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One way or another, if you stick your camera out front you are going to have a slight balance issue. The only other way is to hang the camera much lower and either have retracts or a slim profiled LG setup like the heavy lifters. When I had my first Xaircraft with that flimsy plastic LG set...

How come no one ever talks about my next helicopter? :)

I guess I missed that. Thanks.

Damn Steve, you got your paws in everything. Nice reel.

I'm surprised no one on here mentioned the batwing. I sell tons of them just for that purpose. http://www.irisaerial.com/products.html if you google batwing f550 tons of pics will come up. I always keep them in stock since its such a hot item.

will ift a dslr with smaller lens ok, but on 4s its happier with a gh3/sony cx camera which is more in the 2-3 lb range. It will easily lift it but flies best without the full dslr/ L lens combos. I fly for 6-8 minutes on 8000 mah. It is ultra reliable and buttery smooth.

I have a tried and true heli that is RTF. There are roughly 10-20 hours on it. I'm not parting anything out! You could save yourself a HUGE amount of time and money by buying this setup instead of getting all those miscellaneous pieces that take a lot of time to locate, assemble and tune. This...

April fools!!! Hahaha. Sorry. :)

I just talked to Al. He sent some info on the new Hoverfly pro 2. He said it will be released in 5 days. Has milled aluminum enclosures. GPS is supposed to be like Dji but smaller. Comes with waypoints, OSD module and dual redundancy sbus inputs? The new gimbal control board is a brushless unit...

I'm sure well be seeing more and more if this. http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/4723-fallen-drone-found-on-streets-of-san-francisco

I was super interested in making the ring idea work in the past few years and never really got on it. kept concluding it weighed more because it needed more wire and would have issues carrying a gimbal without a bunch of extra stuff in the middle. But I can honestly say I never thought to use...

Those are ancient hieroglyphs! Get out while you can! Dont film them. Bad luck.

I thought the Hercules had integrated esc's?

Just curious, what setup are you using? I watched your 3d video, is that acquired from the heli? nice.

I never test with a high voltage/amp lipo. Sometimes I want to leave my props on for a quick test and just change parameters i use either a 2s lipo or something similar to what you have in that pic. In general you should always remove your props but there are times when this is a safe-ish...

I didnt even know that stuff existed! I agree though, you shouldnt need to over-do your insulation. Wires should always be cleaned and heat shrunk. All joints should be glossy and not dull( that indicated a weak soldering joint.) When you need to swap an ESC/motor you wont want to have to...

There is a big difference in doing a free test run for someone and charing $100. But people will walk all over you if you give them things for free. A good client will have a budget set aside for aerials and others it will have to come out of an allowance or a "special" funds. The problem...

I didnt know if the idea was to try and isolate the gps from interference below the puck. But plastic is invisible to the rfi coming from the heli. Though the GPS is more or less line of sight, I dont see any advantages to cutting out that from below. So doesnt seem to make sense. maybe it...

You have a good point but the problem I encounter is a kid with a gopro quad(phantom/f450) offers to do it for free-$300. There are different clients with different needs. I have seen some mighty impressive footage come from a well gimballed gopro. There are a lot of shoots where the...

You could but a few notes worth mentioning. It's important to clean the flux off your joints as the flux will slowly corrode the metal around it. If you do seal it with something make sure you can peel it off easily. nothing is worse than scraping a blob of that liquid electrical tape off a...