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Thanks Bartman, it was just a pleasure to fly the 250mm quad inside where the air is still and have objects to play with

Hi All, Going over some old footage I found this quick flight I got the chance to do around a metal workshop here in Devon. At the far end of the room I got quite a bit of break up in the video signal due to all the high power equipment which was very RF dirty but the still air inside the...

Hi All, RealFPV have come up with another amazing frame, the Spanky 6. This frame allows the use of 6" props and also a GoPro to record your flights in high definition, it now comes with tilted motor mounts as standard http://www.realfpv.com/Spanky6FPV.aspx I am using a full Naze32 matched...

Xmas and new year out the way the weather is still terrible here so no video's to show yet. Here is the Spanky 6 as it sits today, over time I will tweak and change the layout to be more... refined. The stand out 'feature' is the FPV camera mount, I tried to have the camera unprotected mounted...

I think a lot has to do with the material they are made out of aswell, the antenna I use are made from KSR200 which has 0.865dB/m attenuation compared to most that use something like RG142 which has about 1.11dB/m attenuation. Also I make sure if I do go behind an object which blocks the LOS...

Thanks for your comments Hood49 ;) As you can see in the pics above I use a custom pair of Skew Planar antenna on both the vTx and vRx, most say only use 3 lobes on the vTx, so it would be Skew Planar on the vRx (4lobes) and Cloverleaf (3lobes) on the vTx but I find that's not as good as both...

Here are some Photo's taken by my spotter on this day... The area was covered in fine dust... Which made for some great trails of dust when at speed... After the small tumble into the stinging nettles I realised a few magnets had come loose in the ZMR1804 motors which can be easily fixed with...

A bit more progress... Here we have the frame ready and setup for its first LOS test fly. For the test I mounted the Lipo on top of the frame and did not fit the GoPro, this kept the CG right on the FC in the middle. The test LOS flight went perfect, the frame is super stable and has a locked...

Hi All, We got permission to fly around a local active gravel quarry, no workers were on site during the weekend so we had the opportunity to check it out and have a fly around the all the equipment. This video was filmed back in September while the weather had a break from the rain and wind...

Thanks Bartman, Progress is slow at the moment but I am looking forward to its FPV maiden on the weekend, dependant on the weather and if I get all the FPV gear fitted in time. I will keep this thread updated as I go ;)

Hi All, Here is my build of the new Spanky 6" frame, Chris Hatcher is the designer of the amazing Spanky range of frames and I have had excellent results using the Spanky 5" for quite a few months due to the excellent design and super strong G10 construction. The video below shows my Spanky 5...

Hi All, During a break in the wind and rain I decided to revisit Merrivale Quarry but this time using my mini quadcopter, RealFPV Spanky. This building has some great history and has since been left to dis-repair, there is some excellent graffiti that when looked at from different angles is...

Very good thinking Steve, the noise of the buzzing 5" props works quite well especially with a little blip on the throttle to make them sound angry but a loud buzzer for the pilots control would be a great passive incentive for them to get the hell out of there quick lol

interesting you should say that Dazzab, a few people have mentioned it already to me, about adding RF module to the back of the sheep and having camera's round the field (which also help to monitor the sheep when not in use for herding) to map them and then sending the quad out computer...

Hi All, The challenge is to get the flock of sheep grouped together and then move them all to the bottom of the field so that they can be sheered. Normally the farmer would have to walk up the field with his dog and use whistles or commands at the dog to round the sheep up and move them to...

Hi All, Here are some Win and Fail shots from our day racing mini Quadcopters. West Devon saw a group of FPV pilots meet for some excellent FPV Racing of mini Quadcopters, the weather was ideal and the garden a perfect place to setup a track to try and avoid hitting obstacles. We all had so...

Here are some Photo's taken on the day by my spotter. Most are taken during a LOS flight with the larger Zippy Compact 1500mAh 35C fitted while I tested one of the motors which had a magnet displaced when we arrived so I did a quick field repair, I normaly fly FPV using smaller Turnigy Nano-Tech...

Hi All, I managed to get two full flights done at this beautiful location (the full flight shown was my second flight), the air was very calm inside the ruins but unpredictable near the windows and walls. I had so much fun flying through the windows but some had to be left alone due to plants...

Hi All, Here is some recent flights were I got to meet some local FPVers, the weather was not great but I had great fun chasing other objects around the sky and just couldn't resist getting among the trees. Best viewed full screen 1080p http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMBzVujhCKc

Very rare but not one prop was harmed in the making of this video. To be fair they are the RCTimer 5x3 3K Carbon props that don't mind a bit of vegetation or small sticks to chew on compared to the other plastic Gemfan ones etc snap if they get looked at wrong lol So if I was using Gemfans then...