Mark Harrison's Blog Posts Tagged 'maiden' (3)

ArudpilotMega2 + Arcticopter III maiden

Didn't intend to take any pics (the hat portion of ye olde hatcam being misplaced), but things went so well I was able to fly one-handed and hold the iphone in the other hand.  Beautiful!!





From the air.  I hadn't planned on doing this either, but things were so…

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Added by Mark Harrison on December 31, 2011 at 3:56am — 7 Comments

APM2 indoor maiden and simple mode

I got everything together last night and couldn't wait until the morning to go out, so I took a quick flight in the basement.  Stability was pretty good.  I made a quick video of simple mode too.

Added by Mark Harrison on December 30, 2011 at 3:16pm — No Comments

RiteWing Zephyr II + APM maiden flight



Had a great time maidening Andreas' new RiteWing Zephyr II with the APM.  The Zii flies very nicely, and works well with APM.

We flew in manual, stabilized, fbw-a, and auto modes.  We reduced the default speed from 45 to 35, which gave a nice smooth flight with a comfortable airspeed for our flying site.

There's some onboard video as well.…

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Added by Mark Harrison on December 19, 2011 at 9:30pm — 10 Comments

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