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New Blog

Besides my blog on personal flying, I hereby also start a blog on my unmanned flying experiences. See https://ericjesppl.blogspot.com/ for my "real life" flying blog(s)
This is to separate the two somewhat, since there are people that prefer to follow my "real life" flying adventures, but are not so much interested in building and flying quadcopters and model airplanes. And I have shared so many stories about my model flying on so many channels (forums, Facebook, YouTube), that I decided to put it all inone place so I can refer to posts in this blog instead of type it all over again on a different channel.


So this blog is all about unmanned flying in all it's aspects. I'll report on the building process of my self-built multicopters.
Self-built quadcopter

Also, I fly a regular, commecially available drone,
GDU Byrd Standard
and a model airplane
Hobby King Durafly Tundra

And there will be more as time progresses :)

This blog will be on my flying - crashing - rebuilding Circle of Life of just about anything that flies, and that I can get my hands on.

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