Spirit 100 Glider – First FPV Flights – OT’s Discus Launch Glider
Posted on August 29th, 2010 in Radio Control, Video
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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Spirit 100 Glider FPV Conversion Progress – New Canopy
Posted on August 22nd, 2010 in FPV, Radio Control
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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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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Red Bull Pilot Matt Hall Water Impact Video
Posted on June 16th, 2010 in Video
Matt Hall hit the water earlier in June. This is an incredible video and a great interview sharing the detail of the impact. I love watching the Red Bull videos when they decide to share them with us. Red Bull sponsors some incredible high energy stuff in order to keep their brand name at the […]
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Hanagr 9 Twist 60 eConversion to eFlite Power 90 Brushless Motor
Posted on May 26th, 2010 in Radio Control, Video
If you follow this blog you may have seen the pictures and videos of my Hangar 9 Twist 60 that I post occasionally. This post is about my conversion of the plane to a brushless motor setup as well as some statistics on the Power 90 brushless motor power system. I had originally built the […]
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