Verhnyaya (means Upper) Gubaha - small industrial town in middle of Russia, in Urals Mountains. 30 years ago it was abandoned. Citizens moved to new town nearby. Why all of the thousands inhabitants left the town?
Coke plant was built near the town. And in windless days air over place is not very useful for people.

Only the ruins of most tough buildings is remaining here. Most interesting construction - town palace.

Now some people still live here. Town officially is part of "live" Gubaha town. They have a electricity, roads is cleaning (we have a 6 month winter with 2meter snow), and water supplies. Some windless days thee have now very quality air, but they can left place on some hours.

Заброшенный поселок Верхняя Губаха с выс&#108 (7 min 43 sec)

Video and photo taken from multirotor.
Frame Tarrot T960
DJI A2 onboard

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Multirotor with automatic paintball marker.

Yea, this is fun device: 200 balls, 10 round per second "autocanon" and 10 minutes flight.

Battle drone (2 min 40 sec)

DJI A2 onboard, and this is a reason why I lightly crushed. I forget, that A2 is not APM in Alithold mode, and too quickly drooped height . Lucky without damages.


Marker with ammo and 1 litre tank weights about 4 kg. This is max for my Hexa. Overall weight about 9,5 kg.

We are thinking about controller, like RassberiPi, which can detect "objects" and give flight controller commands to follow and fire to them.

This is my "captured" Panter from Heng Long. It's appeared in my hands without RC. Had to add futaba 2.4 receiver and arduino from this topic

https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show...&postcount=290

Works fine!

Танк на 2.4гГц (1 min 24 sec)

Perm city, Russia.

Ночная Пермь (1 min 46 sec)

Tarot 910 hexa with A2
Self made 3axis gimbal with fully independent with alexmos controller.
Operator have it's own video TxRx.
Camera Panasonic GH2 with alternative firmware and 12-32 lens.

Video example of my Tarot 910 hexa with A2
Self made 3axis fully independent with alexmos controller. Operator have it's own video TxRx.
Camera Panasonic GH2 with alternative firmware and 12-32 lens.

Ноябрьская Пермь (1 min 16 sec)

3 planes (2 Skywalkers and FPVRaptor) was over city for filming video and photo.

One Sky and Raptor carried GoPro and Sony AS30 for video, second Sky have a Olympus PM1, mirorless photo camera.

Fireworks blast was up to 400m high, we flight at about 200-300m.

Here is result of our night flights.

Фейерверк в честь Дня Победы в Перми (1 min 30 sec)

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Video with our group flight training.

Полеты строем (2 min 25 sec)

Third plane Skywalker became to slow for our group

This video from FPV Raptor with Sony AS30 camera and 2axis gimbals.

Большая вода в Усолье (2 min 10 sec)

Some pics





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Video from our winter fpv flight trainings.

Красавинские полетушки. Зима 2013-2014г. (1 min 50 sec)

Skywalker night flight (2 min 53 sec)

Naza-M v2 bug (0 min 36 sec)

Naza-M v2 f/w 4.02
camera Boscam HD19
iOSD mini

What's up??
OSD showed pitch and roll - so this is no giro problem.

Recently returned from field.
I have tested Panda1 installed on X8. 2 strange results:

1. Too small roll stability. Think, that this is due small PID. May be I need add to 90.

2. I have tested Nav and RTL mods at the ground - no problem, throttle works at max, this is OK.

During 2 test flights I try to fly by navpoints, plane rotates to the first navpoint but sets throttle to zero. Why? Speed did not reached target speed, it seed to 72 km/h.
RTL mode lead to zero throttle too.

f/w
Panda 1.1 RC
Hornet OSD 1.6

Panda NAV mode trottle bug (0 min 53 sec)

Start building plane with Panda for mapmaking.

I have Hornet OSD and decide to add it to Panda, because I cannot fly without OSD, I need home direction at least

I try to this with a success:



You need only connect Panda UART Tx to Horent UART Rx. Horent will show you all info, including current sensor from Panda.

After I asked FY tech support how to connect Panda and Hornet, they give me answer (ther is no info in Panda and Horent manuals).

And crashed when I try to pushed off it

Bixler landing to electric wires (1 min 59 sec)

Make a shot video with examples how Sony NEX5 with 2 axis brushless gimbals works.

SonyNEX Gimbal examples 1 (2 min 50 sec)

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This is my new and first mk.

Naza-M v2
Talon1 x4 frame with additional carbon plates.

4x RCTimer 2830 1000kv
4x RCTimer 40A esc with openpilot fw
10x6 plastic props.
Battery 3s. 4000mah

FPV set:
Skylark osd 4
200mW 5.8 Tx
BoscamHD19 camera
Pan/tilt servos for Boscam

Total weight with battery about 1400gr.
Static current ~20A
Flight time up to 10 min.

First flights video:

Multicopter above Bulgaria part4 (2 min 46 sec)

Flight above sea and rocks in wind:

Multicopter above Bulgaria part5 (4 min 41 sec)

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As I promised before

Cottage village Petushki near Perm (3 min 22 sec)

And over hills, forest, fields. 50 km from city.



Together with Sky2013


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New photos from my Raptor with Sony NEX5N





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