Kitbashed Manta Trainer 2.0 (dead URL: www.mantaplane.com).
48" wingspan, speed-480 motor geared from 2:1 to 3:1, props 9x5 to 10x6.
Flown 10/2002 - 6/2004.
Videos taken November 2002 to May 2003, mostly at Orchard Downs, Urbana.
Video reception improved with a Telex "flag" 802.11 yagi rx antenna
(sometimes on my bike helmet, sometimes pounded into the ground),
and a custom T-dipole tx antenna (white vertical soda straw at right
in the videos).
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