Be Excellent To Each Other

Illegal schmegal.

Went out with Zardoz on Sunday morning, low tide out over the bay. Such a great place to fly:



also FAO GazChap have you seen the new DJI Phantom 4? Person tracking, object avoidance, near half hour flight time, 4K 120fps. Pretty impressive.

Yeah, got the e-mail about that yesterday. Does look damn impressive, but the £1,229 price tag puts me off, and it doesn't avoid the problem I have of my interest being in filming areas where it would be illegal to fly (i.e. getting birds eye views of towns) :/

Totally lost my taste for it, mainly because every time I've put up a video, if there's so much as a single person or structure anywhere in the video I get a load of e-mails from people delightfully pointing out that I'm breaking the law. Which I wouldn't mind if I was, but (crash video and flood video notwithstanding) I've always been very careful since to make sure that I don't contravene any laws.

Yeah, the bad press certainly hasn't helped. Get a 250 racer, they're the best fun.

And a tranny muff.

We should strip out some BB guns from those cheap Chinese RC tanks and weoponise our 250 quads.

A quick google suggests this is already a thing

Yeah, never mind BBs people have put 9mm handguns on them.

Saw this the other day, some competition pistol shooters trying to take down some poor unarmed race quads:

Ordered a couple of 9mm's.

Sweet, should maybe pick up some silencers too just so we don't annoy anyone.

Don't forget to stir the fuckin' sauce !

Set up another plane for FPV flying over the weekend, a 2.6m sailplane. Hoping to break my own very modest height and flight time records with this one but I'll need to wait for some warmer weather for thermal lift.



Nice landing there even if I do say so myself.

If you fitted it with little skids you could have landed in the big puddle!

I thought I might anyway for a split second. I've still never flown a floatplane, but I'm not sure a glider would be the ideal candidate.

Great morning flying yesterday.

As for watersports There's these that you know we'll get once Hobbyking has them on sale.

You just got a tranny muff and now you want to do some bush flying?

It's on my bucket list.

Here's my best run from the same day. Just caught you taking off then lost you in the bleached out sky, was the same in my goggles.

I didn't bother doing anything with the footage from my wing as there wasn't really anything to see, although I did catch your kid's crash and his walk of shame to get it back.

Long walk of shame but all in one piece. He's hooked now.

I had a short clip from my quad going through the posts before quickly losing signal due to me forgetting to screw the VTX antenna on, again.

Yeah, it was on for a while with no antenna too, hope you haven't burned your VTx out.

Hmm, didn't actually check it at the time. I'll have a look tonight, hopefully it'll be ok.

My friend is working to get his *evil killer drone* license for doing videoing and that so he came up for a play at my local bike park. Crashed it twice when landing, he now just grabs its leg while its descending which is pretty cool to watch. I had a go of it for a few seconds and it was awesome, I gave it back quickly.


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If that really is the full record breaking run then I'm impressed that your pal can control so many drones at once.

Looks a nice circuit for RC buggies too!

Unfried!

Nice riding

ToMST

Yeah I wish he hadn't put that text there, not least because I'm not all that good on a bike. was loads of fun though.

Oh, is that you?

/watches again

What are ToMST?
Tomatoes of Moist, Slimy Texture?

Title of My Sex Tape.

Fucking hell, they've spared no expense on this event. "World Drone Prix" in Dubai. $1m prize fund and a giant articulating illuminated track.

http://www.worlddroneprix.live/video?id=4

500,000 each!

Young Banni from the UK won it, I think he's only fifteen. 250 grand. Jesus.

He'll blow it all on tranny muffs.

Clip from today's aerial antics, shame the white balance is off (my own fault) but pleased with my flying.

Yeah that was excellent flying when you flew into the back of your kid's plane.

Had a lovely fly with the big glider yesterday, managed to ride a few thermals which always feels just like magic.

The sky was small.

Is it weekend yet?

It is in four and a half hours!

We've all been there...

Haven't needed to slip our mitts into tranny muffs for a while now.

Couple of vids from Good Friday:

Made a cracking clang when my Quadcopter hit the rugby post.

No harm done either.

That near miss from both sides:





and my vid from the same day:

You could get a bus through there.

You definitely could get one between those rugby posts but apparently not a small aeroplane or a hand-sized quadcopter.

Side wind.

That was ace! I bet you didn't think that at the time though...

I'm not as concerned as I used to be when I crash. Surprisingly it's a matter of reinforced tape and superglue and you're away again.

The 250 quad has been amazingly robust so far. Just broken props that cost a few quid for 8 and the odd wire that's needed resoldering.