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Too cold for bikes or quadcopters
« on: March 03, 2014, 01:28:16 PM »
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Re: Too cold for bikes or quadcopters
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2014, 02:01:15 PM »
My kid is buzzing me with a ProtoX as I type this.
Do you fly other RC?
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Re: Too cold for bikes or quadcopters
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2014, 02:22:20 PM »
Vic
This the only one I fly
--Blade 350qx--I hook a  GoPro camera to it and sometimes I have problems but it is fun!

http://youtu.be/61NlXbOk2hQ
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Re: Too cold for bikes or quadcopters
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2014, 04:32:34 PM »
I've been doing RC planes for about 14 years now. My main focus has been with Pylon racing and Gliders. I started into it after getting off bikes for a while and my wife wanted a plane to put in our newborn son's room.
So I got a nitromethane powered RC airplane...needless to say she wasn't too impressed so I got to keep the plane ::)

The son is now 15 and doesn't really show my same overpowered mechanical aptitude but he loves the little quad. We've been having a lot of fun with it but now he is struggling with "do I want to spend money on a cool quad or save it for when I am driving?" He gets his permit this week LOL.
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Re: Too cold for bikes or quadcopters
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2014, 04:01:45 AM »
Vic,
You should tell your son about a new data recording device--made for the
350qx--plot flight and data--uses mapquest--very cool.

http://www.flytrex.com/mission/quadcopter--philip-foss-16258/

Pic below shows my true gearhead nature--I've had the 1930 Model A Ford for 50 years!


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Re: Too cold for bikes or quadcopters
« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2014, 05:16:21 AM »
I try not to take incriminating photos of my shop like that. Lets just say model airplanes is more of an addiction than a hobby after seeing what it has done to my workshop. The bikes are coming back on pretty strong with a K1, K3, 78GS1000, and an 82Kz1000. Never mind guns and other stuff.

My Dad has told me the story that my Grandfather had the first A model in Detroit that wasn't black...it was green. The story goes he had a new car on order for a while and when he stopped to check on it the dealer offered the green one to him saying it was for an exec's wife originally but she didn't like it.
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Re: Too cold for bikes or quadcopters
« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2014, 06:33:20 AM »
I have been looking at these Quad Copters. They look like fun. The first successful Rotary wing craft were quads. They were hard for a person to control. Today with logic circuits to help the Pilot you may see them again for heavy lifting.

In the mean time, I think these are very cool and I would have fun terrorizing the neighborhood.   
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Re: Too cold for bikes or quadcopters
« Reply #7 on: March 08, 2014, 04:48:13 PM »
Quad copter back at the soccer field for a short mission



http://youtu.be/RuUVYNRzGqg

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Re: Too cold for bikes or quadcopters
« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2014, 02:03:00 PM »
Another flight with the quad copter plus telemetry.
After all, why not overdo a good thing?

http://youtu.be/GJU7yJCL4fU
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Re: Too cold for bikes or quadcopters
« Reply #9 on: March 09, 2014, 06:28:24 PM »
Nice video. Pretty smooth considering you cannot see or feel. Landing was pretty good. Looks like fun.
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Re: Too cold for bikes or quadcopters
« Reply #10 on: March 09, 2014, 06:39:46 PM »
At least you get back to your starting point. What is being tracked on the left side of the screen
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Re: Too cold for bikes or quadcopters
« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2014, 05:58:56 AM »
At first I was a little concerned looking at the stills to your links that you were over a bunch of people but the vids show you are doing the right thing. I get pretty twitchy with stuff flying over my head and I'm not the pilot.
It looks like you are getting the hang of it pretty good. The one vid looks like you had a 3-4 mph wind?
Are you using a HUD on your TX? What camera are you using? If you using just  line of sight you are doing great with the tilt function on the camera!
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Re: Too cold for bikes or quadcopters
« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2014, 07:32:25 AM »
Quote from: BobbyR on March 09, 2014, 06:28:24 PM
Nice video. Pretty smooth considering you cannot see or feel. Landing was pretty good. Looks like fun.
BobR,
Thanks--learning curve has been steep, though--crashed a couple times--major damage and expense!
It is a blast regardless !
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Re: Too cold for bikes or quadcopters
« Reply #13 on: March 10, 2014, 07:38:38 AM »
Quote from: Bob Wessner on March 09, 2014, 06:39:46 PM
At least you get back to your starting point. What is being tracked on the left side of the screen
Bob,
The 350qx has a "return to home" function which records starting GPS values and then takes you
Right back to your starting point--at the push of a button--most of the time!!
Scale on the left is altitude--launch point was already 200 feet above sea level.
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Re: Too cold for bikes or quadcopters
« Reply #14 on: March 10, 2014, 07:44:14 AM »
Ah, wondered if it was altitude but it didn't seem high enough at times. Relative to sea level makes sense now. Good thing you're not in Denver.  ;) I like that homing function. I never mastered it in the old days very well as a kid with RC planes.  :)
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Re: Too cold for bikes or quadcopters
« Reply #15 on: March 10, 2014, 07:45:33 AM »
Quote from: Vicman on March 10, 2014, 05:58:56 AM
At first I was a little concerned looking at the stills to your links that you were over a bunch of people but the vids show you are doing the right thing. I get pretty twitchy with stuff flying over my head and I'm not the pilot.
It looks like you are getting the hang of it pretty good. The one vid looks like you had a 3-4 mph wind?
Are you using a HUD on your TX? What camera are you using? If you using just  line of sight you are doing great with the tilt function on the camera!


Vic--definitely not flying over people--using a  GoPro  3+,  on a rubberized mount.
Just line of sight so far.
--I need a motorized gimble of course!!
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Re: Too cold for bikes or quadcopters
« Reply #16 on: March 10, 2014, 07:51:47 AM »
I think it would be tricky to get the gimbal working well without FPV.
Are you familiar with the AMA safety code?
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Re: Too cold for bikes or quadcopters
« Reply #17 on: March 10, 2014, 07:44:17 PM »
Quote from: gerhed on March 10, 2014, 07:32:25 AM
Quote from: BobbyR on March 09, 2014, 06:28:24 PM
Nice video. Pretty smooth considering you cannot see or feel. Landing was pretty good. Looks like fun.
BobR,
Thanks--learning curve has been steep, though--crashed a couple times--major damage and expense!
It is a blast regardless !
It is understandable. Rotary wing craft tend to diffacult to land, especially when you don't have the ability to feel. I was doing some reading and the service ceiling was quited as 150ft (45 Meters). That is prety good, but your altimeter was showing in the 200s?   
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Re: Too cold for bikes or quadcopters
« Reply #18 on: March 12, 2014, 01:21:26 AM »
Nice and warm today but the wind would blow your quad copter to the next state. Ever put the go-pro on a kite?
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Re: Too cold for bikes or quadcopters
« Reply #19 on: March 12, 2014, 01:35:42 PM »
Faux,

I like the  GoPro on kite idea--would be more of a challenge.
There are some famous overhead shots of the 1906 San Fran earthquake and fire
that we're supposedly taken from a kite.
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Re: Too cold for bikes or quadcopters
« Reply #20 on: March 12, 2014, 10:55:45 PM »
Definitely some kite weather coming up.
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Re: Too cold for bikes or quadcopters
« Reply #21 on: March 15, 2014, 01:19:53 PM »
Back out on the pitch early

http://youtu.be/92lMUGEdAAU






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Re: Too cold for bikes or quadcopters
« Reply #22 on: March 15, 2014, 02:41:19 PM »
Quote from: gerhed on March 12, 2014, 01:35:42 PM
Faux,

I like the  GoPro on kite idea--would be more of a challenge.
There are some famous overhead shots of the 1906 San Fran earthquake and fire
that we're supposedly taken from a kite.

Hadn't heard of these before, but here ya go...

 http://robroy.dyndns.info/lawrence/landscape.html
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Re: Too cold for bikes or quadcopters
« Reply #23 on: March 16, 2014, 03:22:02 AM »
Bob,
What a great article --lots of info!
In the 70's I worked as a photographer for a company in Chicago
(Oscar&Associates) and I often used a 12"x20" banquet camera--fixed focus but the lens
could be tilted to bring in your "Scheimpflug".
Here's one of my pics below--I kept the neg!

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Re: Too cold for bikes or quadcopters
« Reply #24 on: March 16, 2014, 05:12:33 AM »
Pretty cool. That's one hell of a negative. Those banquet cameras are still floating around. Sheet film for them, not so much.  :)

At first I was surprised they had emulsions fast enough in 1906 to offset the kite movement, but I guess they did in conjunction with the distance to the subject. Interesting for sure. A lot easier to experiment with in the digital age.. hmm how to cobble together an RC trigger?  ???  :)
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