"Having a hard time seeing what the outrage is about. The guys even lit the candles themselves and a snow covered river is a pretty fire-retardant environment.
In my carefree youth, I used to launch gliders with firework rockets as propulsion. When…"
"Looks insanely complex to me. The initial Ecilop looked very elegant, but now with the additional propeller on top.... The next step is to have a mini quad dragged by the main quad and the mini quad maintains level ;)
"I just upgraded to Brugi 0.49 r161 and had a much better experience than with r77 . This version pretty much works out of the box. I only had to increase the RC min & max angles (to tilt more than 30 degrees) and reduce the RC low pass to 1 second…"
"Forget about the APM for a minute. Just power the BLG and the RC receiver. Connect the A1 pin on the BLG controller to an RC channel that you know works (stick is a good start). After initialization you should be able to tilt the BLG with the stick.…"
"I have only flown smaller helis (maybe 300 size?) and I was not that scared of the blades as they seemed very light. But on any crash the heli seemed to dismantle itself from the kinetic energy.
Are the blades from 600 and up helis pretty heavy?"
As reported by TagesAnzeiger.ch:A 41 year old male was found with heavy injuries to head and arms by a walker in Mauensee Luzern Switzerland. The helicopter of type Gaui Formula X7 was found next to the body and collected as evidence by the police.