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The weather today was perfect and even Scottie turned up. I think I had the worst crash of the day flying my Drifter through trees. The FPV video signal disappears when its behind the trees and I clipped a branch just in the second or so it goes. Here is the onboard footage:
And here is my Eyas, this flies so much easier than the Drifter.
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I thought I was early arriving at the field today @ 9:30 but there was big bad DaveW waiting at the gate for me. Its been a rather long time since Dave has graced us with his presence @ the field due to some ongoing medical issues but the way he flew today you would swear he had been in attendance every week.
I gave Dave a hand to program his new Jumper T16 radio to his Razor (well in fact we just replaced his Rx with a spare we had programmed earlier and apart from needing to reverse the elevator all else was fine) and he was off and flying like an old pro, well done Dave.
I was anxious to test the V2 of my “Dolly Trolley” on the 3 metre FMS Fox glider. Didn’t need to wait long for it to prove that the design worked. On my first launch, instead of using the slashed runway I opted to take off through the long grass. This caused two problems, 1) it significantly slowed the trolley down and 2) as I took off the prop struck the long grass so I aborted the launch. The pop up ramps on the V2 trolley saved the tail from being ripped off (yet again) and the Fox landed back in the long grass completely unscathed.
For the second launch I used our slashed runway and all worked fine.
Here is a video of the second launch & flight in it’s entirety.
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yep the stairs are done other works will be done over the next few months i put the new spot lights in an wow all minor stuff to do now went to the hanger an turned the prop still good but the paddock has high grass on it…. if we fly there we will need to cut a strip
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My Drifter is repaired and ready to fly again on Sunday. I had a spare wing from my original Drifter so used that although its a clean break on yesterdays wing so is easily repairable with hot glue. I hope we have more videographers on Sunday to challenge Predators run for the 2022 end of year GMA.
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Yes Chris, no doubt my run of good luck with the 2022 GMA’s (3 in a row-WOW) will come to a sudden end once Kermit & Gerald return with their cameras to the Field.
Glad you got your Drifter back in airborne condition in such short time.
I have almost completed repairs to the Bix 2 Sport after its minor altercation. The nose has been glued back on (nice clean break) so all I need to do now is re heatshrink the ESC and reinstall it then make a new glass for the cockpit and she should be good to fly again.
There was a small hole in the nose that’s now been filled with gorilla glue (just waiting for it to foam & set before trimming) hence the green tape.
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