I tested out the Eagletree GPS and it works excellent.
I tried to gain some altitude with my FPV Easystar and I got up to 945 meters before it was time to land. I have it setup so that the place of the “Sat” switches between the number of satellites and the mAh drawn every 5 seconds.


The video and RC link worked without a hitch, but I did not pushed it today. 2300 m from home at 200 m above ground was the most I pushed it.

This year I have so far a tad more than 4 hours and 20 minutes of FPV airtime. I rely hope the weather changes for the better so I can get more hours and so I can take the Twin Boom Easystar for a maiden flight.

It’s drawing to an end, the epic build of the Twin Boom Easystar.

Want to read the complete build-log? Click here.


All Easystar’s need a larger rudder, this one is no exception.


Mono coated and DU-BRO hinges.


The rudder in place along with the tail rudder servo.


The elevator servo in place.


Cables tidied up.






The tail needed some cosmetic work after the amputation. It does not look good, but it looks better.


Linkage.


Out in the wild.


It’s not a beauty, but I can give it a makeover once it seen some sky.




Servo cables tidied up.



The only thing I need now is some calm weather so that I can unleash the beast so that it can rip up the sky.

The strange build continues.


I used my hot wire I chopped of the tail.


I made a simple motor mount out of 3 mm plywood. The angel of the motor is the same as the original.


Wow it’s ugly at the moment.


FASST antenna tubes in place. I want the best reception as I can hence the “performance before look”.




Speed controller now occupies the place where one of the old servos use to be.




Didn’t your servos come with 1 meter of cable? Mine hither, so I had to solder on new ones.

Stay tuned...

Today it begins; The secret project. In this experiment I’m going to try to get an Easystar that don’t look nor fly like an ordinary, everyday Easystar.
I’ll try to push the envelope and expand my horizons to speak.

To do that I’ll need carbon fiber, glue, a new motor and a different propeller.


Two 10*8*500 mm carbon tubes should do it.


A Turnigy 35-30C 1100kv motor with a 10*5 prop should be something to start out with. Here it is compared to a 6” prop that I had mounted on this Easystar before it crashed.

I think you all have guest it buy now, but the monster I’m trying to bring to life is a twin boom Easystar!


I went with the approach of gluing the carbon tubes to the tail.


To hold the carbon booms to the main airframe I chose to make a mount of 3 mm plywood. The booms will be fastened with screws which gives makes me able to take the airplane apart if I would like to.


I’ll use epoxy to glue the plywood to the wings.


Testing the mounts.



I’ll keep you posted as always

Finally after a very long time I finally got a hold of a Eagletree GPS.

It works flawlessly in the live mode of the Eagletree software now I just have to find a good place to mount it on the plane and start fooling around with what should be displayed on the OSD.

It was a beautiful sunset and the weather was just right. This is the second flight after the paint job was finished and I dumb thumb it into the water...

After over 2 hours in the air I decided to finally paint this excellent plane up.
It’s nothing fancy, a simple 2 color job. But I think it turned out pretty good.


I have also tried out a bunch of different power setups, and this is the one I like best:

Motor: Topwerpro 2409-12T 1600kV
ESC: Towerpro 18A
Battery: 3s800mAh 20-30C Loong-Max
Prop: 8*4 DD GWS

All up weight after painting and with the 3s 800mAh batteries is 287 g.
Flight time is about 7-8 minutes.

Remember the crash of the old Easystar?
I have had the old pieces of that Easystar just lying around for quite a while now, and every night when I go to sleep I can see the pieces lying on my shelf. But now, after many nights of thinking of what I could do with it, I finally got an idea. I will not share with you just yet what it is, but soon you will find out.


What would you do withe these pieces?

Finally! After waiting what have felt like forever the package from rangevideo finally arrived!


After the crash when my I lost my Easystar I have had problems with extremely reduced range. I have tried everything I could thought of but nothing would make a difference. So I ordered a new 1.3Ghz transmitter and now everything works excellent once more!
Hurray, I can FPV again!

Yet another year of swapmeet/gathering in Skövde is to an end.
This year things were a little different thou, instead of the ”free for all” flying at all times there were a strict schedule.
This had its pros and cons.
I arrived at 11.00 when the event opened. There were a lot of people there but there were no airplane in the air!
Instead there were 3 rc-cars driving around in one corner
-Bad first impression, I must say.
However there were a lot of retailers present which was nice. I bought 2 3s800mAh Loong-Max LiPo’s and a R608FS Futaba receiver at a “nice price”



After 30 minutes the car guys were pushed aside and the airplanes started to come up in the air. I greatly regretted not bringing any airplanes as this space is hugh! and there were only a handful of pilots.
30 minutes later a sponsored pilot came on to the floor with a Beam E4 “450” class helicopter to put on a show. He did a few 3D maneuvers like a funnel and a quite good chaos orb before he slammed the heli into the floor.

After that the in my opinion the most amusing thing of the day took place. A bachelorette party made the bride to be first drive an rc-car witch she managed pretty good, but then they gave her an airplane transmitter.
Now she wasn’t to cocky. But what she didn’t see was that a hidden guy stood with the real transmitter. The plane were a bipe shockflyer, and the guy controlling it made a very good impression of “bad” flying and near misses.
Ahh it was to funny. Poor girl.

A little later the freestyle composition was due. Nothing spectacular in my opinion. One guy has flown the exact same routine 3 years in a row, witch I can remember, to the exact same music. He’s good but come on! And he’s won the last 2 years with that program.

Not the best “Arenan i Skövde” I’ve been to but still worth going.
Next year I’ll bring some models and try to get people to have planes in the air all the time.

I was out on the frozen pond near “Kyrkofalla” church in Tibro planning to fly around with my F1 Hyrdo when the dog showed some interest in chasing the plane.
I took the opportunity and played a little with her.