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Hi folks, I'm Don from southern California.

I actually thought I had already posted in this forum but it must have been on a different forum that I must have forgot to bookmark. I have just returned to welding (About a year now) after almost 20 years off due to an injury that left me paralyzed.

Just ordered a 250ex and here I am LOL. I have already made a few posts on the forums here and Honestly thought I had done the intro thing but the contest made me come here and look and I couldn't find it.... Post a reply with a link if you find one as I may be just spacing out and not seeing it.

I am also into RC airplanes and build and fly my own. I am currently in the process of building a 1/4 scale P-51 mustang that is taking alot longer to finish that I thought and I try to fly a few times a month at the local field. I mostly fly aerobatic type of flying and I try not to crash because I can't afford to buy new planes so that means a lot of work to repair them. ( that's how I got my 2 big planes. People too lazy to fix their crashes - freebies) here is a link to one of my flights a friend took for me, I did the editing and put in the music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUDzREB8B5Y

The forums here seem to be bustling with a wealth of information and nice people and I plan to hang around pester people and probably ask too many questions :)

Not quite sure if that info helps me at this point but thank you I guess.

My brother in law works with experimental designs of RC aircraft. He built this one and the performance is quite astounding...He has been perfecting it. He has even been working with some "intelligence" stuff with some advanced designs of this. The payload capacity is extremely high...

wow nice modified delta , looks nice and light, should easily be able to use gps waypoint navigation and carry a camera rig to boot. I played around with the "spy" UAV stuff for a while but everybody an his brother is doing it and the US armed forces are set as far as observation platforms go, so there is no money in it until things can go way smaller with the same flight times.

I built a similar shaped plane less than a foot square that could carry a down looking video camera and fly for about 15 minutes .

may have some pics on this pc let me have a look

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Ah there we go, before I got camera installed but you get the jist