Treeline road on west side of Jones Pass with Tiger 800 XCx daemn42 2024-10-16 | Treeline road on west side of Jones Pass with Tiger 800 XCx
Spectacular Cliffs and Valleys in Utah - Proximity FPV daemn42 2022-11-28 | Diving down 1500ft cliffs, and into deep valleys and ripping through the flats and gulleys during a Utah road trip. Flown with a quad, and Reptile Dragon V2I flew the 3 fixed wing flights in the same day.
Uphill proximity valley run to a 2000ft climb up Pettingell Peak daemn42 2022-09-06 | 70mph Proximity run up the valley below Jones Pass, then a left turn and 2000ft climb straight up Pettingell Peak. Plane: Reptile Dragon V2 FPV gear: DJI HD FPV 25Mbps mode @1000mWCamera: Hero7 - Superview + Hypersmooth - Protune ISO 100, WB 5000K
Ever changing clouds blanket Jones Pass - Fixed Wing FPV daemn42 2022-08-11 | Cruising around and through the low level clouds forming *right* on the continental divide over Jones Pass. It's changing so fast, it never looks the same from one pass down the ridge to the next. It had rained to the east of the divide earlier in the day, and then the wind came up from the east blowing moisture back up toward the divide, the clouds started forming low on the east side, then warm wind pushed in from the west and caused a convergence zone where the clouds were forming, rising a few hundred feet, and disappearing in only a few dozen seconds. Flown with Reptile Dragon V2 w/ DJI HD FPV, and filmed with Hero7.
The Biggest Playground - Fixed Wing FPV at Jones Pass daemn42 2022-08-03 | Best viewed at 1440p. Cruising back and forth over the continental divide near Jones Pass and flying fast 2000ft down in the valley below with my Reptile Dragon V2. Flown with DJI HD FPV and filmed with GoPro Hero7.0:00 Cruising the continental divide3:12 Crossing to Pettingel Peak5:00 Diving 2000ft down into valley5:38 Valley Run between the trees7:16 Climbing out of the valley8:18 Proximity run home9:41 Down the East side10:38 climbing straight up mountain11:00 Messing around14:29 Approach to landing
Escaping the heat - Tarryall Road Highlights daemn42 2022-07-13 | Best viewed at 1440p. It was 100 degrees down in town this weekend, so I hopped on the motorcycle and escaped into the mountains. This is one of my favorites, Tarryall Rd, from St. George to Jefferson, CO up at about 9000ft. I like to ride, and fly my drone around some of this beautiful terrain. Riding into a rain storm felt really good as it was still in the mid 80's up here. The camera is a mounted low, so it appears a little faster than I was going, and I kept it down a gear to let this 3 cylinder motor on my Tiger 800xcx sing. I was experimenting with where to record the sound to catch the exhaust note, with less wind noise.
Late May Snow Day in Colorado - Fixed wing FPV all day daemn42 2022-05-23 | Best viewed at 1440p. A decent sized snow storm hit after the trees leafed out which caused over 1600 power outtages in the Denver metro area for 80k customers. Power was out at home for 12 hours, so I went flying, all day. 6 different locations, four of which are featured in this vid.Low level proximity over the snow and dark green vegetation. Flown with the Reptile Dragon V2Video: DJI HD FPV and Hero7
Fixed wing FPV fun at Swing Arm City (Caineville UT) daemn42 2022-05-14 | Having some fun riding the spines with my FPV plane. This is one of Ken Block's favorite OHV playgrounds, and I thought it would be fun to visit. I ripped around in my 4runner, flew my FPV quad, and plane. It was extremely windy.Yes, about 20 seconds of the video is sped up to cover some ground to match the length ofthe song. The run down the drainage was not sped up.
Extreme Swooping at Roan Cliffs daemn42 2022-05-04 | The Reptile Dragon V2 is as happy flying straight up as straight down, so I do.. a lot. Straight up and down the 600-800ft tall vertical Roan Cliffs near Rifle Colorado. People actually base jump off these cliffs. For all those of you who just stumbled on this vid in your feed. I don't know how it got there, but please enjoy. This is a fixed wing FPV aircraft. A small plane carrying DJI HD FPV video gear (which I pilot through), and a GoPro Hero7 to capture the footage you see here. The plane has two motors and enough power that it can climb straight up at about 50-60mph, and when I throttle back, it dive straight down at 60-70mph.One of the things it can do that an FPV quadcopter cannot is pitch down and move closer to the cliff. A quadcopter can fall straight down, but can't get closer to the cliff without first rolling rolling 180 degrees.With a plane I can push the nose down and get closer to the cliff, or follow its contours while flying knife edge across the face. I would liked to have flown even closer to the cliffs, but the wind was blowing 25-30mph up at about a 45 degree angle to the cliff there so it was pretty rough, and if I strayed even a few feet behind the lip the plane would get thrashed.
Morning flight over Moabs majestic terrain daemn42 2022-04-26 | Best viewed at 1440p. Early morning flight with my Reptile Dragon V2 cruising around near the Potash Ponds, Dead Horse Point and Thelma and Louis Point (also featured in the climax of Need for Speed movie). Dead Horse Point was also used in Westworld season 1 as the main base (train terminal and central processing facility). They just CGI composited big windows into the side of the cliff face.
Finally upped my dynamic soaring PB over 400mph with my 35lb D130! daemn42 2022-04-24 | Best viewed at 1440p. Finally got my 400+mph goal!I bought this big fat plane 7+ years ago specifically to up my PB over 400mph. It'd be easier with a thinner/higher aspect K130 or Transonic but I just can't see them very well. So I truck the D130 back and forth between Colorado and SoCal every couple years trying to land on week with wind big enough to pull it off, and this is the first time it's even been possible for this plane. Some years there's not enough wind to get it in the air (or land safely), and others I'm lucky if I get to fly it once. This day I flew it 5 times (self launched 3 of them) so the conditions were pretty good. I probably could have gone a few mph faster, if I'd stuck with it on this flight, but people splat planes when they keep pushing when the conditions just aren't giving it up.If you listen to the speeds in the background, Bruce called out 400 or 401 several times so it wasn't just a momentary fluke. There was someone on another gun just behind him, that got the 403mph reading you hear at the end. This vid is just snippets from about a 15 minute flight. I spent a lot of time churning in the 350-370 range.
Fixed Wing FPV Freestyle around a bridge daemn42 2022-03-20 | Best viewed at 1440p. Tempting fate with the Dragon V2 buzzing around a concrete and steel bridge at 50-60mph.
Mountain Climbing daemn42 2022-03-14 | Best viewed at 1440p. Just cruising straight up the mountain with the Dragon V2. It's fun having unlimited vertical. You can really see how steep the climb was when I turn around at the bottom of the first run and look back. I started at tree-top level and flew straight up the face of the rocks at almost 45 degree angle.And yes, I have flown behind/below the big thumb. It blanks the video out completely for about 2 seconds, which is pretty scary.
Shadow chasing with the Dragon V2 (full res) daemn42 2022-03-01 | Best viewed at 1440p.Bunch of low level cruising with the Reptile Dragon V2, on a nice sunny, mostly calm day, with my new high-iterm iNav Profile 2 settings.I'm really liking this plane. Easiest launching plane I've ever had (point any direction, engage acro, throttle up and throw), is stable, forgiving, reasonably quick, and can land on a dime almost anywhere.
Dakota Hogback proximity run with the Dragon V2 daemn42 2022-01-30 | Best viewed at 1440p.Just a nice mellow proximity flight up and down a segment of the Dakota Hogback with the Reptile Dragon V2. The wide angle lens flattens it out a bit, but that climb at 3:27 is extremely steep. I've overpowered this plane to the point that it can climb straight up, if needed. More of that later this year. Flown with DJI HD FPV video and TBS Crossfire RC. Filmed with Hero7 - Superview + Hypersmooth, Protune On - min/max ISO 100, WB 5000K, GoPro Color. Absolutely zero post processing.
COFPV - All Downhill From Here - A Day on Red Mountain daemn42 2022-01-22 | Best viewed at 1440p on a PC. @COFPV doing some epic chase flights of my DC5 up and down Red Mountain. No margin for error as going down most places on this mountain would be unrecoverable. I was flying my trust iFlight DC5 and he was flying his XL7 and XL5, all DJI HD FPV equipped, running at 50Mbps. Having and HD view is what makes it possible to fly this low in the trees. For those interested, here's the goggles DVR for one of the tree slot runs. youtube.com/watch?v=2HJimfUcUTc#COFPV
Tonga Volcano - Full GOES Satellite timelapse animation from Jan 14-18 daemn42 2022-01-18 | Shows a timelapse animation starting Friday Jan 14, the day before the big eruption extending to Jan 18th well after the eruption. Tonga's main island will sometimes show as a little white blob around coordinates S21.2 W175.2 and the eruption is just above and to the left of that. On Friday 14th can see there is an ongoing earlier eruption spewing ash clouds over the whole area to the ENE. This is the eruption you'll see in some videos claiming to be from navy or research ships and it is responsible for destroying the center of the two islands joined back in 2014-2015 eruption. To be clear, this is the day before the big eruption. By Saturday 00:00 UTC that ash cloud has dissipated entirely and the skies are clear, and the volcano is visibly quiet.Near 04:00UTC it starts with another medium sized eruption that spews another big ash cloud out for about 35-40 minutes, spreading it fast enough to appear over Tonga 40 miles away. Between 04:30 and 4:40 there are two larger explosions, then a couple minutes later the big KABOOM that put a shockwave all the way around the globe. The audio from Tonga itself indicated a bang, then another bang a few seconds later, then a couple minute pause, then some rumbling, more rumbling, and then a big KABOOOM.Animation created by the GOES 8 West viewer, but because you can only stretch the start time, and it always extends until *now*, the further we are from the date the harder it has to work to create the animation. Wait a couple more days and it'll just blow up trying to create the animation.
3 Safer / Easier methods to open GoPro Hero 9 / 10 door daemn42 2021-12-12 | Anyone who owns a Hero 9 or 10 has generally feared for their thumbnail at least once while trying to open the door against its heavy spring loaded catch. It takes several pounds of pressure to open it. I present three easier and safer ways to open the door. Please let me know in the comments below if you find this useful. Thanks.And yes, I get that is not my normal FPV content, but I do post vids on other topics from time to time. If you don't understand why I did this one, put your hands on a Hero9 or 10 and try to open the door. You'll understand.
Terrain Following w/ Repile Dragon V2 and A3 Super 3 stabilizer daemn42 2021-12-05 | Best viewed at 1440p. Tearing it up at full throttle at the usual spot with the Reptile Dragon V2 cross tail. I have a hybrid setup with an F7 flight controller with iNav to give me an OSD and RTH, with a full sbus pass through (thus the need for F7 instead of F4) to a Hobbyeagle A3 Super 3 stabilizer for the Acro equiv mode (what it calls Attitude Lock + Rotation Rate). It is extremely locked in and can handle bumpy conditions 10x better than iNav. I like it a lot, and it would take a rewrite of iNav's inner loop to even come close. The Dragon V2 is not slippery or super fast (it was doing 55-70mph at 20-25A for most of the flight) but because it's so stable and practically unstallable at high angles of attack, I can fly it very low, and turn hard wherever/whenever I want so it feels pretty fast. It's also very quiet so I'm not bothering other people too much.Powetrain is stock PNP Dragon V2 with 7x5x3 multirotor props and 4S 4000mAh pack.This day I flew 3300mAh, 4000mAh and a 4S2P 7000mAh LiIon Pack. I'm sure it would work fine with a 5000mAh pack, but not climb as fast. Video is DJI HD FPV with full sized AU at 1000mW and 25Mbps.. I love 50Mbps mode, but 25Mbps has better penetration and overall stability when flying low and NLOS (which I do a lot of in this vid).
Foamy DSing Jones Pass 2021 daemn42 2021-10-04 | Best viewed at 1440p setting, and crank up the volume. Few laps with friends on two different days at Jones Pass.
Eerie sounding dust devil at 12,400ft on Jones Pass daemn42 2021-09-27 | I heard this coming for about a minute before I could see anything. It was nearly dead quiet where I was, but I heard this eerie whooshing and paper tearing sound from up the ridge. Eventually started recording video, but still couldn't see anything for about 10 more seconds (I think it was crossing over grass and/or bare rocks), then finally saw this tight little devil work down the slope, across the road. It actually continued on for a bit past the truck at the end for another 20 seconds or so without lifting any dust and then petered out.Just prior to this I had been flying my sailplane on the west side of the ridge, and immediately after this, the wind switched to coming from the east side, and continued on the rest of the afternoon.
Old Quarry Ridge Runs daemn42 2021-09-13 | Best viewed at 1440p for highest bitrate. I sometimes like to stop beside the highway and fly this 100 year old quarry.This ridge has an interesting history. It's part of the Laramie Formation which contains sub-bituminous coal. In addition to quarrying rock and clay the first coal mine was near the surface at the south end of this ridge, where this layer is tipped up vertically. Then the nearby Leyden Coal Mine went straight down into the deeper horizontal strata and supplied 6 million tons of coal to Denver for 50 years.
Fallin - Bike-n-fly daemn42 2021-03-14 | Best viewed at 1440p setting. I really like to throw my quad in the tail bag of my motorcycle, go ride some twisty or dirt road, and find find some fun cliffs to bomb the quad down. Here are a few of my favorite cliffs from 2020. Flown on my trusty DJI HD FPV equipped iFlight DC5 V1.Filmed with Hero7 + HypersmoothAnd yes, did something different with the music. Wanted a tighter edit, and this pop song forced that.Song: Fallin' (Adrenaline) by Why Don't We
AR Wing Pro at the Stomping Grounds daemn42 2021-03-08 | Best viewed at 1440p.Just buzzing around low at the old stomping grounds with my DJI FPV equipped AR Wing Pro.Recent changes are an 8x6 prop, and some really crazy iNav settings (Iterm windup limit maxed out, I-term itself set at 50, with FF at zero) to handle windy conditions better. In the end I suspect I'm going to have to rewrite iNav's core stabilization loop to make it work more like Vector.
2020 Fall Colors - Bike-n-Fly daemn42 2020-10-08 | Best viewed at 1440p.Cruising on the motorcycle checking out the fall colors. We had an early snow so some of the trees popped off a bit early and some still waited, so not our best year but still nice to get out of the house into nature. This is first in a Bike-n-fly series (technically the meadow flight was also from my bike).Will post some cliff diving, mountain bombing and big meadow runs.
Sunset at the Big Meadow daemn42 2020-07-04 | Best viewed at 1440p even on 1080p display (especially this one)Some low level cruising over a big beautiful grassy meadow at sunset.
COFPV - 2020 Hartsel - Fixed wing chases daemn42 2020-06-29 | Best viewed at 1440p for highest quality. COFPV 2020 Hartsel meet had a lot of decent, not too windy air to fly in, and we did a fair number of fun fixed wing formation flights. This footage courtesy myself, Justin, Jeff and Paul featuring aircraft from myself, Justin, Jeff, Paul, Stephen and Mike. Fixed wing aircraft featured are Skyhunter2x Chimera2x Mini DrakE-flight Opterra.. (I think)Sonicmodell AR Wing (RMRC Recruit V2)Here's Justin's cut featuring quads and motorcycles tooyoutube.com/watch?v=-nmYiVY6dPs#fpv #cofpv #fpv #cofpv
Saying hi and showing off a bit daemn42 2020-06-15 | Best viewed at 1440p for highest bitrate. Was out motorcycling and flying this afternoon, and struck up a conversation with this nice group of people about my quad, so I showed em what it could do. Gave em my YT channel and they said they'd comment if I posted.
Chasing trains with DJI equipped Recruit V2 (AR Wing) daemn42 2020-06-01 | Best viewed at 1440p. Just chasing some trains out in the plains with the RMRC Recruit V2.It bobs around in the wind quite a lot but Hero7 Hypersmooth cleans it up.This video is straight out of the camera running 2.7K@30fps Superview+Hypersmooth, Protune On with WB fixed at 5000K (daylight) and ISO MIN/MAX both set to 100. A couple short clips were shot from my quad. The rest are the wing.
An afternoon shooting avalanche chutes daemn42 2020-05-24 | Best viewed at 1440p. Spent an afternoon flying up and down various avalanche chutes with my DJI equipped iFlight DC5. It's feeling pretty dialed in now and Hero7's Hypersmooth makes it pretty much perfect despite the fact that it was blowing 15+mph at launch, and more up high, all afternoon in the mountains. I just wish I could sort out my 7incher so I could make more than one trip up and down per flight, and/or reach out further. The HD feed really does allow me to fly so much lower and faster. There are so many little bare trees sticking up in the middle of these chutes (the avalanches knock most over, but leave some standing bare) and I would never be able to see them with analog.
A Grand Tour daemn42 2020-03-17 | Best viewed at 1440p.A nice low smooth proximity flight covering some familiar and not so familiar terrain. Flown with an iFlight DC5 4S setup on a 5S pack with DJI FPV air unit and R9M Lite Pro and R9MM OTA.
Skimming Florida Waves - w/ Caddx Vista daemn42 2020-02-21 | Best viewed at 1440p. Got out to the beach on a recent Florida trip and flew the Beta95x with Caddx Vista. This video is from 720p@60fps ground recordings (4:3 aspect converted to Superview). Unfortunately there wasn't any sun all week, but still fun flying low over the ocean.It's a bit bumpy because it was quite windy (10+mph) but not bad for a 165g quad.
Relentlessly Forward daemn42 2019-12-18 | Best viewed at 1440p setting. Pushing my DJI Digital FPV equipped quad hard through the forest.It is so liberating to have a video link that lets me see every little ghost branch, bare branch, and even tall blades of grass. There are parts of this flight that are below LOS (blocked by solid ground) and I can just keep pushing forward.DVR recording of the flight hereyoutube.com/watch?v=nONxfl0r4So
Two Days on the Big Ridge daemn42 2019-11-28 | Best viewed at 1440p even if on 1080p display.Cruising over the tallest part of the Dakota Hogback before and after the big Colorado snow storm.
Cruising with GEPRC Crocodile 7 Pro on 6S daemn42 2019-11-05 | As always, best viewed at 1440p for max detail even on 1080p displayBeen wanting to pick up a larger, GPS equipped, possibly long range quad for a while. Something that'll comfortably carry the Hero7 and/or maybe digital FPV gear. Giving the GEPRC Crocodile 7 Pro a try. Here I'm putting it through its paces in my usual stomping grounds. Like most larger quads it gets bumped around by the wind a bit more, but Hero7's Hypersmooth takes care of that. Hope to be able to do some mountain bombing with it. I flew it with some 4-5S packs in the 1500-2300mAh range, and it just felt a bit limited. 3300mAh 4S felt heavy and a bit mushy. Here I'm running Turnigy 6S 3300mAh 30-40C packs and it feels very good. Solid, fast, but with enough punch to do a little mild acro and to pull out of a dive or long drop with authority.
One of the best twisty roads Ive ever ridden daemn42 2019-10-21 | NF-30 / Meadow Creek Rd / Wind River Rd about 30 miles north of Stephenson WA.(Best viewed at 1440p for max detail, even on 1080p display)It's only about a 6 mile long stretch, but it's smooth and fast, with relentless banked turns. Definitely in my top 10. My dad and I were returning from the north end of the WABDR, and came down from Packwood via NFD-25 (w/ detour to Mt. St. Helens), NF-90, Curly Creek Rd, and then NF-30 when we came upon this road. We passed a couple sport bike riders pulled off at the top of Oldman Pass talking to each other in "twisty" hand gestures. We were moving along at a good clip and I suspected they might follow us down the hill. Sure enough, a couple minutes later my dad says "those bikers caught me up, I'm going to let em pass". He did, and then I picked up the pace a bit. Fun was had by all. The 2nd biker gave me a thumbs up as he passed at the bottom. Anyway, it's a fun and memorable road, and would be even more fun not loaded down with heavy Panniers. Bike: Triumph Tiger 800 XCx Tires: Motoz Tractionator GPS (barely WABDR capable offroad, surprisingly great onroad)
Tips and Tricks for editing 360 FPV footage with Insta360 Studio for One X daemn42 2019-10-14 | Some things I learned while editing 360 fixed wing FPV footage. It's much faster to edit and render from Insta360 studio than it is to use the Insta360 Premiere plugin, but there are some serious limitations. Here I try to streamline the process as much as possible. Don't think of this as a video editor, but simply a tool to create a bunch of video clips which you can bring into a traditional non-linear editor.
Low Flow in the Green Gully daemn42 2019-10-14 | A nice flowy little flight in a little green gully off the side of the road.(Note: Best viewed at 1440p)Can you spot the baby deer?
Clouds Forming Below daemn42 2019-08-19 | Flying through clouds forming on the west face of Jones Pass after it had rained much of the day. It was also pretty windy so they were moving fast up the face and dissipating on the back. Earlier the whole ridge had been completely socked in on both sides.
COFPV - Looking back at the 2019 Hartsel FPV Meet with the Insta360 One X daemn42 2019-07-03 | (Best viewed at 1440p@60fps for maximum detail, if your machine can handle it.)And check out Ezikiel121212's take youtube.com/watch?v=3Uq4CughSk8I almost always end up being the lead plane in formation/chase flights (high vis plane, and consistently low flying) so I threw an Insta360 One X on the plane so I could follow the action behind me. We had a lot of good formation flying this year so I caught some fun stuff. Also had less windy than average conditions so we got to play in among the trees a lot more. Forward looking formation footage provided by Zangetsu57 from a wing, and Mini Drak.I'm looking back at Goblin, Drak, Mini-Drak, Chimera and a couple other wings. The plane carrying the Insta360 One X is another one-off prototype from the designer of the Graugans/Goblin/Nano-Goblin, called the Edelweiss. 75 inch wing span, and has flaps to slow down (although it really doesn't like to fly slow at the 9000ft elevation of this event). I'm generally pretty impressed with the Insta360 One X's stitching ability. I had it oriented sideways for low drag so the chase planes are flying at the very edge of the FoV of each lens and back and forth through the stitch line all the time, and *most* of the time you can't see it. Calibrating in the Insta360 Studio for One X application helps a lot and is worth doing multiple times until the stitch line disappears. #fpv #cofpv
COFPV - Graugans v. Chimera v. Skyhunter daemn42 2019-05-13 | Being chased by and chasing ezikiel121212's newly refurbished Chimera. It's a little better match for the Graugans (slipperier than the Drak) and I've got enough battery capacity in the Skyhunter to hang with it. Best viewed at 1440p for highest detail on any display. See Ezkkiel's uncut version of the Graugan's flight here. youtube.com/watch?v=nh3De72H2kc&t=1sHe's much better at chasing than I am. BTW, the real star of this video is the GoPro Hero7 and Hypersmooth. Both of us were shooting at 2.7K Superview with Hypersmooth, and we did zero stabilization in post. We had 15-20mph of wind for both flights, and you can see the lead plane getting kicked around a lot (chase plane just as much), but the video is silky smooth.Hypersmooth is what the fixed wing FPV community needed years ago. It allows us to make decent looking videos in not ideal flying conditions (which describes Colorado weather most of the time). #fpv #cofpv
Water and Desert daemn42 2019-05-11 | A few clips from my recent SoCal trip. Some familiar places, some new.See my 369mph PB video youtube.com/watch?v=dtzdNPxSOHoto understand why we're out flying in the desert.
A few of my favorite turns (different camera position and audio) daemn42 2019-05-08 | Best viewed at 1440p for higher bitrate providing more detail.I really enjoy this particular set of long sweeping turns. Recorded on Hero7 with Superview and Hypersmooth at 2.7K@30fps. Instead of mounting camera to my helmet, I've got it mounted low on the bike so you get to see how much I'm actually leaning over in the turns, and it also gives a higher sensation of speed (I'm not going as fast as it looks). I also used the sound recorder on my phone to capture audio from near the exhaust, and combined its mid/low frequencies with the GoPro's high frequencies. I need to sort out a more permanent audio solution before summer adventure rides. Also here's a vid on the 2nd channel showing what it looks like off pavement on a bumpy dirt road with more of the tire in viewyoutube.com/watch?v=KlyEdSBTQmgAnd for those wondering, yes there will be some more COFPV fixed wing content coming this summer, either here or ezikiel's channel or both.
Big waterfalls in slow motion on the lower Kern River (bonus kayaker) daemn42 2019-04-30 | Was out flying my quad low over the river and then got distracted filming these waterfalls in slow motion (120fps) from the water's edge. The raw power of the water moving through this place has to be experienced up close to fully appreciate, but here's a little visual and auditory taste. Video is slowed to 1/4 speed, but audio is original 1x. Filmed with Galaxy S7.
My new 369mph PB on Dynamic 130 at 2019 DS Fest daemn42 2019-04-19 | I've owned this 40+lb, 130 inch plane over 3 years and I've never had enough wind to fly (more specifically land) it. Was waiting for average of 35 gusting over 40 and finally got it. On my first flight I went 367 and this my second flight, 369 (radar gun just out earshot), both new personal bests for me. The plane launches easily with some camber and was stable and fast in the groove and most importantly to me, is very easy to see everywhere in the circuit at all orientations. It slows down for landing OK, but will drop the last foot if the ground speed drops to zero, and the bounce isn't good for it, so figure I need to slide it in a bit more. Video recorded with Hero 7 at 2.7K@30fps Linear FoV, stabilization on, and cropped further in post. Audio from Zoom H2 recorder with dead cat windscreen, and compressor applied in post, to pick up a bit more of the plane on the far side of the circuit.
Tearing up a Big Cliff daemn42 2019-04-08 | (Note: if at all possible watch this at 1440p resolution, even on a 1080p display, for much higher bitrate)It's a long twisty motorcycle ride to this location so had some fun getting here. Last time I flew here it was very windy, and my GoPro Session had conked out, so had nothing but DVR footage. Today the wind was light, the sun was out, but slightly diffuse lighting up the crags and cracks, and the quad was flying great on 5S. Made 2 flights on 4S, and 2 on 5S, and this is the best of the bunch.
Wall Ride daemn42 2019-04-01 | Having some fun on a big long vertical wall at an old quarry, running 5S for some extra speed. The light was a little flat after sunset, but it allows us to see down into the deep cuts in the middle of the ridge.(Best viewed at 1440p for increased bitrate)
Low Snow Flow daemn42 2019-03-04 | Note: As always, best viewed at 1440p for maximum bitrate. Arctic cold (11 degrees F or -11.6 C) and snow in the air, but I really needed to get out and fly. It's cold enough that snow doesn't stick to the camera lenses or electronics so just had some fun cruising around with the quad.
Beautiful upslope timelapse at Zion daemn42 2019-02-18 | Caught this timelapse spanning about an hour while flying my wing with the paragliders and hang gliders at Mt. Zion.Prevailing upper level winds are from the west over the mountains with low level easterly wind causing upslope lift along the foothills. It started snowing about a half hour after the end of this timelapse.
Ups and Downs daemn42 2019-01-20 | Tried to take my quad most places I traveled this year (all but 3 of the locations were while touring on my motorcycle), and when I saw vertical terrain, I flew it. Here are some of the highlights. Locations"Big Mesa", between Delta and Hotchkiss COSquaw Pass Rd, COHighway 133 near Redstone, COHighway 14 near Grangeville, IDPoint of the Mountain, Sandy, UTCliffs near Helper, UTSunlight Bridge, WYCliffs on far side of Burnt Fork Reservoir, MTQuarry off Lost Horse Rd, MTNarrow canyon off Highway 14 near Cody, WYSkalkaho Falls, MTLeyden Ridge, CO
