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My Posts This: Topic Forum | Wow, that's an amazing testament to the balance of that machine. If you could only see what I've put myself through to get a heli mount for an X-Cell to behave itself - I've ended up with something almost as engineering - intensive as the rest of the helicopter combined - more so at a guess if you take the electronics into consideration - can't you tell I'm itching to show it off - I reckon there's about 6 man hours left in it - and I'm stuck at my desk 18 hours per day surrounded by phones and blinking screens - bummer - no matter I'm sure it will pass.
I've just been hounding Gerd Guzicki for details and pricing on the new Maxi Joker - their site says they designed it specifically in response to requests for camera-carrying ability. I'm begining to think he's got a deal some time between now and the summer - well we do tend to have an 8 month pause here inbetween "summers" where the outdoors becomes a waste of space - anyway, can you believe he's been at work answering my mails at 12:30am in Germany
I had a EP Concept SR (several of them actually - 'cos they kept burying themselves in the dirt through non-pilot-error) - that's before I viowed never again to touch anything made by Kyosho (I had several Concept .46 VRs too for similar reasons - melting plastic clutch bells) - funny how economical a single X-Cell 60 can seem after that - err, I digress, basically, however terrible the EP Concept, I always loved the electric heli flight thing and can't wait to get back into it - these new German units look like a complete blast, just the sound of them on the MPGs is out of this world - and then there's your results too to cap it off. Thinking about it, I was all set to build a hovercraft when I side-tracked to look-up electric helis and found Risto Koiva's pages with details of his Logo 20 and his heli-camera/telemetry project - and that's what got me started on this whole thing - it's just in my nature to take things to extremes. http://www.mh.ttu.ee/risto/rc/logo20/wvideo/index.htm
I've got this image in my mind of you treking up those Montana slopes with a heli and a few KilloWatt hours strapped to your back - man, you're living the life of my wildest dreams - I'm there - vicariously I think Flyboy put it so well (btw your photography is beyond cool - that shot of the Jaegermeister & Red Bull in the snow just does it for me) - you need someone to carry that heli by any chance? - I'll even get the beers in, you only have to ask...
Good night,
Julian.
Julian |
Now I have to go figure out a mount for the Freya. Your's looks like it just might work. 
