{"id":70,"date":"2007-11-17T14:02:57","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T21:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/17\/flight-of-the-yak\/"},"modified":"2019-08-12T07:16:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:16:12","slug":"flight-of-the-yak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/17\/flight-of-the-yak\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight of the Yak"},"content":{"rendered":"

I put together a $22 Hobby Lobby Yak 55 Profile this week, and it’s great fun. This is by far the most aerobatic plane I’ve flown. Here’s my power setup:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Kit:<\/td>\nHobby Lobby Yak 55 Profile<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Motor:<\/td>\nEMax FC 28-22<\/a> from HobbyCity<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prop:<\/td>\n9×3.8 APC Slow Flyer from Some Dude’s Hobbies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Speed Controller:<\/td>\n30 amp Tower Pro brushless speed controller<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Battery:<\/td>\n1200mah 3S 30C Li-Poly<\/a> from HobbyCity<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Servos (3):<\/td>\nHextronik 5g servos<\/a> from HobbyCity<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Here are a few videos of it in action<\/b><\/p>\n

The takeoff<\/b><\/p>\n

Sorry about the shaky cam at the beginning. Notice that it just jumps vertically out of my hand while rolling at about 3 rolls per second. Pretty awesome:<\/object><\/p>\n

Some Stunts<\/b><\/p>\n

This video shows lots of fun stuff, knife edges, loops, snap rolls, flat turns. Lots of good stuff.<\/object><\/p>\n

Landing<\/b><\/p>\n

This one mixes in some fun rolls and then the landing. The landing is a tad abrupt, but it works. I need to work on throttle management in my landing approaches because it just falls out of the sky if you dead stick it.<\/object><\/p>\n

That’s all for now. Stay tuned for more photos of the plane up close so you can see how I put it together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I put together a $22 Hobby Lobby Yak 55 Profile this week, and it’s great fun. This is by far the most aerobatic plane I’ve flown. Here’s my power setup: Kit: Hobby Lobby Yak 55 Profile Motor: EMax FC 28-22 from HobbyCity Prop: 9×3.8 APC Slow Flyer from Some Dude’s Hobbies Speed Controller: 30 amp […]<\/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-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rc-planes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","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=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1576,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/1576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}