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Went out yesterday to fly in the wind and rain. Sat under an umbrella for twenty minutes, which was nice. Then there were gusts up to 16mph (which is enough to upset a 450) and a steady 10mph, and that was very nice. I tried my second real auto but zapped the headspeed way way too early, awesome! Got it on video in full HD.
Damage:
1 Bent link (£2).
Confidence (a little
).
Soft ground on the cricket pitch and bouncy gorilla skids took most of the impact.
It was my first session with the new slant main gear (121T) and motor pinion (12T). Headspeed was governed to 3183rpm. Felt more punchy. Not sure why, the ratio difference?
Here's a vid of course, wind from my left, ooh, did I mention now showing in full HD?! (Got myself a fancy new computer!)
And here's the beasty after the crash!
DSC00247.jpg
Flight log anyone? Headspeed was pretty constant but at the bottom of the last three big loops it dropped to 2400rpm (I'm running +/-13 degrees of pitch).
april2012snapshot.jpg
Cheers!
(Need to work on posting bigger images?!
)
Went out yesterday to fly in the wind and rain. Sat under an umbrella for twenty minutes, which was nice. Then there were gusts up to 16mph (which is enough to upset a 450) and a steady 10mph, and that was very nice. I tried my second real auto but zapped the headspeed way way too early, awesome! Got it on video in full HD.
Damage:
1 Bent link (£2).
Confidence (a little
). Soft ground on the cricket pitch and bouncy gorilla skids took most of the impact.
It was my first session with the new slant main gear (121T) and motor pinion (12T). Headspeed was governed to 3183rpm. Felt more punchy. Not sure why, the ratio difference?
Here's a vid of course, wind from my left, ooh, did I mention now showing in full HD?! (Got myself a fancy new computer!)
And here's the beasty after the crash!
DSC00247.jpg
Flight log anyone? Headspeed was pretty constant but at the bottom of the last three big loops it dropped to 2400rpm (I'm running +/-13 degrees of pitch).
april2012snapshot.jpg
Cheers!
(Need to work on posting bigger images?!
)