This weekend I attended the Elefantastiskt RC event in Karlsborg here in Sweden. The field at where it’s held was pretty huge and it had a nice big runway. Since this was a two day event there were a camping area at one end of the field, here the two vendors that turned up also had their stands. The weather on Saturday was extremely windy with a few raindrops here and there. This was unfortunate as this was the day that most visitors came to watch the flying and the noon demo. Since it was so windy there weren’t that many planes in the air and the noon demo was made difficult.

I brought the Twin-Star and the Blizzard on the Saturday and I flew both in the wind. A lot of people were interested in my planes and I got to meet a lot of new great people. A few even recognized me from my youtube-show, which was cool.
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I just finished building the Extra300. It was a pretty simple build and not much to worry about. The All Up Weight landed at 352 grams which is not light but not heavy either.

I look forward to flight testing it.
Click here for all the pictures of the build log

I’m mentioned on the very well known AllThingsThatFly podcast!

24 minutes and 10 seconds into episode #102 Diggs mentions my youtube show episode 1 and episode 2 as “Funny as hell”.

He is also kind enough to plug this site! After that he mentions my Multiplex Blizzard as “… One of the coolest paint scheme I’ve seen yet on a Blizzard”

Click here to download the episode as a MP3

A big thank you to all the guys at ATTF!

This is part 2! Click here for the first episode!

In this episode I once again try hitting a target with potatoes and eggs dropped from my EZ-Stick. But this time I manage to hit something!Continue Reading

I’m almost finished with the Extra300 from RCPowers. The only things that remain is to mount the ESC, receiver and battery.

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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.

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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.