Developer Comment by Pete Hollands on August 22, 2012 at 7:10am

Please can you explain why your post is associated with "UAV"  technology ?

In the mean time,here is a link to a UAV DevBoard / MatrixPilot based project that is similar.

There are two videos there of flights outside, with an auto-stabilized VTOL plane.

Developer Comment by Pete Hollands on August 22, 2012 at 7:12am

The previous link, took you people to the end of the thread.

Here is alink to the start of the VTOL thread, where the videos are linked.

Comment by Popa Stefan on August 22, 2012 at 7:19am

It is an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle since it does not have a human on board.

However it is not yet capable of autonomous flight, but controlled with a remote. 

Thank you for the link.

Moderator Comment by Graham Dyer on August 22, 2012 at 8:19am

What happens during and after the transition from hover to forward flight when roll becomes yaw and yaw becomes roll?

Comment by Popa Stefan on August 22, 2012 at 8:34am

Actually, nothing happens. The forward flight is just a type of fly by wire. 

So, by default the position of the aircraft is in hover mode. In order to fly it more like a plane, the controller maintains the position given by the control sticks, when the control sticks are released, it comes back to hover. 

But, roll is still roll and yaw is yaw as the axis are not changed. 

Moderator Comment by Graham Dyer on August 22, 2012 at 10:35am

Ok, so hover is like prop hanging and forward flight like normal forward flight in an aeroplane, i.e. not at all like a helicopter?

Comment by Popa Stefan on August 22, 2012 at 10:45am

Indeed. In forward flight it tilts and uses the lift provided by the wing to fly like a plane.

This is more efficient than an helicopter because  it can reach high speeds, while the throttle needs to be reduced significantly thus less power consumption.

Comment by james sowell on August 22, 2012 at 11:00am

http://www.horizonhobby.com/products/umx-hyper-taxi-bnf-with-as3x-t...

Comment by Popa Stefan on August 22, 2012 at 11:11am

We used this design as source of inspiration. However, I think that hypertaxi is pretty difficult to fly at a fixed point. 

Comment by james sowell on August 22, 2012 at 11:23am

are you working on apm2 to work with it

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