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  • Martin Mueller April 1, 2009 at 1:43pm
    We are at the Longyearbyen airport tonight. That means we only have limited cellphone internet connection and can not check Google Earth. Aircrafts will be FUN5 and FUN6 so change the links accordingly. We will not stay up all night today :-(
  • Michael Evans March 31, 2009 at 7:14pm
    man this is so cool! keep it up. if you have a wireless camera, a live stream on youtube would make me speechless.
  • Martin Mueller March 31, 2009 at 5:52pm
    it is almost 3 in the morning, sunrise has begun...will launch soon

  • Martin Mueller March 31, 2009 at 5:23pm
    All holes in the Funjets fuselage are closed so the LiPo battery stays warm inside. If they are pre-heated to +50°C on the ground it gives some extra voltage...but not needed. The RC transmitter is covered in some glove-like winter warmer and the aluminum sticks are covered by shrink so that the fingers do not freeze to it :-)
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    Sgt Ric March 31, 2009 at 5:15pm
    How do you get that kind of performance from batteries at that temp??? Impressive!

    I gave up flying in winter but years ago I used those chemical handwarmer packs to keep the old receiver batteries alive, but my fuel would gel up so I just gave up on winter altogether.


    (it was -18C a few weeks ago here, and -42C in January., so I can relate to the temp)
  • Jack Crossfire March 31, 2009 at 4:57pm
    Hooray for telepresence. Too bad the model can't show orientation.
  • Martin Mueller March 31, 2009 at 4:43pm
    thanks! -26°C outside on the ground right now, -18°C in 1000m
  • Paul Marsh March 31, 2009 at 4:39pm
    That was awesome. Thanks for posting this. I will check back later.
  • Paul Marsh March 31, 2009 at 4:34pm
    Thanks for that. Uh oh, the wife is calling. I'll be back at commercials!
  • Martin Mueller March 31, 2009 at 4:32pm
    S1 and S2 are edges for a survey that is not flown now, the red ring is the home zone that makes the aircraft come "home" if it crosses it (and kill the engine if it crosses 1.5x the home distance) the green ring is the planned flight path - a circle right now, there are other points fore take off (START), man over board circles (MOB), lines (1, 2) and automatic landing (AF, BASELEG)
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