Curious me wanted to know the pinout of the plug on the back of my Hitec radios. Some time ago I made up a buddy cord for the Hitec Optic 6 and Hitec Laser 4. It took me a while to retrace those steps and find all the information used to make that cable. So here it is, this is how I made my Hitec buddy cord.
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Use this calculator to determine the wingload of a R/C plane. Don’t blame or praise me for this Javascript. I didn’t come up with it, found it at www.csd.net/~cgadd/eflight (more…)