My 2 hobbies

[lrrps]

Hi guys,

My name is Gaston, I'm a new recruit from France and I'd like to share my hobbies with you.

In the past 29 years I enjoy shooting at paper targets and
> metal silhouettes, I also have 4 handguns but as i'm
> not good with those I finally sold 3 of them and keep a
> Glock 17 that in my opinion is one of the most reliable
> pistol to date.
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> As for rifles I have an AR-15 in .222R, another in .223R,
> an Anshutz 54 match rifle in .22LR, a CZ 452 in .22LR and a
> french made .22LR semi-auto rifle.

Videos of me shooting my AR-15.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zChmopfUSRc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuS19se5N-w

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> These past 12 months I don't go very often to the range
> except to attend matches.
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> The reason is that I found myself a new hobby that started
> on February last year, it's RC planes and helis.
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> My first plane was an Easystar that I equipped with a small
> camera mounted on it's nose for aerial photography.
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> Next I bought a larger plane called the Magister, from
> Multiplex also.
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> Pics of the Magister & EZ Star.
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> Videos shot by the EZ Star.
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> YouTube - Up up and away
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-cDYm7ZJXU
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> YouTube - Easy Star with Canon cam
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Suo04BQpOs
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q-P0ZwigRg
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> Videos shot by the Magister.
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> YouTube - Magister's flight at dusk
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> YouTube - My magister's second video
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> YouTube - My Magister's first video
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> Then as my flying skills improves over the months I
> purchased a P-51D Mustang.
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> Part 1 YouTube - P-51D Mustang combat maneuvers, part 1
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> Part 2 YouTube - P-51D Mustang combat maneuvers, part 2
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> Part 3 YouTube - P-51D Mustang combat maneuvers, part 3
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> In the meantime, I learned to fly helis with the LAMA, a
> counter rotary coaxial heli that got me bored just after 2
> weeks.
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> I then moved on to a collective pitch heli in the form of
> the ESKY BeltCP, a chinese made helicopter that proved to
> be unstable and twitchy to fly, after several crashes I
> ended up selling it to an englishman, then I had the TREX
> 450 from Align, a taiwanese company.
> This heli is excellent but you can't fly far with it
> because of its small size.
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> Here are some pics of the TREX 450.
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> Video of the TREX 450.
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> YouTube - Flying my Trex 450 SE
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> YouTube - Another day at the field
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> YouTube - Close call
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> YouTube - Amphibious RC heli part 2
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> My newest purchase was a larger TREX 600 heli.
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> Photos of the TREX 600 next to the TREX 450.
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> I use the new heli as a platform for aerial photography or
> AP, the photos are more shaky than with a plane.
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPJU9dGUG-8
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1Sg7_qagYU
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> I recently purchased an MD-500E fuselage for my TREX 600,
> here's how it looks now:
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> > Lately I added light on it.
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> > It's amazing what you can do with an RC flying machine,
> right?
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> I wish to step up & learn to fly a real plane or
> helicopter but my finance won't allow me.
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> Hope you enjoy the pics & videos.

Cheers.
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[leobold1]

Great shots.

How high do those things get? I knew a guy in Okinawa that had one that would go up to 1000 feet AGL (but couldn't because we were on the airbase and it would interfere with Flight Ops). We took it down to Naha and had some great time with it. I even got to take control for a couple minutes.

[lrrps]

Originally Posted by leobold1

Great shots.

How high do those things get? I knew a guy in Okinawa that had one that would go up to 1000 feet AGL (but couldn't because we were on the airbase and it would interfere with Flight Ops). We took it down to Naha and had some great time with it. I even got to take control for a couple minutes.

As high as you can see, I have flown my RC plane up to 300 meters, kind of scary though.
The range of the TX is roughly 1000 meters.

[bhdean]

I couldn't download the pictures and wonder how good they are. Wouldn't that type of plane with camera be illegal in a residential area (you know, peeping Tom sort of stuff)? Sounds like a lot of fun though.

[lrrps]

Originally Posted by bhdean

I couldn't download the pictures and wonder how good they are. Wouldn't that type of plane with camera be illegal in a residential area (you know, peeping Tom sort of stuff)? Sounds like a lot of fun though.

My neighbours know about my heli taking pictures (I told them) but they don't care.
As long as they don't complain, it's fine.

How come you can't see my pics, do you have a fast connection?