UAV with FY21AP FPV system

Posted on 27th January 2011 by graz27

Bruce over at RCModelReviews.com has done a review and flight video of the Chinese FY21AP FPV system avaible from Feiyu Tech aprroxx 265 GB Pounds , which for what you get seems a really good price to me and Bruce’s video below shows how really intresting to see how well this technology works.
Totally amazing what you can do now 🙂

Really good video if you into this stuff and defiantly worth watching.
Nice one Bruce.
Now if only the makers of this system could make one for model helicopters that you did not need to remortgage the house for, that would be so cool 😉

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AuggRGyLEA?rel=0&w=460&h=288]

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Gaui 200 and Helicommand

Posted on 22nd January 2011 by graz27

Had this Helicommand 3A sitting away since I bought it, so thought its about time I tried it!
Had to get a new recieiver as the one in my gaui was a 35mhz 6 channel and needed I needed a extra channel at least so I could activate the helicommand either off or stabilization mode or position mode, so stuck it on channel 7 and had it tied to the 3 position C switch on my Futaba 9C.

First flight up took a bit of getting used to as it wanted to drift a fair bit left and back and in the process of triming the tail belt came loose again and it spun into the grass.
So on the next flight tightened the tail belt back up and gave it another spin.
My logic for doing this was because there is hardly a day without wind, these small helis are really twitchy in the wind and I felt maybe easier to practise when there is a wind about.
Of course for this test it happened to be a rare day when there was hardly any wind 😉
But anyways, the extra weight of the Helicommand took a big chuck of flight time off, it went down to at the very most 4 mins, instead of the normal 5 mins I get on 800mah 2S zippy lipos.

I am going redo the mechincal setup again and balance the blades and maybe next time it will also be windy to see how much difference it makes.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXuvO-NYlFs?rel=0&w=480&h=300]

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Nice radio controlled helicopters

Posted on 12th December 2010 by graz27

 

Cool video on youtube of some great Turbine Helicopters

They look and sound and fly really realistic 🙂

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1DpkAsiTYM&hl=en]

The event was

Scale Helicopter’s at Cheshire ‘Hell-E-Cats’

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Walkera V400D02

Posted on 3rd December 2010 by graz27

 

Yet another new model from Walkera over in China.

Quiet interesting this one as its in the bracket that the Honey bee CP3 and Blade CP Pro fall into.

This one is flybarless and also a brushed main motor and also the tail is driven by a brushed motor.

The rear brushed motor looks very much like the original Honey CP2 one and hence I wonder will it burn out just as quick as that one did?

No one really stocking it yet in the UK, so you will have to wait or order direct from China, which looks like £170. But you will almost certainly get hit with UK customs tax and also the Royal mail admin tax, so prob total closer to £200 and would put it dearer than the current Honey Bee CP3 or Blade CP Pro, although bear in mind this heli is flybarless and also comes with a better TX.

V400D02_big_e

Tony over at Xheli has done a review, looks like for what it is handles very well, although I think if you try and fly like a pro with it, that main motor will also burn out very quick in flight mode 😉

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=memvamcQrD0&hl=en]
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Baby elephant saved

Posted on 2nd December 2010 by graz27

 

Gives one hope sometimes in the human race, when you read stories like this 🙂

 

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKcZAVG6JAE&hl=en]
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