Gender
Male
About
Location
Buffalo, NY
About Me:
I currently have a number of RC heli's and ornithopters and I am graduate student.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
I like flying things.
Hometown:
Amherst, NY
Activity Feed
"I'm having a really hard time believing they take stable video. "
"I believe the original batch of X-8's were made of EPP. Most people seemed like they were very unhappy about this. If you contact bev-rc you might be able to find an EPP model in stock. I know no one seemed to want one in that material. "
"I think they are talking about in relation to balsa planes. Still it is good to see the x-8 a few dollars cheaper. conventionally they cost about 240$ to get from BEV-RC. One thing people have to realise about these things is that they are huge.…"
"I do airsoft as well, so I'm very close with the gun crowd. There is a huge amount of immaturity among gun owners, but you would really really have to try very hard to piss one off enough for them to start firing on your drone. Yes, they are…"
"I also don't see this as much of a risk. There is the odd trigger happy redneck in my area, but honestly .... I don't think I'm at any risk of being shot down anytime soon. I can see a risk if I was flying in my backyard in a populated area, but…"
"If a person wants to shoot down my drone he/she has the freedom to start up his own website calledwww.DIYantiaircraft.com where him and other anti-drone and pro-privacy guys can gather to produce open source solutions to the drone menace not limited…"
"WANT ! "
"Bixler/Skysurfer/Easystar or Skywalker are the first two planes you should think about owning. Both are good. You should have nothing to do with a fiber body until you have a lot of experience. "
"The example I gave in my other post was the hobbyking autopilot (~75$) verses the helicommand model (~400$), but it's going to take a little while for me to fully research what the cloners are doing for your particular area. They'll obviously start…"
"It wouldn't be about 10$ @Robert Lefebvre. It would be an item at between 25%-50% of current costs. If the costs are very close people won't transition over to the the cheaper product, so they have to offer a very significant cost saving.
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"I'll probably have to buy one then, but the skywalker has been very temping and my eagletree guts have wires going everywhere. I just think I need to get bigger rather than better. "
"You also have to accept that folks in China and Europe, where DIY drones gear is prohibitively expensive, may want to take a crack and making something for themselves. Some of the stuff they practically string together in china is very impressive.…"
"This is one of the clear downsides of open source software. Ideally, people who care about quality will still buy from the developer, but it is also very likely that there will be very few if any significant quality differences between the products…"
"Well it's good that all your gear will fit ok. I'm still too nervous to really start chopping mine with a foam cutter to get what I want. I personally buy all my bixler (sky surfers) via an american outfit that must have imported a container or…"
"It doesn't look like they've made a single change to the canopy area. I really wish they would make it longer. I think I'll keep buying bixler 1's though. I can't afford that HK shipping from china when I can get them domestically. "
"You mean a zephyr II ? The two are in totally different leagues. A zepher is for you when you've flown a lot of skywalkers, easystars, or bixlers. They are very fast very labor intensive planes that require a background in FPV to use properly. "
