Headed out on a late summer driving trip.  Will cross over into Canada and skirt lake Superior and Lake Michigan before returning home!

Great trip in the newly finished Car-V.

I got the domain name Miners.com for my birthday in 1996. 22 years ago. About a week ago someone in Bulgaria bought it for a Bitcoin mining information site. It was a very generous offer and I accepted it. So now my whole blog has been moved to fotali.com!

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First video from long range plane. Certainly more to come.

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Yesterday was a beautiful spring day. 60degrees and ZERO wind. Got a lot of flying in (22 batteries).

Pushed the envelope for how far I could fly my fpv wing. Used up the whole field and a little bit more!

We had a great time at the annual Friendly Sons of St Patrick’s day parade in Des Moines. We had a fun group and handed out lots of beads and candy. The weather was wonderful by start of parade and there were lots of smiling faces!

So after hundreds of batteries and hours and hours of flying and fun. KFM wing 5 has bit the dust. It was reinforced with bidirectional packing tape on the leading edge, decorative packing tape then fully laminted with 3mil laminate. It was very crashworthy. Finally a high speed nosedive impact into the hard ground bent the frame enough that I almost couldn’t trim it to fly straight. So every removable part was removed and installed on the new frame and KFM wing 6 was born!

This is a single 30 minute unedited walk down Bourbon Street at Mardi Gras 2018. It covers ten blocks on Bourbon st from Canal to St Phillip St.

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On the right is my usual flying wing. Built with dollar tree foam and 1/2 in pink insulation foam from home Depot. It is agile, lightweight, and very durable.

On the left is my scratch built fpv49. It weighs about 5.5lbs with the two large batteries and will fly for about 25 minutes. It is huge, stable, and again very durable. (Think Herkimer Battle Jitney, the best non-lethal military vehicle ever made (at least according to the Mystery Men)) It is a very popular wing among large scratch built fpv fliers, especially in Europe. Do a youtube search for fpv49. There are a lot of great videos.

Excellent FPV49 Video by FPVTrond

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Gene Simmons (from KISS), was just chilling in the lobby of our hotel. I asked if we could get a photo and he said yes. Then I asked him if he was having a good day and he said, “There’d be something fucking wrong with me if I wasn’t”

We made a pilgrimage to Grand Island Nebraska to see the solar eclipse. It did not disappoint. We stayed in our RV in a campground right on the path of totality! There was a large, friendly group from Canada staying in the same campground. They brought a lot of astronomy equipment which made the event much more fun. The photo above is actually two pictures taken with my Sony camera. One just prior to and one during totality!

Missy emerging from the Roadtrek

Workshop on a particularly clean day.

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My Galaxy Note 5 camera takes excellent macro photos. Almost all photos on miners.com are from my dslr. My phone however, was used to capture this photo from a bunch of flowers for sale at Hy-Vee in the floral department.

Ice, left after a tasty scotch on the rocks. Roca Restaurant, Court Ave, Des Moines.