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Old 11-17-2011 | 12:56 PM
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Default Personalizing Your ARF Movable Pilot Head

Recently people were asking on ways they could customize pilot heads. There are a few different ways you can do this, but check out a simpler way. Model Airplane News recently posted a article on how to personalize/customize your pilot heads. Let's get creative people.


http://www.modelairplanenews.com/blo...le-pilot-head/
Old 11-21-2011 | 05:50 AM
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I already do that. It's a big hit at the shows and wished I had found a way to do it before. I kind of had to figure it out on my own to make it work. I use a micro servo, film cartridge and a servo reverser and hooked it all up to my rudder channel.


Look at the end of the video you can see the pilot bust in action:


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYgHtDzCGH0[/youtube]


In this video you can see I did the same thing for my Custom GP Fokker Dr1. I had used a E-flite micro servo for a while and last summer it burnt out on me, don't know why. So I bought a Futaba Micro Servo, dug out the old servo and used the Futaba Servo in its place. I haven't had a problem since. In this video my RX battery was getting low on voltage, that's why it was acting a little sluggish.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anMzYDODMaQ[/youtube]


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Old 12-26-2011 | 06:42 AM
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In Micro! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYSODVenQxY

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