{"id":55,"date":"2007-05-25T13:41:15","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T20:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/25\/multiplex-easystar-rc-maiden-flight\/"},"modified":"2019-08-12T07:16:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:16:23","slug":"multiplex-easystar-rc-maiden-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/25\/multiplex-easystar-rc-maiden-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiplex EasyStar R\/C Maiden Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I built a Multiplex EasyStar for a friend last week. We bought the receiver ready version, so it came with servos and motor mounted, and fuselage almost totally assembled. It wasn&#8217;t much of a build. The motor is slightly underpowered with a 7-cell NiMH battery, so we&#8217;re upgrading the ESC and throwing in an 8-cell NiMH pack. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;ll do much better.<\/p>\n<p>The maiden flight went very well. The best indicator of a good flight is a smooth landing, which this video shows:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/v\/SjKF_y9HfZw\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/v\/SjKF_y9HfZw\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This video shows some of the aerobatics the plane is capable of with stock motor:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/v\/AN3Hkvkg9Ig\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/v\/AN3Hkvkg9Ig\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Today we went out and thermaled it from the heat of our park&#8217;s parking lot. I kept it in the air for about 5 minutes with no power. It was great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I built a Multiplex EasyStar for a friend last week. We bought the receiver ready version, so it came with servos and motor mounted, and fuselage almost totally assembled. It wasn&#8217;t much of a build. The motor is slightly underpowered with a 7-cell NiMH battery, so we&#8217;re upgrading the ESC and throwing in an 8-cell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rc-planes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1590,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/1590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}