Lots of hits from Australia lately

Guilty of insufficient blogging!

Iheartheli webpage is working well, except for I do not like the WYSIWYG editor for adding new stories. If you go past the initial small text area with your story you cannot scroll down and see what you wrote! Not a big deal if you write in word or something then post it in. And pictures are a pain to insert. So usually I am writing the story in the old Google sites page, inserting pictures, then copy and pasting it into the new sites new content page. Kind of defeats the purpose of having the new site a little. I'll have to try a new psot editor.

Lots of hits from Australia lately. Mostly on the Sexy Heli Chicks vid link from youtube. Interesting.

Made a bunny canopy for the King to fly for easter. Somehow, I almost ended up insulting the Queen of England in the post about the bunny canopy on heliguy forum.

Going back to 6S LiPO on the Trex500

Too long since i blogged! 5 Lessons of Flight School done. A lot of posative feedback. I think I am going to start a rc heli mechanics school also. I did not want to duplicate what was already out there, but I think it would be nice if people could get all the basic info about it here as well. So, I may not be the best mechanic, but I know a little 'bout it.

The joomla site just got revamped with a new site template. I like the cool BlueFairy template a lot! I cannot figure out how to get Newsflashes to display however, and the polls are not working either.

I don;t mind the skyscraper banner on the right that much because it has cool pics of heli. The Amazon mp3 sampler is cool, and I likeded the wii add too. (btw I heard Katie Perry sucked live).

Going back to 6S LiPO on the Trex500. Had to fab a battery tray cause I can;t find the old one. It's here somewhere. Should I buy a CNC one for $9? Hmmm.

Flight School

I started the heli Flight School three weeks ago because I saw none on YouTube and my friend Suvro wants to learn to fly.

Joomla site goes live.

I ported the domain over to the new joomla site last night, Had a little trouble getting the new nameservers to update but it is live now.

Kaos seems to be looming large in my life at the moment. My dad has Alzheimers and it he has been telling me some very weird things like the atomic bombs set off in the 40s caused the Earth to shift axis and this is why we are having a cold winter now. OK dad.

It has been difficult to keep up with the web site and flying and making flight school vids and work.

I still have a million ideas though. I am going to try some interesting stunts after the weather warms up like flying loops around an old smokestack.

Lego animation kick

Joomla has been a little frustrating. I do not have exact control over everything quite yet. I hope to have it go live pretty soon though.

I have been on a lego animation kick of late. There are many animators out there that so it much better than I. But there was learning in the process, so I am a better editor now for it. And I have shed many tears of laughter.

Used an audio track from Creative Commons on the last Twinstar flight vid. That worked out well. I want to try and use only copy-audio material that i have permission to use. It is really tempting though to use Lady Gaga music. Perhaps I shall try and contact her label.

Joomla

I decided to port this site over to using joomla. Joomla is a good content manager and I can use it to set up stories to run over a certain interval and then automatically move to another page when time is up. This way I won't have to edit the page so much, I just have to learn how to use joomla. My nephew Elliot was very nice to host it on his server for me.

KingZilla had to be put on hold again. 1) I started building the TwinStarII and it was hogging the workspace. 2) I found another major problem besides the broken ball on the Esky CNC blade grip. The GuruZ frame for the heli with CNC head was completely severed behind the motor mount. Argh.

The Twinstart II build vid is sort of comical. In the end it flew absolutely great! After two days and about 6 flights I can say that this plane is exactly what i wanted. Takes off slow from a hand launch, climbs out great, glides wonderfully slow, can perform aerobatics and fly fast also, and I can land it in a relatively small area by circling slowly.

Next week I think the speaker mod is comming out, then the external lighting project.

KingZilla comming out of retirement!

Built part of the TwinStar II tonight. Got tubes in and rudder and elevator servos glued into main body. I need servo extension wires before I glue the body halves together.

I am doing a build vid, but admittedly build vids are not my thing. There are many people doing build vids. I do not want to be known for this. I want to be known for inventions and modifications and experimentation and helping people learn to fly. So really, I am just trying to get this plane off my heli table so i can fire up the KingZilla again and figure out why it is such a misfit. I don't think it will fly, but I would like to understand exactly why not!

I think the TwinStar will be a plane that I will like to fly for a long time. Not just a stepping stone. I am excited for it to fly. Something to relax and fly when I maybe don't want the adrenaline rush of a heli for a minute.