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May 20	Honey Bee FP RC Heli Vibration Manifesto – Does your Honey Bee FP have a vibration that you can\'t track down? look like it\'s being shaken apart by the paint mixer at Lowe\'s? Or is it just
Apr 14	Real Coaxial Helicopters – I've been thinking a little bit about coaxial helicopters (and how much I want one). Here's a video of one in action. The typical helicopters everyone
Mar 18	Low-Voltage Alarm – Well, I got some new batteries on Friday, and the tail's still acting funky, so there's good news and bad news. Good news: I'm up one battery that I t
Mar 10	'Bee Issues – When I got my little helicopter for Christmas, I didn't know anything about the lithium polymer battery that came with it. For the first 10-20 flights	(2 comments)
Mar 4	Chopper Update – It's been a busy and difficult week at school, which means I've been shirking those responsibilities and playing extra-hard with my toy helicopter. I
Feb 27	RC Helicopter Links – A list of the sites I've found to be helpful so far while learning to fly my Honey Bee FP. Probably of little interest to anyone other than myself.
Feb 27	Pirouette! – We had a test this morning, which more importantly means that I had the whole day off from 10:00a.m. onward. Naturally, I've been using that time to f	(1 comment)
Feb 24	Crash Log – I crashed again this morning. It was a stupid mistake, but then, most of them are. Accidentally allowed it to pass over my head and I couldn't get my
Feb 24	Canopy Makeover – I crashed my heli into a tree trunk a few days ago. Amazingly, the only thing broken was the canopy, but it was smashed up pretty bad. I first tried t
Feb 18	Quote – From Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence, chapter 25: [Our current culture] is rather typical of modern technology, an overall dullness of ap
Feb 18	Dog House – I built most of a dog house today. I've had what I think must have been a huge bulletin board in my shed since I moved in, and I decided to put it to	(1 comment)
Feb 13	Pickles: 11 Pounds of Helicopter Terror – I went out flying Sunday with Erin's fiancé Josh in my dog yard. I took the dogs with us, and our dachshund Pickles started doing what she does
Feb 10	New Skids – I finished the new skids I've been working on for my helicopter. Like the original skids, these are made out of carbon fiber. But instead of the 2 mm
Feb 7	Crash – Had a pretty bad crash yesterday. I was flying in the dog yard when April pulled into the driveway. I got distracted by this and let it drift into a b
Jan 26	Heli Fixes – Still working on the nose-in hovering. It's coming along, but I'm still along way from being as good as I am tail-in. I had some nasty accidents today	(1 comment)

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