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Experimental Airlines mentioned me and my plane

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 6:12 pm
by Derek
Some of you may know Ed (Experimental Airlines) on Youtube. He's developed some fantastic plane building methods using foam board and other inexpensive materials. One of the planes that Ed designed was the "Ansley Peace Drone". I fell in love with this plane when I first saw it. I just love how "odd" it looks, as a canard, and I love the functionality of the plane. It's also quite simple to build.

Ed has compiled a few APD owners from around the world, including myself, into a video. I thought this was great! So, if you have a few minutes, kick back and check this out. Very nice video! For those of you that don't know my Youtube screen name, it's "mountaindewdude76", when he mentions my name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w_rL5bDULw

Re: Experimental Airlines mentioned me and my plane

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 6:53 pm
by Vipertech13
Awesome! mountaindewdude76! WTG Derek!

Re: Experimental Airlines mentioned me and my plane

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 7:36 pm
by Tony
Nice one Derek, he's a clever guy too. Watched a few of his build vids

Re: Experimental Airlines mentioned me and my plane

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 8:01 pm
by Graham Lawrie
Video owner has disabled video?

Re: Experimental Airlines mentioned me and my plane

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 9:07 pm
by Derek
Thanks guys!

Graham...try the video again. It's working for me but I did go ahead and re-copy and paste the link. Hopefully it will work for you!

Re: Experimental Airlines mentioned me and my plane

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 9:38 pm
by pvolcko
He disabled embedding. Just have the clickthe youtube icon in the video window to view it.

Re: Experimental Airlines mentioned me and my plane

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 11:37 pm
by cml001
Kool!

Re: Experimental Airlines mentioned me and my plane

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 11:48 am
by Graham Lawrie
Very cool Derek:) Have you done a video of your build?

Re: Experimental Airlines mentioned me and my plane

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 12:38 pm
by Derek
Thanks guys! No, I've not done a video of my build because "my build" is exactly like Experimental Airlines. The only difference is that mine was colored more elaborate. Unfortunately, that plane that I had had one of those "unexpected meetings" with Mother Earth. I have built a new one but the color scheme is much simpler.

If you'd like to see the first one that I built, that was showcased in EA's video, the link is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N99cfpGRfjk

I was so happy with this plane and I loved the look of the canard. It's just "different" and I liked that. When the weather gets better, I'll maiden my new one.

Re: Experimental Airlines mentioned me and my plane

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 1:14 pm
by Lee
I have loved the idea of this plane for a while now. Maybe I will build one.

Re: Experimental Airlines mentioned me and my plane

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 4:04 pm
by Tony
Nice flight Derek, that plane is really cool

Re: Experimental Airlines mentioned me and my plane

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 7:47 pm
by Derek
Lee wrote:I have loved the idea of this plane for a while now. Maybe I will build one.
It's an awesome plane, Lee! It flies so effortlessly. Go ahead and chop the throttle.....it just floats forever. It's also a fantastic FPV plane.

Re: Experimental Airlines mentioned me and my plane

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 7:50 pm
by Derek
Tony wrote:Nice flight Derek, that plane is really cool
Thanks Tony! It took me about 3 hours to build it and add the electronics, then it took me another 4 hours to get the color scheme done the way that I wanted it, lol. Then....after getting about 7 flights with it, it took only 4 seconds to absolutely destroy it because I simply lost control and it plowed into the hard dirt. No electronics were damaged but the plane was toast. I almost cried, lol.

Re: Experimental Airlines mentioned me and my plane

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 10:18 pm
by Tony
I know how you feel mate, I'm great at crashing... One of my strong fortes... Haha

Re: Experimental Airlines mentioned me and my plane

Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 2:54 am
by murankar
Dude that was cool. Even got a nick name from his daughter.

Re: Experimental Airlines mentioned me and my plane

Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 7:14 pm
by Derek
murankar wrote:Dude that was cool. Even got a nick name from his daughter.
Dude....I was honored to know that his 3 year old daughter nicknamed my plane. I definitely brought a smile to my face.

Re: Experimental Airlines mentioned me and my plane

Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 12:33 am
by wolfman76
Candy huh very awesome plane Derek I might have to build one myself. You just used dollar tree foam board right

Re: Experimental Airlines mentioned me and my plane

Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 1:33 am
by DOG
You're a good man and talented, Derek. keep up the good work! :)

Re: Experimental Airlines mentioned me and my plane

Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 1:35 am
by Derek
Yep. It was a fantastic plane!!!!

Unfortunately I crashed it last year. I did build a new canard, with Dollar Tree foam board. This one is primarily green with a bit of pink. Its my new fpv plane....and its ready for the maiden.

Re: Experimental Airlines mentioned me and my plane

Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 8:14 am
by treff
Wow! Derek your a youtube star. Great stuff mate and that canard looks and flies really good. The designer must be well chuffed
with all the modellers building it around the world. Nice story.