Check out the firmware loading screen from the latest Mission Planner (1.013). Have you ever seen anything more beautiful??
Yes, APM is the first autopilot in history to support every kind of flying machine out there! (We already covered lighter-than-air with Blimpduino). Thanks to the great work of team leader Randy Mackay, the Trex 450 (traditional heli) version of ArduCopter is now fully compatible with ArduCopter 2, which means 2-way MAVLink and all the other mission planning goodness.
Randy will be updating the Traditional Heli manual soon with the ArduCopter2 details. One thing he discovered is that the Trex 450 flies a lot better with APM if you go flybarless. A Guai 450 flybarless head can be found for as little as $24.
Comment by Chris Appleton on June 21, 2011 at 1:31am
Comment by Rob on June 21, 2011 at 2:48am 
Chris A, we are supporting Traditional Helis, Quad copters, Hexas, Tri copters, Fixed wings etc ALL from the same firmware/uploader and that is something that no one else has ever done before. Also ArduPilot Mega platform have to support to Rovers and Submarines too. So we are supporting Under Water, on Ground, Up in sky and up in sky with multiple devices.
Rob, X Quad, X Hexa are both in there, we just run out of image space on APM Mission Planner upload page, you can select between + and x in software it self.


Comment by Jonathan Lussier on June 21, 2011 at 9:51am
Comment by Jonathan Lussier on June 21, 2011 at 9:51am PS
good work!

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