Fresh out on Ted : From mach-20 glider to humming bird drone, Regina Dugan (DARPA) on TED

The fun stuff starts around 1.30 ..

This is what can easily happen when too confident and not enough prepared, when you get caught in some unexpected altitude windstream, even a little one

To sum it up .. suicide mission ; Had no fpv, no lights, no simple or rtl mode programmed

The panasonic was found split in two, but amazingly , the copter only bent one arm; i repaired since then . Am now waiting for a brand new gopro hero2 and a brand new 5.8gzhvideo rx/tx ; The one i had refused to start (old 1.3ghz ), made me loose patience and take off anyways there up .. will not do again :)

dCopter just before flight, complete payload

Proud to post my first blog post yay !

Well ok its only eyecandy, but i hope you'll get a 2min break of what you're doing and a little smile maybe laughing at the noob, hehe ^^ fair enough !

So today i received 2 more lipos so i could finally have a proper longer flight session and could setup some cams to finally do some video recording for post analysis (yeah, to analyse stuff , whatever ill get ^^);

So i got now 2 x4500mah 45c  and 1 x 5000mah 40c   .. circa 30min flight :))

Soldered xt60 connectors to the brand new lipos, recharged and then wiiiizzz !

Beautifull, aerial, Pure joy !

no tests, no experiment, nothing but a delicious manual free run on stabilize, aaahh :)

Well, ok, it didn't end like i wanted, but anyways , was great !!

1 and 3/4 lipo later :

Conclusion : Sharp aggressive jibe + 12" black basic propeller = heavy load, high bending  and probable snap .. lesson learned and ordered straight away 6 epoxy props.

Will retry and see what'll happen ! :D

Any comments on any aspects of all this are welcome !

Until next time, thanks for watching !

Drone specs, flight conditions: 

Arducopter 2.0.42 (stock pids) on Hexacopter 880kv
12" props (black non-epoxy) 4S 4500mah 45C 100% Stabilize mode manual
test flight on 29-09-2011 @Dusk ~6:30pm Conditions : 27c, No wind

Complete flight video rush is here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Ge8D67AF0