Had some flights with our bixler in a warm day around 2 abandoned buildings near city. Thermals were so strong that it was almost impossible to flight, but we managed to shoot some nice moments.

Not so Crazy FPV session (2 min 59 sec)

Phoenix and Bixler meet each other in the field where me and my team mate and some friends spent some time just for fun.

Hand launch and landing session (4 min 51 sec)

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In continuity of our FPV stories, which we a telling on a local site, we want to share our new Project with you - FPV fans.

Since everyone(from our club) knew the old scratch build trainer could not cope with our goals (maybe we ask for too much?), we decided to buy other plane. From the long list of planes peoples use for FPV we decided in favor of Maja from Frank Bormann, just because of it's specs:

Wingspan - 220cm
Length - 120cm
Wight - 1.5kg
Payload - 1.5kg

Parcel showed up in Customs but did not immediately passed, Customs officer were very waiting for us.. just because of curiosity and they just wanted to ask more questions about this plane, because the parcel was so large.
After we brought it home, we immediately unpacked to see what it looks like, and then packed it back and put on the shelf.

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Meantime we ordered some electronics for the plane:

2x Bluebird BMS761D servos (for aileron)
1x Bluebird BMS705 + 1x Bluebird BMS706 (for rudder and elevator)
2x 5000mAh 3S Turnigy LiPo
1x 60A Turnigy Plush ESC

The parcel from China to our country arrive not so fast, like it is delivered personal by a Chinese who travels by foot, so we without any rush started to glue all the pieces together. We absolutely didn't like the glue which was suggested by manufacturer and choose to glue it with HotGlue (shame on us, the...Continue Reading