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Dust devils go up. Tornadoes go down. Tornadoes are formed in bad weather. Dust devils on hot sunny days.

That's the idea. I should redo this as a YT Short.

It actually wasn't all that far away (about 150 yards) but out of LoS most of the time. The signal penetration (or ability to move data through multipathing) is second to none. In my usual flying spot I could fly entirely behind the spine of rocks at the top of the ridge.

You and me both. These days it's a good one if 1/10th of my subscribers watch one of my videos. I just can't bring myself to make Mr. Beast style videos with a flashy thumbnail with me making a shocked face, with a clickbaity title, and jam an action packed preview into the first 10 seconds to catch their attention before they scroll away, and then have a camera cut every 3 1/2 seconds..

@@daemn42 I watched my first Mr. Beast video in Austin last summer while hanging out with family. He cooks up some interesting and entertaining ideas, but I never subscribed and never watched another of his videos after getting home. In comparison, I hardly have words to describe how magnificent nature is when selected, portrayed, and _accessed_ the way you do! FPV proximity flying has got to be the most amazing synergy of tech and skill ever.

I watch all your videos! keep posting them..... amazing 👏 👏

Sorry, didn't see this comment earlier. Was Solar mode, 1 exposure per second timelapse. I put it in manual exposure and had both sliders almost all the way to the bottom. I tweaked one of the sliders slightly just after the filter came off (thus why it was slightly overexposed initially). In post it was sped up another 4x or so, then slowed down to like .25x during totality.

FWIW, I know. I changed it on my regular vid earlier. Just hadn't updated the short yet.

5S 4000mAh pack.. Only need about 30-35A to climb up a 45 degree or steeper mountain at 45mph. It will fly straight up if needed. I never fly this thing slow, but if I ever did, it can cruise on as low as about 6A I think.

@@daemn42 Thank you for taking the time to reply! best regards from Daytona Beach!

Track is.. Attya Ensoria (The Holy and the Damned) by Ian Post

Thanks. West of Denver, off Highway 72

@@daemn42 Nice to see you still flying and enjoying and even still making fresh vids. That little twin looks like a winner, I still like my Skyhunters and Dart XL Extreme still my favorite but haven't flown in about 2 years now.

Nice flying plane. Footage from GoPro ? Stabilization with cam software or post prod ?

@@carguy1994ca Hero 7 Black, 2.7K Hypersmooth, Superview, WB5000, Max ISO 400, GoPro colors. No correction in post. Can see how much the plane was shaking in the wind whenever it's pointed toward the sun.

Just the standard course stone. The idea is to make pretty random jagged teeth in the edges. They grip the cloth and keep it from sliding as it cuts.

Thanks. One of my favorites too. Just wish I had a higher resolution master of it somewhere, but unfortunately I do not. This video was actually for a 3 minute slope soaring music video contest on rcgroups, and it won fairly handily.

A fun and memorable day indeed. A true adventure.

I'd completely forgotten that this video existed.. Pretty fun.

Thanks. This vid doesn't get a lot of love, but I prefer it because you can actually *see* the lightning. ;)

Aeronaut Cam Carbon 14x12, available online in the usual places.

Some folks went through a process with jeffco, and got official permission to fly unpowered sailpanes there, with some limited restrictions on proximity to the road.

I can really offer no further opinions about this airframe. The wing on mine was badly twisted which made it prone to tip stalling. They said they'd remedy the situation but never did after repeated reminders on my part. I finally stopped pestering them, and have had no further contact with the company. The problem with removing the landing gear is not so much the belly landing, but the launches. It's too heavy and fast to hand launch without power and can't be thrown power-on due to the size of the prop. It would take a very powerful bungee indeed to get it into the air.

After many decades of traditional balsa, spruce and plywood aeromodelling I was eventually tempted into the world of composites. It was quite a difference. I built large thermal-soaring gliders with spans of up to 14'. They were light, sleek, efficient, and incredibly strong. Dynamic soaring is a very special pursuit. It's not my 'thing', but I do appreciate the skills involved. It's amazing but true that it's possible to design and build an all-composite structure which is literally (and yes, I really do mean literally) indestructible in flight. Wrapped, layered, vacuum-laminated, epoxy-carbon and aramid-fibre components such as wing spars can be made to withstand forces in excess of anything that can be generated when flying, including pulling out of a 5,000' vertical dive as violently as possible. With careful design, it's possible to make a model that simply cannot be broken when in the air. Having said that, there are plenty of other ways to wreck an all-composite plane. The biggest problem in dynamic soaring may well be control-surface flutter leading to servo or control linkage failure. Oh, and if you can't pull out of that aforementioned vertical dive before terra firma interrupts, that indestructible [in flight] structure will most certailny be reduced to a big pile of black spaghetti. 😁