ZephyrII First Build

[chicken sashimi]

My whole bottom is spraypaint green. only the leading edge is fluorescent green duct tape. (the "duck" brand duct tape that comes in a bunch of different colours)

Green is minty.. maybe i should write freshmint across the bottom of my plane!

[Freshmint]

YES DO IT!!! and we'll trade plane

[chicken sashimi]

Haha.. tempting.. These things always turn out better the second time around.
You realize we've turned Davey's build log into a chat room? lol

[Freshmint]

davey not posting much so we;'re doing him a favour haha

whats the best way to do lettering? are you going to add anything to the underside

[daveycan]

lol. what's going on in here? I think I figured out why there is a delay in freshmint's Zeph, he's worried about the color! j/k. I'm not sure I'm gonna paint mine at all. Maybe a big sticker that I print out or something. I'm not much of an artiste....

yep, that east bank is bit marshy in areas, but it is nice and close to golden ears for some trappy style cliff surfing. lol

[Freshmint]

any progress on your zephyr?
I am adding laminate and carbon fiber vinyl on top of that its going to be a tank

[Freshmint]

davey what ch are you using for video? since we both use 2.4GHz it might be a problem flying together

[daveycan]

whoa, that is some hardcore covering for sure! I don't know what I will be flying on... it is my first time too. I heard good things about channel 8 though.

I've got all day tomorrow to make some huge progress on this thing.

[Freshmint]

regarding ch 8 i will be using this patch antenna on my ground station you think it will work on 2510MHz? http://www.l-com.com/item.aspx?id=22300

Im sure the place we want to fly at has no wifi interferences!

[daveycan]

From what I've been reading, panels have a wide band of reception and should cover that frequency as long as it is the right size for 2.4. A specific frequency depends on the transmitter and receiver settings.

Yeah no wifi up there!