Sunday was a nice sunny day and I had a couple of flights with my AXN Floater Jet (AKA Clouds Fly, glider, etc) over our field (TEMAC). The good old $14 camera is still working wonders!
I like how he moves on to inverted hovering right on the second lesson, as opposed to other training guides that suggest you should learn inverted flight only later on.
I’ll try Chad’s method first, and if everything fails, I’ll go back to upright flying
A great friend of mine from Brazil just posted these exclusive videos and pictures of the world’s largest airplane landing for the first time in Sao Paulo:
Cheap $14 camera from eBay (Hobbyking has it too now), attached with velcro and zip tie on the horizontal stabilizer of my CopterX 450:
Watch out: there are 4 versions of this camera for sale on eBay, but only the one with a microSDHC slot is the good version. There is a video comparison here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT8rqod3Gj0.
IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTICE: This heli is not supposed to be flown in such a confined space. It can hurt you badly if it hits you. I’ve taken a few safety steps since the first flight given the risks I was taking: always wearing safety glasses, never hovering with the tail pointed at me in case the tail blades come off and also not flying at eye level for the same reason. The throttle hold switch is always ready to be flicked (very important) — if you listen carefully, you’ll notice the RPMs going down before it crashed. My living room is “L” shaped so I was standing at the “foot” of it, kinda sideways to the heli. Safety first, but I really wanted to fly that thing Now I fly in a school gym.
It was the second day of the TEMAC FunFly event, where members of other clubs are welcome to fly at our field for the whole weekend, meet new people, exchange knowledge on how to crash better, etc. Quite a windy day (20km/h+), but still very flyable.
So this is what happens when you group a bunch of people with the same airplane and stick pylons to two poles:
Except for the receiver, everything came from HobbyKing… why pay 5 times more from a local store for the same thing? I like the description of their new T-Shirt:
Strike fear into the hearts of store owners by wearing this 100% cotton topic of conversation to your local hobby store & watch their attitudes change as you proudly wear your battle dress whilst perusing the shelves of overpriced locally acquired merchandise.
Prepare to be loved or hated at your next R/C convention or meet-up.
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