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Not enough playmates for Peggy?

Haha!

Here's a pic to cheer you up...breakfast :D

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1381616417.jpg

A little to tar-tar for my liking

Well crap. After 6 phone calls over the afternoon the guy with the Dutch group was supposed to call me when they got to the round barn on Rt 66 failed to call. That is not far from house and a great place to meet up with them. He forgot to call me and they were just about to pull out when I called him. I don't plan to chase them down the highway so I missed them. Oh well.

I was curious how far the barn is from my house. It is 11 miles.

The arcadia round barn

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1381618717.jpg

The airboat is coming along. Engine and rudders mounted and a preliminary float testhttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...ps0e676f81.jpg
can see the water line from float test herehttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...ps520e8bcc.jpg

Rudders are a bit oversized.

Jeff, wish we could get decent short cut bacon over here

looking for a streaming website for the Bathurst

O-oh! One of the nissans has had a moment with a roo.

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Originally Posted by slodave (Post 7702084)

Rudders are a bit oversized.

Actually, I'm afraid they aren't quite big enough.
The ROM is going to be much more limited than it looks like.

I ran air boats in my RC days. The rudders are not very big and the boat turns (turned) on a dime.

Try Live Streams - BathurstScan.com

I think this may give you audio only though Azzy

Ehhh, we will see. It is an exercise in education. I'll keep that in mind though. I'm trying to figure out what top speed will be....any idea on this rig.....running a .46 2 stroke glow

Servo's and equipment were kept up front on my boat, though I wasn't running pontoons. Rudders are tied together with a metal rod connected to the nylon thingies. Rudder cable was glued to the boat and I believe went up the side of the engine mount and connected to another nylon thingy on one rudder. Cable for throttle was mounted the same way to the body of the boat. I don't have the boat here or I'd post some pix.

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Originally Posted by slodave (Post 7701129)

The GoPro allows for video capture at resolutions up to 4K. Up until a couple months ago, there wasn't a consumer tv that could play a video recorded at 4K, 2.5K, 1440... Sony put the first one out there and it costs a fortune at the moment! Those resolutions are for the pros and for playback in movie theaters, etc. The same is true for computers. There isn't a consumer video card or display that can handle above 1080 at the moment.

You can technically edit the footage with Quicktime, Premiere, GoPro's software, but you can not play it back in it's full resolution. You are not seeing the full video while editing, ususally a scaled back version. I was also having problems inside the GoPro program with some features. A PC will try and convert the video down to a playable resolution, but it's still unwatchable, as it hiccups, freezes, or just plays audio.

very interesting.

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Originally Posted by Rick V (Post 7701984)

A picture from cars (submarines) and coffee this morning. What is wrong with this picture?

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1381616168.jpg

its raining.

rx/battery will be mounted in a water tight box on the forward cross beam. Servos will be mounted on the engine stalk along with the fuel tank. I know I'm going to need a spoiler of some sort....havent figure out how I'm going to work that yet.

Rudders are going to be joined by control horns and rod at about mid point.