Extreme Parkflying Helicoptor! Video

[rc_ron]

This is one of the best RC videos I've seen....

I'm a little shocked that:
1. it can be done
2. some was standing next to the pilot!

http://www.kernalpanic.org/movies/alan_vegasfunflydemo_2004.wmv


enjoy!

[Keith43221]

Mumm cool but: i don't think and 90 size heil is really a parkflyer, This heli was made to aerobactic. The guy standing right next to the poilt was most likey the spotter. something goes wrong, the spotter can hellp the polit recover. other than that is was a cool video

[sirdirk007]

seen it many times only done smoother. It seems as if the video was sped up or somethin. Unless the guy flies that jerky. Great vid though enjoyable

[tridim]

It doesn't look real to me, but I'm not a heli-flier. How the hell does the cameraman keep the subject perfectly centered?

[rc_ron]

judging by the exhast stream and shadows, i dont think its fake or sped up.

[Akura2]

it's real... that's Alan Szabo Jr., one of the best heli pilots out there... that video is 100% authentic...

as far as keeping the heli centered in the video... speaking as a videographer myself... It's not that hard with practice.. and if the guy that's doing the video has been shooting with Alan for a while... they might have a set routine where he knows where Alan's moves are going to take the heli next... teamwork...

[Rat]

Did you see the vid in the Heli 3D section of the 7 or 9 year old boy doing this type of flying with his heli???????? That was a work of art to fly a heli like that.

[Martin Hunter]

Parkflyers??

I'm moving this to the glow heli 3D forum.

Martin

[scottiejay350]

i gotta call Inuenndo on that one....the video is sped up in a couple of spots. how can it fly with its lift vector parallel to the ground.....when he flips end over end? probably has slowed the frames down there. the rest of it is so unscale like i find it not enjoyable. maybe i just don't get the whole 3D thing, i must be a CRUMUDGEON!!

[TMorita]

i gotta call Inuenndo on that one....the video is sped up in a couple of spots. how can it fly with its lift vector parallel to the ground.....when he flips end over end? probably has slowed the frames down there. the rest of it is so unscale like i find it not enjoyable. maybe i just don't get the whole 3D thing, i must be a CRUMUDGEON!!

The video isn't sped up. It's all filmed in realtime.

You can flip with the "lift vector parallel to the ground" momentarily because it's a 90 sized helicopter that weighs about ten pounds...it has a lot of inertia. It is definitely NOT a parkflyer.

Here's a few another video from Alan Szabo Jr flying an electric heli, and another of his brother Danny Szabo:

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=339502&highlight=szabo

Here's a bunch of videos of Alan Szabo flying on Augusto's helicopter video server:

http://www.augustoheli.com/videostuff/videoarchive/AlanSzabo/default.asp

Toshi

[RotorCycle]

I watched nearly the same demo at the recent Phoenix heli fun-fly March 11-13. This video accurately reflects what it looked like in person from 30-40 feet away. Alan and his brother both flew, and are simply awesome. One difference is when Alan auto-rotated in from WAY up he was inverted the last 1/3 of the way down, and flipped over right before landing. The only way these guys can get more extreme is by performing closer to the ground. Some of his flips where 1-foot off the deck.

[NewHummer]

Yup that's Alan.

He put in a nice flight in the thunder tiger fun fly in Japan. I got one of the dvd's from a guy at the thunder tiger stand @ the model expo last year :)

Amazing. I have managed my first loops yesterday with ma rappy 30. ;) Felt as though I was inverted forever :eek:

[NCQ3]

wow that is some skills. Maybe it was jerky cause of the wind. The mic picked up alot of wind noise................

[mhale71]

its jerky coz thats how he flys, if you add heaps of pitch, then return the pitch to how it was before, or even less or negative, the heli will jerk, obviosly.

mike

[Fred Bronk]

It is not fake, I have seen him do this many times.

Momentem and a slight angle will carry it through many thigs you would not think possible.

Lets watch the wording here guys. Comments are getting a little liberal.

[MPDano]

Yeah, this guy is a truly amazing pilot. I've seen him fly live and he flies a hell of a lot better now. He doesn tricks so fast, you wonder how he even knows orientation of the heli. More than likely, thats his bro' Danny next to him. :cool:

[Jason WAI]

It's a great video . .... Alan is a real 3D guy

[Nick Maxwell]

No, that is for sure real...lol...but you must remeber, my Freya X-Spec with that motor has about 3 Horse Power. Thats a buch of power!! Thats the way 3D pilots fly.
Keep'em Flying,
Nick

[Cranium]

That was the video that got me started in RC a little over a year ago.

Now, 2 helicopters, 2 planes, 1 RC truck and several thousand dollars later I'm starting to get better. :D

Damn you Szabo!! ;)

[warren52nz]

I must be ultra-liberal.... I can't see anything "liberal" in here.
???

[mjws]

Parkflyer. Jerky. Heh. :D Alan is one of the smoothest in the business. Pitch changes and pops are part of making that machine perform. Watch his fast backwards and transitions... it doesn't get any better.

You want to see aggressive. Watch Krause or Caldwell throw it around down on the deck. Lots of similar video by most of the world class pilots at www.augustoheli.com.

[Ringding]

Hehe, parkflyer... :D

This video (among a small number of other selected gems) was the reason for me to get into heli flying.

Now everyone who hasn't done so should go and watch Sunday at the Lake (http://www.augustoheli.com/videostuff/videoarchive/AlanSzabo/Alan_Szabo_Sunday_at_the_Lake.zip).

[genovia]

Alan is a great Pilot... His techniques super exceeds each year when I see him fly. I think is from another space, not ours...:) (Sorry Alan, but your super human:)) It takes a lot of brain power to do what Alan does..

I fly freestyle and there are times my brain gets stuck in the middle of a routine.

There is a rumor of a "Kid" that hails from the UK, they call him "The Dorest boy" this too is pretty good from what I've heard. We will find out soon, after 3D masters:)

[genovia]

Now, 2 helicopters, 2 planes, 1 RC truck and several thousand dollars later I'm starting to get better.

Cranium,

I used to have a LOT of airplanes, when I first got into helicopters, I became so frustrated, because helis is not an overnight fling. I asked Alan if he flies a lot of helicopters, thinking that's probably why his so damn good. He told me straight up.... "Fly one helicopter, learn it and master it"

So, it's been 2 years now, my garage is clean and I only have one helicopter (Well, except for my little side kick, my Century 3D pro :) )

[rc-mike]

I agree, they all fly different. I have a Raptor 50 and a 3D Pro. After flying the Pro the Raptor feels like flying a bus and after the Raptor the Pro feels really twitchy. After a few minutes I get used to the one I am flying again and it feels normal.

When you get to a turbine is it no longer a parkflyer?