Ever wondered how to get live video from a GoPro Hero HD camera? I know lots of you do, because I’ve got a ton of e-mails asking about it. That’s why I decided to make a guide explaining in detail how to get your GoPro Hero HD camera into Live output mode. It doesn’t require any modification what so ever to the camera. It’s also safe, easy and fast to do.

Click here to read the guide

The guys over in France have made a promotional video for Domaine du Planet using some of the material I shot during my stay.

I have not edit it, or have any part of making it (except shooting the aerial video). I’m glad that they could use some of the videos from the Tricopter.

It is finally completed. I went trough roughly 900 songs before finding the one that would be my baseline. It then took just over 20 hours to cut, trim and match the video to the music. But it’s finally done! And here is the result:

The airplane is a 3.1 meter (45%) Model Power Yak54 equipped with a 170CC DA170 engine. It was a monster! Weighing close to 18kg the turbulance from the propeller was much more that I though.

I’m proud to present my latest video - Welcome to Domaine du Planet
I captured over 200 minutes of FPV video during my stay at the RC hotel Domaine du Planet in France, and this video is the result. I hope the video properly communicates the beauty, calm and magic of the hotel and grounds. Enjoy!

Here is a quick teaser of what is to come. I just have to get home and edit some video first...

Photo by Daniel Larson (http://www.pbase.com/larson_daniel)

Do you see the tricopter above? The same picture, zoomed in a bit:

My new GoPro Hero HD has arrived!

I’ll promise to try and not lose this one.

Disaster! I’ve lost the GoPro Hero HD camera and I can’t find it!
It was during the first FPV flight with the FunJet GoPro edition. I was out flying at a field near the lake Vättern. It was late in the afternoon, the wind had died down and it was a perfect evening to fly FPV.

With the 6*4 prop screaming at 22000 RPM, I threw her up into the sky. Even with the GoPro camera mounted it still flies pretty good. After flying a couple of passes visually I threw on the goggles. The video link was nice and crisp. After a couple of minutes of putting the video link to the test, I felt completely comfortable with the setup except for one thing, the pan was reversed. I didn’t want to land to correct it, nor did I want to try and correct it in the air, so I let it be for now. The GoPro has such a wide angle and I don’t often use the pan on the FunJet when flying fast. Little did I know that this would cost me the GoPro camera...


The tree I hit and the “beach” the plane crashed on. The picture is taken the morning after the crash. Read More...

Since the Aiptek Z500+ went and died on me, I decided to modify the FunJet to carry the GoPro Hero HD. One nose shorter, it looks like this:

It may look ugly, but as long as I get some good video with it, I don’t care.
Read more on the project page

A while back I killed my FPV FunJet. It was the first flight with the Aiptek Z500+. After the crash I powered up the camera to makes sure that it still worked. It did boot up and showed me the option to choose between “Earphones” and “TV-out”. -Great! It works, I thought, and laid it a side for the moment to work on the tricopter.

After finishing the FunJet V2 build, it was finally time to get out and do some flying with the Z500+. I drove to the field and set everything up for what was looking to be an awesome flight. The weather was perfect and there was no wind at all. I powered everything up and looked in the goggles, the “Earphones” or “TV-out” screen was showing. So I selected “TV-out” using the remote. This was when I got a feeling like missing a step walking down some stairs... Read More...

Look what I just got!

It’s a GoPro Hero HD camera. It’s capable of 1080p in 30FPS and 720 in 60FPS with an average bit-rate of 15mbit/s and with a field of view of 170 degrees. I’m planning on mounting it on the Tricopter where the wide angle will be very handy when trying to avoid trees.

More pictures and info after the “Read More” Read More...

After cooling down a bit after the disaster earlier this morning, I went out again to make a Tricopter FPV video. This time I finally caught a break and everything worked out perfect! Considering it had 14 crashes in total before this flight, I think it flies pretty darn good.
I proudly present my first Tri-FPV video; Under the bridge and into a tree

This week just keeps on getting worse. After repairing the TriCopter, I went out this morning to the local park with the intention of making a FPV Tricopter video. Since I’ve got some vibration issues from the two previous crashes, I decided to use a “normal” CCD camera instead of the CMOS HD camera. CMOS cameras are sensitive to vibrations due to their “rolling shutters” which creates what is know as the “jello effect” (here is a video showing the difference between a CCD and a CMOS sensor). An other reason was that I expected to crash, and didn’t want any more corrupted videos due to the camera losing power or the memory card popping out.
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I’m proud to present the FPV FunJet V2. This is a direct replacement to the FPV FunJet that I killed a little while ago.

Link to the project page

Spring has finally arrived here in Sweden and the snow is almost gone from the ground. The sun was shining and the sky was blue, so the wife and I decided to go outside and fly. I had just finished adding a FPV setup to the Tricopter and was itching to try it out for the first time. We drove out to a field near the lake Vättern and it was quite windy.


Tricopter camera mount done Read More...

I couldn’t wait any longer! I had to disassemble the Aiptek Z500+ and find out if had a ribbon-cable between the PCB and sensor.

It did! Success! It it was quite a long cable as well. Perhaps I don’t even need to replace it with a longer one, it might just be long enough as it is.
Great news!

I made a project page on the progress which also contains a step by step guide to how to do the disassembly;
More info and pictures

Did you all think I was just going to give up after the fiasco with the Camileo P10? Then you were kind of right... I have given up on trying to make that camera work with a remote camera head. Instead I decided to try my luck with another camera. I found this diamond in the rough on a swedish auction site and won it for less than €50.

It’s an Aiptek Z500 PLUS and it can record in both 1440*1080p in 30FPS and in 1280*720p in 60FPS!

For more pictures and info click the “Read more” Read More...

Crazy as I undoubtedly am, I decided to take the TwinStarII out in the -15°C, pitch dark, windy night on new years eve. Armed with two heated wheat bags, two chemical heat packs, a blanket and a flashlight, I went out to the middle of a field by my fiends house. I took of at 23:59 and tried with my freezing hands to control the airplane in the wind.


Unfortunately, I hadn’t had time to try out the FPV setup properly (hadn’t tried it with the motors running) which resulted in some pretty nasty lines as you can see in the video.
I used the FPV gear that I’m building for friend (Read more about it here)
I think the video turned out ok, but I would have liked if had been less windy and a bit warmer. I had a hard time flying smooth and get good video. Maybe next year will be better.

Something very rare happened this weekend, it didn’t rain, or snow, or blow hurricane winds. It was actually good enough weather to go out and fly. So I grabbed my TwinStar with the pan/tilt HD camera setup that I have jet to try out, and ran out to the car and drove to the field before the weather-gods had time to change their minds.


The flight went great! The sun had just broken over the clouds and there was a mist over the town. The flight was so beautiful;

Click here to watch it in 1280*720 Read More...

Yay! Today I got a new 1.3GHz 300mW transmitter and a 1.3GHz receiver!

I placed an order after the flight with the HD camera that didn’t turn out that well.
I plan on making a guide on how to mount a more effective, lighter and more crash resistant antenna on this transmitter. I will also remove the connector and replace it whit directly soldered cables. That way I don’t need to worry about the connector suddenly giving up during flight.
Now all I need is some good weather this weekend and I should be able to test it out properly

I decided to have myself just one more try on making the HD camera work with a remote sensor PCB.

At least it looked nice.



I was super careful with every solder point and confirmed that every point was good in a microscope. I also measured all the connections with a multimeter. I pair twinned all the cables and then twisted ground wires around every pair. I then added epoxy to make sure that no cable or solder joint would be stressed or damaged while testing the camera out.

I hooked up the display and plugged in the USB power... First a flicker on the display... Then a for a split second a black display... But then! I can see my self! I've got picture!
But? There is something wrong? The picture isn't moving?
I stretched out my hand and grabbed the camera lens and swiveled it around a bit, but the picture remained the same. No matter what I did, the picture wouldn't change. So I tried rebooting the camera. The display flickered on and only displayed a black picture with the OSD information on it this time. I tried again, and again, and again. I tried pushing buttons, moving the camera head around, letting the power be unplugged for minutes, letting the power be plugged in for minutes before powering it up. No matter what I tried I could not get it to work. I couldn't even get a frozen picture like the first time I booted it up. After an hour, with no progress, I stopped trying.
I had one more thing to try before I gave up. I powered up my soldering iron, plugged in my heat gun and starting cutting up some heat shrink. I decided to shorten every single wire by about half or 4 cm.

A couple of hours work later I was done. Ready for another try. I plugged in the display once more and powered it up... Black... only a black screen with the OSD numbers... I tried again. Same results. I tried pushing buttons, plugging stuff in an out but I knew, deep inside that I was defeated, once again by my archenemy, the Camlileo P10...

I think this was one of the best FPV flights I've done! It was such a good feeling cruising around in the clouds. The weather couldn't have been better and the setting sun made this one of my favorite flights ever.


More info on my FPV FunJet setup can be found here

In an attempt to reduce the all up weight on my FPV FunJet, I decided to try and power the FPV gear from the main battery, and thus being able to remove the 52 grams heavy 3s500 battery that I usually power it with.

This is my first attempt, a 1mH 1A inductor in series and a 470uF capacitor in parallel on the output side.
This worked OK, but there was some small lines still appearing during high current draw. ( You can see them in the beginning of this video)
After that flight I added a few extra small capacitors which got rid of the lines completely. But another problem came to light, I got less range. This is because the voltage of the main battery is often down at 10 Volts or so and the transmitter is made for 12V. That voltage difference is enough to make the transmitter loose output power and reduce the range. I still got good range, but not as good as I get from using a separate LiPo.

So I decided to scrap my homebuilt filter and order myself an AnyVolt micro, which is a step up/step down converter that can handle both voltages above, the same, and lower than the output, which is necessary for this kind of application.

It just arrived and I hope to be able to start testing it soon. Stay tuned!

After the failure with getting the HD camera working on a ribbon cable, I decided to make a crude solution, and here it is!

I use a Turnigy S3101S Servo for the pan and a HTX900 for the tilt.

Those of you with sharp eyes may already have noticed that I'm using a different antenna on the video transmitter. I've been experimenting with different antenna lengths and materials. I'm using a single wire isolated cable that is stiff enough to hold its shape in the air, but bends in a crash. So far it's been working way better than I expected in the FPV FunJet. In fact all my FunJet FPV videos is made with this antenna. I will be doing a guide on how to make one of these antennas soon.

Back to the testing of the Pan/Tilt of the HD camera. I've tested it out in the apartment and it works like a charm. So I decided to go out to the field and try it out in the air.
The video TX in the TwinStar II hasn't been used for nearly a year, in fact I haven't used it since I had a crash with it. But it has worked fine when I tested it out at home. But as soon as I thew the airplane into the air, the picture went black. Lucky enough, since it was my first flight with the transmitter I didn't do it in FPV right away, but rather did it visually and recorded the video feed.

Dissapointed I went home. I took the video TX apart, but I can't find anything wrong with it. It looks like I have to order myself a new 1.3GHz transmitter before I can try the pan/tilt for the HD camera.

(This is the video that's in the SimpleOSD review)

I can recommend watching the landing at 4:15

I have now finished the SimpleOSD Ultralight edition review!

I hope you like it!

I got a new product to review! This time it's the SimpleOSD Ultralight Edition from Flytron. I will be doing this review in cooperations with FPV-Community.com, like I did with the Pan/Tilt from GlobeFlight.

The OSD came nicely packaged in anti ESD bags.


I also got the current sensor to try out which is an optional extra. The USB programmer is included in the package.


This OSD is tiny! It weights 3 grams and is the size of an SD memory card! It's going to be perfect for my FPV FunJet

After the failure to get the remote camera head on the HD camera to work, I decided to test flying it in a fixed possession on the Twin Star II.

Shortly after takeoff I found that the stock lens is horrible to fly with! Way to much focal length, so I decided to modify it a little...


I now use a f3.6 lens that was stock on the KX171 camera. Much better! See for your self:



Click the "Read More" to see more pictures of the lens modification Read More...

I have to admit defeat. I can't get my modified HD camera to work with a remote camera head. I've been struggling with it for over 10 hours without any successes.

This is how it looked after I mounted the ribbon cables. I measured all the connections, but I got no picture. So I started trowing everything I could at it... Read More...

Woho!
Today nearly all connectors I need to make the HD camera pan/tilt arrived!

When I say nearly all I mean that I got 3 of the 4 stuff I ordered. The final connecor is on backorded and I don't know when I'll be getting it. But in the meanwhile I've etched a connector board, allowing me to use the 1mm FCC cable. I hope to experiment some more soon.
More info about dissasembling the HD camera

I just compiled this video from my three latest FunJet FPV flights.

I love flying FPV with the FunJet. It makes me try new stuff.

I was fed up with my uncomfortable video goggles so I decided to do something about it. With the sacrificing of a pair of ski goggles I made them very comfortable and now they block out the sun better than ever before.



I am extremely happy with the results!

Here is a direct link to the guide, enjoy!

I know it was a long time ago that I won the pan/tilt system from GlobeFlight, but I finnaly got everything togheter and made the review of it. The review can also be found on my parter site FPV-Community.com, which helped to make this review possible.


Here is a direct link to the review

When testing the pan/tilt system I made a video:

There are a few close misses when I'm flying toghether with my friend Christian's Easystar, that made my adrenaline pump a little extra

I’m proud to present the FPV FunJet:

It weighs in at 680 grams and it’s equipped with the new camera and a 300mW 1.3GHz transmitter.

Here is a link to more pictures and info

This is the video from the maiden flight


This was the best FPV flight I have ever done! I had such a blast. I love the FunJet as an FPV platform. It’s so stable in the wind and very agile. I can promise more videos now that I have a functioning FPV airplane

Since the tragic death of my old faithful KX-171 which has been with me since my start in FPV, I’ve been looking around for a new small camera to put on my new FunJet. Well, now I have found a camera.

I found this camera in a local electronics shop and decided to test it out.
It’s has quite a bit larger footprint that the KX-171 and it’s a lot heavier due to the thick solid metal case.
After testing it extensively, I found it to be quite excellent picture vice, so I decided to modify it!

I started out by removing the heavy metal case...
Read More...

I have done a step by step disassembling guide of the Toshiba Camileo P10 HD camera that I intent to use for FPV flying. My goal was to shed some weight and get a good look at the connector between the main PCB and the sensor PCB. The final goal being world domination... No I mean a being able to pan/tilt only the sensor by adding a ribbon cable of some sort.

How much weight do you think I saved?

Here is a direct link to the guide

At last, it is done... The guide to getting started in FPV! This was by far the hardest guide for me to write. How deep should I go, what is relevant? After many, many hours of hard work and tears I finally have a guide that I think will be appreciated by many.

This guide gives a in depths knowledge of the basic FPV components as well as gives a taste of the more advanced gear. Read it and write what you think!

Nearly 2 months ago I got myself a Aiptek AHD300 camera that I had planned to modify for FPV flying. But it turned out that the webshop I bought it from had printed that it could do 720p in 60FPS, but it turned out it couldn’t.
So I sent it back, to buy a cheaper cam with almost the same specs. But why have it taken such a long time to get the new camera?
Continue reading and more pictures click the “Read More”
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The headtracker that I’m reviewing for FPV-Community isn’t working as it should. The headtracker only registers movement in one direction on the x axis. When I tilt the headtracker forwards, the servo moves forward, but when I tilt the headtracker backwards the servo doesn’t move at all. After several hours of testing I decided to take the headtracker apart and take a look inside of it, to see if I could find the culprit of this dilemma. This is what I found:

On one of the accelerometers a capacitor was broken. This must have happened during construction of the headtracker since the PCB was very well protected inside of the device. I've e-mailed AEORC and asked them for the value of the capacitor, hopfully exchanging the capacitor is all that is needed to make it work again...
So for now the testing is at a halt.

It’s the XGY-1000 from AEORC.com and it’s going to be my first official review for FPV-Community.com. It looks quite nice and I hope to be able to try it out soon.

I just finished up a guide on how to get 180° of servo travel. In the guide I address 3 different ways of getting more servo travel. I also give a complete guide to modifying a servo DIY style, using only two resistors.
Perfect for getting a broader panning view! Click here to read the guide

My prize from the competition on the FPV-Community forums just arrived in my mailbox!

The quality of this pan/tilt unit from GlobeFlight is excellent. The panning servo is located higher that on any other pan/tilt unit I’ve seen for the Twin Star. It’s also possible to look straight down thanks to the different tilt mechanism. All parts are made from glass fiber and are very strong and light. The whole unit weights 60 grams as seen in the picture. Now I only need a HS-81 size servo to be able to test this ting out.

The homepage where I got the Aiptek AHD300 said that it could do 720p in 60fps but that was not true. Apparently there is another model called the AHD300 PLUS that has this capability. So I sent back the AHD300 and instead I’m getting a AHD200 for half the price. It can “only” record in 1280*720p at 30fps compared to the 1440*1080p 30fps of the AHD300, but for me that is not worth two AHD200’s.

But before I sent the AHD300 back, I made a few test videos
Be sure to watch the comparison videos between the KX171 and the AHD300

Behold! The future is here!
I’m proud to present the Aiptek AHD300 Full HD Camcorder:

The camera empty weights 148 g according to my scale and with battery and SD card it weights in at 183 grams.
The plan is to take it apart and strip it of all unnecessary parts to make it as light as possible. I will also replace the connection between the CMOS sensor board and the main board with a ribbon cable to make it easier to pan/tilt. I will also post some video samples later on.

Click the read more to see more pictures. Read More...

I was out testing how the camera reacted to the green nose I gave it. The results were good, the camera didn’t under expose the ground as much. But whilst I was flying around I felt like climbing a little. Since I didn’t have that much juice left in the battery I had to settle at 1114 meters which happen to be a personal record. The Twin Star is far superior to the Easy Star when it comes to climbing.

I love FPV flying.

I’ve been planning on painting the nose of my FPV Twin Star in a darker color for quite a while now and finally i got an opportunity this weekend. I was fixing some rust on my Clio -01 and while the paint was drying on the car, I took the same color and sprayed the nose of the airplane:

When painting Elapor be sure to spray a thin layer from a distances and let it dry first so that the propellent of the spray paint doesn’t eat the foam. Now you have a protective layer and can lay on a thicker layer of paint.


3 layers of paint later. I like this color.

So why do you want a dark color for the nose of your FPV airplane?
The answer is that the exposure of the camera gets fooled by the white foam to underexpose (picture gets darker), which in the worst case scenario means that you cant see the ground. And the thing that is most important to be able to see, while flying FPV, is the ground.

A simple fix to this problem is to make the nose of the plane darker, thus getting the cameras autoexposure to make the picture brighter. Well see in the next video if it works.

Ever since I got into FPV flying I have always wanted to fly “air to air” with another airplane. Now I have done it! My friend Christian was kind enough to risk his Easystar. It was quite a challenge chasing another airplane, especially in the wind. But I’m quite satisfied with the video baring in mind that it was my first attempt.

Click here to read about my Twin Star FPV setup

Now that I have a radio with the wonderful feature to let the trainer port only take over certain channels, I was able to build myself a head tracker. The electronics from an E-Sky 0404 radio will have to suffice.

Testing the concept.


I reused the parts from the sticks.


The Hat-Tracker done! I removed most of the unnecessary components from the pcb and soldered the pots to channel 4 and 5. In the hole at the end of the plywood stick I’ll connect a retractable keychain that hooks into the radio.


Here you can see the underside.

I have tested it and it works great! I hope to get some video of it in action soon to share with you.

Look what I found in my mailbox!



This has been long awaited! Now I need to hook it up and start fiddling.

The weather was so good I had to fly my FPV with my Twin Star even without the OSD I am waiting for.
Here is the video:


My homemade antenna seems to work perfect! I’ll push the range as soon as the OSD arrives.
The setup I am currently running is:

• 300mW 1.3GHz transmitter with a homemade whip antenna.
• KX171 Camera.
• 3s500mAh LiPo

• 8dBi Patch antenna on the receiver.
• Sandisc V-Mate for capturing the video
• Rvision-D Video glasses

More info about the Twin Star setup can be found here

Since this is a new airplane and it’s the first FPV flight, I let someone else watch in FPV while I fly the plane. And why not try out my new DIY antenna and compare it with the stock antenna while I had the chance?


My DIY antenna for 1,3GHz. 2 mm piano-wire, 115,04 mm long (including all the active parts)


DIY vs Stock




Yay it flies!



My DIY antenna seems to perform a little better than the stock one but I couldn’t really push the range since I flew visually. I’ll have to test some more later.

I have done some progress on the FPV system for the Twin Star whilst the bad weather has persisted.

Pretty straight forward.


Ability to look almost straight down without seeing to much of the side of the aircraft.


Designed to break away easily in a crash.

Something went wrong and it ended in tragedy.



The video TX took the hardest beating. Oh the irony, oh well I got a few flight out of it.


It does not look to bad but the tail is smooched, the motor mount is broken and the wing holder is cracked at several places.
I think it is time for a new FPV ship. Something with a litle more thrust?


The PCB were damaged and the antenna connector was ripped of. I’ll try and fix it.

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.

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.

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!

The plane may have look pretty mangled but the damage were not that great.
I had to boil the nose of the Easystar and glue her up again, no biggie.
Battery is fine (got to love A123).
All servos survived and no gears were broken.
OSD and the eLogger are both fine.
Camera works fine but has gotten a few battle scars.
The 300mW 1.3GHz transmitter on the other hand seems to have sustained heavy damage and the range has been reduced to practically nothing.
I have tried replacing the SMA-connector with no results...
I think I’ll have to order a new one.

Other that the EZ-Pod was damaged but nothing unfixable.
I’ll keep you posted.

I made the first page:




I do truly look like the king of geekeness.

Now I’m the laughingstock of the town for a while...

I rely like Eagletree’s stuff!
You can change almost everything to whatever you want.
This is extremely appealing to me as I can chose what I want to display and where.

Since I don’t have the GPS expender yet I chose to display the mAh used in the top left corner, the battery voltage in the top right corner and underneath that the amp draw.

I found that this layout worked out best for me.
I don’t like to have anything in the bottom of the screen since that is the part of the screen that is most interesting.

You’ll have to see for your self in the next video.

Today my Eagletree OSD Expander arrived!



It looks nice and comes with a very nice manual.

Time to fool around with it a bit before I mount it in the plane.

The build draws to an end...


EZ-Pod before.


After.


Painted silver (Looks a lot better IRL)


Added magnets for security.


3sA123


All Up Weight (AUW). This is with the FPV setup.



Time for a maiden!

Update time!


I made a step-up converter to be able to get rid of the 3s500mAh battery I used before, and since I fly on a 3sA123 I need to step-up the voltage to 12V to power the video setup.
Sorry for the messy layout but I didn't feel like making a new board after adding the nessesery filtering.


I had to sacrifice looks for preformance when I mounted the FASST antennas.






One of the two gyros that is going to help me get a nice smooth flight in a litle more wind
The other gyro hasn't arrived yet, but its going to be mounted at a 45° angel to get best performance for the rudder.


Heatshrink on the servos to not have to glue directly on the servos.


Just before the gluing of the fuse.


Glued.


Tail glued.


Controlrods mounted.


Servos in place.


6*4 Prop mounted

The build continues soon...

Since the range of my video TX is much further than my RC link I thought that I would increase the range a bit.


To do this I will replace the stock 3dBi Omni antenna with a 9dBi Patch anenna.


I decided to change the SMA connector to a U.FL to eliminate the losses that comes with having long wires and multiple chain connectors.


Re-assembling the patch.


The patch in place and hooked up.








I’ve used this LiPo in this transmitter for over a year and it has worked flawlessly.
I use a diode in series with the battery to lover the volts by 0.9V.

Now its time to start the build of my new FPV Easystar!


I started out with some 2mm carbonrod to stiffen up the elevator


Nice and flat after sanding som exess of


I also added a 6*1mm carbon strip to stiffen the rest of the tail (I dont like flex )


Some 10*0,5mm carbon strips in the wings


It adds a lot of strenght to the wing


I also added a washer thats 18mm across and has a 8,5mm hole so ensure that the carbon rod that goes in to the wing doesn't ware on the epp hole and make the connection sloppy.


Melting away some epp with my soldering iron (I use a diffrent tip for this)


6mm carbon rod glued in


I use a layer of heatshrink on the motor so that I dont have to glue the motor itself to the epp


Melted some extra room for the wireing to the ESC


Making myself a new rudder from the start


Made frome lightwheight plywood


Monocoated it with dayglow orange


Du-bro hinges are so sweet



Well thats it for now.
Stay tuned for the next update!

After washing off all the dirt I let the electronics sit in the oven at 50°C to make sure they were completely dry from all the melted snow.
With held breath I plugged everything back together and switched on the power...
Picture! We have picture!
Servos swing as they should without any broken gears.

The only thing that broke was the nose and the EZ-Pod as you can see.

Everything else works just fine!

I think its time to build myself a nice new Easystar now.

Well at least the weather was good...



It did not cross my mind that the reason I hadn’t seen the chimney was that it was blocked by a huge building.
2.4GHz don’t like massive steel structures...

Sometimes I’m not that bright it seems.

This is my first high altitude flight.
I’m also pushing the range of my 2.4GHz radio.
After all, I am an RCexplorer!



Oh what I dream of flying above the clouds...
Some day maybe...

We have a holiday home near the lake of Skagern and I wanted to fly some FPV but the fog was thick...



The plane was actually dripping water when I landed!

This is a big step for me as from now I can share with the world what I see when I look into my video-googles.

Enjoy!