At last it worked ! Here's a short video, not high quality indeed. Hope it is intelligible.
Autopilot_Test_Air_LD.wmv
Here's some pictures of the airframe.

Front

Back

Closeup of camera, thermopile stabilizer, GPS, video transmitter, ground plane antenna.

"da braain"

brain's right emisphere

brain's left emisphere

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Comment by wayne garris on April 3, 2009 at 2:56pm
interesting video antenna could you elaborate ?
Comment by Jhon on April 3, 2009 at 6:20pm
wayne garris
looks like that antena:

http://www.yb2normal.com/flightindex.html
Comment by Lorentz on April 4, 2009 at 12:56am
Wayne anticipated me. It's the antenna of yb2normal with ground wires made with piano wires instead of copper. Basically the wires are of lambda/4 length, i.e. (3E8 / 2.4E9) / 4 = 3.125 cm.

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