Post your Blade 400 vids here!

[Jasmine2501]

Happy Holidays video, if you haven't seen it

Hope everyone is having a good holiday break!

Blade 400 Christmas Flight (4 min 15 sec)

[Slyster]

I saw one earlier tonight!.. beautiful heli, beautiful flying, beautiful music. A very good video.

[hoverpunk]

i figured i would post my favorite aerial vids from 2008 here in the official blade400 vids thread...! can't wait to get back in the air this weekend. been too long...

the beach and waves


flying in suburbia


under the train bridge


silverado canyon run (from chase truck)

[BennyTRD]

Very cool hoverpunk.

[Blade~400~er]

finally got around to figuring out how to make videos from my real flight recordings.

[Slyster]

How did you do that? Fraps?

And Hoverpunk!.. Ive missed your videos... what are you up to now? more vids in the pipe?

[Blade~400~er]

Originally Posted by Slyster

How did you do that? Fraps?

And Hoverpunk!.. Ive missed your videos... what are you up to now? more vids in the pipe?

yea you run fraps in the background, using F9 as a hotkey to start and stop recording......then i take my movie editor, clean it up and then convert it to a wmv file s i can uplaod it.....the conversion process kinds steps on the quality of the vid but its good enough IMO...theres only on catch hte trial version of fraps will only allow you to record for 30secs so i just sprang for the $37 dollar liscence...i think its worth it for purposes of instruction if nothing elese....

[Jasmine2501]

Originally Posted by Blade~400~er

yea you run fraps in the background, using F9 as a hotkey to start and stop recording......then i take my movie editor, clean it up and then convert it to a wmv file s i can uplaod it.....the conversion process kinds steps on the quality of the vid but its good enough IMO...theres only on catch hte trial version of fraps will only allow you to record for 30secs so i just sprang for the $37 dollar liscence...i think its worth it for purposes of instruction if nothing elese....

Yay

Paying for software is a good thing! Not paying for it is a huge problem: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001201.html

[Blade~400~er]

Originally Posted by Jasmine2501

Yay

Paying for software is a good thing! Not paying for it is a huge problem: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001201.html

yea i kinda had to here, 37 bucks for a lifetime liscence is worth it when i can now make endless videos in real flight...

[twistedgrim]

Stock Servo Failure! Happened on the 1st of january when murf and I needed our flight fix, mind you this is the end of the first flight after I get my motor fixed after the bottom bearing falling apart. Eflite just sent me a new motor. Doesnt deserve its own post but still fun.
GO MURF! see his plank video too!

[sokal]

Originally Posted by twistedgrim

Stock Servo Failure Happened on the 1st Doesnt deserve its own post but still fun.
GO MURF!

nice save bro
im sure a change of pants were in order

but very nice EMERGENCY RECOVERY PROCEDURE

[twistedgrim]

yea the right aileron servo completly crapped out.. was really amazing I got it back. you can see in the air where it sabilized then I try to jocky the cyclic around to no avil and end up torquing it around.. I figured out real fast how to get it down and was really excited jumping around there wasnt a scratch on it bar skids and tail blades.. main blades were perfect and no boom strike. HS65MGs on the way. I would like DS287 but gonna go cheaper for now.

[Jasmine2501]

That was a seriously nice save! I think you're ready for anything if you can do that

[James Kovach]

Little video I took this weekend. I forgot to check the camera settings, so it did not turn out that well. So I put the uncompressed version up for download as well if anyone is interested.



http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?pnb4zdb221g

[BennyTRD]

Originally Posted by sparx-

Little video I took this weekend. I forgot to check the camera settings, so it did not turn out that well. So I put the uncompressed version up for download as well if anyone is interested.


http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?pnb4zdb221g

Nice flying. Explain your setup again. I know from previous discussion that you run the CC35 with the 420. What pinion are you using? Maybe its just the video, but your headspeed sounds up there.

[James Kovach]

Not running stock stuff anymore. I had a scorpion motor doing nothing so I put it in there.

B400
Scorpion 2216-12 motor
Scorpion 45amp 6cell ESC
401/9257 on the tail
HXT 9gram servos

Headspeed is governed at 2900 in that video

[Slyster]

Nice flying... that thing is screamin'!

[James Kovach]

Not really. 2900 RPM is not Screaming IMHO . I tached it to make sure it was less then 3000 RPM.

[Slyster]

Here are some nervous nose in (upright) funnel attempts in the gym a couple days ago. After flying I shot the intro.. look how much I am shaking.. So used to wide open spaces.. this gym flying is really helping me improve my closer in precise control... getting more used to indoors as I go.

A little T-Rex450 hovering at 90% idle up at the end... and way at the end a little of Towpilots Compy FP. Towpilot.. do you want me to edit all your flying into a movie? I hope this is the right movie.. can't check at work.. youtube is filtered out..

Nervous nose in gym funnels (5 min 29 sec)

[Blade~400~er]

Been at it Again in Real Flight.....This one turned out really good IMO...mainly becasue youtube finally let me sneak a descent song throguh!...

F'In YOUTUBE GESTAPO!!!!!!!!...they caught up with me again! (face in hands)

good thing i remeberd to double upload to vimeo!!!...suckers..lol....just hate waiting in the processing line....