NEAT Fair 2010 Photographs and Videos

There are quite a few photos that I’ve uploaded and they’re in the gallery below, just open them and use the left/right buttons at the bottom of the viewer pane to move between photos. There were a lot of great pilots at the NEAT fair and some really fun events as well. The helicopter section […]
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Tags: drone, FPV, Helicopter, Octacopter, Photography, Plane, Radio Control
Trying Out Some Low Cost Outrunner Brushless Motors from eBay

These outrunner brushless motors were shipped straight from China and took about two weeks to arrive and cost about $12 each shipped. Here are a couple of high resolution photos of these motors, they have a nice flat gold color to the ends and the bell is chromed a good overall appearance at first look. […]
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Tags: brushless motor, Helicopter, model, outrunner brushless motor, Plane, Radio Control, rc
Spirit 100 Glider – First FPV Flights – OT’s Discus Launch Glider

I’ve been working on the Spirit 100 glider to convert it to an FPV platform for the last couple of weeks. Today I finally was able to get the plane up with the First Person View gear and the results were awesome. Having so much wing area is a huge bonus when flying FPV because […]
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Tags: Electronics, FPV, Plane, Radio Control, rc, Video
Spirit 100 Glider FPV Conversion Progress – New Canopy

Last week I test flew the glider. As you can see in the previous post “FPV Spirit 100 Inch Brushless Powered Glider Test Flights“, it flew pretty good. The glider weighed in at 1990 grams with the radio, speed controller, motor, motor mast and battery (and other associated equipment). I had to add 136 grams […]
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Tags: FPV, glider, Plane, Radio Control, Spirit
I wrecked the Reactor Bipe, Time For a New (used) FPV Plane

I managed to smash up my FPV (First Person View) plane, the Reactor Biplane a couple of weeks ago. I had just remounted the motor after I broke the mount on a previous FPV Flight(Video (new window)). So once I had the motor remounted I went to test fly the airplane. I didn’t want to […]
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