Last night, while surfing in San Clemente, a buddy of mine witnessed a plane go down in the water. He recovered it and waited around for the owner to claim the bird to no avail. If you lost the plane and can positively ID it, it's yours.

Is it really a FPV plane? As in, it has a video transmitter and video camera? I'm curious, because it seems possible that it may have been just a regular RC plane. It actually seems more likely its just a regular RC plane because there really are very few FPV'ers around, in comparasin to LOS'ers.

Yes, but there's likely a higher number of FPVers who like to fly out over the ocean
and watch the surf/surfers.

It's fpv. Stabilized camera mount, video tx, and some other "goodies."

wow, good find, hopefully the owners can be found and the gear returned to the rightful owner

Post a picture of if, pictures say a thousand words and someone may recognize it.

Problem with that is that they might not be able to positively identify it as theirs once you've posted a picture of it.

Anyway, that's why you put contact info on the plane.

Originally Posted by jschall

Anyway, that's why you put contact info on the plane.

Yep.

Originally Posted by jschall

Anyway, that's why you put contact info on the plane.

and I have a file called READ_ME.txt in my cameras' card too...

rcall put a video in there as well called "IFFOUND.MP4" - I have one with my contact info and it plays the Pink Flooyd MONEY song

OP - Thank you for being honest, last thing I want to see is another V12Driver type person selling gear after not making an attempt - you are making a very honorable request and I hope they offer a reward ...

Thanks for being honest, too few honest people in the world today, I hold my honor dear.

There is a FPV'er who flys San Clemente and his user name is ecworks
He is a Ranglink user and hangs out in the Rangelink forum.. It could be him who lost the plane.. If not,.. he probably knows the FPV flyers who fly in San Clemente who may have lost their plane..

Originally Posted by Mykro

There is a FPV'er who flys San Clemente and his user name is ecworks
He is a Ranglink user and hangs out in the Rangelink forum.. It could be him who lost the plane.. If not,.. he probably knows the FPV flyers who fly in San Clemente who may have lost their plane..

I think it is him. He posted about losing his plane in the ocean the other day. Refer to this thread.

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showt...471573&page=63

Was it a tein motor raptor?

A picture may help

ECWORKS lost his plane recently over the water. Pics of his plane here: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1749059

His post in the Raptor thread yesterday:

Originally Posted by ecworks

The Twin Raptor is no more.
1 mile out to sea when it went into failsafe. Then the GPS stopped showing altitude and distance to home. Then it spiraled. Recovered and I toggled RTH, no go. Flew upside down toward the shore then 1/2 mile offshore it went into a deathspiral and then out of line of sight.
Still trying to figure what, or what combination of things, went wrong. Had a great low power rangetest before the flight.
Frosting on the cake: GoPro was on board.

Great way to start the weekend.