Octo-Quad-Zilla.. Sperm Circles

Just to try and knock down Marty's effort below which he won't shut up about... This is my works Octo i built doing some filming over some crop circles made to look like sperm (well that's what i think) This is a beast of an Octo, full 360 pan and tilt gimbal with a 4 kg payload. Filming the filming with a Gopro 2 looking at a Canon XF105 camera. I had to FPV it over the corn which was about 200 meters away to the circle. Some great results, particularly when slowed down. The XF105 is a monster of a camera.


I've dumped the under carriage, 700gr of extra weight to carry around, weight is flying time... i now land in the doughnut!

Early call.... SJ's is going to Zummerzet on Sunday for electric winching fun! Pete has promised us a BBQ, Beers and be-atches.. not sure what he's on about!

Rob

Roundway Saturday

The Sun was out, the skies were blue, there wasn't a cloud to spoil the view so we all went to Roundway, stood at the end of the peninsula and had a good day

Picture Taken from Quad Saturday 28th July

Above... A view from left side from behind the flight line, you will see the usual suspects keep everything tidy. To the right .. a view from the 'new recruits' end of the slope, we still have a little work to do in educating these lot how to park their gliders




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This is Janek. We weren't sure of the reason he always walks stooped when in the landing zone. Having now seen Craig, Phil and Pete's flying it may be a tactic I employ if we are to be graced with their company in the future

The Rotmilan flying over head. This is still the second nicest looking Glider that frequents our local haunts.

Upside down past the flight line from the Skorp. This glider maybe 7 years old but it still does exactly what it should do even with a camera on one wing and a lump of lead on the other.

Janek launching Petes Predator 3 at the ground, fortunately it missed, first time I have seen one of these, it looks nice.
Pete is the guy that now has my ASW17. So far the scorecard for the ASW17 goes launches 1, landings nil. It now needs some TLC. I have a feeling he is a bit of a hooligan.




Now for the vid. There was too much footage to squeeze into 4 mins, anyway turn the volume up, HD it and enjoy.





Martin

whad dooeedo inyer spur tyme thun?

We at SlopeJunkies Central Offices, got an email from our Somerset affiliated branch of SJ's, after taking an hour to try and decipher the Zummerzet language we found this gem of a vid!

Pete the Strega (known for the interesting ways in which he crashes his Strega) had a legendary day single handed winching his glider. His mate Ollie who is "priddy keen on vitograffee" put the vid together.



I've been looking for the "drunken" effect on Imovie all day, but i have now been informed that the camera man was actually drunk!

Fantastic video, SJ's Zummer Tour will visit the site for some serious fun in the not to distant future!

Rob

Electric Saturday....

Just because there is no wind does not mean that we don't go flying. We spent the afternoon at SJ's secret flat field location and had a monumental session.....

This is the reason we got kicked off the last SJ's secret flat field location. Martin and his desire to mark everything. Seriously don't ever invite him around.









 What happens when you trail 4 meters of aerial off the back of your FPV model? you get it tangled on something which causes a crash!










This is Slater, were not sure if thats Mr, or just Slater. However he owns most of Market Lavington and gave us permission to fly. Had a very nice little built up electric which unfortunately had a landing incident (see vid)





Below is only a taster of what happened, we have loads of footage which we will put together later... Anyways get the beer out, get the  BBQ started turn volume up to 11 and watch!

This is the large floppy wing glider. Takes an hour to put together, has a prop on it the that any wind farm would be proud of and is as ugly as sin, however..... this is the greatest flat field electric glider i have ever seen!!! Seriously stable even with a camera on the wing. Hooks thermals very easily and is up in the clouds before you know it, you can see it from miles away too. Martin might sell this, if i had the money i would buy it....... Hero of the day.

Rob

LOST QUAD

Can any of you help this guy out ???.

My  Xaircraft 650  . 

As a quad flyer I  understand how easy it is to lose orientation on something that is small and looks the same from each side once its more than 50 yards away. Once you add the value of the airframe, receiver ( unless its one of Robs 1970's 35mhz steam powered things), flight controller and Go pro etc etc together this little thing starts to become quite expensive, and not something you want to see disappearing into the distance, wondering which stick you should pull and in what direction to get it back

I have just bought and am now waiting for delivery of this gadget. It should plug directly into my DJI NAZA flight controller. It is the DJI Naza GPS system. It has several functions I will be able to use, but the 2 most impressive ones are a ''hover hold'' and ''Return to home''.  ''Hover Hold'' at the flick of a switch halts the quad in its tracks, it will keep its altitude , orientation and positional direction held rock steady. This will be ideal for filming . ''Return To Home'' at the flick of a switch will lift the quad 20 metres from wherever it is, it will return to the spot directly above where it took off, and then drop down to a super smooth landing.




Watch the video below. This guy is demonstrating the capabilities of the NAZA GPS system with the ''hover hold'' and ''return to home functions''. This is amazing technology with remarkable functionality, that will act as an insurance policy at a very affordable price







Martin

FPV Heaven and Back... Thankfully!

Get the Kids to bed, turn the TV down, and turn the volume up to 11!! A little fun on Sunday eve. Thankfully Martin's eye sight is good as my spotter, the rest of him is falling apart mind! A little bouncy at low level, this is prob the low speed trying to conserve battery life.

Rob

Turned out pretty good

Sunday 15 July


Took the decision to get on over to Roundway, a little more north in the wind would have seen us at Westbury for the afternoon but no such luck. It turned out 'pretty good'. Stars of the day turned out to be Robs newly acquired electric Blaze, Rob by name, rob by nature. The other star turned out to be my quad, armed with the DJ Naza board it fought the wind to get some pretty good footage for the Video.

The recently 'robbed'  blaze . Beware...If you manage to take advantage of somebody and talk them into giving you (reluctantly) their glider, you to could end up with a 'stupid expression' stuck on you face!!

2 Willows, A big sting and a typhoon. One of those 2 willows a couple of weeks ago was launched FREE FLIGHT. Ian Mason would be proud of his design. It did 1 very nice circuit before a not so very nice circuit and then a fairly heavy landing ( more of a thump into the side) but no significant damage.

The X650 quad with Naza board.
This along with my superb piloting skills fought the wind and turbulence to take some very good footage.
No need for 8 motors , GPS hold and Gimbles etc etc








The Rotmilan cruising past the wrong way round again, yawn yawn

Above Geoff and Rob try to program the Trinity. On the right the manual is out and still Geoff and Rob try to program the Trinity. My advice to you Geoff is stop seeking help from Robert and ask the Grand kids!!













Now for the video, full volume, big screen, HD it and look out for Quad footage











Martin