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It was yet another almost perfect flying Monday @ the field today, there were 7 pilots & apart from the Sinker, there were no prangs.
Gerald had an elevator servo fail (it’s been playing up intermittently) and this resulted is his Eyas Eagle biting the dust rather hard. Oh well, another spare in a box at home.
Kermit had a few issues (as is often the case) but he is slowly mastering his Wild Wing and managed two perfect passes through the polo posts today. Well done Kermit.
Rian came along to join in the frivolities today and had a couple of his older planes that had not seen airtime in a long while. After a receiver issue was sorted out he got them both airborne & the both flew well.
No doubt Kermit will have another excellent video of all the action from today.
I tried a bit of FPV flying, first with the Wild Wing (not very good) and then with the Prowler which was going great till the battery on the FPV glasses expired.
I forgot to turn it off after flying the wing and then wondered where the flashing battery alarm was coming from- will know next time. Just as well the RTH system worked as expected.
We fitted a camera to Stephen’s Nitro Powered Boomerang (just to see how it recorded) and that is the first video off the rank today.
FPV flight with the Prowler
Around the Field
Li’l Eagle biplane
Wild Wing FPV feed (low res, no sound)
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Excellent around the field coverage Kermit. Good to see everyone gets a staring role in your productions 👏
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Another great video Kermit!
Good use of the soft focus, great commentary by Stephen. (didn’t see his name in the credits?)
But I must admit it did bring a tear to my eye seeing the last flight of my “Esky Eyas”.
But next time when I’m going to crash, could you hand your camera over to Andrew so as I can get a clear view of what happened……………………………………………Just sayn
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DEAR MR SINKER your interrupted flight with the beer cooler was so out of the ordinary so unexpected that even if the gentle giant had the camera he also wouldn’t have got the shot. brilliant flyers such as yourself just don’t crash as for credits I just forgot to give credit to the sounds man MR Seaside yep stephen after hours trying to patch video together its easy to forget the most important people that do require recognition for their effort Now to address the usage of my camera owing to the gentle giants ( ANDREW ) huge fingers he just cant get his paws onto the camera buttons successfully so unfortinually the big buggar isn’t gettin my camera ….full stop PS the beer cooler is easy fixed I have glue if you wanna have a go ………………………………………………………………just sayn
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For Mr Gerald and Mr Mike,
The boomerang now has flaperons that now flap.
The answer was to follow the google discovered instructions to a point, but instead of setting channel 1 to 0 for each position it needs to be o%, +50%, +100% and channel 6 has to be 0%, -50%, -100%
It will be interesting to see whether the flaps slow it down much for landings.
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That Eyas looks fixable but I guess if you have a house full of spares then fly the spare. I see there is a mini Eyas just been released. Just been thru 3 typhoons and 3 weeks non stop heavy rain here but at last the sun is out again.
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