well Mr. SleepyC, I guess the cat is out of the bag! It's great to see you so happy with the new heli.
Here's the poop on things.
The company is being called Aerdro, LLC at
www.aerdro.com. The site's going to get a lot of attention this week in order to be open for business sometime middle of next week. Right now it's a little embarrassing which is why I've kept it on the down-low.
THe heli is the pictures is the last of the conforming prototypes, it's not a perfect production heli but it's as close as any prototypes have come so far. A few little tweaks and it'll be good to go with production starting this week on a batch of camera mounts and in about two weeks on a batch of frames.
THe camera mount is made to fit a Canon 5D but even with that it barely breaks a sweat. It's a servo driven camera mount but I'll show in time with video that it does very nicely given all the poo-pooing we hear about servo driven mounts. Basically it's a professional photography mount that also happens to do very nice video. Throw it in and out of the car ten times a day and it'll laugh at the easy life it's living.
The dome Sleepy got was supposed to come home with me but I forgot to grab it. It was pulled to check the plug and I just threw it on there since the higher end ones won't be ready for a few weeks. There will be a lighter and less expensive option and then a more expensive but totally sick custom option. I can't wait to get pics of that posted to the website.
Sleepy added the foamie stuff to the gear which are standard Droidworx gear. I'm working on an Aerdro landing gear set but with the Droidworx gear available it's been the last things I've focused on. The frames will accommodate Droidworx gear with Photo Higher camera mounts for those that want to use their AV-130's or 200's or -360 mounts.
There will be multiple levels of XY quads available from a basic four motor starter to an FPV version, a fast FPV version, a portable model, and then the range of basic to full Pro grade XY8 models.
Check the website and it will all be explained there and here as well as things become available. There will be a vendor forum added here which will serve as the official customer access and support point for the company.
Thanks again for your support Sleepy. Enjoy the heli and I'm sorry again for getting us kicked out of the casino!
