Category: Featured
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Turbo Commander – Maiden Flight
This is the maiden flight of the Turbo Commander, a collaboration between Mateo Aguilar and Julian Melo. It was shot in early January 2014 at the Apollo Field in Southern California. The airplane and no bad tendencies, required just a couple click of elevator trim and it flew amazing. More information about the build process […]
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Scratch-Built Turbo Commander
The (Gulfstream? Rockwell?) Turbo Commander airplane has always had a special place in my heart; it was the plane my dad and his pilot friends used to fly. Its a twin-engine, pressurized, jet-prop 10-passenger airplane, better known as Bob Hoover’s acrobatic plane (his was a Shrike, a piston-powered Aero Commander variant). Over the holiday season, […]
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Warbler UAV – Scratch-built FPV Platform
They say imitation is the sincerest for of flattery, and in this case, the creators of the Talon UAV should be extremely flattered. Introducing my latest FPV platform, the Warbler UAV. Needless to say, it was heavily inspired by the Talon UAV. After some sketching and planning, I decided my try building a similar plane, […]
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Durafly Hyperbipe – Maiden Flight
Check out the maiden flight of the Durafly Hyperbipe from Hobbyking. Click here for the product page on Hobbyking’s website. Check out part 1, the unboxing and part 2, the assembly and tips.
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Hobbyking Durafly Hyperbipe – Assembly and Tips
Second video in the Hyperbipe series where I go thru the assembly steps and give useful tips to complete the build of this model. First video, unboxing of the Hyperbipe. To purchase, click here.
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Hobbyking Durafly Hyperbipe – Unboxing
First video of the Hyperbipe series, the unboxing. Second video, unboxing. To purchase this plane, click here.
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B is for Burbank – FPV Flight
One of my FPV goals was to fly around and take video of the big letter B in the foothills of Burbank and today I’ve met that goal! My flight times are about 12-15 minutes on 2 x 2,200 3S lipos, on my scratch-built J-Twin airplane (for more information about it click here). I’m using […]
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Scratchbuild: The CautionWing
I just finished building my version of the FliteTest FT Versa, I call it the CautionWing. It comes together very easily, just a bunch of straight lines and its made out of my favorite material: dollar foam board. I’m using a FrSky 4 channel receiver, 2 9-g servos and its powered by a 3,300 mah […]
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Quad-Glider Hybrid?
I’ve had an idea for quite some time now and right about now seems like the right time to execute. I’m pretty sure others have thought and built something similar to this, but I think I can do it quite well. The idea is to build a quad and airplane hybrid, like the picture above. […]
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FPV in Las Vegas
Took a weekend trip to Las Vegas and took my ov3rquad with me. Check out the FPV flight around Vegas.