To the FliteTest Community;
Hello MESA rcFoam Fighters, this episode features our latest additions to the MESArcFF program. Volunteer Chris Miller has offered his skills to help students will builds and flying as well as assisting in the overall production of the MESArcFF program. In order to be admitted he had to earn his stripes by proving to the students that he can one scratch build, and two be able to fly the build with fidelity. Watch and see if Miller earns his stripes.
We also showed off our latest creation which the students plan to use for their Multirotor FPV presentation to the Thompson Education Foundation Board come March. The project is coming along very nice and the students plan to create PDF plans for public use.
For more information please visit us at: www.mesarcfoamfighters.com
Thanks for the support,
MESArcFF Team
Killing Time, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Our latest Multirotor Project, we will have an episode on this awesome build in the future. The students are moving away from Tricopters and venturing into quads. This particular design was created to be a trainer, hence the oversized bumpers surrounding the motors. The gopro will be fastened at the front of the aircraft for FPV flight training too. If this design works, the students will then make adjustments and have this as PDF plans for public download and use.
Our Tricopter design is very similar to that of the FT Batbone series. It proved to be decent, however, proved to very fragile for middle school students and slightly unstable. We are hoping the quad will bring us better luck. Great learning experience though, students have learned a lot about multitrotors, especially how they work and using the KK2 board. This prepared us for creating something like the aircraft in the above picture.
Another project we are working on is a collaboration deal with Senior Scott Bragg over at the local high school. He is creating an FPV glider for one his science classes. He asked to use us and our creative body to design and create a fuselage for his aircraft. Stay tune for this episode in the future. Below is prototype 1.
Prototype 2
Prototype 3
We have been blessed with a volunteer named Chris Miller. Web developer by day, hardcore rc scratch builder by night. Has offered his services in helping out the program during Monday and Friday build and fly days for the MESArcFF team. In order to gain the attention and respect from the students, Chris had to create and fly a plane. As you can see in the following pictures, Miller earned his stripes and is a solid asset to the program.
Close up of his Russian build.
Chris brings a different approach to flying, which has interested some of the newbies of the group, pinching the sticks to fly!
The plane flew amazing, very fast!
Nice landing Chris!
The students gather around to hear Chris talk about his plane, the equipment used and to celebrate his success.
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Surgeons hold their knifes with 3 fingers. one on each side, and the last one on top to give stability and a better feel for exactly where the knife is.
I can run with much lower expo and higher throws when i pinch instead of thumb. Ofcourse if you have learnt rc using thumbs its going to be hard to relearn. So one should start pinching from the start.
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