Parkzone P-51D Review

   Guttentag und willkommen to SwashBlade RC! Today I am writing a review on the P-51D Mustang. Now, if you have followed my blog in the past you well know that I had trouble flying it. Well today the weather let up just enough for me to fly and I flew it long enough to write a review.

   Before I get in to the Parkzone model, first a little history on the P-51D Mustang. The North American P-51 Mustang actually started with the British, it served in the RAF as a fighter-bomber and later a bomber escort. The P-51 served in other European Air Forces and saw limited service in The Pacific War against the Japanese. The P-51 also saw service in the begining of the korean war but was later replaced by the F-86 Sabre. The P-51 saw service until the early 80's.

   Parkzone's Ultra Micro version of the P-51D flew great. One thing I found inmpressive is that this tiny aircraft is in fact 4 channel! Unlike some larger planes which don't have a rudder. As I first may have had problems when I took it out to the flying field I had a blast. The thing you have to remeber about war birds is they like to go fast. The P-51 goes extremely fast, especially on low passes. I also performed a loop and a roll!

   Overall, I fell like the Parkzone did an outstanding job on the P-51D. If you have problems on trim you have your digital trim and can switch spots on your control horn. I have been flying for about 7 months now but I have little expirence with war birds. One thing I recommend is go to the flying field where you have plenty of space to climb high.

   As for the landing, I did alright, I rolled over acouple times. The important thing is "any landing you can walk away from is a good landing, but any landing where you can use the plane again is a great landing!"

   Sorry, but no footage of me flying the Parkzone P-51 but enjoy this video of the P-51 in the Realflight Demo. I discovered it can hover after a couple of weeks of just messing around with the P-51. Enjoy!



(Some information from http://www.wikipedia.org/)

Sunday Field Day

    Hello and willkommen to SwashBlade RC! On sunday we finally had a break from the bad weather so we went out to the field in the morning. The morning went well, I started off with my Hobbyzone Champ on homemade floats, FAIL! Sort of, flew for awhile berfore ripping off on landing.

   After that I had another club member test out my Parkzone Ultra Micro P-51D, I geuss it checks out alright, it just needs to fly at greater speeds.

   Then later a different member inspected my T-28 Trojan, after he trimmed it out he let me fly and it flew great. This was the first time in months, last time I flew it I crashed it up in Oregon. Hopefully the weather will clear up soon so I can get more stick time for my review.

  Sorry, no video for today due to camera problems.

Model Trains

      Hello and welcome to the first official blog of the 2011 year. This year we are starting off by working on a couple Model Train projects. Just recently I got my first n-scale locomotive, an atlas GP 30. Combine that with a couple of cars, Kato track and a  controller and you have a couple hours of desktop fun on your hand.

      In today's video the track being is in fact Kato's track. I found that Kato track can easily be taken  apart and put back together which allows for temporary layouts on your desk, kitchen table or even your floor. I would recommend flex track for a more permanent layout.

      I also found my old Santa Fe locomotive (HO scale.) Hopefully I will create either a permanent or  temporary layout. Either way I will probably run it at my friend's layout and create a video about that.

      The picture in the left is my GP 30, photo shot on sn3 track. Taken at my firend's layout. In other news I recently got a copy of Trainz 2009 so keep an eye out for future articles and videos. You can go ahead and subcribe by click the subscribe button on the right.