My top speed.
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Yeah usually high winds where I live are accompanied with rain or snow. I’m still waiting for the clear day with 30 mph winds. Lol.
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iPad mini, that flight is a couple years old. I think my high that day was 92mph. Screen shooting lost momentum.
Bank turns at 80+ is a sight to see.
T-motor carbon props of course, at those speeds hitting BT's with stock props is not recommended.
Yeah. South of Jamestown NY which I’m guessing you know where that’s at. Was talking to another guy on here yesterday that’s up by buffalo and I know there is a few over by Albany.
To the people in this thread that haven’t done it yet,do the battery mod to your bird and strap on some 30 + C rated batteries or battery and watch it go. You will have never heard yourprops turn so fast.
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The only practical way to get a meaningful top speed (other than a completely windless day) is to do two runs, in opposite directions and take the average of the two speeds. I once recorded 84 mph in one direction and just 42 in the opposite direction. An average speed of 63mph.
However, even this result is misleading as it is the product of the peak speed in both directions and will therefore add any wind speed variation during each run to the resulting average speed. Thus, if the wind speed had changed by just 5mph during each run, then the average mph could be up to 10mph lower than the average of the peak speed measured in each direction.
I guess you could do two timed runs in opposite directions over a measured distance but this would be quite difficult to do with any accuracy.
However, even this result is misleading as it is the product of the peak speed in both directions and will therefore add any wind speed variation during each run to the resulting average speed. Thus, if the wind speed had changed by just 5mph during each run, then the average mph could be up to 10mph lower than the average of the peak speed measured in each direction.
I guess you could do two timed runs in opposite directions over a measured distance but this would be quite difficult to do with any accuracy.
**** I drive up to B-lo every so often, the only Bitcoin ATM in the state.
Might pull up on you one of these days
