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Boston UAV commented on Oliver's blog post News From The North: Oregon's Imaging Ban
"Brilliant."
Apr 1, 2013
Boston UAV commented on Christiaan van Vollenstee's blog post Building X5 FPV UAV
"From my post in this thread:
http://diydrones.com/xn/detail/705844:Comment:1098330?xg_source=act...
"... 1.95lbs with 2x1800mah 3S ...""
Mar 11, 2013
Boston UAV commented on Christiaan van Vollenstee's blog post Building X5 FPV UAV
"@Bret C
No spars. If you keep things lite you won't have any issues."
Mar 11, 2013
Boston UAV commented on Christiaan van Vollenstee's blog post Building X5 FPV UAV
"Great FPV plane that is very underrated!
I haven't placed an APM in mine yet, but it's on my todo list. Interested to see if you get yours working well.

If you haven't flown yours yet I'll make a couple of suggestions, based on my experiences:

CG…"
Mar 11, 2013
Boston UAV commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Let's design a new DIY Drones header! (prize to the winner)
"+1 for the last image done by Petrus
The 3 colors for each variant are great."
Feb 26, 2013
Boston UAV commented on OlivierD.'s blog post Amazing presentation on what is coming with controls theory
"Good stuff :)"
Feb 15, 2013
Boston UAV commented on Eli Cohen's blog post 3D printed base for 3DR radio
"Cute"
Feb 6, 2013
Boston UAV replied to AKRCGUY's discussion Mission Planner Google Map Question
"It is probable that the MP has cached the map tiles.

Try deleting/renaming this folder:
C:\Program Files (x86)\APM Planner\gmapcache\TileDBv3\"
Feb 4, 2013
Boston UAV replied to Zachariah L Hanson's discussion Who to donate to?
"Troll bait."
Feb 3, 2013
Boston UAV commented on Chris Anderson's blog post The $200,000 toy heli
"I'm curious what the C2 and payload range is.

@R_Lefebvre
Chances are that this is considered a single use item. An being so small is actually a benefit - quite harder to hit!

@Chris
"..as part of a £20m contract..."
These type of contracts…"
Feb 3, 2013
Boston UAV commented on Eli Cohen's blog post Snowy first flight with Radian Pro
"The other issue with Boston is that there are helipads just about everywhere, and those pilots fly surprisingly low. "
Feb 3, 2013
Boston UAV replied to Tissy's discussion Motors twitching in flight
"I'm confused by the new information in the wiki:
"Please note that Arducopter 2.8.1 and earlier versions required you use a transmitter/receiver combination that outputs at least 8 channels of ppm information. This is resolved in version 2.9 so…"
Jan 31, 2013
Boston UAV commented on Duran - ALTI's blog post Video - SteadiDrone QU4D
"Love the water drag at 1:42, nice video production :D"
Jan 28, 2013
Boston UAV replied to OpticalFlow's discussion USB and Telemetry connection stop working while benchtesting (APM 2.5 clone)
"Try going back to 2.9, might be a change to the latest MP (that 2.8.1 doesn't like).

woops, read half your post.. my guess is you wiggled something loose on one of your connectors."
Jan 28, 2013
Boston UAV posted a discussion
Is there any particular reason why WPF isn't used in the Mission Planner for any of the UI controls? Thanks.
Jan 25, 2013
Boston UAV replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter 2.9 / 2.9.1 released
"3DR should send this guy a board for review:
http://vimeo.com/57619658"
Jan 22, 2013
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