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Recorded from the ground station, this is a good view of exactly what is shown on the screen when flying by FPV from the back of an E-Fair glider.

First flight fairly uneventful, you can see the weather coming in a bit on the horizon, and sorry for the Youtube hold music again. The jerkiness on this video seems to be the recorder, it didn’t show on the screen when I was flying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHDPpnJ_Bhk

 

The second flight I got a bit more adventurous and took it probably a little further away than I should of, getting quite well over the other side of the road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WIjMNtDJjU

The video kept quite a good link, it was actually the spektrum control which seemed to reach the edge of its range first, although I did have an AR400 receiver in this glider which I have seen seems to have a much lesser range and reliability than the larger AR6210’s

My poor old shark is falling apart so I thought I’d give it a last outing before the motor finally gives up, first flight was great as always, second flight was shorter as lo and behold the motor started making funny noises lol.

Had a brownout while inverted too, thankfully it came back on before I hit the tree, and I got a last video from the “jaws” of the beast 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlXmQWHKLpY&feature=youtu.be

Must thank Mr Chris for letting me have a go of his FPV goggles today, was brilliant fun and really enjoyed it.

It gives a whole new perspective to the hobby…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y8nKRjgmaE

Apologies for the music it was free off you tube when I edited, saves a whole lot of prop noise.

Here is a shortened version of  a video taken a couple of weeks ago, the original is quite long to long in fact for my You Tube account so I have cut out most of it.

Apologies if you find it a little boring to watch.

A fantastic Bird of Time’s eye view of the Tanworth forest on a sunny Sunday, and although you would never guess it from the video it is a quite windy day.

Thank you very much Mr Adrian for such wonderful, high definition, stable aerial camera work.

Chris decided to put his electronic switch to the test.

Not happy with the thrust from one rocket engine though, he decided to try two…

And just in case you were wondering what happened…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LsQSRAAbCc&feature=youtu.be

The day of the maiden had finally arrived for Barry’s Spitfire, last seen in his biplane thread,

I managed to take a couple pictures for posterity…

And a pic of the lovely cockpit…

Fantastic looking paint job Barry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX4bp2YOGKA

Sorry I couldn’t get more of the flight on video but was struggling to see in the sun lol.

 

I wanted to try out my Mobius camera, I was unable to fly at the time so Adrian kindly took the camera for a spin.

Here is the video,

Tried to keep up with the Viggen of Mr Chris so as to get it on film…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xCO9Bs6jQE

Nearly had it as a hood ornament at one stage though lol

And just in case you missed that fly-by…

It’s been a while since I built the FW-42 back in January.

http://blog.smfc.co.uk/2014/01/no-plan-no-clue-my-fw-42/

And finally we got a nice day which wasn’t howling a gale although it wasn’t as calm as I would have preferred.

It all started so well…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk_l8hmn-hU

But then went down hill quickly apparently stalling and spinning out of control! I have a feeling that it may even have just been a badly placed centre of gravity, and moving more weight forward may have created better results.