Mega Easy Glider Mod for Ardupilot 2.2
This is my latest modification of the EasyGlider to coincide with the official release of Ardupilot 2.2.
I call her the “EG 2.2”. The last modification, found here,
involved increasing the fuselage volume but this is a little more ambitious and includes standard tail conversion to an inverted V-tail, moving the motor to the rear in a pusher configuration, moving all servos to the control surfaces and extending the nose by two inches. The nose was extended to get the CG set without having to add nose weight and to make room for the larger autopilot and data logger.
The booms are made from collapsible fishing pole segments and house the elevator cables. The elevator servos are joined with a Y connector that contains a reverser for one of the servos. The ailerons are joined with a simple Y connector.
She had her maiden flight yesterday and she flies fine. As soon as the new Ardupilot and shield arrive, I’ll get them installed and restart my flight tests. I’m predicting much better success this time since there will be throttle management and I have a better feel for how the code changes effect flight.
I call her the “EG 2.2”. The last modification, found here,
involved increasing the fuselage volume but this is a little more ambitious and includes standard tail conversion to an inverted V-tail, moving the motor to the rear in a pusher configuration, moving all servos to the control surfaces and extending the nose by two inches. The nose was extended to get the CG set without having to add nose weight and to make room for the larger autopilot and data logger.
The booms are made from collapsible fishing pole segments and house the elevator cables. The elevator servos are joined with a Y connector that contains a reverser for one of the servos. The ailerons are joined with a simple Y connector.
She had her maiden flight yesterday and she flies fine. As soon as the new Ardupilot and shield arrive, I’ll get them installed and restart my flight tests. I’m predicting much better success this time since there will be throttle management and I have a better feel for how the code changes effect flight.
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Comment by spencerkleinhans on December 16, 2011 at 2:23pm -
i used my dremel to hollow out all the excess foam from the factory. i just have it rc for now, but im looking into ordering ardupilot soon. this thing carries excess weight very well, actually it makes it fly better! i just set the incidence on the tail to 0 degrees to start with. if i were to re-glue it, i would put a very slight angle of negative decalage to produce the necessary tail down force. as of now, i have about 5-6 clicks of up trim on the elevators from neutral. i also started my own thread in the airframe section with more details
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Comment by spencerkleinhans on December 16, 2011 at 2:24pm
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