I use a Spektrum radio to fly my planes and helis, which has the ability to save model memories from the transmitter onto an SD card. A while ago this lead me to think it might be useful to create a website whereby people could upload saved model files and share them easily with others using simple web links. Building on this idea I thought it might be nice to offer some sort of visualisation of the saved model file on the web.

I’ve had an attempt at building this, it is early days yet but so far you can register, login, upload a model and view some basic information about the saved file. The site is at http://spektrum.riviera.org.uk/ at the moment the only model uploaded is a file from my DX8 which is used for my Edge 540QQ, you can view that here.

I just noticed the Blade 450 page hasn’t been updated since 2011! The little heli hasn’t been forgotten about, I’m currently flying it about twice a week thanks to moving house and finding a lovely field on the way to work. It would be rude not to put at least a couple of packs through. The guys at work find this very amusing, often asking how many packs I put through it each morning, and in the case of the one recent crash, guessing I had stuffed it from my mood on arrival 🙂

Following on from the video I shot onboard Roo, I took my new Dynamic-S on maybe its tenth flight at Bratton Camp in Wiltshire. Normally I fly off the slopes to the east and south, but the wind tonight was light and northerly so I used the flat field behind the slopes.  I had the 808 camera with me so I used some velcro to attach it onto the left wing and shot a little video.

We are down in Wiltshire at the moment and as ever we brought the boat I built for Edward last year. He loves to take it down to the pond in the pleasure gardens. This time I brought my 808 camera and attached it into the cabin in the boat. The little video we shot is below.

Few little updates:

• Made a page for the flying sites map, that’ll be the perm home for it.
• Moved the S-Pou and the LiddleRod to the historic page, reflecting their semi-permanent retirement
• Created a page for the Pulse 25, my new ARTF hack.

Using the excellent Google maps, I’ve been trying to collate a list of places I’ve flown, both good and bad and the ones I revisit regularly. They can be seen on the map below, you can zoom in and if you click on the icons I’ve tried to add more detail for some of the sites.

View Flying sites in a larger map