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RE: Air Hogs Aero Ace! - 5/19/2006 3:49:02 AM   
Big Salty


 

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ORIGINAL: McNeil

Please don't lie about the loss of the plane to Target. I hate to have us get a bad rep. as ripoff people. If you really have an electrical or mechanical baddy then take it back but stores (even Target) are not making that much on these planes. Lets stay above the normal way things seem to be coming down in the US on responsipility. I've lost a lot more then $30 to planes gone bad and if it was any my fault I just ate it and felt bad but not as bad as if I was a lier.


Yeah, I agree. I'm an honest guy, I wouldn't do that. It was just in jest to make myself think I could get another one easily so I would feel better. I'm still very sad. I took it real high on purpose, just couldn't get it back down and lost it. I wouldn't mind giving $30 more dollars for another one. Guess I'll just not push this one quite so hard.....

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RE: Air Hogs Aero Ace! - 5/19/2006 3:57:13 AM   
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Status: offline 		Salty I live near the coast, constant wind, consider canards. I have not tried them on biplanes, yet.


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RE: Air Hogs Aero Ace! - 5/19/2006 4:40:53 PM   
Big Salty


 

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Status: offline 		All is well with the world!! I can smile again!! I found my AeroAce this morning!!!!!!!!!!!!! I went back out to the tree and took a tent pole with me to try and poke it down. Turns out it wouldn't have been long enough to reach it, but anyway. So when I got out there, a huge gust of wind came and shook the branch it was in pretty hard. The plane didn't fall out, so I knew it had to already be down. I climbed up to where I had gotten to last night, and sure enough, I couldn't see it. So I looked around from my perch for a few minutes, in the branches of the big trees, in the tops of the smaller trees, but couldn't find it. So I started down the tree to walk around looking for it on the ground. On the way down, not even looking for it at the moment, I saw it!!! About ten feet from my face in the top of a small tree. I extended the pole and knocked it to the ground. The plane was totally dead, I had been blipping the throttle trying to hear it, but the motors wouldn't turn at all. I hooked it up and it's taking the charge, so it should be okay. So glad I found it, now I can get back to life as I know it.

Ferndale, post some more pics of your canards. I'd like to see where you put them and at what angle, etc. Some pics from the top, front, and sides would be nice. You said you haven't tried them with a bipe; you've removed your lower wings or you bought a mono out of the box? I took my lowers off, made a huge difference. I liked it slower better, because you could fly in a smaller space, but it flies a lot better overall now.

McNeil, thanks for keeping my morals in check!!! I wouldn't have done it anyway, but it's good to see there are still good people out there.

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RE: Air Hogs Aero Ace! - 5/19/2006 4:53:14 PM   
McNeil


 

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Status: offline 		Really pleased you found your plane! I lost one in a grove of trees and for a week walked around thinking I know where it went and not finding it. Then one day I was out just mossinging around and there it was in a completly different place. Sometimes good things sneak up on you. Joy to AAs! Nice to know your values are in place to!

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RE: Air Hogs Aero Ace! - 5/19/2006 5:24:27 PM   
Big Salty


 

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Status: offline 		Yeah, glad you were able to find yours, too. I thought to myself when I was thirty-five feet up in that big Oak Tree, "This is silly. Here I am risking life and limb for a 9", $30 foam plane. I'm too old for this." LOL I used to climb trees like that just for fun, but that was when I was much younger. I'm like you though, I'm really lucky to have found it. When I lost it, it was way, way up and flew behind a pine tree to where I couldn't see it anymore. Dropped into about 6 acres of thick woods. I walked past it once, got out to the back of the trees, walked around the edge of the woods a little bit, came back in from the side, and just happened to be able to hear it 60 feet up. Lucky lucky lucky!!!

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RE: Air Hogs Aero Ace! - 5/19/2006 5:31:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		i lose my aa nearly everyday! but it always ends up on someones backyard or tree. but i have to admit, the scariest one is when the wind blew it so highit was a speck and i lost sight. scrambled to front yard and bliping the trottle so i can hear it. turns out it was in a neighor's front lawn. whew!

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RE: Air Hogs Aero Ace! - 5/20/2006 1:02:54 AM   
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Status: offline 		I just bought my first rc plane from aeroacemods.com. just thought i would come in here and rant about it. you guys made me buy it.. if there are this many people that love it, I said i had to have one whats some things i should know about it before it gets here?

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RE: Air Hogs Aero Ace! - 5/20/2006 1:31:16 AM   
Big Salty


 

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Status: offline 		Congratulations, you have a new obsession. First, don't fly in wind!!!! At least not when you first get it. After you really learn how to fly, you can try some wind then. You may want to remove the lower wings later. Less drag, lifts faster, and will actually run longer because it needs less throttle. However, the price you pay is that it flies a lot faster, so it needs a bigger space to fly in. If it starts to get away from you, just cut the throttle and let it glide down. It won't go too far. If you lose it, rev the engines so you can hear it, and that will help you find it. You may want to take the spring off the throttle stick, most people like that better because it's easy to find a good throttle setting instead of your thumb constantly hunting. That's all I can think of at the moment, just have lots of fun!!!!

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RE: Air Hogs Aero Ace! - 5/20/2006 4:28:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		this is what i did to my plane.i painted it a bright red with brush on model paint,removed the bottom wing then i attached a 6inch peice of orange ribbon{the kind you see around construction sites} to the bottom of the tail and it flew great. you can just give it a little push at a 60% angle and it lifts up and flies strong and fast.it will fly very stable 30ft in the air.the ribbon caches the wind{think of why some kites have tails}and makes the plane point at a 60%angle.and with this ''mod'' it increases the wieght enough that i have flown my aero ace in 20_25mph winds easily.feel free to use this, and if you do ,post it! thats what rcu's about, sharing and borrowing each others ideas.

< Message edited by monstermaker13 -- 5/20/2006 4:28:40 PM >

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RE: Air Hogs Aero Ace! - 5/20/2006 4:47:22 AM   
baker7598


 

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Status: offline 		got AA stuck up in tree overnight. got down the next day and the left motor has full power and the right has a little bit of power. So of course when I try to fly, it goes down to the ground on the right side. bought another one so I have two now.

What do I do to get power equally back on each motor?

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RE: Air Hogs Aero Ace! - 5/20/2006 7:38:16 PM   
McNeil


 

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Status: offline 		I assume you tried tuning the trim knob both ways and it still goes crazy. Sometimes you can correct direction with a tabed over rudder but it sounds (when you say " the moter turns over only a little" ) that it is defective and you need to take it back and show the store folks the problem and get your money back. If you are good and nice about it I've found all the big stores are good about taking the defective planes back. There is even a case where Spin Master sent a flyer a new moter but that's more a hassle then its worth. Good luck. Let us know how it goes.

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