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Notice in the beginning how they used a multi to do some of the filming. I wonder how many people called the PD to report it... Ken

I got a call from the repair shop today regarding the cost to repair my 5n that got damaged when the CineStar6 went down. I wasn't really all that surprised when the tech told me it would cost a bit over $500 US and would take 6 to 8 weeks to get the parts from Sony if I wanted to proceed with...

Thursday night I threw together a bigger frame to put a Naza on, it's built out of spare bits I had hanging around. The Naza I borrowed from the small APV quad, frame is one of Rusty's Rev8 that originally was the Y6 I flew the WKM on and later the flat hex used with the same controller. Motors...

For those of you that don't frequent the DJI forum here, the DJI Zenmuse gimbal to be announced at the Nuremburg Toy Fair... Ken

Spotted on another forum, the long awaited DJI uber gimbal... To be announced at Nuremburg Toy Fair along with a couple other interesting bits. Ken

I just noticed RCHobbyhelicopter.com has F450 parts listed on the website now, props in both 8 and 10 inch sizes included. Anyone looking for stock props can place an order but I didn't dig deep enough to see if they're actually in stock. If not it at least looks like they're on the way, also...

A little while ago I upgraded the firmware on the CS6 WKM to the latest version and being a bit bored I decided to go try it out by the light of the LED strips on the back arms. I figured as long as I was going to fly it I might as well put a camera on too, so I tie wrapped the wounded NEX 5N to...

Today I finished the process of swapping out the DYS ESCs on the CineStar 6 for a set of Maytechs and a new power distribution board. After a quick realignment of the motors by eye (the crash having rotated most of them off vertical) and installation of the Graupner 11 x 5 props I first flew it...

It was a balmy 60 degrees here in New England yesterday, shirt sleeve weather in January! I took the oportunity to get out to the flying field to do a few test flights of the newly WKM converted Droidworx AD6 and also brought along 4 of my little quads to play around with. Nothing crashed and...

Just doing some gain changes on the AD6 and the updsate message popped up, version 5.0 for WKM is avalable for download. According to thge documentation here's what's new... What’s new?  Intelligent Orientation Control: Yaw Lock; Home Lock.  Open multi waypoints flight right by S/N...

Besides dunking one of my aerobatic quads in the stream that runs throught the flying field on Sunday, I'll let the pictures of the other event do the talking... Ken

Now that I have the small APV quad flying under a Naza controller, the next step of the project was to swap out the Mk stack on the Droidworx AD6 for the WKM I removed from the quad. Yesterday I spent the better part of the day performing the transplant surgery and just before dark I was able to...

I was curious to see just how long the F 450 kit quad could stay in the air so I charged up an old 3S 5000 pack, set the TX timer to 15 minutes, went out front and started doing passes back and forth in the street in front of the house. By the time the TX signaled the end of the 15 minutes it...

Today I swapped the WKM on my small APV quad for a Naza controller, toughest part of the swap was unsoldering the power module leads from the WKM and then soldering in the module for the Naza, I think it took longer for the iron to heat up than it did for the rest of the swap! Before I...

I just did the first flight with my Flamewheel 450 out in the backyard in barely 30 degree F temperatures. First impression, it flys really well, the Naza controller works as good or better than every other flight controller I've owned or flown with altitude control and autolevel, and I've tried...

The Fedex man just dropped off a couple DJI goodies, some early Christmas presents for me... ;) The datalink will be going on the CineStar 6, the Naza goes with the Flamewheel kit. I have another Naza on the way that will replace the WKM on my quad and that WKM will be replacing the MK...

For a while now I've been thinking of trying SimonK's ESC firmware update on a set of ESCs used with a WKM controller. One of the things that's been stopping me is the fact that it's a one way conversion, there are no copies of the factory firmware available so once you reflash, that's it, you...

Last weekend out at the field I wrapped up the day by flying out the final set of charged batteries for my little MK Hexa V1. It was a bit windy so I decided to give the GoPro HD a little roller coaster ride and just have fun with it. Original vid runs about 10 minutes, I cut it down to a more...

I did the upgrade last night and first test flight this morning the CS had bad wobbles and jitters, wandering all over the place once in the air. I reverted back to 4.2 and it's back to it's normal smooth flying self. Several other folks over on RCG ran into the same problem so I recommend...

I had a chance to try out some different basic gain settings today along with having the ATTI gains adjustable from the TX. I think I've pretty much hit the optimum for the current setup, I don't see it getting much better than this although I can get a bit smoother on the sticks with a few more...