A brief history;
My father was one of the keenest RC modellers I ever saw. He was a tragic. Planes and boats mostly, with odd dalliances with cars and choppers. When I was young he was really a very unlucky (read poor) pilot. I have vague childhood recollections of him laboring over balsa aircraft for weeks followed by a trip to his "airfield" (a local dairy farm paddock) only to watch him plough all that work into the ground. He latter became quite good, thanks to the advent of styrofoam aircraft and 5 minute epoxy, which enabled him to be back in the air within minutes of the last crash.
His success as a pilot came about the time that I as a young fella, didn't wanna hang out with dad any more, I was sick off spending Saturday in summer in a paddock rather than at the beach that our home was perched over.
I guess what I'm trying to illustrate is that I was exposed to all of the ins and out of model building at a very formative age. I was taught the basics of flight through my old man's hobby purusits, weather I liked it or not.
35 years later, and after 25 years in the TV industry and ( go figure !) my interest in RC aircraft is piqued, by of course the Multi Rotor.
I am in the throws of updating my knowledge from the eighties technology, to the systems of today. I'm trying to get my head around GPS, sonar and barometric altitude control, ESCs FCs BECs and several other TLAs ( three letter abreviations) and I've actually yet to lose my multirotor virginity.
(Santa has kindly supplied me with a new Walkera 400S for the big occasion) My training starts on Boxing day.
So I'm on the journey to learn as much as I can as my big aim is to have something by the end of 2013 that can lift around 4.5-5kg for around 15min with GPS sonar and programmable (so reproduced) flight pattern.
Things certainly have changed since I last took notice of this stuff!
My father was one of the keenest RC modellers I ever saw. He was a tragic. Planes and boats mostly, with odd dalliances with cars and choppers. When I was young he was really a very unlucky (read poor) pilot. I have vague childhood recollections of him laboring over balsa aircraft for weeks followed by a trip to his "airfield" (a local dairy farm paddock) only to watch him plough all that work into the ground. He latter became quite good, thanks to the advent of styrofoam aircraft and 5 minute epoxy, which enabled him to be back in the air within minutes of the last crash.
His success as a pilot came about the time that I as a young fella, didn't wanna hang out with dad any more, I was sick off spending Saturday in summer in a paddock rather than at the beach that our home was perched over.
I guess what I'm trying to illustrate is that I was exposed to all of the ins and out of model building at a very formative age. I was taught the basics of flight through my old man's hobby purusits, weather I liked it or not.
35 years later, and after 25 years in the TV industry and ( go figure !) my interest in RC aircraft is piqued, by of course the Multi Rotor.
I am in the throws of updating my knowledge from the eighties technology, to the systems of today. I'm trying to get my head around GPS, sonar and barometric altitude control, ESCs FCs BECs and several other TLAs ( three letter abreviations) and I've actually yet to lose my multirotor virginity.
(Santa has kindly supplied me with a new Walkera 400S for the big occasion) My training starts on Boxing day.
So I'm on the journey to learn as much as I can as my big aim is to have something by the end of 2013 that can lift around 4.5-5kg for around 15min with GPS sonar and programmable (so reproduced) flight pattern.
Things certainly have changed since I last took notice of this stuff!
