Here is the video,took the risk of flying over a flooded paddy field,forced to make a nose down landing from abt 1 m height
,nothin happnd tnx elapor.getting orientation with this setup is very difficult ,i think we have to put some lights on the upper side of the wing also, any ideas guys

santhosh

If you are doing night flying for the first few times or if you have a brand new night flying setup, it helps to start flying with the lights on around dusk when there is a little bit of natural light still left.  It should give you a good idea about the visibility of the plane in various orientations, and allows you to bail out earlier if you see something that is undesired.

The video below illustrates this, but he has way too many lights on his plane.



It makes sense to put lights at the top and bottom, but with different colors to help identify whether you are flying upright or inverted.  Something like these ones.





If you fly close enough, you do not need many lights, just a few single ones around the strategic points.

PS: The real treat in night flying are helis with lights on their main blades, it is really fun to see the "disc" made by the rotating lights 

Good show. thenginte mele....

Yep   Some of the comments are hilarious ! 

The bunch of friends Santhosh has (and from what I saw, they are not into RC except as spectators), are a great group of people. The always seem to come to flying sessions, and are a great encouragement 

fantastic effort Santosh 

Anwar What set up would recommend for a reasonable lit up plane for night flying. Can anyone suggest a link of Hobbyking for buying the same?
It is for a basic foamie Mini V images are on a new thread

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=8940

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=8941

There are 5 colors or so, just search for "LED strip".

goood

Here is a 2 year old (NOV 2010 )video of my Flying Wing "RAVEN" with "HOT GLUE HINGES" and 3 col Led's... RED and GREEN at top and yellow at bottom..
Filmed with a BLACKBERRY PHONE....
A very stable flyer...perfect for night flying..you may even catch it instead of landing...