Jon and I decided (while kind of intoxicated) to make a plane out of the spare parts I had laying around in the shop. We decided not to use glue, or screws, and to only allow tape and toothpicks, just to see if we could do it. Needless to say, it didnt work, but have fun watching us try!!
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Ron decided to fit a wheel to his AXN Clouds Fly Floater Jet RC plane. It kind of works — but the takeoffs are “exciting” and taxiing it on the tarmac produces a lot of wear on the nose. Ron says he’ll be taking it off… back to the drawing board I guess. Just more flying fun from the SWMAC in Tokoroa New Zealand.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
For insane FPV videos from professionals go to “Gabriel2584″ and “nastycop420″ (=Trappy =Team BlackSheep)!!!!! FPV= abbreviation for “First Person View” RPV= “Remote Piloted Vehicle” UAV= “Unmanned Aerial Vehicle” “FAIL SAFE” on the screen= no control of the plane (loss of RC signal) Costs: FPV gear: approx. 600 Euro Plane ready to fly: approx. 600 Euro Costs altogether, with RC flight simulator, RC transmitter, charger, batteries, FPV recording device,……. : approx. 2000 Euro Money you need at the beginning: 3000 Euro (crashes, loss of plane included) But you need much time to be able to handle the technology……… Powering the FPV gear with the flight battery. Range in high altitude (more than 100m): RC approx. 1,5km (cheap RC receiver, no DS= double superheterodyne= double conversion) FPV approx. 3km Half the range in big cities because of jammers! Recording with Canon MVX200i Mini DV PAL Camcorder Deinterlacing with “Alparysoft Deinterlace” with “Cedocida DV Codec” and Virtual Dub Editing with Ulead Videostudio 11 Compressing with Xvid, Single Pass, Quantizer 2, MP3 256 kps CBR This is the best possible quality in my opinion (with this camera, transmitter setup) min. Transmitter voltage: 9,7 V, below that picture loss (happens at full throttle with an almost empty or weak and cold battery) Setup: Modified Multiplex …