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August 1st brought an absolutely perfect day for flying. Since I was only flying electrics today I figured I’d get up early and head to the field. What a day we were treated to. The air was still, the sky was blue with no signs of clouds and the temperature was warm but not humid. It was a perfect morning.

I managed to put in several great flights with the Trex 600 and tried out a few new things. I only managed to scare the crap out of myself twice. Doh!

I was also flying a Parkzone Extra 300. I continue to be impressed with how nicely these foam planes fly. This little plane groves along and tracks very nicely through all maneuvers. There’s some pitch to rudder coupling that I’ll need to mix out but no big deal really. I burned through 3 packs in short order. What a blast this plane is.

There were quite a few others out today including Ben, Ed, Brad and Jason, Marc and Mike to name a few. Ed brought along his new Eflite Extra 300 to maiden. This electric plane is almost as big as a 40 size glow plane. It looks great on the ground and when Ed got it in the air it didn’t disappoint. I didn’t fly it but it sure seemed to fly great and tracked like a much bigger plane.

Along with the planes and heli I brought my camera out to the field today to try out my new Satechi timer remote to do a little time lapse photography. I set the camera up on a tripod on top of the trailer, set the remote to fire a frame every 10 seconds and let it run for a couple hours. I used iMovie to convert all the still photos to a video and the results are below.

Leave a comment and let me know what you think.

Happy Landings

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