Andy Harris

Still trying to document the illicit indoor combat scene. Here's some winter sports I've captured in the meantime:

Tim I use HD Fury with my Barco 909, Extra Double Awesome. Over the years I've been rather keen on home cinema. Andy

This is a rather expensive DJI S800 EVO, so in general I'm very careful with it. Here are the results of focusing on one aspect and forgetting what seems like a simple thing. Whilst going back and forth from my bench working on the gimbal, I was lowering the aerial each time to avoid damage from going through doorways. The gimbal has been a piggy to set up! On this flight I forgot to raise the aerial (which contains the GPS and compass). Within seconds I knew something was wrong, and seconds later a fairly hefty repair bill. It seemed as if all the corrections I put in resulted in movement 90 degrees from what I expected. I've made myself a pre-flight checklist to the laminated and kept in the flightcase!   Edited By Andy Harris on 24/11/2013 14:40:38

Now I heard from a bloke, who knew another bloke you said you can get the kit from RobotBirds .. http://robotbirds.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=7939 However, I've seen evidence of the scratch built versions, and certain modifications, these involve 0.5 x 2mm CF on the leading edge, pinning the motor to the mount and using UHU POR on all the leads to protect them from impact. A researcher has told me of a 30% larger curve wing version with an over-clocked motor. I'll try to sneak a camera or two into a session that rumour has it will be in December

This year we thought we'd tackle elicit indoor combat. Here's the trailer: Got the embed right this time Edited By Andy Harris on 27/10/2013 22:21:51

I'd like to have two RX's bound to a single TX. All the flight controls would be normal, in the first 10 channels. I'd like to use a second RX for camera/servo control. Is there any way of shifting the starting channel of either a Spektrum RX or a third party version (for example Lemon RX's for futaba can do this). For my application I can't get cables from a 12-14 channel RX to the camera and the camera can continously rotate. Therefore than system is independant with its own batteries and RX etc. Any ideas please ? Regards Andy

Here's a video I made this weekend because its just too wet and windy to go flying. I took the incredibly cheap Durafly Cessna 310 twin, split the motor controls and then set about programming into a Spektrum DX18 with a pile of features. Hope someone finds it useful! Edited By Pete B - Moderator on 23/06/2013 22:45:49

Tony and his team did a great job of keeping the show going. I grabbed some video of the model boats during the flying suspensions as the squalls were going through. No shots of Panics flying - because I was busy flying with the team

Thanks Gents. The flying footage was taken from one of these: http://robotbirds.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=2025 Which I've been campaigning for 3 years now, which, with the way my colleagues fly is something of a miracle. If RCME ever do an indoor event -- I'd love to video it.

I've had a few goes at capturing indoor flying. I made a new bit of kit that helps me track the models up and down the hall. Hope you like it:   Edited By David Ashby - RCME on 23/11/2012 05:28:55

Here's a quick video of the action for Reading MAC's float plane fly-in. People came from all over the place, there were around 20 pilots with a wide variety of models - quite a bit of scale. The valley meant that the wind wasn't quite as bad as forecast but we got some fair hefty gusts across the lake.       Edited By Steve Hargreaves - Moderator on 01/10/2012 20:07:16

Nice !! How much to invest?

Thanks @BEB - I did follow the embedding tutorial. My theory is that I have the larger size set by default on my channel. I may test this next time I'm posting. @posters -- thanks for the comments, I forgot to mention that for many weeks now Pete has got himself to the field only to find that the IC engine doesn't quite have the power. He seems to have cracked the problem because the flight I videoed was good, and he was up again Sunday and had a full 20 mins (dead stick again - flew till fuel out). I'll have to find out more about Pete, I noticed that he has some very old Rover badges on his coat so he may have been a member of our club since the Rover Sports and Social days.

Here's a different video from my usual fare. Between flights I captured Pete getting ready for his flight - as he does so virtually every weekend:     Edited By Biggles' Elder Brother - Moderator on 01/04/2012 00:31:03

That is really good chase plane work. I've had many goes at this and not got it as good - something to aspire to!