Metuchen, NJ Aerial Video from Multiplex Twinstar 2

This is a flight from starting from Metuchen, NJ. I'll try to point out some landmarks if I can figure out in-video tagging. Flight took place from the soccer field sandwiched between Durham and New Durham rd, on Hampton Street. In the video, as long as youtube doesn't filter it too bad, you can make out NYC (faintly), Metropark office buildings, the Driscoll Bridge, the Raritan Bay including the Keansburg area, and then to the Northwest are some mountains, which I assume are near the Summit/Morristown area but I'm not sure.

Enough about the scenery- here's some info about the plane. The plane is a Multiplex Twinstar 2. I've fitted a tricycle landing gear w/ steerable nosewheel, but I had to hand-launch because this soccer field wasn't in great condition. The power system is stock- twin 6v 400 motors, powered by a 4500mah 6-cell Sub-C nimh pack. The camera is an Aiptek A-HD 720p camera. I do not yet have a downlink, so I couldn't go too high.

The conditions were gusty near the ground, which explains the perilous take-off. Once in the air, the wind was blowing steadily out of the northwest, so most of the video shows the scenery off in that direction as I had to fly in to the wind in order to stay in sight. Total flight was about 14 mins, I had to edit some out to make the video a little less boring and also to fit youtube's length requirements. I don't typically fly to low-voltage cutoff, although I probably only had another 2 or 3 minutes until that anyway.

Looks like youtube butchered the HD. Sorry!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Aerial
• Metuchen
• New
• Jersey
• FPV
• RC
• Twinstar

[wert13d]

I love how high this R/C plane went. Plus the view of metchen,&edison nj. Great Video Thanks

[thelammantor]

damn that thing goes that high?

[loretano]

wow, very cool! I can almost see the forum theater