A pretty windy day in the north of Sweden, sorry for the rather lacking sound quality.
Test run 1:
First time ever the hexa left the ground. However briefly.
Dubious results, as one can see. As the pilots choose to see it, the hexa did a backflip out of shear joy. It could also be slightly related to the fact that one of the motor controls made the motor spin the wrong way so it constantly tried to compensate and compensating only made things worse. The navigation system was also configured slightly wrong. So, back into the workshop and adjust these minor flaws, and back out again. This time, in addition we tried to find a place with slightly less wind.
A slightly more stable flight.
This time things went better. In this video, Erik is the pilot. He swung by to watch the ascent and just like that got to be in charge of it. The watchful observer will probably note that some (most) of the landing gear is missing. By this time we had had a couple of hard landings (Due to the wind, of course!) but slowly getting the hang of it! This also showed a couple of weaknesses in the design, which we choose to see as a very good thing at the prototype stage.
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