{"id":9932,"date":"2010-01-10T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/01\/10\/our-new-r-c-electric-airplane\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T03:34:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:34:43","slug":"our-new-r-c-electric-airplane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/01\/10\/our-new-r-c-electric-airplane\/","title":{"rendered":"Our New R\/C Electric Airplane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HBZ7000.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 173px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/HBZ7000.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425018478512119282\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>We are thinking that olive groves are not quite as forgiving as the corn fields that the kid in the picture is using. And the bit about &#8220;no experience needed&#8221; probably should have a &#8220;as long as you don&#8217;t mind crashing.&#8221; Oh well, I guess crashing is part of the learning experience. But a quick review of the pertinent R\/C airplane forums reveals there may be problems with this wing design: Apparently when it stalls, one wing stalls before the other (i.e. it &#8220;tip stalls&#8221;), with catastrophic results. The plane has a very comforting ACT (&#8220;Anti-Crash Technology&#8221;) feature, but the forums advise that this feature may cause more crashes than it prevents.<\/p>\n<p>We have the plane back on the Rome workbench this weekend. Crazy glue and tape are being applied. We will be back out at Chinghale International Airport (i.e. a clearing in the olive grove) next weekend to see if we can get a few good flights out of this thing.<\/p>\n<p>Radio notes: The radio control system is on 27.145 MHz FM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are thinking that olive groves are not quite as forgiving as the corn fields that the kid in the picture is using. And the bit about &#8220;no experience needed&#8221; probably should have a &#8220;as long as you don&#8217;t mind crashing.&#8221; Oh well, I guess crashing is part of the learning experience. But a quick &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/01\/10\/our-new-r-c-electric-airplane\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our New R\/C Electric Airplane&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-r-c-plane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9934,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932\/revisions\/9934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}