Friday, 30 March 2012

Incredible Jaro Müller Gliders for Sale!

photo: romekstanek, via rcgroups.com
One of our friends is clearing out their immense hangar of the state-of-the-art Jaro Müller gliders! If you're into your soaring, thermal'ing, performance gliding and such, make sure to visit his thread on RCGroups! Feast your eyes - and tell your friends who might be in the market for one of these beasts!

Thursday, 22 March 2012

Open-Source Remote Control

Every once in a while, a product comes along that has the potential to change everything in an industry. I firmly believe that the Open Source Remote Control system is one of these products. It sounds absolutely revolutionary! FPV, model sensors, GPS, modular construction... it's all there in one package!

Make sure you visit their site by clicking on the image below!

source: www.os-rc.com

Tuesday, 20 March 2012

djmedic2008 rips it up with a monstrous Losi 5T 4WD

Our good friend over in Canada shows this absolute beast of a car, by ripping it up in style! What an incredibly machine! The sound! The power! The FUN!

Check out this incredible videos here:

Monday, 19 March 2012

3 Years of RCTestFlight!

It's been three years since Daniel over at RCTestFlight started entertaining and teaching us his ways with RC and impressing with his designs and creativity! Here's to many, many more! Enjoy the new compilation video from Daniel, below.

Happy Birthday RCTestFlight!

Sunday, 18 March 2012

The last Twickenham Indoor Evening Flying of the season

Last night, I took part in an awesome event in Twickenham - the Indoor Evening Flying. There was a ton of 3D foamies, micro-helis and, of course, a whole lot of multi-rotors. Really cool! Check out the time-lapse video below:

Tuesday, 13 March 2012

Walkera Ladybird Mini UFO

Walkers has announced a new product - a 10cm quad fielding telemetry and looking like rather over-sized ladybird... let's hope they get it right, for their own sake... :)


ShadowHawk UAS

I just saw this rather awesome video of the ShadowHawk Unmanned Aerial System. It looks quite bad-ass! Check it out:


Monday, 5 March 2012

RCLogger RFID battery chargers are coming!

Photo: RCLogger / RCHeliResource
As reported by Heli-Team, RCLogger has announced their new chargers with RFID capability. Whether this is a gimmick or a viable option with truly intelligent pack charging, remains to be seen, but the possibilities are endless!

Read more in English at RCHeliResource.

Friday, 2 March 2012

Quad orchestra!

My friend James from rpff.org pointed me to this video of a swarm of quads performing a live music track. I'm speechless! Check it out below:

Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Another incredible urban multi-rotor vid from Juz70!

This guy just never ceases to amaze me! Enjoy this incredible footage with night-time urban views, complete with crazy proximity and confined-space flying - all mashed up with a sick dubstep track!

Monday, 27 February 2012

New regulations spelling out the end of a cheap LiPo...?

According to Infinity Hobby, new aviation regulations will prevent vendors from shipping their LiPo batteries by Air Mail... does this spell the end of an affordable LiPo?

After a quick search, I found a Bloomberg article on this subject, which outlines the ICAO proposal on battery shipments, which are suggested to be labelled as hazardous goods from 1st Jan 2013. This is due to a rather terrifying statistic of one registered cargo plane being downed by lithium battery fires in its cargo hold every other year!

Do have a read of the full article at the above link, as this may well affect an average hobbyist in the near future...