We are flying FPV Drone Racers since some time ago in our RC Club, Els Cards. Just edited this videoclip as a little abstract of our daily flights… We could not keep so spectacular images only for our eyes… Enjoy!
Read More »Unexpected helicopter
Eurocopter EC-135 EC-LAL of the SEM service, operated by TAF Helicopters landing, loading a patient and taking off from Vilanova i la Geltrú on 20/02/2016.
Read More »How to balance self locking propellers for drones
These are a pair of different method to properly balance self locking propellers for our drone: You can use a rounded pencil and/or the axis of a magnetic balancer but in vertical, whic is specially useful for 3 leaf propellers. Of course with limited precision, we are not the NASA laboratory ...
Read More »Iberia’s Boeing 747 cockpit
In my last visit to A Coruña I went to the Science Museum. There is the Iberia Hall, full of aviation items courtesy of Iberia airlines, from a an engine to the frontal section of the Boeing 747 Jumbo named “Lope de Vega”, completely accessible to the public. This is ...
Read More »Syma X8C Venture, cheap initiation drone
Few days ago I bought the drone Syma X8C Venture, very cheap, under 120€. It’s a good initiation drone, but it has a few problems. This is a typical indoor training flight, transitioning between two landing zones, flying it on all axes and speeds: But not everything is so beautiful, ...
Read More »First tandem parachute jump with Skydive Empuriabrava
Saturday, October 31st, 2015, my wife and me went to Empuriabrava aerodrome (LEAP), to accomplish one of my pending dreams: to jump in a parachute, a experience that she gave me a a wedding gift. I have some years flying in aeroobatic planes and gliders, always wearing a parachute on ...
Read More »Visit to La Senia Museum (Spanish Civil War)
Today, a group of aviation history fans related with Fundació Parc Aeronáutic de Catalunya (FPAC) have visited the museum in La Senia, where a former Legion Condor aerodrome in Spanish Civil War was established. Today the aerodrome does not exist but there are a lot of remains and there’s a ...
Read More »Flight in Vietnam Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner
Septiembre 15th, 2015, flight VN054 from Londres Heathrow to Hanoi Noi Bai in the Boeing 787-900 Dreamliner named VN-A861, exactly the same that starred the Paris Airshow 2015 with his “almost vertical takeoff”. Of course, without baggage, passengers and with few fuel, any plane can takeoff with a great pitch ...
Read More »Second Videospotting session at A Coruña airport
One evening, before taking my flight back home, I went for second time to do some videospotting in A Coruña airport (LECO), with Jose Luis Maquieira as a host. It was very interesting, recording a spectacular banking just after the Iberia’s A319 takeoff, our friend Aitor Duque (we have just ...
Read More »Videospotting session at A Coruña airport
Videospotting session from 04/10/2015 at A Coruña Alvedro airport (LECO).
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