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A very deserving winner though I would question how many sheep were traumatized in the making of the videos?
Kermit asked me to not lodge any videos today and as he is my BFF I will oblige. My V tail balsa glider suffered a lot of damage. I think one of the V tails broke off in flight while I was circling tightly in a rough thermal. Anyway it plowed in vertically from 200 feet. Motor and battery need replacing and wing will need a substantial rebuild. Oh well, its over twenty years old so I got good mileage out of it, even the trophy for winning the Tas 7 Cell comp held near Lonny in the days when 7 Nicad cells were the power source.
So I may be after a new Rudder/Elevator thermal glider!
Now for todays entry for the GMA this footage is from Rian with Andrew and Mike flying so another shared award:
And lastly an entry from Rian and myself with my Fox using a fwd facing cam, rear facing cam and the drone footage:
I just measured my Fox and its shrunk to 2.32 metres. There were good thermals for a while today as I had 2 long Fox flights. I also flew the HK Parkjet with a new 12 blade ducted fan for the first time after the 5 blade fan broke. My poor Drifter, F16 and Eagles didnt get to fly today. I have 5 videos as I got 18 video files from Rian’s drone (actually sd card inside his DJI goggles. 3 videos are from last week 29th September and I think the GMA needs reawarding based on these. We can have a vote and I say give to Rian!
Last week entry numer one from Rian:
Last week entry number two from Rian and myself as its of my Fox!
Bonus content from last week from Rian flying his quad around his folks house and yard:
Looks like Uncle G was the only one to prang when he wheel Barrow landed his Esky and stoves in the nose gear. A master at hiding that from the camera!
I got some whale footage from my phone and drone today. David the farmer who owns most of Droughty point let me drive to where he is building his new house on the point. But for some reason he wont let us fly RC planes and gliders on his land.
Taking him out for lunch is easy, its kissing the less than golden hoofs that is needed! I just put in Wednesday as a fly day in cal.
I thought we were going to have a VTOL day so brought along my XK X450 Aviator. Here is footage with onboard #32 camera:
And my Eyas Eagles had the Flight Controller removed and its much better at going round trees again:
Cloud AX footage from one of its 2 flights:
I added a cheap old BigAole 6G-AP flight controller to my Esky Eagles. Thats why I sat in middle of field for a while to get GPS lock there. Here is footage when in stabilize mode. Its not good flying thru trees as not precise like when flying without a stabilizer. So I crash landed though no real damage. I suspect I will be taking the flight controller off. Kermit donated all the left over proceeds to the Save the Tree Frog campaign to me to remove all Plover footage so there are no plovers in todays footage. I maybe wrong but think he is going for the GMA for today. In the meantime I just hope Moose is recovering well from the poison barbs he receives from the poisonous frog.
