Enjoying the warm sommer air in the Swiss Alps on 1500 ASL (Jeizinen – look at the maps, specs an pictures of the fly location HERE) with 550g carbon of the TASER E from PCM (Podivine Composite Modellbau).
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Oly II from Skybench
(by Philippe) A nice evening flight with flying4nature’s ‘big old girl’ the Oly II from Skybench.
You will see a mass of black clouds climbing over the Jura mountains towards ‘home field’ and then Mont Blanc in the background over the far side of Lac Leman. 15 minutes after the flight the black clouds rolled in bringing thunder, lightning and torrential rain. I was very glad to get all that wood safely indoors in time!
The Oly II is an evolution of the Olympic II designed and kitted by Airtronics in 1970. Since she was a huge hit in the 70’s and 80’s, Skybench have done a little tweaking and modernising and the end result is a very fine flying 100″ RE woodie.
Mine is a post 2006 kit using bang up to date electronics and a brushless motor meaning she truly is a fly anywhere, anytime bird.
Some people say that the additional weight of the motor makes the Oly II fly better now than the earlier designs but I am too young to be able to compare. Phew!
Onboard filming was done with a Mobius camera in 1080p at 30fps.
Review Vitesse 3.0m
Winter flights with the Vitesse 3.0m E PNP (V1) from Dymond (Staufenbiel). Flying4Nature’s team built resp. assembled this E glider. After lot of not planned works and modifications (although PNP version) we flew the plane. Look at our evaluation and plane review HERE (technical data and pictures).
Quadrocopter Blade 350 QX
Flying4Nature möchte nicht auf Copters einsteigen, aber für die bessere Dokumentierung unserer Fly-Locations und Plane-Reviews haben wir als Träger der treuen GoPro den Quadrocopter Blade 350 QX in unsere “Flugflotte” eingeführt. Hier ein paar neue Aufnahmen davon. Videos kannst Du in unserem YOUTUBE Channel geniessen und das Blade REVIEW here. Auf jedem Fall unsere Aufnahmen werden, wie gewohnt, schwergewichtig aus Seglern bzw. Motorseglern bleiben.
Autumn flights
Autumn flights with the BETA 2.3m from Topmodel CZ over the Greifensee (lake in the countryside of Zürich – Switzerland). Look at the plane review here and at the fly locations here. Others videos of our team flying4nature (F4N) can you find on the YOUTUBE channel.
Perspective Pfannenstiel
Flight with the Beta 2.3 Topomodel CZ during a warm and windy end sommer day (2013.09.06) in the countryside of Zürich-Switzerland (location Pfannenstiel).
The video (onboard camera: GoProHERO3)
The pictures (other pictures click here)
Picture from F4N in AUFWIND 4/13
Das deutsche renomierte Modelsportmagazin für Segler- und Elekroflug AUFWIND (www.aufwind-magazin.de/) hat unter seiner Rubrik “Pictorial” in der Ausgabe 4/13 (Juli-August, Seite 18ff) ein Bild des Teams Flying4Nature (F4N) veröffentlicht (Taser unplugged PCM beim Start in Zürich Oberland). Wie bedanken uns sehr bei der Redaktion AUFWIND, eine sehr tolle inhaltlich sowie gestalterisch Fachzeitschrift!
Fly session 09.-12.05.2013, Wallis
The new videos and pictures of the spring fly session in Wallis-Switzerland are online. Poky, Alex XXL, Taser unplugged, Ultegra E, Flash, and more…
We flew on May 10th and 11th with aweseome westerly wind and huge slope lift especially during the afternoon (up to 50 km/h!) in the region of Visp (Jeizinen, Turtmann and Visperterminen).
Model reviews with specs pictures can you find here.
TASER unplugged and electrical from PCM, review
The new plane review of the TASER UNPLUGGED and TASER ELEKTRO from PCM are online. F4N-Team built and flew this axtraordinary 2.0m full carbon gliders for you (unplugged version builded and flew by Philippe D., electrical builded by Martin K. and flew by Lorenzo).
Last year I [Philippe] found too many days with not enough lift for my slope ships so over the winter I wanted to build a light lift sloper that was tougher than a DLG and at least 2 metres span. After a lot of research, I made my decision…
The Taser Unplugged is a new creation from PCM in Austria. She was born out of a mixture of DLG and sloper DNA resulting in a very slippery and extremely light 2m ship that can fly in the lightest of lift but when the wind picks up can penetrate surprisingly well for a 2m ship with a flying weight of just 485g!
She is 100% carbon fibre from tip to tail and looks absolutely stunning for it. All that carbon means a very, very lightweight model that flies a lot like a DLG. The model is manufactured to the absolute highest standards as we have all come to expect from PCM. All surfaces are cut and hinged at the factory meaning all you need to do is install the radio gear. One option that is left to the builder is the ailerons/flaps. They are supplied as one long, single flapperon like a DLG allowing you to choose the number of control surfaces. Seeing as the F4N team fly predominantly on the slope where flaps are a must to allow controlled landings (see the maiden video for a great example) I opted for both flaps and ailerons however those who want the lightest possible model can opt for a single control surface that means 2 less servos to carry.
I have opted for a 2 cell 850mAh LiFe battery that allows for a whole long afternoon on the slope without changing and is the perfect weight whilst avoiding the need for a UBEC.
More pictures by model reviews.
Maiden flight of BETA
The video of the maiden flight with BETA 2.3m (from Topmodel CZ) is online. Enjoy it! It was a very windy day in March 2013 (about 35-45 km/h) on a good termal slope lacation near Uster (Switzerland). We installed two onboard cameras – HD Wing Camera II – Full HD 1920x1080p 30FPS (http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewitem.asp?idproduct=25656&aff=542161). The tecnical plane rewiev can you find here. Look also at the new YOUTUBE Chanel of Flying4Nature.
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