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Male
About
Location
St Thomas Ontario
About Me:
Commercial pilot from 1969-1996 Eyes ears started going retired .
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
have had a real flight flight simulator on my computer for a year and a half my boys bought me a radian pro for my birthday I looked it up on line and see people put cameras and such on them stumbled on to your web site looking at different model air craft my boy taped his I pod under the radian and we got 6 minutes of video would be kind of cool to to build a plane just to take pictures When my boys were young we had glow planes and a spirit glider
Hometown:
St Thomas Ontario
Activity Feed
"Thanks for the "Heads up " Jack Then air is the oxidizer and moisture in the air could trigger a condition of thermal runaway. You mentioned a white powder forming on some of the plates. I thought it might be some form of oxidation , some grades of…"
"@Morli I like Jack's "lets tear the sucker down and see what makes it tick approach?" If it was any body but Jack
Munroe and Sgt Rick are right it is probably not a good idea to tear them down. We all have lypos we all know they swell up and we…"
Munroe and Sgt Rick are right it is probably not a good idea to tear them down. We all have lypos we all know they swell up and we…"
"Hi Doug thanks for sharing . One of the things I get out of a museum is the incredible things they did in the past with only the materials and tools they had available. Aircraft,Museum, Just walking in the door would be Awe inspiring. Have a great…"
"Thanks Jack . I had a lypo go bad at 47 hours of use it swelled up I never took it apart to see if a chemical reaction built up a gas inside ? I had another one swell up just from sitting that was not put in use? Happy Easter you guys!"
"He was trying to build a Hoover craft ! note: it is tethered the tuned exhaust makes all the difference"
"looks like a meat grinder siting that close"
"A Place to park their toys!"
"Hi Graham looks like a pretty consistent circle considering drift from the wind and acceleration and deceleration on the downwind and up wind legs with that distance achieved you could send the plane on a"mission!" just a bit off topic I was…"
"auto parachute"
"Hi Doug here are a few more shots of the project..this past summer I have been diving the Niagara river off Fort
Erie .In the War 1812-14 1600 American soldiers crossed the river a little further to the east and got set up on a ridge 1/2 mile…"
Erie .In the War 1812-14 1600 American soldiers crossed the river a little further to the east and got set up on a ridge 1/2 mile…"
"Some times "Run what you Brung" events are the best! just some good old boys and girls having fun!
The neat thing about" manual "you actually get to fly the machine! Have a great day!"
The neat thing about" manual "you actually get to fly the machine! Have a great day!"
"@Richard your machine looks "robust!" since you are using "off the shelf" components some things you could try are smaller but more battery packs and when one depleats you can jettison and use the next another thing you could do is try flying at…"
"Wow! that's a lot of lettuce. Around here because of the weather if not in a green house we grow lettuce in an abandoned mine in Sudbury so it can be harvested year round more of an experiment ,and we have robotic earth movers harvesting salt deep…"
"Excellent video thanks for sharing reminds me of the pre programmed quads flying the" Bat" formation over London"
"Good Video! you make it look easy , It blacked out at the end did it bite some Bark?"
" To take nothing from the guys pushing for Mars. the Moon seems like the next logical step after the International space station for a token colony to glean technology in a real time environment because of the distances evolved.
Jack has a point. Is…"
Jack has a point. Is…"
