IFO during NDP2007?

[Ghostfit]

why not they have pylon racers and 3d flying... better right.... even better have jet turbine flyers... that is a must see ahahahahha....

Pylon racer may be abit too dangerous if flown over a crowd. ....3D flatties are being done ......at the Padang ! (fringe activities by NTUC)

[TomcatFLYER]

hahhaah u know the saying, whatever is fun and good is always dangerous, unsafe, cancerous or expensive....

ahahhaha

[dreamflyer]

wow, flying in camp? who are the lucky soldiers who got selected?

no lucky la...just those ppl flying the ifo for ndp...crash into our company...

[TomcatFLYER]

just wondering who was the guy the news crew interviewed on tv? the guy who they say started it, the ifo thing

[blurchaoz]

do ur search in the RC kite archive and you should know who.

[Brandon Chng]

sounds like lots of people are jealous that their simpler r/c kite cousins are getting the limelight...i saw the display at the ndp preview and was throughly impressed by their flying ability.

[Adrianli]

just wondering who was the guy the news crew interviewed on tv? the guy who they say started it, the ifo thing

I was laughing when I heard the words "invented" mentioned. The proper word should be "innovated".

I'm wondering if there was any patent or copyright on tis flying kite thing here in SG?

http://www.epatents.gov.sg/PE/

[Sunstorm]

I was at a inter-school event and yeah, there were IFO's there at the event.
($200 a pilot for an event, wow!)

I think it just looks good. Perhaps 3d flatties with ribbons / streamers and LEDs might do the job better but honestly IFOs do wow people, for the first few times because they look more unusual to the public.

I think it's the LEDs that do it.

[TomcatFLYER]

wow... 200 bucks a pilot... i;m getting myself an IFO now... hahahhaha

good income to support the hobby...

hmmm... i heard the reporter said somehting about ifo being locally invented... (chinese reporter)

dun know....

hmmm.... personally, i don't feel jealous of the ifo dudes... they got skills... but i feel ifo is nothing special... they should be doing 3d... hahaha

[Sunstorm]

Quite nice, the display of IFOs. 42 of them in the sky! Amazing. Too bad there wasn't any real synchronized aerobatics, it's more of a general formation.

[nixaad]

Quite nice, the display of IFOs. 42 of them in the sky! Amazing. Too bad there wasn't any real synchronized aerobatics, it's more of a general formation.

Yeah, it's a feast of the eyes tho seeing them fly, all 42 of them. I was wondering how each pilot can see their own ifo when all 42 flying, really must concentrate hard. Saw about 5-10 circling high above, then dive roll towards the end of the show. Anyhoo, kudos to them pilots who can see well at night.

cheers!

[Murdanny]

Yeah, it's a feast of the eyes tho seeing them fly, all 42 of them. I was wondering how each pilot can see their own ifo when all 42 flying, really must concentrate hard. Saw about 5-10 circling high above, then dive roll towards the end of the show. Anyhoo, kudos to them pilots who can see well at night.

cheers!

great flying! its not easy you know!! so many planes yet none of them really collided with each other.
but just wondering, how many types of frequency did they use??

[dreamflyer]

great flying! its not easy you know!! so many planes yet none of them really collided with each other.
but just wondering, how many types of frequency did they use??

2.4???lol

[YZY]

actually none of them were ifos/fireflys/pro 3s(wadeva u name them....) haha they are made out of the same materials but are of a totally different design. Not as fun to fly if u ask me haha n lower power to weight ratio. There were quite a few newbies in the group flying during ndp. and yes many of us had lended futaba 2.4ghz transmitters. haha. the "pros" who flew higher were of a faster model which was a little harder to fly with the higher stall speed.

[YZY]

Oh and if im not wrong there was 1 collision and 1 sunken treasure :P:P