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Cardboard is the new foam and it’s a lot cheaper 🙂

 

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Nice job Kermit.  I like the assistant you have in the first photo 🙂

 

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This is the best video ever. Well done Rian. Some excellent drone flying skills there.

Good job on the audio dubbing Chris. Really good choice of music.

I reckon this video should get the Moose award.

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Here is the onboard footage from the ZOHD Dart XL Extreme using Runcam Split 3 camera:

 

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Thanks for uploading the scoresheet Mike.

I wish I had taken my hat cam as the wind conditions made for some really nice sailing.

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Thanks everyone for the comments.  Good point Predator, I can’t wait to fly it again to see what it looks like in the air 🙂

That is a great solution regarding the clear polyurethane Moose.

I also noticed that the blue over green changed colour and I was wondering how to get around that?

Maybe a layer of white and then the blue?

I sort of cheated with the circles and used a template.  I didn’t think my hand would be steady or accurate enought to paint a circle.  The blue and red colour was vibrant on the white template.

I sort of wish I had done art in school now 🙁

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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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