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Table of Content for rc:
2020/10/11: Slope Soaring at Los Banos Creek Reservoir with Arnaud
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2017/10/30: Hacking Night Ghost MinimOSD to do what I needed thanks to OSS: Mode Rotation with Channel Toggle, and Motor Death Detection
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2017/07/02: RC Flights around Sunol and Discovery Bay
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2016/08/29: RC Flights over Burning Man, 2016 edition
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2016/08/05: 120kph Capable HK Sky Eye FPV build with Pixhawk/Ardupilot 3.5
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2016/08/01: Brotronics PowerTowerRX Documentation for Pin Mapping
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2016/07/11: Bixler2 conversion to Pixfalcon with Micro HKPilot Telemetry Radio + OSD and Brotronics PowerTowerRX
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2015/12/23: Fatshark Goggles That Don't Fit You Cannot be Returned. This sucks for a $520 Fatshark Dominator HD v2
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2015/12/20: Hacking MinimOSD-Extras to do what I needed thanks to OSS: Mode Rotation with Channel Toggle
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2015/12/18: Compilation of FPV flights around the Google Mountain View Campus
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2015/12/13: Eagle Tree Vector vs Pixhawk/Ardupilot
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2015/12/12: Hexacopter flying at Moffett
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2015/12/01: Flying 3D FPV with Skyzone 3D FPV Goggles
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2015/11/14: Brotronics Broversity RX, the Missing Manual
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2015/11/06: therau2000@videotron.ca sabotaged his Mobius USB Tools Android App
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2015/11/06: Using Ardupilot Geofencing As An Altitude Deck
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2015/11/01: RC Flying over Laguna Seca, 6 years later
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2015/10/29: Controlling 5 and 12V swtiching with SmartFPV RCCCv2 Video Switching Board
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2015/10/16: RC Flying over Palm Springs
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2015/10/13: RC Flying over Thunderhill, 6 years later
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2015/09/01: Flights over Burning Man, and the current unfortunate BMorg and FAA policies
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2015/08/15: BFG2600 FPV build with Pixhawk/Ardupilot 3.3 (Diamond 2500 remake from Hobbyking)
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2015/08/13: My First X-UAV Talon, and its demise
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2015/08/04: Using Flaperons With Ardupilot
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2015/05/17: Cularis 7 Channel Glider With Crow Flaps and Washout Taranis Config EEPE
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2015/04/23: FPV with Multiplex Cularis, v2
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2014/08/26: Flying FPV with my Multiplex Cularis
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2014/08/25: My Best FPV Flight With My Cularis
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2014/08/23: Mounting Fatshark Pan Tilt Upside Down
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2014/07/13: SCCMAS RC Airshow
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2014/07/06: converting a minimOSD to 5V, adding a heat shield and overvoltage protection
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2014/07/06: Shoving an autopilot and some FPV into my multiplex minimag
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2013/02/27: Do Not Buy From Rotor Concept or Patrick Le
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2011/05/28: A bit of RC flying with Daniel
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2010/10/13: Overfly of Google HQ Campus and Shoreline Amphitheatre with Minimag Cularis Motor Glider and GoPro HD Camera
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2010/08/14: Overfly of Rancho San Antonio with Multiplex Cularis and GoPro HD
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2010/07/28: Taking over a Multiplex Cularis
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2010/02/27: Minimag Crash Lipo Fire
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2010/02/26: Higher Altitude GoPro HD Flights at Rancho San Antonio and Motor Failure, and Video recovery from SD Card
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2010/01/31: GoPro Wide vs GoPro HD
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2009/10/24: Minimag overfly and pictures of Laguna Seca
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2009/09/18: Minimag RC overfly / Digital Hero wide pictures of Thunderhill
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2009/09/09: Trying my new Minimag with Digital Hero GoPro Wide at Rancho San Antonio
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2009/07/13: Lost My Minimag RC Plane
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2009/07/03: More Pictures from San Antonio RC
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2009/06/22: Taking Videos from my Minimag RC Plane
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2009/06/16: Taking Videos from RC planes at Rancho San Antonio
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2009/06/14: More Rancho San Antonio Flying
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2009/06/14: Bought and Built Multiplex ParkMaster 3D RC Plane
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2009/05/30: Quick Flight at Rancho San Antonio with Daniel and Xav
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2008/07/12: SCCMAS RC Airshow
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2007/06/09: Nice Takeoff and Landing with minimag
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2007/05/18: Another Baylands RC flight
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2007/04/27: Returned Draganflyer Ti
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2007/04/08: Brushless upgrade for my multiplex plane
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2007/03/19: First RC plane flights
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2007/02/16: Got into RC
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During July 4th, we went to visit JBQ & Eugenia. I took my RC planes, and we went to try them out in open fields not too far.
There was a nice RC flying field with runway, unfortunately not open to non members, so we went to fly closeby:
Unfortunately, my plane with too much tape, tip-stalled close to landing and crashed badly:
The next day, we went to Discovery Bay, for very nice views. Another unfortunately thing is that the motor died in flight, and the plane was gliding so well that I didn't notice the motor died until it was too late to glide back. The auto-pilot did a fantastic job flying the plane back all the way to the ground.
Eventually I lost video line of sight, and never saw the plane again. I went looking for it a long time, and got my glide ratio wrong, it went much farther than I thought it could. It ended up on a golf course and a groundskeeper found it, put it away and never called me on the numbers on it:
A months later, I got a call out of the blue from a gardener asking if if I had lost a plane. I was not even sure what he was talking about given how long ago it had been, but sure enough, that was it. I was so happy. This allowed me to get the pictures and videos out of them:
I got a lot nice shots during the flight, though:
plane's getting low
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