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Unique "Follow Apollo" model flights, 48 years later.
The ultimate “Follow Apollo”……
Since I was a kid and had gotten into Model Rocketry, wanted to make a flying R/C model of a Lunar Module. But that was way beyond any technology at the time, never mind my newbie skills (did not even fly R/C for a few years. So, TODAY, I got to commemorate the 48th landing of Apollo-11, with my LM Quadcopter. I wanted to land at 2:17 PM Central, the time that Eagle landed. But a real-world agricultural helicopter flew into the area, so I had to land early and wait for it to get far enough away. Accompanying the Lunar Module flying, I was using a soundtrack with music plus flight control audio from the landing. But my iPod overheated in the sun before getting to the actual landing part (I’d made a poor approach letting it get too low anyway). So, I’ve had better flights and landings, but this was a good flight. More info on the LM Quadcopter project is here: http://tinyurl.com/LM-quadcopter Video of the first flight that I had to cut short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Ri9G2heR0 Here is video of the second flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuKGkVOqnvY
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