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Post by Burkeomatic on Oct 23, 2023 16:40:33 GMT
Had a couple of A pack motors sitting around so built a pickle to put them on - a mini Sea Duck. Even though the wind was 10 and gusty had to fly it. Awesome! It's a twin, it has to fly good. On that note, I crashed the heck out of my Talon 250g. I was flying LOS and not watching my battery. It dropped from 10.7 volts to empty in about 30 seconds and died. The super bandit for whatever reason couldn't get off the ground, must have been a mis sized thrust tube... its in the trash. I finally flew my powered cheetah glider. It flew nice, the wings were just floppy. I flew all small planes yesterday, in 20mph gusts... smart. I need to upload the otherwise boring talon video for the crash.
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Post by Mr NCT on Oct 23, 2023 20:44:41 GMT
Ya gotta love small planes in the wind. Took the Sea Duck out again this morning in less gusty wind and had a nice couple of flights. Sorry about your crashes/failures to launch. I always kick myself when I've forced a flight and it's gone sideways.
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Post by Burkeomatic on Oct 24, 2023 23:26:13 GMT
Ya gotta love small planes in the wind. Took the Sea Duck out again this morning in less gusty wind and had a nice couple of flights. Sorry about your crashes/failures to launch. I always kick myself when I've forced a flight and it's gone sideways. I couldn't throw it any harder, It had to be my thrust tube that was off. That motor is supposed to give 250g of thrust, the plane weighed less than that, so it should have shot off, but it just died. I'm working on a fun secret project right now. Hope to have it done soon! My cheetah glider has 1 a pack motor on it (those are 1806 motors right?) with a 5x4 prop on 2s and it surpisingly scoots along pretty quick. The wings were floppy and did weird stuff in the wind. I need to get some carbon stick rod things (whatever the flat ones are) and extend them out to the tips. Goes to show it isn't all about the power. It glides nice too.
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Post by ratcheeroo on Oct 25, 2023 15:57:48 GMT
Looks like a pretty cool little flyer, nice!
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Post by Burkeomatic on Jan 15, 2024 21:14:11 GMT
The last warm day we had here I maidened my heewing T-1 ranger. It seems like a decent flier. I'm not sure how much I like the sparrow 3 in this though.
This is also the "debut" of the hawkeye thumb. Does up to 4k video, gyroflow capable, and cost under $50. It also has a "TV" out function so you can use this as your only camera if you're flying analog. So, really, for $20 more than a regular FPV camera you get 4k recording too. It doesn't play as well with gyroflow as the runcam thumb, but it isn't bad.
This was shot in 2.5k/50FPS
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Post by ratcheeroo on Jan 18, 2024 0:19:06 GMT
Was a cool flight, meant to make a comment when I watched it 5 minutes after when you first put up on youtube. That camera does a nice job, Great flight and video!!
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Post by Burkeomatic on Jan 20, 2024 20:39:59 GMT
Here is the RDV2 with updated stuff. Flies pretty nice, cruises around 6 amps now too.
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Post by Burkeomatic on Jan 28, 2024 1:24:30 GMT
Got the dolphin back in the air... needs a camera upgrade.
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Post by Burkeomatic on Jan 29, 2024 3:51:11 GMT
This is the insta360 go 2. A few things I don't like about it... Limited battery life, and it gets a little wonky with the stabilization if you get too rowdy.
That said, far better image quality and I didn't touch this with gyroflow or anything, I just loaded it straight to youtube. Although, for 5 times the price USED it had better be.
I think the runcam 4k will be better.
Anywho, the only real highlights are I bounce it on take off and I clip a tree at 6 minutes.
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Post by Burkeomatic on Feb 20, 2024 23:44:35 GMT
If you're ever wondering if I hit the goal post.....
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Post by ratcheeroo on Feb 26, 2024 17:10:42 GMT
I watched this the day you put up on Youtube. I thought for sure you were going through it and then WHAM!! Violent end to that one LOL!
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Post by Burkeomatic on Feb 26, 2024 19:37:15 GMT
I watched this the day you put up on Youtube. I thought for sure you were going through it and then WHAM!! Violent end to that one LOL! I wasn't even in the goggles. My daughter wanted something so I pulled them up, I was low LOS so I hung a left and looked down, saw it was going to the goal post too late. I flew the t1 ranger into a tree yesterday too. The wind blows that plane around a lot. Maybe I should stop flying below tree tops when the wind is gusting... wait, thats no fun.
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Post by ratcheeroo on Feb 26, 2024 21:29:30 GMT
Yea no fun in that LOL! You had a couple of other nice flights I watched also. Getting things dialed in! Nice!
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Post by Burkeomatic on Mar 17, 2024 3:23:19 GMT
Got the penguin dialed in.
I think this is my favorite plane now, no lie. I had always hated the way it looked, but now it has grown on me. I added a rudder.
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