I believe they use spread tow on the landing legs too, along with alumnium honeycomb for the insides

Either way, it was a pitty seeing those practically handlaid carbon fiber fairings being thrown away

This has been a surprisingly active channel. Good to know there are a lot of fellow av geeks out there.

Absolutely

https://youtu.be/fAz8rLQmbKw

Yeah! Lol.

Trial and error is the key to success

@Dr Badass PhD more than AV I like spaceflight. Space is the place

Me too @Yukon

Carbon fiber around PLA for TVC mount Rev 2!

And some hexagonal cuts to reduce weight. Hopefully it will be able to withstand the impulse of a H class model rocket motor

^Rev 1 from stafic fire August 2019

It showed some wear at certain parts which hopefully Rev 2 will fix

Does anyone know where I can get cheap Phantom 2 Vision+ smart batterys?

Two of mine are bloated and where I looked new they are 100 dollars a piece so I might as well just buy a mavic if im going to buy 2 new ones

Today in 1961 Gus Grissom was the second American in space aboard the rocket "Liberty bell 7"

Gus Grissom was a legend

Yeah I wished that he didn't die in the apollo 1 fire

There was probably a good chance that if he didn't die he would have been the first man on the moon

i have one of those

That's so cool. A little piece of history.

Technically counts as aviation. Waterpark made out of a old German zeppelin

I wanna go

It’s in Berlin

So do I

I’ve always wanted to visit Germany, aside from politics it seems like such a cool place

I hear that the German WW2 planes in Germany don't even have the (bad bad thing) painted on them.

But their brethren in America do

Yeah

It's too bad

Cause Germany is trying to erase their past

Swastikas are illegal in Germany

At least the German Typhoons have the Iron Cross on them.

Iron Cross predated the wars by many years

Well to anyone with half a brain cell

The iron cross has nothing to do with nazism

Brit and many European countries alike “We have universal health care! What does your freedom give you

American: The N word

Europeans: you mean ni-

European in prison