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*** This Group's Main Focus is to Help Assist in Any Way in the Development of…

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According to popular Swedish newspaper 'Dagens nyheter':

Drone associated today with the battlefield but in the future it over the…

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I have found a project that uses 299.00 AR Drone 2.0 as the platform for search and rescue missions. This is a very good example of UAV for good uses at toy prices. 

Details about the project are here: http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/TU_Delft_-_Search_and_Rescue_with_AR_Drone_2

They have even posted fully autonomous flight videos that look very promising. No…

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Video Series on how to fly rc helicopters / quad copters. The video above is one of the last videos in the series. Maybe a little basic for most here but good for beginners.

 

Complete playlist here:…

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Wow it is time to thank all the guys at diydrones for developing such a stable quadcopter that we are having fun over our swimming pool with my son and family. We wish all of our community to be with us!!!

Just sharing that the Aeromapper UAV is now ready to order with the new parachute recovery system.

Will very briefly describe a typical mission sequence so the basic setup of parachute + APM2.5 is explained (at the end). We think simplicity is king:

1. Assuming flight mission…

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This is a BONUS edit For all FPV Lovers !

www.fpv-passion.fr

The UAV is a combination of a plane and helicopter. Therefore it is capable of hovering and vertical take off/landing, just like a helicopter but it can also tilt forward to achieve horizontal flight the same as an airplane. This is done in order to maximize the distance and the speed of such an aircraft.…

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In the last few days I make some test fly for short distance.

On ground station we use YAGI 16 dBi antenna without tracking system, connected to XBee modem with 5 meter cable.

For distance ~2,5 km system work very fine...

 Mamadu take a new fin for better yaw stability.…

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Well its pretty late here (11:13), and all of the sudden, I REMEMBERED! The story goes something like this...it was probably about a good 3-4 years ago when I was a young'n ;) and I was bombarding Chris with questions. He was getting a little bit finicky but, alas, I had one more question. So I told him something to the effect of "If you answer this final question I'll name my airplane the Chris flyer." I gave my airplane its maiden flight the other day (the one I have been tinkering with for… Continue

I can't believe the treasure of information, and people that make up this website. I am so excited to have found it. I plan to be an active member from this day forward.



I am an eager beginner to all this. I have been flying RC Airplanes for only about 3 years now, and have always had my eye on the goal of using an RC airplane to get aerial photographs and video. I am completely obsessed with accomplishing this goal! :)



Here is how I progressed so far in the… Continue