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In this, our 219th installment of the our show, we change things up quite a bit from our normal routine. Due to technical problems beyond our control, we were forced to start a little later than normal, but we were able to roll with it. LoL We get an update from our good friend Eric Kendall regarding the Wings For Wishes III Montana event that is fast approaching. There are going to be some great prizes to be had by those that attend!

We also get to visit with a long-time friend, Mr. Greg Markley from West Michigan Parkflyers! His visit is timely, in that I also do a short review on the Tuff Cub that WMP is now kitting (what a great little plane!). I have to say that John Vanbaren (aka "aircontrol") did a fantastic job in the design of this plane, and WMP is supplier an awesome kit! I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this one to any newb starting out fresh in the hobby!

LINKS:

Wings For Wishes Over MT III (Aug. 17th and 18th)

Watts Over Owatonna (Aug. 2nd-4th)

HHAEFI (Oct. 17th-19th)

Let's Go "Drone" Hunting!

Amazing FPV Footage (Thanks, Korey!)

What Crazy Evil Wizardry Is This??

WMParkflyers Tuff Cub

RCG Tuff Cub Build Thread

WMP Micro McFoamy X

RCgirl's 2nd Flight On MMX (Yep, She's a WMP Sponsored Pilot now)

Jase Dussia's Winning King 50 Flight

What's Ronbo Been Up To?

We've got the full gang together again for this 218th installment of our show, and in this one we share what all we've been up to, including some more MultiRotor talk. We are happy that Navionflyer has made it safe and sound to his new North Carolina residence and, hopefully, Tim will get him in with the great bunch of guys that he gets to fly regularly with, We've also got some new products to talk about and some letters to share.

Oh, and let's not forget that Laine is offering up another challenge. LoL Really, Laine??

LINKS:

Watts Over Owatonna is fast approaching!

Wings For Wishes Montana is only 1 month away!

HHAEFI is only 3 months away!

Hangar 9 60-sized Sback 342

UMX Habu 180 DF  (coming soon)

Blade 350 QX Quad (a Phantom challenger presents itself)

The FLIP (Still our pick for the best RTF Quad)

Sikorsky Prize Winning Flight (WOW!)

DIY Android Controllable Quad

DIY (Drone It Yourself) Quad Kit

Provotroll's FPV Vids - Mountain Scenery and Sunny Day (BEAUTIFUL!)

RC Heli Fatality (Remember, use the "Buddy System"!)

Again, if you're wondering about the title of this week's show, your mystery will be solved when you listen to this 217th installment. KarlK was unable to make it tonight, as was Navionflyer, but Tim and Laine were able to make it, so you'll get to hear all about what we've been up to. We covered lots of ground this week, so sit back, relax, and enjoy!

LINKS:

BIG Quad Lifts Lots Of Weight!

Laine's Big Cuda Caught On Camera (Thanks, Coreman!)

Cheapie Office Quad

Video Highlights - Pecan Patch FPN FlyIn

FiremanBill And Mason Flying Thru The Fireworks (Too Cool!)

WMP New Tuff Cub (Beautiful site, too!)

TX5805 Cam/TX and Rx (Tim's new FPV goodies)

MassiveRC (You entry-level Quad source)

3.5" TFT LCD Monitor (For my DIY FPV Goggles)

Latest WAA-08 News

Jet-Powered Extra 260? (Yep!)

Some Interesting Fodder For Scratch-builders

3B Printing? (Yes, that's a "B")

Kramer's Powered Bike

Can "Drones" Save African Wildlife From Poachers?

What in the world is "Karling" you ask? Well, you'll find out in this 216th installment (and we expect you to use this term as much as possible in your day to day lives LoL). This week, we've got lots of news, links, and we even answer a few letters. We've also got the Coreman with us to share what all he's got going on over at RACores!

We gave away the last of our prizes this week, and our lucky winner was Buckley Stamps (aka Cloudsplitter). Buckley won an RACores Yak55 kit (courtesy of the Coreman) that also included a Thunderbird 9 ESC (courtesy of Castle Creations). Now here's the COOL part: Buck asked that we send the package to Eric's Wing For Wishes Montana event on behalf of him and the rest of the Crash Cast listeners! How awesome is that?! God bless you, Buckley!

LINKS:

RCRich's Flyin' Mike And Minion (too cool!)

Drone Falls Dangerously Out Of Sky (Come on, guys!)

Athletic Power Of Quads

Sawatt's Warwick Pics

PhlatForum v2.0

Altitude Has Hexacrafter! (Wow, these things are cool!)

LazerToyz FT Power Packs

FT-3D Speed Build Now Shipping

Instructables Quad (files for you CNCers!)

DX18 Bonus Buy

E-Flite Beast 60e

HeadsUpRC In The Multi Game

Crash's $140 Aerobatic Quad

Joel's H-Blu-O Kit (An RACores Kit!)

Super-Lite 3mm Yak (Currently In Process at RACores)

RACores ME-109 (Coming soon!)

Leadfeather's 3D Delta (Also coming soon to RACores!)

And on a final note, if you should have an idea where a valve cover for an OS FS-91 Surpass could be found for cheap, please email KarlK! Yep, he "Karled" the new plane! LoL

In this 215th installment of our show, we get an update of the National Electric Fly-In that was held this last weekend from our buddy Steve "Vintauri" Mills. Steve had a great time and it looks as though the event was a huge success! Special thanks goes out to Vintauri for taking the time to visit with us fresh off the road from this trip.

We also did something a bit different, in that we did a "brainstorming session" on a new project we will be working on, and we are looking for YOU to participate! We are looking for the best, least expensive design, but very aerobatic Quad design that you guys can come up with for an additional "Crash's Scratchbuild Club" project. When we pick the best design I will do a Build-Along Video Series on it, crediting the designer in the video. Remember, it needs to be something that a newbie can build with typical hand tools and we plan to incorporate the typical "Blue Wonder" type motors (2712-12). We'll discuss this project a little more in depth during the next show, but start working on YOUR design NOW!

Our lucky winner this week was BrownEyedFool, taking away a nice new Castle Thunderbird 54 ESC courtesy of our good friends, Castle Creations, the manufacturers of the greatest controllers on the planet!

LINKS: 

Flint Flyers (Skynutt's Club)

Karl Doing In His Radikal G30 (oopsie!)

Balsa ARF Parkflyer Shootout

Watts Over Owatonna

MassiveRC (They attend our LIVE streams!)

ReadyToFlyQuads (We will be getting some goodies for our Cheap Quad from here!)

Radical RC Mini Tote Box M3 (The REAL DEAL)

Can You Spot The Chinese Rip-off?

In this 214th installment of our show, we continue on with our "Summer Of MultiRotors/FPV" theme by visiting with Paul Baxter (aka Witespy), an avid MultiRotor pilot and the owner of ReadyToFlyQuads. Paul loves and promotes this aspect of our hobby and has some of the best deals you'll ever find on parts and accessories for your MultiRotor needs, as well as offering some great ready to fly Quads (hence the name of his business) that are high on quality, but still easy on the wallet. Best of all, when you get one of his Quads, you can rest assured that it will fly right out of the box since he tests every one he sells before boxing it up and shipping it to you! I have been flying one of my older Quads using his FLIP 1.5 board (only $15!!), as well as a complete FLIP FPV system, and I can certainly assure you that these things are NICE!

Also, we continue to exhaust our prize pool by plucking another name out of the hat. This week, Dougbo gets to add another great ESC to his collection, as he won a Thunderbird 36 courtesy of our good friends over at Castle Creations! Congrats, Doug, and thanks for your support!

LINKS:

Flying Bicycles?? (SEFF 2014 project?)

DIY Cheap, Sturdy, 1 Hour Quad (Great work, Mark H.!)

flitelab (A great source for our Canadian MultiRotor junkies)

A BEAST Of A Beast (just WOW!)

Some GOOD MultiRotor Publicity (for a change)

Castle's New Vertigo Heli Motors

Witespy On YouTube

Battle Quads? (Paul and Alan ripping it up)

ReadyToFlyQuads

Hoverthings (VERY nice Quad frames!)

This 213th installment of our little show has a LOT to offer! We had a little impromptu "Happy Birthday, Kristy" contest in addition to our weekly giveaway (Ryan B won a Castle 10amp BEC, courtesy of our friends over at Castle Creations). We also got a great report from our buddy Steve "Vintauri" Mills on the Sig Fly-In that he was able to attend this weekend, too. And finally, our special guest this week is none other than Geoff Dryer! If you're into BIG electric projects and follow the RCGroups site, then you probably already know about his incredible scratch-built 50% Clipped Wing Cub. This guy does some fine work!

LINKS:

HHAEFI 2013 (Don't miss this one!)

3rd Annual Southeastern FPV Fly-In (At The PeacanPatch!)

Watts Over Owatonna Fly-In (I am SO trying to make this one!)

Team Tracon's Chilliwack Fly-In 2013 Pics

Politest Rednecks In The World? (Horseless Carriage Video)

50% Clipped Wing Cub Build Thread

Triple ThreatRC On YouTube (Great vids, incl. the 50% Clipped Wing)

So if you're wondering about the name of this 212th show, then you need to start listening to our LIVE stream on Sunday evenings at 8pm CDST. I will say, though, that MetroGTi is the one that coined this unigue title. LoL

For those of you that have been wanting more Multi-Rotor talk, well, it's starting to happen! Tim and I have been having some great success with the Flight Controller boards that we've gotten from ReadyToFlyQuads, and we are growing our skills fairly quickly learning all of the cool things these systems will provide. Best of all, they are not expensive at all! If you're looking at getting a quad in the air on a budget, you'll certainly want to listen in because I give a nie little recipe for success!

Congrats to our winners this week! We gave away Castle Creations 10amp BEC to BigD61 and a ReadyToFlyQuads Flip 1.5 Flight Controller to PCPhil! A special thanks goes out to the fine sponsors for offering up these great prizes. Hit their links and check them out!

LINKS:

HHAEFI Dates Announced!

Hance In A Dress?? (It was for a great cause, tho)

Build The "BOB"

SEFF 2013 Pics (Courtesy Of FLYRC)

4in1 ESC (Nav is getting one for his Quad)

Witespy's Youtube Channel

Robodiptera? (Thanks, Tony!)

"Drones" Causing Privacy Concerns

Horizon's New SAFE Technology

Guillow's PC-6 Porter (Interesting RC Project)

This 211th installment of our show is full of all kinds of fun stuff! The whole gang is in the workshop this Memorial Day weekend, and we get a special update from our roving reporter, Hance Andreason! He comes to us all the way from the great Northwest to give us a little update for the Wings For Wishes Washington event! We also get to talk to Clark, DougBo, and Eric, as well as Leslie who tells us a bit about how the funds they're raising benefit some great kiddos that are dealing with some really hard times. Although that event won't come to a conclusion until Monday, it looks like they are raising some great dough!

Also, we get in a fun interview with Peter Sripol, who you probably know better as "Foam And Tape" from the RCGroups Forums. We had a nice time talking RC with this young man and I'm certain you'll enjoy listening.

We gave away a couple more prizes this week, and the lucky winners were Richard "Webdragon" Cooper (CastleLink) and Doug "DougBo" Bowman (Thunderbird 18). Many thanks go out to Castle Creations for these sweet products!!

LINKS:

Make A Wish AK/WA (WFW WA is supporting this chapter)

Karl Going To The Spring Fly-In (LoL)

Giant Sopwith Pup Karl Talks About

Karl's Sloppy Autos

Foam And Tape's RCG Blog

Foam And Tape's YouTube Channel

Chimera VTOL (Frickin' AWESOME!)

Chimera Thread On RCG

ReadyToFlyQuads (Where we get our awesome quads)

CastleCreations (The BEST ESC's In The Land!)

We are back in the studio this week for our 210th installment of the show. We have some listener emails, some special events thats are coming up, and we get a chance to visit with our "special" friend, Joel "MetroGTi" Dirnberger! Joel is the author of that cool little plane that Tim and I loved playing with a few weeks ago called the Blu-FO. He's concocted a few different iterations of this design, including a Night-Flyer, a "Low Rider", and even an amphibious version called the H-Blu-O. What makes Joel extra "special" is that he has even coordinated TWO club builds of this design, helping others get on that building bandwagon!

LINKS:

RCTS Fun Fly

3rd Annual FPV Fly-In at the Pecan Patch

Wings For Wishes WA

Chilliwack Spring Fly-In  MAAC Event Details

SMALL 2013

Warwick All Electric Fun Fly

50% J3

Limited Run Of Ritewings (Time to order yours!)

TK-950 Soldering Station

Hakko FX-888 Soldering Station

Weller Soldering Station (The one I use)

Tim's Little Soldering Iron

MetroGTi's RCG Blog

BluFO Parkflyer

Creepy Video Of The Week