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02 July 2009
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the third generation
Last updated: 27 Jun 2009
If you have been following this post, you'll know that in Jan I started a new hobby - RC Helicopters. I started out with a Honeybee FP and now have started building one of my two 450 class helis. 
 
27th June 2009 
 
Thanks to some excellent pointers from the Heliguy.com forum, i've sussed the problem with the motor - a badly soldered joint was causing the motor to run in 2 phases opposed to 3. So corrected that, sorted some other issues with the tail and it was time to fly.... 
 
...after a nervous first spool up, the tail was whipping around the wrong direction - doh, reversed the rudder. Spool up second time, this time tail whipping around (pirouetting) - what now - then figured i had the reverse switch on the gyro set wrongly. Once set, I had a rock solid tail - and i mean rock solid... 
 
anyway enough blabbing some video... 
 
 
 
26th June 2009 
 
Something is amiss. I cannot for the life of me get any life out of the brushless motor. It jerks around whilst drawing huge ampage from the battery. A bit purplexed.... 
 
19th June 2009 
 
Not much progress, soldered bullet connectors onto ESC and motor 
 
 
18th June 2009 
 
Yahoo, today I received some more parts for the 450, so phase 2 of the build can begin. Parts arriving today:- 
 
Turnigy 2836-3700Kv motor 
TURNIGY Plush 40amp Speed Controller 
MKS DS480 Digital Servo 
3 x HXT900 Servos 
 
17th June 2009 
 
Well i have bought myself two Dragon Sky 450, which are Trex 450 clones. I am currently building one, this can be seen below. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The details of the Honey Bee FP can be found here 
 
Some pictures of my heli 
 
Added some video of some of my flights. Nose-in still proving to be a bit elusive - can't quite get my head into acting in reverse. 
 
 
 
Also have treated my self to a new transmitter - a Spektrum DX7
 
 
 
Some of our Xmas photos 2008
Last updated: 07 Jan 2009
    Lets start 2009 off with some pictures of Xmas 2008.                          
 
Last updated: 26 Nov 2008
I've added two more photo collections for November, the first is a collection of photos from two visits to Marwell Zoo. The second collection is just a random set of photos, mostly of Daniel pottering around the house
How shared hosting spoiled my day
Created: 15 Nov 2008
Found the cause of the poor performance of the photo album. I was using the Exif information from my images to pull out information such as width and height, but my logic to do so was running at 15 to 20ms per image on my dev machine, but running at an awful 300ms on my shared hosting platform...grrrrr. 
 
So i've turned off this feature and i'll think you'll see the performance is far better.
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