Gender
Male
About
Location
QLD
About Me:
Just starting out with UAV's, will be making my own scratch built plane as i cant find a suitable one for the right money.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
Just ordered a APM will be fitting it to a homebuilt UAV with the aim of carrying a camera and being able to plot a course to photograph.
Hometown:
Brisbane, Australia
Activity Feed
"Scott, the weather here has not been great, it might be another couple of weeks, but I will let you know when I have some more photos.
regards Richard"
regards Richard"
"Hi I made one last year to launch my UAv and have had success launching a 60 size that weighs about 4 kg and has some power left which when I get back to it will be able to launch my bigger custom Uav. Total cost was about 300 with a bit of…"
"Boys, you have risen to the top of my list of bodgy field repair experts, i am still laughing about seeing you use a car battery to move a control clevis. Anyway it worked in the end but sure is not written in any text book on rc plane repairs.…"
"Jann, great work, and i know what you mean about wastage, I shot 21 hours of video in antarctica but would only be prepared to show about 5 minutes to anyone else. Lets see the big movie version please...
richie"
richie"
"Great shots of norway, are you making a tourism commercial if not you should be. My only minor critisim is the speeding up of the shots upsets the grandeur of the scenes imho.
Richie"
Richie"
here is an interesting article about drones and future uses - http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/this-is-your-pilot-speaking-im-...
"Sumner, i agree with the others comments and feel the best one is to find someone local that flies and hang outwith them for awhile and they will soon help you to start flying, it makes it alot easier if for your first flights you have someone…"
"Michel, great plane, did you build it for a specific job or just for fun?
Regards richie."
Regards richie."
"Jason, I agree with the safety aspect, the only stored energy is in the compressor section and I leave the air hose unplugged until just about launch time. I then plug the hose onto the launcher and have a manual trigger(which I will mount onto a…"
"Mike, its a flat bottom wing and I havent measured it but it looks to be inline with the wheels, it would be easy enough to change the angle of attack by moving the brackets on the trolley frame, I have tried to keep it as simple as possible and…"
"Seppo, we can just try the string around some random part of the plane and see what happens...."
"Mike, great job on the translation you seem to have missed a few Merde and Sacrebleu from the tranlsation, congrats to Chapelat for getting his quad back and for telling his story.
richie"
richie"
"I will be happy with 50 launches the plane costs 135 so thats less than $3 a launch, given the other risks to the airframe during flight I am not planning on handing the airframe down to the next generation:)
Ramp angle is 11 deg.
As for using a…"
Ramp angle is 11 deg.
As for using a…"
"Carl La France, i not sure what your question means but the plane is a pretty docile one and would normally take off in about 20 - 30 meters on good grass, its too heavy to hand throw.
Rigel, i have made another post with pictures, its just…"
Rigel, i have made another post with pictures, its just…"
So I thought I would get some close up shots and higher res video to show some of the finer details of the launcher. Like most things in this hobby it didn't go to plan as when i went to take off the Esc and Motor smoked themselves, so no launch,…
