Robs venturi build - uber quick!

[CurryKitten]

Looks great Rob... aside from the fact that a "flags of the world" book puked on it :)

Whens the maiden ?

[rob.thomson]

It's a strangely south African theme going on!

Guess it shows my heritage!

Hopefully get it flying in the next few days.  Just need to wait for my wife to go our for the pm of am!

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[Coyote]

Looking good Rob

Personally I would have put the Rx and Vtx much further out along the wings away from the Noisy Keyfob camera

[rob.thomson]

True.   I will see if it is an issue in practice.

Reality is I don't really fly outside of 2km, so hardly pushing the limits :)

Rob

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[Coyote]

Shouldn't be a problem then

[rob.thomson]

My UHF module arrived in the post today.


Looks like I will be able to test sky soon - next week :)

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[Dizzy]

a sweet build i recon though your daughter had some input with those colours and the pattern,  ;D  Own up !

I can see the satisfaction of help givin in her eyes proud of her work and daddies ;)

dizzy :)

[rob.thomson]

Has my first flight with the venturi today.

Very windy!

All seems to fly OK.   It feels very... 'Heavy' in the air.  I think then cog will need to be moved back a bit.

Launching it is.... Interesting!

Otherwise....  All OK.   

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[Big_Tone]

I put weight on my vent to hit the cog, and then found it needed loads of continual up to keep it level. Took it off again and it flew much better. I reckon the cog could therefore be further back than the manual suggests.

Can I ask what uhf you're using. Is it really required for 2k? I guess that's around the 2.4 limit.

[rob.thomson]

Agree on the cog.  :-)

I am using Rlink.  (royalway)

It works very well.

Iat the range we are talking,  the advantage of UHF is that you get control through objects,  and low to the terrain.

Try fly 30 Feet off the deck,  1km away on 2.4.  It's not happy :-)

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[Big_Tone]

That sounds fun. Might try and get my uhf running. Long walk if you go a little too low.