Thanks to Brian van der Westhuizen (thanks Brian) I have another Vintage pattern aircraft which appears to be quite flyable. So now it has an engine (ASP .46 Mk I) and servos to randomly deflect the flying surfaces to appear that I am in some sort of control. Can anyone recognise this model? I would […]
Typically I don’t get to fly midweek; today I did as the weather was good and I was on leave from work . Three other flyers turned up, 3 flying IC power and one glider pilot. It was a great morning. A few photos…
There was a guy there on Sunday morning with a suit and tie… looked totally out of place… well he was a TV1 reporter. He did an interview regarding safe drone flying with Mark and Leo which made it to prime time TV. TV Stars ;o) The ALES competition was held and won by Keith […]
Well Wellington turned on a great day for the first Rotorcross event hosted by the Wellington Model Aeroplane Club. Summer IS coming methinks. The club put on a lunchtime BBQ for the racers and club members. And no I didn’t have 6 sausages… Here are some photos from today… Pilot briefing Pilots seating arrangements […]
Tony and Warren enjoying the new picnic table… between flights Warrens models on their own picnic table… between flights.
Friday evening, the plan was to see if the multi-rotor could lift and manoeuvre a small plane. Lifting was easy with the plane moving around a bit in the down-draft. The multi-rotor had no problems with the swinging plane. Forward flight was a bit tricky. A sort of uncontrolled glider tow. The plane wanted fly […]
Nice day at the field today, a small number of members arrived to enjoy the calm weather. One of our new members experiencing his first flight in a light Wellington breeze, ended up with his plane high up in a tree on the Golf course to the surprise of same of the golfers. Plane retrieved with only damage […]
Notes from Gordon Here are a few links to some of the items I bought along for Show and Tell this evening. Mobius Camera Mobius Camera (latest and widest angle version – note mine has the C lens. Now replaced by C2 lens). Note – to change the options available in the camera and to […]
It sounds like an overheat failure This picture shows the miniature 32 channel transmitters as supplied (before overheating) and a New Zealand coin to indicate size. I have used, seen and repaired some video transmitters with very poor thermal design. Overheat failures are quite common. Many underestimate the need for cooling. The VTX produces heat […]
The Problem This monitor-receiver combination looses the image to a snowy screen regularly, even when the 200mW video transmitter is within 10 meters. The way it would suddenly come and go, it looked like a connection problem or bad joint on the video lead between receiver and monitor. We were expecting a more consistent better […]
The Problem When multiple quads are racing around a course with pilots at the start-finish line, FPV video channels interfere with each other. Pilots loose their video as another quad races past. Possible Improvements There are 8 channels within the allowed 5.8GHz frequency band. The transmitters are not of the highest quality and adjacent channels […]
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