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| Author: | markg [ Fri May 06, 2016 8:47 ] |
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Shame there's no sound, when I flew it into the room she was shouting "It's a fairy!" then "*squeal* the fairy's chasing me!", ha ha. I'm just a terrible father, I never meant to crash into her head, though. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Fri May 06, 2016 9:23 ] |
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"The fairly is tangled in my hair! ARRRRGH!" /can never watch Peter Pan again |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Fri May 06, 2016 14:32 ] |
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| Author: | markg [ Fri May 06, 2016 14:43 ] |
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Grim... wrote: "The fairly is tangled in my hair! ARRRRGH!" /can never watch Peter Pan again Result. Now to figure out how to make her hate Frozen. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Fri May 06, 2016 15:08 ] |
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Lock her in a freezer and tell her Elsa did it. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Tue May 10, 2016 9:49 ] |
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A video from the glorious weekend. Bad start to the session by crashing my Vampire (sorry, no video, fixed up now) and having to ditch my Bixler in a school playing field after a disorientated panic . Got my eye in though after that and chased a van! Went a bit faster through goal posts! Squeezed through a Quad race gate! Landed right at my feet!  What have you got, Kissyfur? |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Tue May 10, 2016 9:55 ] |
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Zardoz wrote: What have you got, Kissyfur? Super-AIDS. |
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| Author: | markg [ Tue May 10, 2016 9:58 ] |
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Yeah good morning that, I've not had chance to do anything with the video yet but it's basically just things smashing into that airgate. That last crash with the quad was pretty mental, it sheared two blades off but because it was in airmode even though I was at zero throttle it tried to stop the spin induced by hitting the gate which is why it immediately went full power and zinged off towards the other flyers there. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Tue May 10, 2016 10:12 ] |
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It's the element of danger that everyone loves though. Also, they put the air gate up so it would totally have been their fault. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Tue May 10, 2016 10:13 ] |
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Pretty pleased with the unplanned range test it's only got one of those cheapy orange hobbyking receivers in.
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| Author: | markg [ Tue May 10, 2016 10:15 ] |
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Zardoz wrote: It's the element of danger that everyone loves though. Also, they put the air gate up so it would totally have been their fault. Should probably get some insurance really, I doubt he'd have been too chuffed if it had dented his silly Audi lorry thing. |
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| Author: | markg [ Tue May 10, 2016 10:16 ] |
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Zardoz wrote: Pretty pleased with the unplanned range test it's only got one of those cheapy orange hobbyking receivers in.Yeah, you were probably about 500 metres away there. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Tue May 10, 2016 10:38 ] |
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We should ask the college if we can launch from up on the tower. |
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| Author: | markg [ Tue May 10, 2016 10:46 ] |
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We ought to go and fly out to the new mystery island that's appeared out of the sea. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Tue May 10, 2016 11:58 ] |
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markg wrote: We ought to go and fly out to the new mystery island that's appeared out of the sea. I'm sure that's no-where near as exciting as it is in my head, but HOLY SHIT YEAH YOU SHOULD! |
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| Author: | markg [ Tue May 10, 2016 12:05 ] |
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Yeah it's pretty crazy, it's like 500ft high and the top is shrouded by an impenetrable mist. A few have tried to go there but nobody came back, some garbled radio messages, crazed mutterings about giant lizards then just nothing. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-la ... e-36249557 |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Tue May 10, 2016 12:26 ] |
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Tinkers 2017. |
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| Author: | myp [ Tue May 10, 2016 18:21 ] |
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My colleague ditched his drone in the river Trent at the weekend. Ridiculously he dived in after it! The Trent is pretty vicious sometimes and you're warned not to go in. 
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Tue May 10, 2016 19:08 ] |
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Did he get it back? I'd imagine it'd be fucked anyway. |
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| Author: | myp [ Tue May 10, 2016 19:11 ] |
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Zardoz wrote: Did he get it back? I'd imagine it'd be fucked anyway. Yeah, amazingly he found it. Now it's drying out. 
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Tue May 10, 2016 19:18 ] |
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Hope he salvages it. How did it happen? Did he loose control or was he showing off in front of girls? |
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| Author: | myp [ Tue May 10, 2016 23:02 ] |
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Zardoz wrote: Hope he salvages it. How did it happen? Did he loose control or was he showing off in front of girls? Battery ran out as he was over the water. I've seen the final POV footage as it dives towards the water! |
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| Author: | markg [ Wed May 11, 2016 8:02 ] |
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Most of it should survive a dunking in fresh water just fine, although tell him to take off any cameras and leave them somewhere warm for a good few days. Also I'd probably dispose of the battery. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Wed May 11, 2016 21:22 ] |
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I've made my holes bigger. |
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| Author: | myp [ Wed May 11, 2016 21:45 ] |
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River Trent. Fresh water. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Wed May 11, 2016 22:04 ] |
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River Phoenix. Dead actor. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Thu May 12, 2016 11:13 ] |
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River Deep Mountain High. Greatful Dead Cover. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Thu May 12, 2016 11:27 ] |
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8 ball Corner pocket |
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| Author: | markg [ Thu Jun 02, 2016 15:15 ] |
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In the continuing quest to get a faster and better quad I upgraded the motors again and also swapped the cheap camera that was on there for my GoPro then downloaded all the latest and greatest firmware updates for the flight controller board and ESCs. Results are pretty decent, still needs a load more tuning but it's starting to get to the point now and I am where it feels like just flying rather than having to fly something: Also I just added it all up and it's about £500 up there now. Whoops. |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Thu Jun 02, 2016 16:43 ] |
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That's stunning, Mark |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Thu Jun 02, 2016 16:57 ] |
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Jesus, look at the little bugger go! |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Fri Jun 03, 2016 19:21 ] |
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There's no way I'm catching that. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Fri Jul 22, 2016 11:26 ] |
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Good to be back out again with the planes and quads last night. Loving the Vampire now I've had a few successful flights (and simple repairs), still scary as fuck getting it to take off, but once it's in the air it's a beauty. Highly recommended Kissyfur! |
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| Author: | markg [ Fri Jul 22, 2016 11:47 ] |
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Zardoz wrote: still scary as fuck getting it to take off Even scarier for the crowd of children you nearly killed. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Fri Jul 22, 2016 11:57 ] |
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They loved it. It was 'sick'.
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| Author: | GazChap [ Fri Jul 22, 2016 13:34 ] |
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Now selling my original Phantom 1, with upgraded motors and a couple of batteries (which were put into "storage" so should just need recharging) Any takers for £100? Only problem with it is that one of the LEDs under the motors no longer works. This is the one that crashed incidentally, but had a replacement body shell and all of the internals are fine 
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| Author: | Grim... [ Fri Jul 22, 2016 14:04 ] |
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GazChap wrote: Now selling my original Phantom 1, with upgraded motors and a couple of batteries (which were put into "storage" so should just need recharging) Any takers for £100? Only problem with it is that one of the LEDs under the motors no longer works. This is the one that crashed incidentally, but had a replacement body shell and all of the internals are fine Does it have a camera? |
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| Author: | GazChap [ Fri Jul 22, 2016 14:52 ] |
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No, but you can strap a GoPro to it easily enough, it has a GoPro cradle. |
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| Author: | markg [ Fri Jul 22, 2016 15:06 ] |
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http://www.thelineanimation.com/amaroandwaldensjoyride/ Heh |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Fri Jul 22, 2016 17:22 ] |
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Next step. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Sun Aug 07, 2016 22:07 ] |
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Wheeeeeeee! Love this plane. |
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| Author: | markg [ Mon Aug 08, 2016 11:06 ] |
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It sounds ace. You should put one of these in and it'll sound even better: http://www.hobbyking.co.uk/hobbyking/st ... _Unit.html |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Aug 08, 2016 11:47 ] |
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Ooh, that's temptingly cheap. Probably add that onto my next HK order. Think there's a lot of hacking into the foam to get the fan unit swapped out on the Vampire. I do think about maybe popping an FPF camera on when I've got a few more flights under my belt. |
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| Author: | markg [ Mon Aug 08, 2016 11:54 ] |
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Yeah check this one out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt1BWpczk2A I think that they're mostly just better balanced so you hear less buzzing from the motor and more of the whoosh noise from the fan. |
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| Author: | JohnCoffey [ Mon Aug 08, 2016 12:00 ] |
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Blimey that's quick ! is that yours? I went over mum's the other day and got my cars out, hoping for a run or three. Then I realised I had damaged both back wheels and tyres on the Cougar beyond repair. I need to order some then. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Aug 08, 2016 12:18 ] |
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JohnCoffey wrote: Blimey that's quick ! is that yours? Yeah, probably about 3/4 throttle there too.  (The one I posted a video of, not Marks link) edit |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Aug 08, 2016 12:29 ] |
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markg wrote: Yeah check this one out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt1BWpczk2A I think that they're mostly just better balanced so you hear less buzzing from the motor and more of the whoosh noise from the fan. Yeah, I see what you mean. That sounds lovely. Also think I might give mine a makeover to help make the top and bottom easier to make out (Maybe Swedish or Iraqi): 
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| Author: | markg [ Mon Aug 08, 2016 13:54 ] |
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There's this Aussie one that you should be able to see alright: 
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Aug 08, 2016 14:46 ] |
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Yeah, saw that and the Swiss 'Target tow' scheme. Want something to differentiate the top from the bottom though really. They're the same top and bottom from what I've seen. Have to keep it authentic 
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| Author: | markg [ Mon Aug 08, 2016 14:47 ] |
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You want to look for schemes on ones that crashed a lot then. |
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