Well the Blade 130X arrived yesterday at stores in the UK, so naturally we quickly charged our LiPos and took the model outside for a test flight.

Here was mine… …
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Team Midland and some close friends setup a road trip to Limerick in the Republic of Ireland in order to attend the 3D Ireland 2012 competition. Two of our group were judges for the competition, Jason Platts and Mat Watkin, while a further five of us were entered to compete in either the Grass Roots level, or the Experts level.

Adam Millard and Mo Abdelbasit …
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Been flying the soon to be released Blade 130x from Horizon Hobby for a few weeks now and here’s a quick video review of what you get and the sort of flight performance this little baby will give you!

What does stand out about this heli is that the tail is rock solid and the cyclics feel very locked. I still cannot get over how …
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The weather was dead set against this weekend, but despite that it was an amazing event.

Grant Cooper put together a superb 3 day Helifest, which involved as much flying as the weather would allow. When it wasn’t raining, there were helicopters in the air!

The Air competition, organised by our very own Richie Clark (and I believe Mattie Lodge had a little to do …
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This weekend is the Weston Park Model Aircraft show, and this year it will be extra special owing to the HeliFest event taking place there.

The HeliFest event includes the Air competition, which has garnered interest from all of the UKs top pilots, all the way down to the new grass roots level pilots. Massive appeal across the range of skill levels will no doubt …
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Hey all.

Thought I’d share a little tip I learnt recently from the Master and his tutor, namely Duncan Osbourn and Russ Deakin.

Recently I’ve been feeling as though I was struggling to feel where the control sticks of my JR DSX12 were under my thumbs and overheard Duncan say he was going to get Russ to sharpen his transmitter sticks. A quick look at …
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Spring Charmouth! In most years this has always marked the beginning of the Heli season. But with several flyins already happened in 2012 including North London flyin and the epic Stainburn hosted by Tim Procter, it felt more like business as usual. Being within an hour and a half’s drive this is the closest flyin on the calendar for me, plus it’s always been as …
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Several of Team Midland will be heading down to the Charmouth flyin, once again organised by the AHA.

The weather is looking to be a bit intermittent with some rain and some cloudy sunshine forecast, but we’ve never let that stop us all having a great time, and catching up with friends down there.

There will be some indoor fun in the bar area at …
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The Align T-Rex 600 DFC Head currently available is not intended for use on the Nitro T-Rex 600, but only the electric version and the T-Rex 550.

The problem being the supplied main shaft is the wrong length for use on the Nitro model.

Not that I was about to let that deter me

The correct length shaft can be made by machining down a …
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Recently I’ve decided to move over from Castle controllers to the new YGE range. One thing I was going to miss though was being able to set an exact RPM in the governor mode. I like to know exactly what RPM I am doing without having to tach the model. Many ESC’s have governor modes but you have to tach the model to know what …
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