Yes, these are quite popular! 6 HK C130 at the flying field today in SoCal , all blue angels.... Not usually a big military plane guy, but I want a Grey one!
Hey Scott. Great to hear you enjoyed it. Expect to see a more aerobatic video tomorrow morning. My favourite flight so far. And then in the next 1-2 weeks we are planning a rocket assisted take-off as done by the full size using JATO rockets. James and I are crazy enough to do stuff like that. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
Appreciate the feedback. A small but fixable problem with this C130 is that the battery strap only allows the flight battery to be put in one position...and that actually leads to quite heavy landings. In hindsight I would have glued in some heavy duty velcro so could position the lipo 1 inch further back. It would fly a lot slower with nose up and a bit more power.
Great video. That plane is awesome. I want to get more experience flying RC planes before getting that big boy. Which transmitter would you recommend I to fly the c130 and to get deeper in the RC hobby? Thanks a bunch.
Thank you for the review. I tried to find order this plane from hobbyking.com but I cannot find it. Has this been been generally released yet or just to reviewers?
The first batch were sold through a lottery system for the chance to buy. That's finished and the model will be released via the web site early January apparently. I'll publish another video when that happens. Advise you subscribe and look out for it. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
Thanks for the review . I’m still currently setting mine up. I see you outboard boards go a lot lower than the inboard . Maybe I read the manual wrong, but it suggested to use 13mm outboard deflection? What do you have yours set at?
Big enough to drop something scale size but would need to be fairly light so as not to compromise the CG or move around in flight. Dispensing cargo smoothly would need a little thought. There are 2 supports. One either side of the door which could block cargo from being released but with thought could be overcome. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
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In real life the C-130 can fly nicely slowly. Nice to try if this beautiful scale model can do it too. I love this. If he would have been a bit bigger, he was a little slower. But this Avios RC Hercules does it in fact not bad.
nice video mate, i like it, and the plane looks sort of ok too from my point of view - HK gets a few points removed from its final rating because of the huge US emblem on the fuselage, which looks out of place, still very nice bird...but about the slow speed thing i have to say "hm". As you said, "it is reasonable slow for its size" but it seems a bit of a struggle to keep her in the air at that speed. But the main point here is, it does not look slow or slow enough imho. Or in otherwords you dont reach the "scale speed" for this particular plane/model, perhaps a gyro system like graupners 3xG or Spektrum AS3X can help with that. On the other hand, maybe its just the video, it does not always convey the real impression, specially in case of speed. I guess we need more video footage to get a final verdict on her slow fllight capabilities, anyway thanks for the video, cheers
Might try a gyro to see if that helps! I use Powerbox iGyro 3e in my 35% Extra. Will have to get another one to try out in big foamies like this. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
Thanks! Glad someone agrees with me. I think it's a hugely fun model and in my next vid I even tried out some gentle aerobatics and low slow tight steep banked turns. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
Not at the moment. The first batch was only available to those that won the chance to buy it after going through a lottery process. It should be in stock on the web site early January 2019. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
I think so to actually. Only my camera person's 3rd video. Just needs to learn the fine art of zooming but otherwise doing very well. Yup...the lights are quite impressive. Nice to see them when I make that final turn before the approach for landing. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
@@EssentialRC Yes, I saw the tail lights on a turn, very important for night flight orientation. Zooming is a fine art. IMHO, only zoom when far out, but keep centered always and she did well. Zoom using pan tilt in editing, if need be, because when race tracking it is too easy to loose it all together and get frustrated. Always unzoom when the plane is starting towards the airfield/close. Seeing how the camera person is more important than the pilot, she should not be afraid to say step back pilot I'm shooting here!
@@EssentialRC Cheers Josh Weaver. BTW In this video, ground speed reference was important and zooming would have negated the point of the video. Just funny irony. What would be a cool shot for zooming is the camera person setting up on the far left of the airfield and after you fly over start the zooming for parachute dropping in a straight, steady and smooth line.
@@JoshWeaverRC True. Having ground in shot was good for the slow flying. Thanks for the recommendation on the parachute drop shot. We'll try that soon. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
@@EssentialRC I learned the hard way that the original props should be replaced. They have upgraded props out there. Passing on some information to C130 owners out there.
I'd have gone for "camera operator" :D I suppose the 360 camera has some value but I find them distracting. Others will like them. It's slow but is it "scale slow" ? ;)
Hmmm. I'll suggest that! 360 is not for everyone I get that. Scale slow. I think so. I don't think even the full size C-130 would fly any slower. I saw one at RIAT earlier this year. Was quite amazing to watch it in action. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
As this model is about 1/25th (?) scale and the stall speed of the full size is about 120mph the model scale stall speed should be around 4mph so it's not that far away _amazing what you learn from liking air-portable landrovers_ ;) It does fly slow enough for demonstration purposes and I certainly wouldn't fly any slower than you flew it.
I'm probably guilty of asking a lot if the questions that may puss U off Its Never my. intention I cant help let the world know how STOPID I am Camera Person WELCOME TO THE GANG Mr Dom Thanks as Always. Great C-130!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pretty slow for that scale wing! Take it up higher and see it stall! Lol! I wish Hobbyking would release their video, guess we have to wake 'till next year!
I did see another video with a stall athough probably without flaps. Takes some height for recovery so I'm not inclined to try it myself. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
Yeah. Wouldn't have thought of that personally but I have to respect what the lady wants. My life wouldn't be worth living otherwise :>) Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
Not a very proud young woman my wife hates the fact women are programmed to be offended by being called anything womanly....shes 25 and is confident in who she is. She calls me her man and I don't take it wrong either lol
I have never known anybody as longwinded as this guy!! Days go by before he makes his point. Days of intro, lead in, segways, and dancing around, before showing anything. I had to mute and fst fwd...
Probably better you don't watch at all if you don't like our informative style of videos. Plenty of other RC channels out there buddy. Sorry to disappoint but I needed to answer questions I got on the first video for this model. I don't get why using FFWD would be so frustrating personally...although it is Monday. Folks always do like a moan on a Monday after a weekend.
@@EssentialRC Monday Moaner probably woke up too early to have fun, but somehow still not early enough. If you are in too much of a rush to appreciate the gear door opening and closing and other useful information then maybe move on from this entire hobby.
Nice C-130 RC plane flight.
This is absolutely amazing! I love the four fan trash can
Yes, these are quite popular!
6 HK C130 at the flying field today in SoCal , all blue angels....
Not usually a big military plane guy, but I want a Grey one!
6 ! Wow. Having them all in the air flying formation would be epic. Thanks for sharing. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
Slow looks so scale. I love it.
Great Job! Thanks for a great video. That should satisfy the question of wing loading.......
Great follow up to the first video , thumbs up from me Dom . All the best mate ..........
Hey Scott. Great to hear you enjoyed it. Expect to see a more aerobatic video tomorrow morning. My favourite flight so far. And then in the next 1-2 weeks we are planning a rocket assisted take-off as done by the full size using JATO rockets. James and I are crazy enough to do stuff like that. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
Wow, that is a great looking plane!
Thanks for this video, answered all my questions, especially the slow flight characteristics. 👍
Appreciate the feedback. A small but fixable problem with this C130 is that the battery strap only allows the flight battery to be put in one position...and that actually leads to quite heavy landings. In hindsight I would have glued in some heavy duty velcro so could position the lipo 1 inch further back. It would fly a lot slower with nose up and a bit more power.
It looks like you have a mix in the radio with both outer and inner flaps. Is that right?
Well done! Nice vid.
Nice plane, congratulation. Thankyou for the review.
You're welcome Guillermo. Thanks for the feedback. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
Great video. That plane is awesome. I want to get more experience flying RC planes before getting that big boy. Which transmitter would you recommend I to fly the c130 and to get deeper in the RC hobby? Thanks a bunch.
Spektrum DX-6i is a great starter
Thank you for the review. I tried to find order this plane from hobbyking.com but I cannot find it. Has this been been generally released yet or just to reviewers?
The first batch were sold through a lottery system for the chance to buy. That's finished and the model will be released via the web site early January apparently. I'll publish another video when that happens. Advise you subscribe and look out for it. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
Awesome, Been waiting for one of these. Thanks for sharing, Skip CHEERS...!!!
Very nice airplane!!!!
Thanks for the review . I’m still currently setting mine up. I see you outboard boards go a lot lower than the inboard . Maybe I read the manual wrong, but it suggested to use 13mm outboard deflection? What do you have yours set at?
The maximum it will move! Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
thx, top.
how big is the cargo bay. and is there enough room for a low level delivery package???????
Big enough to drop something scale size but would need to be fairly light so as not to compromise the CG or move around in flight. Dispensing cargo smoothly would need a little thought. There are 2 supports. One either side of the door which could block cargo from being released but with thought could be overcome. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
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Cant wait to own that beautiful bird tho!!!
Nice flight
In real life the C-130 can fly nicely slowly. Nice to try if this beautiful scale model can do it too. I love this. If he would have been a bit bigger, he was a little slower. But this Avios RC Hercules does it in fact not bad.
nice video mate, i like it, and the plane looks sort of ok too from my point of view - HK gets a few points removed from its final rating because of the huge US emblem on the fuselage, which looks out of place, still very nice bird...but about the slow speed thing i have to say "hm". As you said, "it is reasonable slow for its size" but it seems a bit of a struggle to keep her in the air at that speed. But the main point here is, it does not look slow or slow enough imho. Or in otherwords you dont reach the "scale speed" for this particular plane/model, perhaps a gyro system like graupners 3xG or Spektrum AS3X can help with that. On the other hand, maybe its just the video, it does not always convey the real impression, specially in case of speed. I guess we need more video footage to get a final verdict on her slow fllight capabilities, anyway thanks for the video, cheers
Might try a gyro to see if that helps! I use Powerbox iGyro 3e in my 35% Extra. Will have to get another one to try out in big foamies like this. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
Very nice C130 and yeah, I thought it was flying fairly slow ;-) Great piloting and Happy Flying!
Thanks! Glad someone agrees with me. I think it's a hugely fun model and in my next vid I even tried out some gentle aerobatics and low slow tight steep banked turns. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
Badass aircraft.
I cant find this plane on their web sight ? Any where else i can buy it ?
Not at the moment. The first batch was only available to those that won the chance to buy it after going through a lottery process. It should be in stock on the web site early January 2019. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
Nice job camera person.
For daylight, those lights are definitely bright.
I think so to actually. Only my camera person's 3rd video. Just needs to learn the fine art of zooming but otherwise doing very well. Yup...the lights are quite impressive. Nice to see them when I make that final turn before the approach for landing. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
@@EssentialRC Yes, I saw the tail lights on a turn, very important for night flight orientation.
Zooming is a fine art. IMHO, only zoom when far out, but keep centered always and she did well. Zoom using pan tilt in editing, if need be, because when race tracking it is too easy to loose it all together and get frustrated.
Always unzoom when the plane is starting towards the airfield/close.
Seeing how the camera person is more important than the pilot, she should not be afraid to say step back pilot I'm shooting here!
@@EssentialRC Cheers Josh Weaver.
BTW In this video, ground speed reference was important and zooming would have negated the point of the video. Just funny irony.
What would be a cool shot for zooming is the camera person setting up on the far left of the airfield and after you fly over start the zooming for parachute dropping in a straight, steady and smooth line.
@@JoshWeaverRC True. Having ground in shot was good for the slow flying. Thanks for the recommendation on the parachute drop shot. We'll try that soon. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
@@EssentialRC I learned the hard way that the original props should be replaced. They have upgraded props out there. Passing on some information to C130 owners out there.
I'd have gone for "camera operator" :D I suppose the 360 camera has some value but I find them distracting. Others will like them.
It's slow but is it "scale slow" ? ;)
Hmmm. I'll suggest that! 360 is not for everyone I get that. Scale slow. I think so. I don't think even the full size C-130 would fly any slower. I saw one at RIAT earlier this year. Was quite amazing to watch it in action. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
As this model is about 1/25th (?) scale and the stall speed of the full size is about 120mph the model scale stall speed should be around 4mph so it's not that far away _amazing what you learn from liking air-portable landrovers_ ;) It does fly slow enough for demonstration purposes and I certainly wouldn't fly any slower than you flew it.
NICE
I'm probably guilty of asking a lot if the questions that may puss U off Its Never my. intention I cant help let the world know how STOPID I am
Camera Person WELCOME TO THE GANG Mr Dom Thanks as Always.
Great C-130!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No questions are stupid here Charlie. Thanks for watching! Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
U Need to be my Boss I don't think he would agree. No My Boss is great
Thats slow looks very controllable in slow flight.
Can you please fill us in on what Hobby King are pricing this at $$
I read on the RCGroups thread that it was $347 for those lucky enough to get it through the lottery process. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
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Thanks mate👍🏻
Pretty slow for that scale wing! Take it up higher and see it stall! Lol! I wish Hobbyking would release their video, guess we have to wake 'till next year!
I did see another video with a stall athough probably without flaps. Takes some height for recovery so I'm not inclined to try it myself. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
camera person .nuff said!
Yeah. Wouldn't have thought of that personally but I have to respect what the lady wants. My life wouldn't be worth living otherwise :>) Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
Yep. Yay for Claire to get the gender out of the equation. 👍
@@EssentialRC Dom, I realise that this video is a bit old, but the actual name you are looking for is "videographer" pronounced vide-ographer... 😉
Love the colour but not the blue
Blue? Sorry don't understand Steve. The C-130 is grey. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
Isn’t the hk avios one blue? Or is this a different model to those
There are 2 schemes. The blue/yellow 'Fat Albert' Blue Angels scheme and the military grey scheme.
Essential RC like I say I like the grey
"AVAILABLE HERE: January 2018" - maybe u are mean January 2019 o_O ????
haha yeah. Just checking you read it. Well done! Will correct it now. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
Nice job but its a flight video not a talk video. I wish you would just fly and do a separate video for questions and answers
Thanks for the feedback Jens. Will give that some thought. Cheers Dom (Essential RC)
Dont agree. Love the discussion.
Ba humbug! I'm with Wazza...
Not a very proud young woman my wife hates the fact women are programmed to be offended by being called anything womanly....shes 25 and is confident in who she is. She calls me her man and I don't take it wrong either lol
C'mon.. 5 minutes and half way in just to see the flight... ?
Eh, fast forward if you get that bored but I was giving answers to questions from previous video. Gawd...plenty of clever comments today.
.. Frustration arrives when the title subject that is supposedly of interest and directed is diluted with other topics.. Nothing personal..
Not so slow at all.
I have never known anybody as longwinded as this guy!! Days go by before he makes his point. Days of intro, lead in, segways, and dancing around, before showing anything. I had to mute and fst fwd...
Probably better you don't watch at all if you don't like our informative style of videos. Plenty of other RC channels out there buddy. Sorry to disappoint but I needed to answer questions I got on the first video for this model. I don't get why using FFWD would be so frustrating personally...although it is Monday. Folks always do like a moan on a Monday after a weekend.
@@EssentialRC Monday Moaner probably woke up too early to have fun, but somehow still not early enough.
If you are in too much of a rush to appreciate the gear door opening and closing and other useful information then maybe move on from this entire hobby.
I AGREE.