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"Good news doesn't sell" as the old newspaper publisher adage goes... Unfortunately most people in the USA have been conditioned to only pay attention to bad news and media sensationalism, they'd rather read/watch 10 stories of disaster in the making rather than 1 that brings good news about...

It has already flown several times. I had a good baseline on settings to start with from the prototype I built that is now in the customers hands, so a bit of tweaking and it flys beautifully. I haven't had a Y6 in the fleet since way back when I first got my Nex 5 and built one up out of one of...

Been working on a scratch build Y6, the initial prototype was done for a client with a specific use case in mind and eventually will see production by them. I liked the size and performance of the original prototype so I decided to build one for myself, still a work in progress and I will most...

I've had a Norton thing going for years, bought my first 1971 750 Commando back in 1981 and still have it, next came the 1975 850 Commando, and then the ES2 which was a complete bare-frame restoration project that took 3 years to complete roughly 10 years ago. The ES2 has taken 1st place in...

It's not enough that I have one expensive hobby, I have several ;) The RC stuff has morphed from airplanes to cars to monster trucks to heli's, and now multirotors. That transition has literally taken decades to get to where I am now and I don't even want to think about the $ involved. For...

I'm south of Boston MA, down in the Brockton area off RT 24. I used to live up on the north shore in Lowell and for a while had a camp in Bristol NH, so I'm pretty familiar with all of the territory in between those points. There will definitely be some get togethers this season. There was a...

I have a pair of printers, one is a standard linear layout and the other is a delta type, each has it's own quirks and uses where it excels. Having parts done via Shapeways really doesn't make financial sense unless you plan to make a LOT of them and sell for a profit, otherwise you'll find the...

Nice job! I've been doing a lot of design and build lately as a way to keep myself busy while stuck in the house. I recently completed a Y6 design and prototype build for a client that turned out so well I decided to build a copy for myself. It's taken a couple weeks of work in the random...

Indeed, we did hit the jackpot on the last storm with somewhere around a foot or so of snow followed by that blast of frigid air. Since then it warmed up and all the snow went away but that is changing as the rain turned to snow an hour or two ago and it has accumulated an inch or so of wet...

Pouring rain here at the moment which is better than a raging Nor'easter IMO! You folks up in the north country can keep that arctic cold, I'm OK with the warmer temps and rain till spring... ;) Ken

Personally I would go with the clone RX, the fewer pieces in the link the less things that can go wrong. I have 3 MK currently flying on FRSky RX via PPM, connection is actually very simple. On the underside of the flight controller there is a set of pads for a PPM connection, +5v, Ground, and...

I'm calling BS on this one. I have at least a dozen flight controllers of various makes and models all with various GPS units attached and nothing special needs to be done to make any of them work as intended provided the software is correctly installed and any needed parameters like declination...

Who said anything about the masses, a balloon is no crazier than a tethered multi that can only hover over it's fishing reel! Last time I recorded video I actually flew around, can't imagine limiting it to a small circle of airspace directly over one spot although there are some instances where...

Tethering is an effort to find a loophole that makes commercial UAV use "legal". Not sure I entirely understand the thinking there but at least one person claims they've gotten the OK from the FAA and has produced a product that allegedly satisfies the requirement...

Thanks Chuck! I do have to give a lot of the credit to the machine, it was my first MK and last time I looked at the stats on the F/C it was somewhere north of 30 hours flight time on the airframe, that's a lot of battery cycles. Needless to say, across the 4 years I've owned it I've gotten...

Boston Area Multirotor meetup Sunday the first meetup of the Boston arean multirotor group took place at Larz Anderson park in Brookline MA. I was going to bring only FPV multis but at the last minute decided to swap my MK Hexa over to a gimbal that could carry my old Hero HD since I have yet...

Now I've seen everything... :rolleyes: http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5785700/lady-gaga-unveils-flying-dress-volantis Ken

I'll shoot you an email shortly, I've got a couple questions. I've have everything necessary to setup a motor with 14 inch prop on a motor mount and then I can figure out how long the tube needs to be from there. Ken