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home/ history/ 2003/ june/ wingo Wingo Porter
I bought a RC plane to try to get one of the cameras up in the air. I received the kit in Mai, but it was not complete. Conrad took more than 5 weeks to deliver the missing parts - and still I did not receive all of them. Instead, they called me on the phone and said the kit does not exist anymore and I should send back everything. I proposed a discount instead and I got 10% off. Just small stuff like the hinges and the horns were missing. Friday 20.6.2003 The wingo had it's first successful flight. While it was getting dark, the wind stopped, and after a few successful hand launches without the RC I dared to throw it into the wind at full throttle. Lucky thing I did this at the top of a slope, it went down quite some before it started to climb and after some trimming flew perfectly. the airfield: MPEG (400kB) Quicktime (3MB) the wind came from the side where you see the car - landing was not very easy on this slope, so on Friday 20th I broke the fuselage and the 5th landing, on Saturday I cracked it on the 4th or so landing. on the bumpy field I landed on, the wheels were stuck as soon as it touched ground. Maybe I should replace them by something like a ski Saturday 21.6.2003
went for a early moring flight - had about 30min flying time on 2 sets of batteries when the fuselage cracked again at the same place
Sunday 22.6.2003
Had about 30mins flying time on the same field - tail in front of elevator broke after a hard landing in the wheat field - easily repaired in spot
Monday 23.6.2003 Pictures up to monday
After looking for a good spot to fly I went up to a nearby hill - looked fine onboard camera pics as video stream
I did about an hour flying time while the wind was getting stiffer - as it was coming uphill I could use it to save battery power
It wont come down from there by itself for the first time I come back without the plane - feels weird As far as I could see it's still in one piece - located it turning the engines on and following the sound
Later in the day I found out that it did come down by itself - the wind broke the tail and down it fell Tuesday 24.6.2003
wind from the north today, had to find a different spot. onboard camera pics as video stream I had good flying time on all 3 battery packs - and I went back home before I broke anything Pictures - only two as there were no problems :-) Wednesday 25.6.2003
Planted the plane in a tree twice, but both times it was so low I could reach it :-) #1 MPEG (261kB) Quicktime (6.3MB)
onboard video
#2 MPEG (261kB)
Quicktime (4MB)
onboard camera pics as video stream
Pictures with airplane in trees Thursday 26.6.2003
Added weight to the plane and went to try - it was much too windy and the plane crashed after about 100m flight and broke the right half of the wing Friday 27.6.2003 Perfect conditions this morning: airfield (2.7MB) Quicktime (7.2MB) onboard camera pics as video stream onboard video (MPEG 8min 13MB) onboard video (MPEG 1min 3.5MB)
Repair and inflight Pictures
This afternoon I wanted to show the plane to my wife. She has always seen it on the kitchen table being fixed, but never in the air. There were some turbulence, and I did some acrobatic movements. The third landing was quite hard, so we went back home to the kitchen table... Went again in the evening - tried to find a place with less wind - got it off the ground - high in the air - too much wind
The aluminium bent in the air - uncontrollable (why does it face straight to the ground at 40mph??)
crash pictures dont know yet if it will make it in the air again...)-: Monday 30.6.2003
After having glued the plane back during the weekend, I went for another flight
Perfect conditions this morning:
airfield (430kB)
Quicktime (4.3MB)
onboard camera pics as video stream Pictures of the wingo was flying fine, until I lost the prop and was unable to find it... This continues in July If you like the idea of a cam on a RC plane but you think this project is not anywhere yet, look at this link: http://home.online.no/~la9ex/index.htm This is a guy in norway with his own airstrip, electric rc plane with dual live video stream and GPS
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No damage.
This morning I did not have time, so I tried to go for a flight in the afternoon. I measured the weight of my Nikon coolpix and a servo: 380g
