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What magnificent videos! 🙂

Thanks to all the videoographers. You have all done a terrific job.

After being inspired by the cardboard Spitfire, I checked out the Flite Test site to see what plans etc are available.

Here is a starting page for different model planes where you can find free download plans for some of them:
https://www.flitetest.com/articles#/textSearch=plans&listSort=rating_high_to_low

Another thing that is worth considering.  Flite Test sell laser pre-cut kits at a very cheap price which takes a lot of the hard work out of building these things. Here is a link to their store. It’s worth having a look. I have targeted a couple that I would like to try 🙂

https://store.flitetest.com/airplanes/

One last link for recycling your old cardboard pizza box:

https://www.flitetest.com/articles/flying-wing-made-from-a-cardboard-pizza-box

Have fun everyone.

 

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Yay! another wing flyer 🙂

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Hat cam footage of the last race:

 

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Thanks for the adjustments Mike.

Here are a couple of hat cam videos.

Race 6:

 

Race 10:

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Are these servos any good for you Hoppy?

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<p style=”text-align: left;”>As usual, great videos Kermit.  Looks like it was a cold day.</p>

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Thanks for your input Uncle G. I didn’t know laptop batteries wouldn’t deliver enough current.

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Silly me, I just re-read your email and I have my parallel and series mixed up. You should still be able to recover them in series to make 7.4 v and the current would be 2.6 AH.

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David, here is the battery pack which would contain 6 batteries configured in 3 x 2 pairs where the pairs would be welded in parallel. New rating of the parallel pairs is 5.2 AH so individual batteries would be 2.6 AH.  If you want to have a go a dismantling the pack, you are welcome to it.  I’m not sure how old the pack it but you never know. They still might be OK for the ZOHD. If you are lucky, you’ll get three battery packs out of it 🙂

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Hey David, I can rustle up a couple of 18650 LiIon batteries and you can have them if you like. They are not brand new but would probably work OK in your ZOHD. I don’t have a welder but if we are lucky, they might already be welded together. Did you want to give it a try? I’ll start looking to see if they have a part number so we can work out what their capacity is.

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Gee, there is some classic footage in that lot Mr Moose.  Well done and good editing.

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Some video grabs from my hat cam.

Race 1 start:

Race 2 end:

Race 4 start:

Race 5:

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I got the opportunity to test out my home made sailing handicap timer. It worked quite well with plenty of volume. Amazing what you can do with a cheap mp3 player chip and an old set of computer speakers 🙂

Once again, many thanks to Sue for scoring todays event.

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Very good videos here chaps. You have all really outdone yourselves. The bar has been raised very high to beat this lot.  🙂

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Nice flying Hoppy. I really love the FPV of the take off on your bungy launch 🙂

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