Reader’s Opinion is back this month! And this Reader’s Opinion is… Do you use AS3X on your UM planes? Me? I haven’t modded anything yet, so my fleet is mostly non-AS3X because the fleet is completely stock. Now it’s your Read more…
FPV might be the most fun part of the RC hobby, but the FAA is trying to regulate it because of a few experienced pilots and the people who have “the cool new flying camera gadget” flying their quadcopters (mostly Read more…
Take a look at Horizon Hobby’s latest products, the new Spektrum DX7, which looks exactly like a seven channel version of the DX6 and the Spektrum DX18 Stealth Edition. How many DX18 editions can they have? Version 1, QQ version, Read more…
Today there are no planes or quadcopters or radios or FPV included in this post. Ominous. I know. Kind of like that FliteTest video where Josh and Chad said that a company was buying them. (If you don’t watch FT, Read more…
This is essentially a “Part 2” of the last Reader’s Opinion; last time I asked what planes, if any, you wanted to get over the holidays, and today I’m asking what planes you actually got. What UM planes, if any, Read more…
I got some of what I predicted in last year’s last post for Christmas! Let me tell you about them… 1. Nano QX FPV I thought FPV would be fun. But I was wrong. It’s VERY fun! I never even Read more…
Firstly, happy 2015! I chose to schedule this post for exactly 12:00 AM on January first so I could have it posted at exactly the moment that 2015 came to be! Pretty cool that this is one of the only Read more…
There was no RO on December 14th because of the holidays… Today I have a special Christmas edition of Reader’s Opinion. Here’s the question: What RC planes, if any, are you hoping to receive as gifts this holiday season? I’ll Read more…
I have been thinking: why do I fly RC planes? Well, I decided to tell you! 1. It can be relaxing 2. It can be exciting 3. It is nearly always fun 4. It’s something to do 5. It gets Read more…
This is umFlight’s first Christmas season. To be honest, I had two very different visions of what umFlight would be like at this time when starting umFlight. It turns out that both were very wrong. Vision 1: was of me Read more…