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.....

Salty I live near the coast, constant wind, consider canards. I have not tried them on biplanes, yet.

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.

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!

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!!!

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!

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?

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!!!!

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.

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?

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.

Lots of these little planes don't fly well out of the box. If it turns left or right a bunch or porposes alot you need to use the little silver tabs that are in the instruction bag to set the elevators and rudder to a more extreme setting then the fommy pieces will do by themselves. If you have to set the elevators way down to keep the plane from flying up too fast or porposing you will get a lot of drag. Carefully heating the tail boom a bit with a hair drier and while it is warm bending it down a little is a good fix. Just don't over do it. You will find that even as a bi-wing at anything more then low power it will climb high and you will begin to worry about it getting away. Let go of the controls and only use power bumps to set direction to help a glide back. That is one reason for not flying in wind. It will just keep getting further and further away. Also- I would not remove the throttlle spring until you are use to flying the plane. When the spring is off you have to remember to manually shut off the power when you crash or land. You do that by removing the 7 screws that hold the two halves of the reciever together - four on the outer couners and three under the batteries - carefully pulling the halves apart and just slipping the spring loose from the stick - you can always put it back if you want). Good luck - let us know how it goes.

I just posted more pics of the canards. Should be up shortly. Tim

If your plane is turning hard, center your trim knob on the controller. pull your weak side motor off wing , its just sticky taped on. and angle it out a small bit and press it back on.Or you can angle your strong motor in.

The weak side motor is on the side the plane is turning to.

someone on a differant forum just got their hands on the new AA jet. he's in California, so its not surprise they have them already, but who knows if they're in the rest of the states at the moment. they must have just come in too, as he said when they rang it up, the bar code didnt even register.

minnesota seems to always get stuff after everyone else, so if i find them here, they're bound to be just about everywhere else too.


keep your eyes peeled

nick

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I checked target today, but I'm on the lost coast. No jets yet.

Looks like the jets that have been modified from the biplane AA's. I wondering if
they made any improvements on the electronics? Like out of range shut off, better
antenna, better right/left trim and some TX mods.

I also can't find one online.

im so jeleouse right now!!! but im gonna laugh if it flies poorly ,because all the people waiting on it will be mad!!

how do fly out of range? I think the range listed is for the lawyers. I just had my plane with canards 150+ feet up and over 100 feet away, in the last hour. I know that the distance is tx to rx. But I over fly that regularly. I gave up on a plane when it was almost a quarter mile away. All I could do was turn it in my direction and let it glide back. Any power and the wind took it higher, and I was already over 100 feet. Anyway I heard that the jet has stronger motors. I want one now.

I bought a nice blue AA for my younger brother for his birthday a week ago at Wal-Mart for $40 and it wasn't flying that well. I took off the bottom wing, removed the throttle spring and did the diode mod and it flies 10x better, granted there has almost always been a slight/medium breeze here so I haven't had a chance to fly it in absolute no wind yet. Although sometimes it doesn't seem like it has a lot of thrust. One thing I noticed however is when I turn throttle it and let it off, the left motor stops spinning almost immediately while the right motor will still spin for another 3-5 seconds or so. That doesn't seem good and probably has an effect while flying it.

Anyone have any idea what might be causing the left motor to have some sort of friction? I'm hesitant to put any kind of oil/lubrication in there and i'm not quite sure how to safely take it off and apart while being able to put it back on. Perhaps it just needs some cleaning of some sort?

I'm planning on getting another AA soon for myself anyways. Perhaps i'll wait though because that jet model looks pretty cool; i'm pretty interested in how it flies in comparision.

Hey people, These rock. I found out about rc helicopters, researched them and am waiting for the blade cp pro, then ill dummy it down. I got bored , bought a aero bird and crashed it a couple times, need bigger area. Had read this forum and went to Target bought one, Toys r us just went out of business here. Maybe because of their warrenty deal? Every one flew it, too cool.. That night I did the wing mod, taped over wing holes and taped a dime under nose even more fun. The next day I cut open the belly and did the battry forward mod, even cooler. I felt like the Mod Doctor. Then did the throttle mod, wow. Bought another keepin it stock. Must have more!!! Resistance is futile. Someones getting rich. Im giving them out for gifts to brothers and nephews etc.
Now I see the new jet a few posts up is coming out. I just bought the Air Hog F-16 Falcon for $30. I haven't flown it yet, do they fly good? maybe I should take it back?? No I'll fly it. Same electronics i hear, i want build something cool like many of you.
Whats that diode mod?? Ill look for it

Is there any other mods i must make? Probably when battery goes dead, the battery and connecter to lipo charger. Has any one done that ? easy to do? ill search Fly On

Hey people I just bought the new version with the curved wings all the way form hong kong here .. We live in a flat so there's no space to try it but will give it a go next week on a hill. And will also take nice vids for you guys .. I am so happy $30 gets me flying.

I am however worried as I tried some short ones at home, the plane seems to climb too much even with the elevator down. Perhaps stick some longer foam as the elevator? Anyone tried it? And also I would like to ask does anyone here land their plane like real RC's? Or these things are just meant to be crashed nose first? Cuz if a real landing is possible I was thinking what if I add an axle to the base and hook 2 wheels up so it lands nice.. AHHH Saturday please come faster!!!