Twinstar 2 - ready for FPV with panmount

I prepared my FPV setup for the next fine, calm weather (that can take a while).
After my e-Savage RC FPV Car "project" the FPV equipment has been mounted back on Twinstar2 and the learnings from e-Savage (panning the cam isn't a great deal but helps for immersion) helped me to integrate a simple panning-solution on top of my plane.
As for now I'll stay by the lowcost variant with no headtracker:

(under the cam I have a servo coverd in cutout styrofoam - I didn't want to touch the wing itself).
To control the cam I sacrificed the ruder controls - I barely use them anyways in normal FPV flying. They're only useful for soft turns up above - but maybe I'll mix some amount of ruder to the ailerons so make nice smooth turns.

As you may have guessed - I really like the repair-tape - it's very durable and easy to build something.

Silverlit TandemZ1 inside

After many serious crashes the rear rotor quit it's job leaving the TandemZ1 unsteerable. Because of that I had nothing to loose here so I applied my "scalpel" and opened the little heli:



The fullriver battery does a good job here - it gives long 10mins of flight time! (it's an 130mah 3,7v lipo battery)
After some tries I somehow "repaired" the heli - it now hovers wonderful again.

Greetings,
RCSchim

Very realistic FPV model

My dream plane 3 from VRflyer on Vimeo.

Now those details here are really amazing, aren't they?

RC Video that looks like a commercial...

The Vimeo user "Geko" really made a good "commercial" for our hobby:


Primo rovescio from GeKo on Vimeo.

RC pioneer - Dave Herbert

Hi readers, since thers just little opportunity the fly in the cold season I try to learn from other's experiences. Dave Herbert - I found his videos on youtube - seems to have lot's of stories to tell. He was part of the RC-"Stuntmen" for the movie "Blue Thunder - Das Fliegende Auge" with Roy Scheider from 1985?.

Go and watch a few of his videos - they're very entertaining!

For example:


Subscribe to his videos - he does new RC reviews regularly!

Greetings,
RCSchim

Silverlit Atlas - Mini indoor Toyheli

After my other indoor heli - the Silverlit Tandem-Z finaly quit its service (after one crash too much) I occasionally found this little thing. I was curious how such an easy heli would fly.
The short: it goes were it wants too and you can try to countersteer :-)
The "leaning forward" option is made via two pushbuttons - if you press them - the heli will go forward a bit. With the two joysticks you can change motor and tail rotor. So up/down and spinning is no problem, but going straight in one direction can be quite difficult. My next indoor heli will be the Blade mcx - a koax microheli which looks quite promising.

Greetings,
RCSchim

e-Savage FPV Edition

Due to bad flying conditions I took some FPV training on wheels :-)



Because I had no limitation on size and weight I was able to use a big servo for camera pan. I found it best to set up a mix on my transmitter that moves the cam 50% in the direction of the steering - so the FPV truck looks "into" the curve.


HPI e-Savage FPV Fun

3D Heli-flying with a REAL heli!

This thing does rolls and flips like a RC Heli!!!

Youtube Special: RCSuperpowers

I found this funny guys on youtube. They're advertising but they do that in a funny way: Youtube - RCSuperpowers.com

RC helicopter used after Hurricane Katrina

So there are also serious applications for our "toys":