Hai Tran's Blog – September 2011 Archive (4)

The worlds first ArduJet - F22 Raptor Twin 70mm EDF fitted with ArduPlane

A couple of weeks ago I posted  blog on fitting an the APM in an electric ducted fan.

http://www.diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/the-worlds-first-arduplane-f22-twin-edf

 

Today, I flew it with APM stabilize enabled.  I tried to do a…

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Added by Hai Tran on September 24, 2011 at 1:30am — 2 Comments

The worlds first ArduPlane F22 Twin EDF

I've final finished setting up the worlds first (to my knowledge, and until proven otherwise) ArduPlane F22 Twin EDF with thrust vectoring, flaps, slats, and retractable undercarriage.  It flies using delta wing mixing.  With 6S 4000 mah.

Take off weight: 2.0 kg

Max thrust: 2.5 kg

 

Pre-flight complete, with Manual, Stabilize and FBW modes currently programmed.  This should make this aircraft easier to fly.  With a huge elevator on the back I might have to reduce…

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Added by Hai Tran on September 16, 2011 at 4:49am — 17 Comments

Skywalker V4 Mk2: Spin and Recovery

I almost lost my Skywalker today after making adding dual rates to my radio.  Originally I had 60% rates on both manual and stabilised flight modes, but I found on stabilised flight it was very sluggish, but perfect on manual.  So I set 100% throws on stabilised flight which as I found out is way too much.

 

A few minutes into the flight, on turning crosswind it went into a spin.  Probably induced by too much elevator and aileron.

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Added by Hai Tran on September 11, 2011 at 3:02am — 1 Comment

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