Here is an interesting new episode of Flite Test that compares Nano-Tech lipos with Thunder Power. I have flown both and have yet to have either battery go bad on me. Let me know what you think of either brand of battery or comments on this test.

Today I went out and did some tuning on my heavy lift quad powered by the OpenPilot CopterControl flight board. I was using a bluetooth module to tune the settings from a netbook computer. Much better than constantly plugging in USB to tweak settings! I got it...

Until now, I have been flying Spektre with low-cost motors and a 3-cell lipo. Now I am ready for some serious camera lifting and FPV flying. Spektre has been rebuilt with Cobra 2814/20 850kV motors, Proton 30A ESCs, 11×5 Graupner props and 4S batteries. The...

This is not my octocopter or my video. I saw this post on Engadget and thought it was worth re-posting here. I have been building my heavy lift hexa Leviathan, which I plan to fly a high end video camera on. It won’t be the $43,000 RED Epic but perhaps it’s...

A friend has made some adapters for extending the lens on the waterproof cases. This allows you to use the original GoPro cases with a camera that has been modified with the Sunex lens. I personally like to use the cases even if not going near water as it protects...

Here is Mantra flying some aerobatics using the Openpilot Coptercontrol flight board. Love it!

I tried the Kapteinkuk & Multiwii flight controllers on my micro quad “SK!TR”, I never could get either to fly as well as I had hoped. Since then I have put an Openpilot Coptercontrol on it and have it flying amazing. The small flight board is perfect...

I have been planning and sourcing the parts for a heavy lift hexacopter for some time now. Finally, it is becoming a reality. This hexacopter will be used exclusively for aerial photography and video.