In this week's show our team discusses the success of the latest Secret Santa gift exchange, as well as some great event coverage, an upcoming event to benefit the Boy Scouts in GA, as well as a little more coverage on this registration stuff with the FAA.

LINKS:

AMA's Registration FAQs 

Comment On The FAA's Ruling

FAA Sued In Federal Court Over Registration

How Many Have Registered Thus Far?

The Fledermaus!

11th Annual Pecan Patch Chili Fly Coverage

In this 338th installment, our last show of 2015 (recorded on December 16th), IFLYOS is back in the driver's seat. With him you'll hear Cathead, LMopar69, HatefulGravey, and NavionFlyer. There's some great discussion in this show on the FAA's and DOT's new "Drone Registration" so you'll certainly want to listen to this one!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS and HAPPY NEW YEAR from your friends at TheCrashCast! May God bless each and every one of you!!

This 337th show was recorded LIVE on December 9th, and is the third show WITHOUT your fearless leader. No worries though, as IFLYOS steps in to host a darned good show! Also present to round things out are LMopar69, HatefulGravey, NavionFlyer, Vintauri, and Rumbuilder.

LINKS:

Foam-Flite Small Charger Box

JR Colt Retro Transmitter (Nice!)

Multiplex TwinStar Brushless

Unique Model Tilt-Wing

New UMX J-3 Cub

WMPF Skinny Dipper

Vortex 250 PRO

MultiRC NAZE32 With BlackBox

Legislation Averted In Albany

This week we are without Navionflyer and Cathead, but we pick up HatefulGravey to help fill the void. We share a couple of videos, a great inaugural review by Tim King, and try to steer someone in the right direction of their first 3D Printer.

LINKS:

Unboxing The Phantom 3 Advanced

Super-stabile Phantom 3 Flight

Crashin', Flyin' 2016 Is Planned

Foam-Flite Small Charger Box

Sig Kadet Seniorita Review

New DL220 FPV Racing Frame

Amazon Prusa I3 Search Results

Folger Tech RepRap 2020 Prusa I3 Kit

Printrbot Play

In this week's 'Thanksgiving Eve' show we talk a bit about the DOT Task Force Recommendations that came down on November 21st, as well as some great Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday deals! Oh, and if your Turkey is all prepped to fry up but you find yourself without propane for your fryer, we've got you covered on that front, too! LoL

LINKS:

Task Force Recommendations

AMA's Reaction To Said Recommendations

MultiGP Recognized As Official S.I.G.!

FT Community Podcast

K2R Spotlifter

CrashCast Listeners Group On FB

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

This week we actually have a guest on the show. Patrick Fox had an opportunity to attend the inaugural F3Expo and he met with us to share his impression of this new, and hopefully annual event. Oh, and if you've never had the opportunity to see 'Fainting Goats" in person, JUST DO IT! LoL

LINKS:

A 'ParaCuda'??

FB Drones

She-Drones (An organization for the ladies!)

Xnova Motors (MultiRC has 'em!)

WTH Celina, OH? (Sorry, kid. No flying toys for you!)

This week we get to dip into the mail bag again and share listener emails! Oh, and there's also some discussion on what everyone is planning for personal transport for SEFF next year (and other big events that we may attend). Hit the links below for a lot of interesting stuff, as well as the typical unusual stuff we discuss sometimes. LoL

LINKS:

Some Darned Fine Safety Goggles (LoL!)

FBM Specimen

Manco Streaker

Video Tx For Your GoPro - GetFPV and RTFQs

Irish Drone Regs Coming

Cheap Electronics Parts Storage From Dollar Tree

MultiRC Help Center Is GROWING!

US Army Consumer-level Drone Tests

Google Seeking Test Pilots

Fantastic FPV Racing Expose From NYT

This Week's Slideshow Pics

As much as your hosts LOVE CNC machining, this week we're here to share lots of information regarding cutting foam manually with a hot wire! We cover power supplies, bows (and other apparatus, too), wires - just about everything you need to know to add these techniques to YOUR building skills. Hang on! We've got LOTS of links this week!

LINKS:

BuddyRC Now Sells HMB Frames!

Flite-Test Community Cast (Another show for us RCers!)

SBA On The Radio (GREAT Radio spot!)

Universal FPV Cam Mount (Print it yourself)

Universal FPV Cam Mount (Buy it from the designer)

LainesPlanes Is LIVE!

Inexpensive Foam-Cutter Power Supply

My Videos For Above PS - Video 1, Video 2

Transformer Source

My Favorite Hot-Wire Power Supply

Power Supply AND LiPo Charger

NiChrome Wire Source

NiChrome Wire Calculator

Rene Wire (The BEST!)

TEKOA FeatherCut

DIY Drop Arm Cutter

Hot-Wire Cutter System On The Cheap!

GREAT Info From Utah Flyers (This is a MUST READ)

Easy DIY Hot-Wire Scroll Saw

Hobby Lobby Hot-wire Cutter

Flying Foam (EPP Source)

Model Plane Foam (XPS Source)

RC Foam

Liquid Sheeting From WowPlanes

CNC Hot-Wire Cutter Plans (I had one of these)

FoamWorks (The BEST software for CNC Hot-Wire Cutting)

One thing I've noticed about having Cathead on the show is that I am never at a loss for determining a funny and somewhat obscure show title. LoL 

In this one we bring a small amount of news of rule-making and new products, and King provides us with a recap of the FPV event that he attended last weekend. It certainly looks as though our friend SkyJet (along with the help of his fellow club members, most certainly) did a great job in setting up this first-time event!

LINKS:

A SCAM Registration Site? (I wouldn't give them MY money!)

DOT and FAA Notice JO 7210.889

HiTec MD10 Action Camera

HiTec MD60 Action Camera

Revolectrix 'Bump' Controller

MultiRC NAZE32 FC With Black Box

20 Amp LittleBee ESCs

HAVE A SAFE HALLOWEEN!

In this week's episode we continue our trend of covering all kinds of weird stuff, but there's also some seriousness. I get a chance to give my impression of my first MultiGP event (which was AWESOME!) and we get into a discussion regarding this whole Drone Registration mess that surfaced this week. Pfft!

LINKS:

US DOT Press Conference

sUAS News Article

10.7.15 Drone Safety Hearing

Foxx's Written Press Conference Document

FAA Grants 333 Exemption To....Paper Airplane!

Slideshow Pics