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One of the best examples of autonomous control that I have seen on a MR.

Looking at the monitor this does not look good. Yet another stand alone gimbal controller. It is nowhere near locked in.:apathy: The penny has not dropped.

I've had a Crius All In One board laying about for a few months and it looks to be a great spec. for not much money if you compare it to say the APM-2.5 As I have a Turngy Talon under evaluation it seems like a good time to run it up the pole and give it a wave. We all know that it works very...

The Nex-7 has a nice HDR feature and the Zen can hold the camera steady enough to take three exposures without any problem but the Zen does not trigger the camera in HDR mode so you need a separate release. Just curious if anyone has a third party remote that can work the HDR mode.:tennis...

Looks like VP has finally arrived

JP-8 or kerosine as most people know it is set to become the universal fuel used for all military vehicles. http://www.engineeringtv.com/video/Nutating-Disk-Engine-Delivers-H;only-Engineering-TV-Videos

Guys, I need to source some good quality monitors. There's a few new ones out there, What are you using?:tennis:

In the following video you can see the advantages of using an Field Programmable Gate Array FPGA (FPGA) Ever wondered how an F1 engine can cope with the massive high speed data transfers that are needed to run an engine at 18.000 rpm and run continuously updated circuit maps etc. though a...

A few weeks ago I made ten sets of conversion adapters to fit non dedicated props to the S800. Mainly because spares were like gold dust. As the wind was really ripping today I thought lets try em. when I got to the beach I thought no way. The model was swaying about on the ground and the...

I was flying at a very large fete in Cyprus yesterday which is organized by the British Army. Afterwards several people came up to me and asked if I had lost a MR with 6 props. and a Canon camera somewhere in the Pafos area.

Nice video. Nice young lady shows you how easy it can be.

Has anyone had any problems with this Beta firmware on any S800 running with the latest/modified ESC's? So far I have had none, even running in high 35-40 deg. temps. but it's always good to know if others have. Some, I know did have an issue with the earlier ESC's.

The DJI Naza has a feature which supports alt. hold which means it has a pressure sensor. So how come it does not have a hole in the MC unit to allow air pressure to enter the box of tricks. They say it is not a sealed unit. but in my experience it looks pretty sealed to me. Since I drilled a...

As most of you know I had a problem with a S800 and it got wet in the sea. Sent it all back and without any questions asked it came back fully repaired. We have an important shoot organised by Russian President and the Chinese rose to the occasion and got it all done straight away so we could...

When I look back at my most successful aerial platforms in terms of time and effort against the results that I was able to create. The MR does not actually fair very well. The first and possible the best was and still is my 2 meter carbon blade motor glider. capable of over 200 KPH in the dive...

I found this clip from a few years back that shows a mod. that I made to my steadicam big rig. It shows how mass balancing can stabilize even a seventy pound rig like this one. Ivan the terrible takes me over every speed bump in Limassol to conduct the test at high speed. Another camera in the...

Having purchased the S800/Zenmuse directly from DJI in China on the preorder deal it would naturally follow that if it should need to be returned for any reason then you would send it back to that Address. Well that is what I did at a cost of 290 euros TNT three day fast service. That was on the...

Today I flew the S800 with a set of Suppo motor 50 Amp. ESC's after DJI announced that they do not have a stock of new ones. It flew great. timing high - 30 Degrees plus all of the usual brake off etc. They were not even warm afterwards.:tennis: I do regard this as a temporary measure until the...

In preparation for next weeks shoot for the UN over some bad countryside. I ran a shake-down test today on the gimbal as a stand alone unit mounted in the normal way on the S/800 landing gear. This I will take into the Hughes 500 and shoot three quarters side/fwd from the back. It was just...

Guys I have no idea how well this works but I would be surprised if it was not bad. How much easier could this be for getting a newbie into the air fast.:tennis: