I built another foam plane and took it out for a spin today:
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Includes some high speed passes, loops, and my first time trying inverted flight outside of a simulator.
The aprupt ending was caused by the propeller not being tightened down enough. Fortunately I found it not too far from the plane. No damage done to anything.
My favourite fly-by from today:
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I need to either find a camera with a narrower field of view, or not fly my plane that far away. For now, this is all I get, unless someone volunteers to film my crashes.
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In theory, the range of the transmitter is about 1.5 kilometers. However, you start to get in serious trouble when you fly too far and can't see how the plane is oriented, so unless you have a live video feed from the plane, you need line of sight.
That flight was probably max. around 100m away.
In theory, the range of the transmitter is about 1.5 kilometers. However, you start to get in serious trouble when you fly too far and can't see how the plane is oriented, so unless you have a live video feed from the plane, you need line of sight.
That flight was probably max. around 100m away.
If it's broken, fix it.
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If it isn't broken, I'll soon fix that.