*** Andy Steere's BLADE DANCER ***

These are pictures and movies of the BLADE DANCER in flight... and will get updated from time to time. In order from oldest to newest, top to bottom.

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MOVIE CLIPS

(These movies were produced using Microsoft Movie Maker. The 320x240 size will run better on slower computers or those with limited bandwidth for downloading. Most of the movies are also available in 640x480 resolution, when the original was taken in that size on the Canon S3 IS digital camera. I usually recommend right-clicking on the link, choose save to disk, and play the video ouside the browser.)

06/08/2008 - MAIDEN FLIGHT! Grass runway was thick and made takeoff difficult. Battery died early... have to check that. Otherwise it flew very well. Modifications to the rudder and vertical stab seems to have helped. Ailerons are very effective. May have too much down elevator... seems to want to snap on full deflection.
5:49 minutes (320x240 - 11.7MB) (640x480 - 24.6MB)

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Last modified on 06/18/2008