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With no Bad Angel in attendance today it was a rather quiet little Monday Fly – In for the seven that attended, Moose, Hoppy, Kermit, Uncle G, Ian, Stephen & myself.
With only very light winds till after midday Ian was keen to once again attempt to get his Big Bird glider airborne. Happy to say that after one thwarted attempt and a few alterations to control surfaces & COG the Big Bird actually flew (and flew quite well) on its second attempt.
Whilst I for one was not convinced that Ian’s stabiliser setup would work (controlling rudder & elevator only – no ailerons on Big Bird), it did in fact work and rather well.
Hopefully Kermit (today’s cinematographer) got some good video of Ian flying the Big Bird.
Uncle G had a flight with his Mini Tundra also before the wind picked up.
Kermit was still having issues with “Fly Baby” but with a much larger prop next week hopefully all will be well & “Baby” will finally fly again.
I hoped to fly “BumbleBee” but for some reason the ESC appears to have lost its timing setting once again so will need some more bench testing before taking to the skies again. The Bix 2 Sport & “Lil Eagle” got a workout though.
Moose had a rather hard landing with his Tundra after what was looking like a good flight so it will be back on the repair bench this week as well.
Stephen & I were experiencing some radio issues during one flight when we were both airborne together but after re booting the radios (Jumper T16 & Taranis QX7) the problems all went away. Maybe their respective frequency hopping both hopped to channels too close to one another ?
Hoppy was having a few interference issues with his FPV today but it may just have been that one of his FPV cameras was running very hot.
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I have now removed the battery from my mini mobius camera for next FPV range testing. Also I just ordered the same Hawkeye goggles as BA and Ron, at $129 from Banggood australia as my fatshark goggles are so old and dont have diversity so doesnt help with range issues. Here is a brief clip of the Eagles including taxying in the long grass. I had 6 planes today. The Drift I ran out of time to fly it. The V Tail glider needed some soldering, not done so was u/s (unserviceable for non pilots). The A10 had a brief flight as shedded a fan blade becoming u/s, I think a different blade from last time. The ASW28 flew Ok but no thermals in the Easterly wind. The VTOL plane flew nice first up but I only had the one battery for it and the charger needed soldering too, now done, so was u/s. All service items now fixed.
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Another good day for me, The Razor flew nicely with a new Inav flight controller fitted. also the Micro Tundra flew well handling the wind with no trouble.
Here is my video of the day, (with music for BA)
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GENTLEMEN I will get straight to it I deleted my video on the card somehow I put a file with the videos raw then named it in that process it went to la la land I thought perhaps it went into a file on the computer but as the card hasn’t got the videos its gone I stuffed up big time ……..ITS OK TO give me A HARD TIME I deserve it “SORRY” JUST DOESNT CUT IT instead of the video I could describe what I filmed it was a great video I can go into detail for at least 15 minutes ifin you want
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On numerous occasions !!
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Looks like another fun fly-day there gang, and I’m pleased you had a quiet day without me, well I had a quiet day without youzzz 2 but I picked up a very nice model yacht to try and turn into a sailing RC yacht if I could post photos I would but I can’t so will bring it along to sailing if it’s on this Saturday… Just say’n.
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Thank you Gerald, for a great video with suitable dreamy music, a good record of the OBE Big Bird and very nice for me to study the stabiliser in operation….I think the feedback is about right, as one can just see a gentle oscillation as it corrects. Good general interest too!
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Ian, the “Big Bird” was very graceful in the air, easy to follow with the camera. Pity Kermit lost his video???
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Big Bird’s first flight – from Stephen
https://www.dropbox.com/s/slelaluaj7mzu77/Big%20Bird%27s%20First%20Flight.mp4?dl=0
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