Another video with more winter flying. This time with a few different airplanes. Me and a couple of friends flying at my local RC club: FK Gamen. It is actually pretty uncommon that we have this much snow here where I live. Usually, it just comes a few centimeters of snow that melts away the next day. But this time the weather was perfect. Lots of snow, low winds and sunny.

I found it interesting to experiment with different ski-designs. The planes with smaller skis struggle to stay on top of the soft snow. In the latter part of the video I have made new longer skis for my plane that work better in the soft snow.

Made a set of skis for the Bush Beast 3. This video shows the first few testflights with them.

The skis are made out of 1.5 mm plywood and covered with Oracover on the underside for low friction. I piece of 1 mm piano wire is bent around the main landing gear and makes sure the skis are oriented the right way.

I got myself two new airplanes this summer at an RC plane auction that was organized at my local RC flying club FK Gamen.

The first one is a J3 Cub ARF model by Thunder Tiger with a wingspan of about 2.2 meters. The model came with a 4-stroke nitro engine that I have replaced with an electric power system. I will make a new landing gear with suspension and fix the motor cowling. I will probably add some kind of gyro stabilization also, this plane is surprisingly unstable in windy conditions.

The second plane is a Flair Magnatilla. The wingspan is about 1.6 meters. This is my first airplane with a nitro engine. A 4-stroke Saito. I will probably add a steerable tailwheel and make a few other adjustments over the winter.

Bush Beast 3 is an RC bush plane that I have designed and built during this winter. The plane is built using balsa wood and covered with Oracover. The design of this airplane a combination of Trent Palmer’s Kitfox, the Pilatus Porter, and various Cub planes.

I have made a custom electronics system on this plane. A Teensy 3.2 microcontroller reads the S-bus signal from the RC receiver and controls all the servos, it also applies 3 axis gyro stabilization and manages all servo mixing and a custom lighting system. More about that in a future video.

Some videos I shot while visiting the airshow “Försvarsmaktens Huvudflygdag 2016”.

Part 1/3:
Ö1 Tummelisa
Hughes 269
Bell 206
SK 50, Saab 91 Safir
SK 60, Saab 105
Breitling Wingwalkers, stearman
J26 Mustang

Part 2/3: 
Viggen
JAS 39 Gripen
F-16AM
F/A-18

Part 3/3: 
Blackhawk UH-60
Agusta A109

Some videos I shot while visiting the airshow “Västerås Rollout 2016”.

Part 1/3: 
Douglas DC-3
Noorduyn Norseman
Piper PA-12 super cruiser
De Havilland DH 114 Heron
North American AT-16 / SK16

Part 2/3: 
Klemm 35
SAAB 91 Safir / SK 50
North American AT-16
De Havilland DH 115 Vampire
De Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk

Part 3/3: 
Sukhoi Su-29
North American P-51 Mustang
Douglas A-26 Invader