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Sometimes an hour is just not enough time to cover all of the materials we want to, so in this week's 99th installment we'll pick up where we left off with last week's show.

Did you get some really cool swag for CHRISTmas? If so, SEND ME SOME PICS! LOL

With this show, we bring 2010 to a close. May each and every one of you enjoy a happy, healthy, and safe New Year, and may 2011 off you more properity than you know how to handle. We'll be back in a week, or two, with our 100th episode! Woot!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!

Hey, gang! I'm traveling today enroute to the grand state of Michigan to visit my family for CHRISTmas (wish me luck! LOL). Tim and I were, however, able to make some time to discuss some of the things that made 2010 a great year for us. There have been lots of great events; we've enjoyed many successes and accomplishments, and there have been too many new products hit the market this year to possibly cover (but we sure try!). We hope you enjoy this 98th installment. :)

This will be my last opportunity to wish you all the best for this holiday season. I hope that you all remember the "reason" for the season, and may Santa bring you all of the goodies on your lists!

In this 97th installment, I interview the PhlatBoyZ one last time for 2010. Join us as we look at the evolution of their product line this year and try to peer just a bit into the future! You may notice that there's no Dorsal in this podcast. I am sorry to have to report that he's been stricken with some medical problems that prohibit him from doing the show. What a crummy time of the year to be down! Dennis, I'll be thinking some good thoughts for your speedy recovery, bud!

LINKS:

Hance's G480 Build Pics (Front Page News Presently)

Melbourne FD Using Some Quad Technology (Thanks, Matt!)

Stef Flying His New TriWii-Copter In A Bit Of A Breeze

PhlatBoyZ

PhlatForum (The place to find all the cool stuff we discuss this week)

Oopsie! Our show this week ran a little long and I totally forgot to mention an addendum to our "Dear Santa" list that we talked about last week! Our buddy and long-time listener, RCDude07, has a few really nice things on his CHRISTmas list...

Dear Santa,

I'm a newlywed and new home owner this Christmas, so you know I don't have a lot of money and time to enjoy my hobby. So if you could give me more time in the week to fly and more money to spend, that would be awesome! However, I'd really like to have the Spektrum DX8, Blade mSR BNF, Ultra Micro Beast, and/or the new Ultra Micro X Extra 300 BNF.

As nice as those would be, I'd even settle for a field box, glow fuel, engine starter, glow plug, battery charger, and tools. As you know I'm on my own now for R/C flying and I don't have the support tools. After years of sharing with my dad as I grew up, I didn't realize how much was needed!

I've been good. I try to help all I can via RealFlight sessions, while at the field, flying at the local park, and on all the forums. So I think I deserve something from my list.

Been a good guy,
rcdude07

Well, the Holiday Season is upon us and, after our personal updates, Dennis, Tim, and I each share what's on our wishlists to Santa this year (as well as some listener lists, too). Additionally, you'll hear me talk about cutting MDF on my new Phlatty, you'll hear about some new feats in the full-scale aviation arena, and the RCadvisor will tell us about how we'll know when our design project goals have been fulfilled.

LINKS:

Flying Buggy

An Electric Home-built Takes Flight

Dear Santa,

We hope you have had a great year this year and are ready for eating LOTS of milk and cookies during your trip around the world this CHRISTmas. I hope you're not working those elves too hard!

Leo wants a brand new HK600GT helicopter to take his skills to the next level. Santa, would you happen to know a good, reasonably priced power system for one of these helis? Maybe your elves will know, huh. He would also enjoy someone putting in a local hobby shop in the St Augustine Florida area.

Hance just wants some warmer weather so he can fly more, so if you should happen to bump into that Jack Frost character, could you ask him to lay off with the cold weather just abit? If not, he could prolly use some coal in his stocking to help him stay WARM! :)

Dennis has been a really good boy this year and would really like an E-Flite Blade mSR to help him get into helicopter flying. Oh, and if it's not too much to ask, could he also get an FPV system? That would be so cool!

Little Timmy has also been good and would LOVE to have a Radian Pro,  an R/C Ultralight from like one of THESE or maybe even one of THESE , and maybe even a 108" Mud Duck from Mud Duck Aviation.

Mikey has prolly not been the best he could be all year, but he'll certainly try harder next year (I promise!). In addition to one of everything those other guys have on THEIR list, I would really dig on getting a SlowBipe, a DIY Drones ArduPilot System, a Go Pro Hero HD camera system, and a Parrot by AR Drones! Oh, a Dubro EZ Bender would make a great stocking stuffer!

Sincerely,

Leo, Hance, Dennis, Tim, and Michael

PS - Oh yeah, I guess Peace On Earth would be an okay gift, too.

PPS - Last time I saw you, you looked like you were losing weight. Looking good, Santa!

In our 95th installment, we discuss our friend's new Micro Yak and and then break off into some MultiRotor discussion (Yep, I've been bitten by the bug!). Also, the RCadvisor shares with us some great information on making aerodynamic struts and braces (both decorative and strengthening) for our larger projects.

Next week, we will be talking about what we will be putting on our CHRISTmas lists to Santa this year, and you're invited to participate, too! Just drop me an email (crash.hancock AT gmail.com) and tell us what you'd like to get this year and we'll read the letters on next week's show. Not a bad way of letting your friends and relatives know what you'd like to get, eh? (wink wink)

LINKS:

ToxicToast's New Micro Yak

Toast's Micro Yak Doing It's Thing

Some Great TriCopter Links ( 1, 2, 3 )

An Aerobatic QuadCopter?!? (Thanks Stef!)

XAircraft X650 QuadCopter (My bud Randy has this and LOVES it!)

If you go to THIS SITE and call the phone number listed at the bottom, you can ask them about the "seconds" that they have available. This is where Dorsal gets his $1 carbon tubing.

Boy, we talked about quite a bit in this 94th installment! We cover some pre-holiday sales, where to get my SketchUp Basics DVD, a cool steal on a used PhlatPrinter, some contests, some wicked-cool RC Kites, another new offering from E-Flite, and the RCadvisor is back this week with some talk on battery technology.

LINKS:

New Place To Get My SketchUp Basics DVD

Klondar's PhlatPrinter MK1.5

PhlatScript Does 3D Milling?

XtremeFlyer November Contests  GO VOTE , ENTER NOW TO WIN THIS ONE!

XtremeFlyer December Contest In The Works!

Hobby Lobby Pre-Turkey Day Sale

Hobby People Christmas In November (Check out that Diablo and Extra 300!)

12 Ft RC Kite INDOORS!

Carbon Z Yak 54  INFO  VIDEO

RC Speedometer For Android (How about one for iPhone??)

DaveReap UV Night Flyer

Even though it's been a CRAZY week around my place, we've got our 93rd show here for you! There's some info on driving buses, shooting video, a123 batteries, and we have a special visit from our buddy and fill-in cohost, IFLYOS! Also, if you've been wanting to snag a copy of my SketchUp Basics for the PhlatPrinter CNC DVD Tutorial, there's info in this 'cast on how to order your copy today!

LINKS:

R&R RC Designs

An 8 Foot INDOOR B17!?! (WOW!!)

TONS Of Info on FPV

IFLYOS FPV Thread

Cool FPV Vid!

Info On Ordering My DVD is HERE

Some "technical difficulties" with the first recording lead to having to re-record this week's show. Nonetheless, I think you'll find some good information in this 92nd installment.  I've got some videos for you to check out, some more contest information, some new places to get some great products that are made right here in the good ol' USA, and our RCadvisor sheds some light on the branding of some of the products we love.

LINKS:

PhlatPrinter 3 Tour and Cutting

Planet-CNC USB Card and Software

Hover And Smile's Mach One Combat Flyer

Flying Shark

XtremeFlyer Contest 1, Contest 2

Cool Places to get your Foamie Fix:

   AimRight Technologies

   G.H. Boyd Systems

   XtremeFoamies

   Guru Aviation

   3DMon Designs (oops! - forgot to mention this one in the show)

   Bad To The Foam

MiamiRacer's Wicked Cool Site!

senseFly swinglet CAM  (Video)

Boy, it was one busy week for me! I'll clue you in on it in this 91st installment, as well as answer some listener emails. Plus, we've got an all new Ask The RCadvisor segment this week, as well!

LINKS:

Lauderdale RC "Fly-What-You-Brung" Event In Caldwell, Texas

FlyDude's RCG Blog And 3DHS Edge Video

Inkscape (Free App For Drawing And Converting PDF to Vectors)

RCadvisor

Incompetech (FREE Graphiing Paper!)

We're back again this week with a little more talk about the Micro Airplane scene. After flying my new Ultra Micro 4-Site a bit, I am lovin' it! We also discuss E-Flite's latest announcement a bit - The UMX Extra 300! This little plane looks to be BIG on performance and it looks like E-Flite has another winner on it's hands.

Oh, yeah - eventhough I was unable to attend the 3D Hobby Shop OktoberFest Fly-In in Austin this weekend (a true shame, since I was IN Austin!), I got a few notes to share from my buddy Ron, that WAS there.

LINKS:

Joe's 4x4 Hybrid CNC

Fine Line Automation CNC (where MINE came from)

Halloween Decor At The PhlatForum (Register to see pics)

A Deal On Some Micro Hardware Over At RCG

Ultra Micro 4-Site Mods

UMX Extra 300

UMX Extra 300 Discussion And Vid At RCG

3D Hobby Shop

Some 3DHS Oktoberfest 2010 Pics