RC gliders & FPV quads
The second half of the home-page scroll is mine: FPV footage from quads I tune myself. It started with gliders, co-leading the SIP RC Plane Club at UC Santa Cruz, and became cinematic FPV flying in California and Da Nang.
Build it, fund it, fly it
During the Science Internship Program I co-led a 40+ member RC plane club: we crowdfunded $300+ for glider construction, built Phoenix S airframes in the engineering hallways, and flight-tested them on the upper-campus meadow.
Tuned by hand, flown by eye
I fly a QAV-S 2 JB 5" and a Pavo20 brushless quad, with throttle curves and PID loops tuned in BetaFlight. The same measure-and-trim habit as karting, applied to flight controllers. The footage has become promotional content for Da Nang tourism, UC Santa Cruz, and Concord Academy.
The clip here is the UCSC footage; the Da Nang reels are on other drives for now, and will join when I'm home next.