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I just wanted add a few more pictures and write up a quick blurb about the most recent flights of my Brio 10. I found a new place to fly, even better than where I maidened it. There’s a new subdivision going in right next to mine that is a little more than [...]

I’m going to keep a running tally of the new Thunder Power eXtreme 2200mAh 3S lipo battery pack I just bought for my Brio 10/Stryker/Super Cub planes and figured here would be as good a place as any to keep record. The charger I have is the Duratrax IntelliPeak Digital Ice. The pack [...]

I did the maiden flight of my new E-flite Brio 10 this evening. I wasn’t planning on flying it today, since I just barely finished it this afternoon, but the weather was all too perfect to pass up, the winds were almost non-existent, and the packs were charged and ready to go. I [...]

This year for Christmas my wife bought me the E-Flite Brio 10 ARF R/C plane complete with all the accessories needed to get it flying. About two months ago I was browsing through the latest Horizon Hobby catalog when I noticed a great deal on the Brio 10 with a Park 480 BL motor [...]

This one is for all you piano-playing Matt Nathanson fans. After listening to Some Mad Hope several times through (which is a great album by the way, highly recommended from a long-time Matt fan) I thought that it would be cool to figure out Heartbreak World, which is the third song on that album. [...]

I thought for sure it would go down in a fiery death spiral from which it would never return. Instead, upon being released from my hand, it flew straight and steady and climbed ever so slightly and slowly into the sky high above. With very little additional trimming, she was flying beautifully for [...]

Once again I’ve fall prey to Tower Hobbies’ $10 off coupon tactics to get me to buy stuff I don’t need, but can’t pass up because hey, it’s like getting $10 for free. So I bought a Great Planes FlatOut Extra 300S for $19.99 (which came out to $9.99 after the 10 bucks off). [...]