Thoughts of flight

Chopper Parts are here
A time to fly will arise
Jim will fly again

Finally, a smooth hover

This weekend had multiple opportunities to get the bird out. Unfortunately, I only took advantage of one of them. Seems I am a little rusty at hovering, so I am mainly working on getting that going again. I noticed that the control seemed to lack after a few minutes, I think I need new batteries. I have also made another decision, the little copter is fun, but I think it is time to migrate up to a larger model. Am I ready for the extra control? No, but here is my reasoning. First; my heli is so light, that it gets thrown around at the smallest of breeze. Second; The fixed pitch is driving me nutz. It really limits the altitude control. You have to wait for the head to spin down before you start to lose altitude. Third; I just want to, and that in its own is good enough for me. I have plenty of other toys and bills to take care of, but I think I will try to up the priority level of this one.

O.K. enough heli talk, have stuff to do.

Laterz,

-JbJ

First a hop, then a skip, then...

...Floating through the air with the, well, wobbly wings and rough landings to please. But it sure felt good.

The bird is air worthy again, and up she was. The first flight since forever. I stopped by Hub hobby on a whim a few weeks ago, not expecting much, but finding a wonderful surprise, they had my heli chassis. I didn't hesitate, I grabbed it and ran. Yes, I could of ordered it months ago, but I didn't, so there.

I felt a little rusty, but it came back quick. I figured I would keep it simple on my first flight in forever so I just hovered a little bit. Besides, since I changed out the main chassis I need to shake out the loose parts. Turned out to be the landing gear. So eventually it was crash as usual.

Keep tuned, I will be updating with future flights.

Ready to resume the crash training,

-JbJ

...

The bird is alive
Broken parts replaced
direct tail drive installed
all motion tested
awaiting calm day
another broken bird awaits

Bad Jim

Jim is sad he has not been flying, and therefore blogging has come to a halt. Opportunity knocked the other day, but timing declined.

Bad Jim, Bad.

-jBj

The Haikus are good, but fly I must

The previous barrage of haiku's make me want to keep the silence, for they are very entertaining. But alas, I must move forward with the voyage. The heli was not built to be a dust collector, and it saddens me to see it hanging unused on the wall. So move forward I shall. As of now it has not flown for many months due to many reasons, but first and foremost it has not flown due to laziness and slightly because of a broken part that can not be fixed with toothpicks and glue. So be it, I shall drill it and get some long screws and back in the air it will be.

So I pulled it off the wall and blew off the dust. I plan on having it operational in the next day or two. First I must purchase a bit small enough to drill out the front mounting holes for the landing gear. After that I will have to locate all of the parts required to reassemble it. That may prove to be a bit more challenging, but not a show stopper.

Fear not faithfull readers, this bird will fly again.

-JbJ

The Camera Phone - What a Buffoon

So I am really disappointed in my phones camera quality. I mean, it is a camera phone so I wasn't expecting much, but geez, these images look like total crap. The color is really dull. I swore when I first got it the pictures were a lot better, but thought that maybe I just imagined that. I have messed with the white balance, and the picture quality settings, but nothing. Oh well, it is just a camera phone after all, and as I said earlier, I did not expect much from it. Well, last week I was out of town and wanted to take a picture of something and did not have a regular camera, all I had was my crummy camera phone. I took it out and snapped a couple of pictures, only to be disappointed as expected and immediately put it back in to its holster, not to touch it again for a while. Then I got to thinking, what if, NO, why didn't I think of this earlier. What if the lens is actually dirty? Yeah, you were all probably thinking of this already, "check the lens, check the lens". I can hear you all chirping already. Well, there it is, the lens is filled with lint and garbage. By design the lens is recessed a couple of millimeters, making for a perfect lint trap. So I cleaned it out and what do you know, this thing takes decent pictures. Yeah, it is only 2 mega pickels, but what the hell, when you have nothing else it is not to bad. I can't believe I didn't think of that damn lens right away. Oh well, where is that box it came in?

For your reference, here are two different pictures that were taken with in a few minutes from each other. You will notice one is dull and dreary, where the other one is crisp and clear.














I am such a dummy :(

Oh well, until my next woops,

-JbJ