hold the tempreature and heats up the contacted foam surface.  The hot water will then get absorbed into the plane's damaged bead foam which then use heat to expand the foam back to its original uncompress form slowly.  When pouring the hot water do it with caution, watch out not to pour excessive amount of hot water tempreature which causes the foam to swollen further and create bubly surface or blister.  Do it slowly and you may need manually straighten the bend wing or surface if it was badly bend from the start because when the foam is in hot condition you can easily reshape back the parts to original state.   I did it dozen of time on my second hand plane i bought from my friends and it always works 100%  keeping the models foam surface back like into smooth surface.  So far it works on my EPP, EPO and normal foam used on planes models.  Try it out.  Cheers.