This page is now organized as a list of links. Only the latest few images are on this page.

• End of April, 2001.
  The telemetry board and video downlink are operational. Heli is trimmed and ready to go. I'll start posting pictures soon.
• 05/20/01. First test of the system using Xcam's CMOS camera.
  
• 07/22/01. Back after a long break.
  
• 07/23/01. New downlink version with CCD camera is in the air.
  
• 07/24/01. Neighbors.
  
• 07/30/01. Evening flight.
  
• 08/05/01. First good video
  
• 08/11/01. Block party
  
• 08/19/01. Crash
  
• 08/30/01. Rebuild
  
• 09/16/01. Lot's of flying
  
• 09/23/01. Artificial horizon testing
  
• 10/02/01. Lazy Loopers field
  
• 10/02/01. Colors at Lazy Loopers field
  
• 10/27/01. Flying high. I switched to a fixed wing aircraft for awhile.
• 11/04/01. Cyber-flying finally!
  
• 11/10/01. Raja's in the air!
  
• 11/17/01. FPV (First Person View) Take-off and landing
  
• 12/01/01. Relay flights
  
• 02/03/02. New 60-size Tiger Trainer is flying
  
• 02/09/02. Flying and testing GPS controller
  
• 02/16/02. More flying at Bill Martin Field
  

• 02/23/02

Autonomous flight! Combination of PDC10 (GPS controller) and PDC20 (altitude hold) worked. The plane navigated three point course and settled down on loop trajectory around last point while maintaining the altitude. For more than 10 minutes the plane was flying by itself and I was only adjusting camera view using a knob on my transmitter. The altitude was maintained within +/- 50 ft and that's good enough for the plane. I am totally happy with the results!

The pictures below are taken later during the flight when I was in control of the plane and therefore the altitude has changed from picture to picture.

• 03/24/02 and 03/29/02

Second camera view shows GPS screen from inside the plane. The view can be remotely activated by RC transmitter and provides absolute altitude, heading, and ground speed numbers. 03/29/02 the main camera malfunctioned and we had to abort the flight and land the plane. The ribbon cable connecting camera's CCD board to the DSP board is to blame for the problem some lines just got disconnected due to the wear. Well, it is good excuse to switch to new high resolution camera which is long overdue anyway.

• 04/12/02 Just flying around with new camera. The resolution did improved.