How to use an iPhone to Fly R/C Airplanes and Heli...

HOW I DID IT: I’ve had an iPhone for about a year now, and find it quite indispensable. It’s handy in so many situations, and fits into a lot of nerdy stuff I do. However, it hasn’t fit in perfectly to the main nerdy thing that I like to do: Fly radio control airplanes and helicopters. For that, I use a really high quality piece of hardware from a company called JR, a JR 9303 radio. It works great....

The Rise and Fall of a Giant Chalupa...

Through some wrangling, I got in touch with a guy who works for the Phoenix Coyotes. Apparently, they needed a skilled pilot to fly an 8′ x 15′ Chalupa at the Phoenix Coyotes Hockey Games. In case you don’t know, because I didn’t, the Phoenix Coyotes are an NHL Hockey Team that play in Jobbing.com Arena in Phoenix. When I asked him what kind of blimp it was, he said it wasn’t a traditional...

Finished....

I <3 Airplanes. (Remember, I am 6’3″) Josh

The IMAC Plane...

“About a Very Large Airplane.” It was about the same time. About the time I stopped flying large airplanes by holding the transmitter in a deathgrip; I got the coolest form of sponsorship. Though the labels were faded, and it was a bit dusty, it was nontheless: An Extra, 330. 97 inches of pure IMAC Plane. Unlimited class airplane, capable of anything. Tumbles, rolls, circles, hovers, and flying on the proverbial...

Weekends Are Awesome...

This weekend I had an amazing weekend. Friday I went and worked at Hacker, but Sean (My boss) wasn’t there. That kind of sucked because I had no direction, but on the other hand it didn’t. I let my theoretical ADD get the better of me. I did like 20 small projects of just random stuff. Fix this, repair that, work on something over there. The day went pretty quick even though the night before their was some...

No Soldering On Washer!...

When your mom says stop soldering on top of the washing machine, she means it. I’ve done so much worse stuff, but clearly I soldered the straw that broke the camel’s back when I soldered on a washing machine that said: (Notice my mom drew the classic ‘circle with a line through it’ but chose not to draw the soldering iron) *snicker* -Joshua Ziering

YearBook...

I got my yearbook today. It’s kind of funny, I haven’t even left high school yet and I went through it thinking about various things. Getting the actual book was very trying. Mr. William Flanagan (Pompass idiot, student body president) thought he’d be a bad ass and try to start a mob scene. After he started chanting “We want our yearbooks” I started throwing things at him. Anything: Pennies,...

Crash....

I went to a FunFly (Where airplane nerds get together and fly airplanes.) yesterday in Hope New Jersey. I brought a couple of planes to fly, and flew the with success. All but one anyhow… I was flying my big plane, and just after I ended my first maneuver (1/2 Reverse Cuban it twitched. Then a second later, the plane goes full power, rolling and diving into the woods. Crunch. Some ASS turned on his radio at the...

JZ Meets DMX...

I went back to the WRAM Airplane show today. I managed to ask if I could write an article for a well known airplane magazine on Friday, They guy said I could. So I went back today to see what I could do. On the way out, I see this guy walk in with his family. The only reason I noticed him is because he was carrying a HUGE helicopter. I said to Jorge, who knows nothing about rap or hip-hop, Is that DMX? I then notice the...