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Wow Kermit, what can I say? Another quality Toad Hall Production.
The first module in my Radio Technician training when I joined the Air Force was High Reliability Hand Soldering. Well, that was a waste of time. We could have watched your video!
I love the out takes at the end and suggest you should have had a set of false teeth when you were trying to strip the wire. It would have looked really good if the teeth had come out during the process 🙂
I too have been filmed in a presentation I did back in 2017 at REAST on our topic of flying.
Can I counteract your video with this one?
Great video Kermit and I think your video captures the events of the day very well. You can really see the effort you have done with all the special effects and video mixing and splicing etc.
A very good contender for the GMA in my opinion.
Commiserations to Mr Moose for the not so successful first flight of the Decathlon. We look forward to the rebuild and getting it back in the air again. We also feel for you too Mike as it’s not a good feeling when that happens to someone else’s plane.
Here is a video of my last automated flight with the C1 Chaser today. I have tried adjusting some of the flight parameters to achieve a better landing but the airspeed seems way too high and landings were overshooting. I did notice from the telemetry that I did have a tailwind on one of the landings.
A couple of wins are I sorted the plane going left and successfully tested the abort landing function which will be in another video.
The next video with the test aborted landings. Three aborts and then I manually landed it.
Great videos everyone. Mike, the video from the Excalibur is very stable and Gerald, I love your slow-mo during the dramatic bits.
Here are two videos with lots of picture-in-picture so you get to see everything that’s going on. Overall, I think the autonomous experiment did what it was meant to do. There might be a bit of fine tuning regarding how close the aircraft needs to get to the waypoint before it triggers. Also, I did notice that when I flew the Chaser without autopilot, it did tend to go left and they may have caused the left drift on landings along with a bit of cross wind.
Auto take-off, three waypoints and auto landing…
Auto take-off, grid search and auto landing… Thanks to Mike for giving me permission to use some of his footage.
Great work on the videos so far Mike. Excellent quality as usual.
Thanks for uploading race 4 and 5 🙂I have to agree with Pred regarding Kermit’s footage for the oops moments and subtitles.
It was hilarious!
The missus and I watched the video and found it very entertaining.
I don’t think we had ever laughed so much. Well done Kermit.
Mike, the patch cloud in the background in your “Around the field” video was a nice effect for the planes flying around.
I’ll definitely go for some carbon paper.
This is the folding prop I am using but HobbyKing never seem to have them in stock.
Might have to source an equivalent.https://hobbyking.com/en_us/hobbyking-walrus-glider-1400mm-prop-spinner-set.html
This is the motor I am using:
https://de.aliexpress.com/item/32765174496.htmlNice video Mike. It looks really authentic.
As promised for Mr Moose, here is the link to the Spitfire page and the link to the build video:
https://www.flitetest.com/articles/ft-spitfire-buildWow! It must be great to have so much time to do all that work Mike! 🙂
Might I suggest a diferent idea regarding the Dolly Trolley?
I was thinking, rather than folding down the catch posts, what about some sort of spring loaded ramp that leads up the to the top of the posts?
That way, when the plane lifts off the trolley, the ramps pop up to make a smoother incline to the top of the posts. If the elevator was to make contact with it, it would “ramp up” rather than hit the vertical posts and break. I’m sure there would be enough weight in the plane to hold the ramps down prior to lift off. A latching mechanism could also be employed to prevent the ramps from being pushed down.What do you think?
