Category: Blog

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.
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Look what I found in my mailbox!
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I could not stand buying receivers that cost hundreds of times more than the cheep experimental airplanes that I want to fly. So for the same price as a 6 channel Futaba FASST receiver, I bought myself a Assan X8D Hack module and two 6 channel receivers!
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Woho! It flew!

It has a weird tendency to get stuck in a high alfa (anyone knows why it would do that?) but other than that, it flies just fine.

I have begun the build of the first airplane of my own design!
It’s a delta plane with a KF nr.4 airfoil that is designed around the same power plant as the AitT wing. I don’t know if it’s going to fly, but I sure hope so.
Click here to read the build log

It does remind me of something but I don’t know what…

Today my lovely wife had to study all day for an exam, so I got a lot of time to myself. After doing some chores, I’ve been sitting trying to explain how Antenna gain works, since I get many questions about it. It isn’t the easiest thing to explain, but now I have tried. Perhaps you can get an insight to the basics, I am no expert myself, and hopefully it will be enough for most peoples needs.

Specifications:
Resolution: Up to 640*480
Codecs: MPEG-4 SP, H.263
Formats: MP4, 3GP, 3G2
Frame rate: Up to 30 FPS
Operating voltage: 5V
Weight: 98 grams
Compatible card formats:
SD, SDHC, miniSD, miniSDHC, microSD, microSDHC
RS-MMC (Dual Voltage)
MMCplus, MMCmobile
Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick PRO Duo

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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:

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I was flying my Blizzard yesterday, just a recreational flight, no fancy flying. But when I picked it up after the landing i noticed that the front end of the spinner was missing! I searched around the place where it had landed but couldn’t find anything.

I thought I heard a noise just when I hit the throttle at one time during the flight, when I was at the far end of the field, so I went over there.
During the walk I noticed the grass getting thicker and thicker and higher and higher and when I got to the place where I thought it could be the grass was so thick and high that the only way I would find the spinner was if I accidentally stepped on it.
I hope they harvest the grass soon…

I am proud to present my first HD video!

Only the prop was broken in the crash.