Crashing RC Aircraft this Morning
August 8th, 2010 | Published in iPhone, My Life, RC Aircraft
The wind was fairly calm this morning so a couple of friends and I went off into the desert to fly for a few hours. I ended up forgetting my good HD video camera, but here are a couple of short videos taken with my iPhone 4. The videos were originally 720p, but since I edited them and uploaded them directly from my phone, it looks like they were compressed before being sent to YouTube. Oh well, 360p is good enough for these videos.
There were two pretty spectacular crashes this morning, but I didn’t get video of either of them. On the first crash, the plane started to spin out of control and then plunged nose first into the ground pretty hard. The final crash was on the other side of a hill, but it still made a loud THUD as it hit. The second crash happened when a hard turn was attempted with my plane. The wings buckled under the pressure and sent the plane spiraling straight down into the ground.
Since it was sitting on the table when I made the video about my Aerobird’s damage, I decided to talk a bit about the history of my Striker.