For all of you guys that have been waiting for a conversion kit to take the T-Rex 700N to electric power, your wait is over! Thie guys over at HeliDirect have recently added

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Hot on the heels of the release of their updated 50 size electric heli, the Trex 600 ESP, Align is getting ready to release an updated version of the Trex 500 as well!

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Of great interest to all users of the popular RC Flight Sim, Phoenix RC is news that the latest update is now avaialble for download. A 2.0 version beta, the new release boasts

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After several gallons of fuel have been run through my T-Rex 600N, I started to notice an intermittent, metallic rattling noise which seemed to be coming from the Align pipe. Some research on the forums led me to believe that the baffles were prone to failure in this pipe so I began to look into [...]

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Looks like it’s on between old-timers Mikado of Germany and Vancouver-based newcomer Skookum Robotics when it comes to the pricing or their Digital / Virtual flybar systems. Mikado has been the major player in this area for a long time, but their device has historically had a pretty high price tag. More recently, Skookum has [...]

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As some of you may know, Align had great success bundling their popular T-rex 600 NSP package to include an Align-labeled OS50SXH hyper engine. In fact it seems that they sold so many of these packages that they ran short of the Align-branded engines and are now packaging the standard OS-branded models.
Hoping to continue that [...]

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UK-based Runtime Software, announced today that a new public beta will soon be available for the newest version (2.0) of their popular Phoenix RC radio controlled flight simulator, along with an updated version of their customization software, Phoenix Creator. Here’s the announcement (reprinted from the Runtime website):
New updates [...]

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The new Align T-rex 250 was in attendance at this weekend’s Align Fun Fly. Here are some more photos of it for those of us who can’t wait for it to be released! Thanks to Bjarke Rasmussen for taking these great shots!
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Whether you have an Eagle Tree data logger or not, now you can add the ability to measure your maximum airspeed and altitude to your model.

The new standalone Altimeter and Airspeed sensor modules

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Let me get this off my chest right up front. I’m not a fan of the Dean’s Ultra connector. Yes, they’re the hobby standard, they’re inexpensive, and they work well, but they’re hard to get apart and they are a pain to solder correctly.
Thus, I have changed all of my LiPo connectors over to the [...]

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