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Hello

with 2 friends, we start to plan the project "fpv flight across the rio de la plata" is the most wide of the world... about 50km

the idea was take of from, Argentina, in some place near "ensenada" and land in Uruguay in "colonia del sacramento"

This project takes a long time planning, making test, and lot of diferent set up. AND LOT of time waiting for the exact weather winds and river conditions..

finnally we get a glider, with 2600mm wingspan, who can fly almost 2 hs, non stop...

Floght resume:

Total distance : 43 km
flight time : 73 minutos
average speed : 35 km/h
Motor consumption : 2932 mA ( from 4400 avaiable )
average consumption : 2,4 A
Video consumption : 777 mA ( from 1000 avaiable )

Gear :
Tx video : 1,2 ghz 800 mw
Rx Video : 1,2 ghz 12 canales
Antena Tx y Rx : Omni
Plane : Glider fusselage , own desing wing 2,6 mts wingspan.
Motor : EMMAX 1050 KV
Prop : Gws 10 x 4
ESC : generic 18 A.
Lipo Motor : 2 x Turnigy 3s 2200 mAh 25 c
Lipo Video : Turnygy 3s 1000 mAh 25c.
Gps : 10 hz
Osd : Simple Osd Flitron.
receiver : GWS 8 chanels PPM
Radio transmitter : Futaba 9 CAP


the video!


SOME TROUBLES in the OSD, let it out of combat and the midle of the flight... but we still go ahead...

some pics

The team:


theese are the MIGRATION documents, needed to get out from argentina and enter Uruguay. and also the evidence! jeje

The place



The boat... to chase the plane



The plane, and the team in COLONIA URUGUAY




Here is the .KMZ ARCHIVE FROM THE boat GPS.
KMZ BOAT

the weather





THA LANDING PLACE




It was a really nice project, a real chalenge...
but the best thing is to share projects and time with friends..

any question! please ask

Best regards

Nando_FPV

Congratulations to all of you! nice flight!

Wow, what a nice report!
I am going to check back later, because i can't watch vimeo videos on my smartphone...

Best regards
Heiko

very, very cool.

Yeah, finaly I've watched the video!
Very cool cut, guys!

Fernando, are you the Fernando I talked with on french FPV-Meeting?

Best regards
Heiko

Los piratas han estadounidense de rock and roll y el UAV también! Good video

(08-27-2010 09:40 PM)Grandcaravan Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah, finaly I've watched the video!
Very cool cut, guys!

Fernando, are you the Fernando I talked with on french FPV-Meeting?

Best regards
Heiko

Heiko

No, I´m not theese Fernando, I´m from argentina....

I hope some day go to FPV-COMUNNITY MEETINGS....

best

Fernando

Ahh ok, thanks for this information

The Fernando in France was from Argentina, too (if i remember right )... or Spain?

Best regards
Heiko