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Two-man engineering team working on a prototype tilt tiltrotor.
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2 years experience using arduplane, 1 year experience using arducopter, 1 year experience using ardurover. Experienced aerospace engineers with 10 years each of experience
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"Rob: Correct. We did not have any payload for these test flights. We are also flying in 0 deg C temps, so you probably know better than us what effect that has on flight time."
"We created a new aircraft specifialy for our own tiltrotor software development and recently measured it's performance. Thought it would be interesting to share some results. We don't have a winning log to post, but here are some details. We have…"
"Hello Everyone, Thought we would chime in to clear any confusion given the inquiries we’ve received via email. Up until today we thought we were the only group developing VTOL on APM:Copter/APM:Plane software using the FireFLY 6 as a test vehicle.…"
"@Birds Eye View- My apologies. Big mistake on my part to comment on a design that I had nothing to do with. What I can say is that the FireFLY 6 is the best UAV tiltrotor for the money by far. The quality of this airframe is top notch. We really…"
"@Mike, we've never measured the conversion torque, but in both tilt rotors we've flown (2kg ish) a standard servo has been fine. The firefly 6 has a beefy gear chain setup. As far as emergency conversion I know firefly stock design converts in 3 sec…"
"@Rob, we believe our code belongs to the APM community, and will be available for everyone. We have an enormous amount of work into our development (going on 3 years!), but the code we are running is still probably less than 5% of our own creation.…"
Last November we posted the details and results of the first year of our prototype tilt rotor project. A lot has happened since that post, so we thought we’d provide an update. We also recently presented our progress to the Dronecode Foundation, and…
"Zach,Here are some thoughts to your questions-
Questions
1) Do you see any major problems with this plan?
As you accelerate to convert to an airplane, the AOA of the wing is constantly changing with both speed and your thrust angle and could be…"
Questions
1) Do you see any major problems with this plan?
As you accelerate to convert to an airplane, the AOA of the wing is constantly changing with both speed and your thrust angle and could be…"
"I'm guessing if planes are out so are VTOL's? I think a few people we excited to show off some new vehicles this year. Bummer."
"R.D. Here is a couple photos of our hot wire set up"
"R.D.- The hardware was simply threaded rods, stepper motors, drawer rails, and lots of MDF Board. Tomorrow ill get you some photos/video. If you have an airfoil or shape in mind and some dimensions message it to us and we might be able to get to it.…"
"Matthew- Thanks. We also like to think that VTOL makes a lot more sense for certain missions. We will be working with the software developers to incorporate our code in future releases. Currently our code is very specific to our tiltrotor (at an…"
"Rick- Thanks for checking out our tiltrotor. I don't know enough about your aircraft to tell you if your 2836 motors and 10x6 props will be a good choice for your v-22 tiltrotor. It will probably have sufficient the power to hover, but you may not…"
"The osprey build is a beautiful display of craftsmanship. I'd be devastated the first time it crashed. I may have missed it somewhere in his blog, but if he plans on fixing brushless motors in the nacelles and simply rotating both nacelles it…"
"@Lazy- If you want to know more about the technical details than the attached PDF described, please ask away.
@Jake- Thanks for the sound advise. There is no doubt we would not be here without this communities hard work. Thanks for pointing us at…"
@Jake- Thanks for the sound advise. There is no doubt we would not be here without this communities hard work. Thanks for pointing us at…"
"Thanks Jiro- We were unaware of this link. That is an awesome looking RC tiltrotor. "
