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I made the first page:
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Wooohooo!

Oh I’m so happy!

After putting up the posters in the local grocery stores I hoped so bad that the phone would ring…
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My plane is gone and i cant find it!

I was my first flight with my new Eagletree OSD.
I saw that the clouds were pretty low and not to thick so I did something stupid;
I flew above the clouds without a GPS.
It was pretty windy but I didn’t notice it while flying so high. I thought that I was closer than I was.
I fly with A123 and usually get 2100mAh out of them. But I had forgot that I had used some up configuring the OSD.

I descended to late and found myself out at sea!

I panicked and tried to desperately get back to land when the battery went flat…

Klick here to jump to the place when stuff starts to happen

We searched for hours but could not find it.

Maybe it’s out at sea.

I’ll put up some flyers to see if someone has seen it.

Wow this day sucks…

Here is a link to the thread on RCGroups if you want to discuss it

Brian at RCFlightcast wanted to see what speed I used when cutting out my wing cores so I made him a short youtube video

Yep your read right! The AitT V.2 is a Night Flyer!
And more, it flies great!
The difference is easily noticeable compared to the old AitT.

I have also changed the prop to a 4,75*4,75, changed the servos to a pair of Multiplex Nano-S and changed to a 25-35C battery.

This is not a model you fly with your mind on the dinner and I like that.
Unlimited vertical is nice too.

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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.

My old AitT has now retired after a work related accident involving the ground.

This is going to be its successor:

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Woho! A successful maiden!

Pushed the range a bit to about 3km without a problem with either the RC or video connection.
I also tried aiming the RC TX away from the airplane to see how wide the beam with was, and it was surprisingly wide

It was verry cold after 15 minutes in the wind at -9°C, as you can se on the landing

I maidened it without the FPV setup to trim it out and test the gyro. (It makes no sense in crashing the FPV setup when not flying FPV)
Everything went fine and it didn’t need a single klick of trim.
If flew awsome!
My hands could not take the cold for verry long so the first flight were about 4 minutes.

Now I can do the FPV maiden!