rbort
12-29-2006, 08:22 PM
Thanks to Jeff Judson who took videos that day and recently made them available to view online, here is one of my Spectra doing a casual flight around the sky.
http://www.heliraptor.com/viewtopic.php?t=904
Enjoy!
-=>Raja.
rbort
12-29-2006, 08:23 PM
Here are some highlights:
Starts off with the usual loops/rolls, scallops (pull nose up into vertical, slide down tail first and pull back up into nose down vertical, repeat.)
At around 3 minutes, I particularly liked the filming of the inverted pirouette at the top of a manuever.
That was followed by 4 point and 8 point flips.
At around 4 minutes, piro flight around the field followed by the backwards 8's.
At 5 minutes I did the tail down funnel.
Around 6.5 minutes into it, I flip to 1750 rpms from 1650. Rotor looks almost stopped. Fly fast and show some speed!
At 7 minutes we got a nose down funnel followed by a staggered roll which is not very visible on the video. Basically I burp the aileron and the heli does what loops like an 8 point roll.
At 8 minutes back to 1650 rpms and go into inverted flight.
Around 9 minutes I do a piro flip from inverted to upright. I can do those well, I have to work on doing it from upright to inverted -- those are not so good and after that I suppose I can do a kaos.
At 10 minutes I'm working on some backwards loops. Was looking for a backwards roll in there but I didn't do them in this video.
At around 10 1/2 minutes, sideways flight around the field.
Someone takes off while I'm doing this and a few seconds later around 11 minutes you hear the crash and the blades go flying. A little distraction as I noticed one of the blades coming towards me and land about 50 feet away...
At around 11 1/2 minutes, the sideways loops look really nice and round.
Next after that I do an inverted hover for the camera and then I'm off to 300 feet for the auto finale. Not my best auto landing but not bad.
-=>Raja.