FPV

There are quite a few photos that I’ve uploaded and they’re in the gallery below, just open them and use the left/right buttons at the bottom of the viewer pane to move between photos. There were a lot of great pilots at the NEAT fair and some really fun events as well.  The helicopter section [...]

Continue Reading NEAT Fair 2010 Photographs and Videos

Tags: drone, FPV, Helicopter, Octacopter, Photography, Plane, Radio Control

Have you seen the Parrot AR.Drone?  The Parrot is an Augmented Reality + FPV combat product that is controlled via Wi-Fi from your iPod, iPad or iPhone touch. But they say they are working on support for other platforms, hopefully Android is in the list, and I bet it is. It’s bound to satisfy some [...]

Continue Reading AR.Drone New Augmented Reality + FPV Combat Product

Tags: AR.Drone, drone, FPV, Helicopter, quadracopter, Radio Control, rc

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 [...]

Continue Reading Spirit 100 Glider – First FPV Flights – OT’s Discus Launch Glider

Tags: Electronics, FPV, Plane, Radio Control, rc, Video

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 [...]

Continue Reading Spirit 100 Glider FPV Conversion Progress – New Canopy

Tags: FPV, glider, Plane, Radio Control, Spirit

Well, the new glider destined for FPV (First Person View) flight is ready.  I built a power-pod, and as you can see in the new video.  The power-pod is based on the Electrfily 35-36-1200kv Rimfire brushless motor that I had on the Great Planes Reactor Biplane. I built the power-pod out of some 3/8″ light [...]

Continue Reading Great Planes Spirit 100 Inch Glider With Power Pod

Tags: FPV, Radio Control, rc, Video