Shrediquette - the award-winning multirotors by William Thielicke

RC-Flight-Control is the german magazine dedicated to first-person-view (FPV) radio controlled flight. In the latest issue (02/2011), there is an eight pages long article about my trip to cameroon . I included some background information about the challenges I was facing during the preparation of the journey and also during my stay in cameroon. One of my aerial photographs also ended up on the cover of the magazine (you can actually see my girl friend and me enjoying the sun on the patio :-D ). The magazine can be ordered online but it is also offered in many book stores at central railway stations.

About two weeks ago, Julian from the german band "Feinkost" wrote an email to me: Together with his band mates, they were giving some concerts in Cameroon. The tenant of the "Seemannsheim" in Douala (I know him from previous trips to Cameroon too) seems to like my Cameroon video very much, so he showed it to the band while they were staying there. They were also enthusiastic about the video and because they were planning to make a video for the new song "Wenn du wiederkommst" , Julian decided to ask me for some aerial footage for the new video. Because these sort of "jobs" always seem to be fun, I agreed, and together with Thomas Leidig (camera operator, director) we shot the video at two locations in and around Hamburg. The weather conditions were a bit challenging, the first day at the tidelands had a lot of wind (although hardly turbulent) and some rain. On the second day we were shooting in the city of Hamburg with some storm and a lot ...

The FPV movie on Cameroon that I made some months ago will be shown on a short film festival. The festival is called "Vilsflimmern" and it will take place on the 29th of July. It is an open-air event in south-east germany. At that time I am on way way to france on holidays, but most likely, I'll spent some extra kilometers to visit this festival: http://www.tenano.de/ By the way: The Landkamp Festival was great fun! This is really a very nice Copter-meeting, I am already looking forward to the next year's meeting! I also visited the FPV-community.de meeting, and that was also great. Really nice to meet some people in "real life".

Usually I visit my parents on christmas and new year. They live in Cameroon since three years and built a small house in the middle of nowhere. This year they again invited me to come and I had the opportunity to take my hexacopter with me. All flights were done via video-goggles / FPV (except for a single scene that you see in the movie). In total I broke 3 propellers. Two when I was falling down the roof of the car and one when I hit a bamboo tree (which seems to be made of very hard material...;-D). I broke the antenna of my RC transmitter, and lost the antenna of the video link. Fortunately, I was equipped with enough spare parts. Flying in Cameroon was great fun, but flying at the beach seems to be dangerous, as there are immediately some large birds of prey arriving, which were probably not in the best mood. Flying through the palm tree plantation was most fun, but there were a lot of mosquitoes attacking me. Here is the video: A nice place to fly: Hexacopter in Cameroon / Afr...