How cool is that!

Wow, Madeline emailed me back! How cool is that! Posted the correspondence in Friends & Stories.

I wrote an artical about the 'Secret to Flying Model Helicopters' and posted it at Amazon for sale. The only thing is you have to have a Kindle device to read it. Argh! From what I have read, eJunky is another alternative site to sell pdf's and such. I'll have to figure out how to do that. I posted a price of $1 for the Secret. I think you can preview the whole document so you don't really have to pay if you don't want to. But I can't even figure out how to do that, cause I don't have a Kindle.

While i was at Amazon the other day I applied for the affiliate program and they accepted me. So I went and found a text add, and then saw that I could add a store for free too! Nice. No inventory, no shipping, no accounts receivables, it is all handled by the order fullfillment group. So I added some Heli related publications, a Vibe 90 (only CP heli they had) and an Apache Trex canopy that I had never seen before. You can also buy a Kindle if you have an extre $300 or so.

Added some video of Tricks. Resolution is horrible though. I downloaded an alternative screen capture program for gaming last night but have not tested it out yet. I will test it tonight. Snagit is just not cutting it.

Tried to fly with the new Helmet cam at lunch today. It was freezing and I did not spend enough time warming up my flying skills. Went into a loop a little out of level and came out very weird. I saved it from augering in but then couldn't get oriented quick enough and crashed from about 3ft up right side up at least. Helmet Cam caught it all though. It worked pretty well except is was a bit of a distraction as I was flying. Note: After reviewing the footage, the heli tail spun out 180 to the left when I punched the throttle at the bottom of the loop. Caught me way off guard. I think I did not have the gyro set correctly for punches.

No more stunts until I am comfortable flying with it on. Maybe 4 or 5 packs or so. I was going to try and shoot a heli show tomarrow, but now I only have one bird that flies - the Trex500 which is running on a 6S A123 pack right now and I only get about 4.5 min a flight unless I solder on another cell. Oh well, that will have to do. They recharge in 15 minutes at least.

Added another link to this blog so people could leave feedback if they wish. Watched Dave P's 2nd eBusiness vid again last night too, then added some annotations to the Stall Turn Vid for tomarrow Tips & Tricks entry.

This is pretty hard and confusing for one person. But so is learning to fly a model helicopter.

Oh, I made a funny mouse shaped toy for my cat out of some extra EPS foam while I was waiting for a vid to render last night, she is always palying with left over bits and pieces. I suppose I should make her one that is heli shaped too!

Also, I am not getting enough sleep! But this is pretty fun.