Here's my latest (and yes need to work out how to do the mix in APM, as all this is on Open Pilot, using 4 motor channels)
Perfect for Aerial Photography and FPV, camera will mount under the front, just behind the landing gear
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@swordfishbob - did you notice the powerlines above as well ? the wind also bounces off the wall to make for a great test spot...with consequences
little bit of info here http://kiwirc.com/kiwirc/2011/07/16/vtail-quad-a-sucess/ i will write a proper article one day
Looks good! You must have some confidence in the gear to be flying beside a road :-)
Do you have any writeup or pics of your "original vtail Quad" mentioned above?
@James - i had alot of sucess with my original vtail Quad, and the Vtail Octo, so love how well the Vtail works, the yaw is smooth and you are not reving up 1/2 of your motors to acomplish it - also when flying fats sideways, it counteracts the tail drop of a traditional Tricopter design - this design is there to capture the best of tricopter coupled with a heavy lift @Sandro - thanks for that, happy you liek them, its nice to innovate instead of copy the tried and true - i feel this will be better than the previous hexa i did when windy - its using the openpilot copter control board - i need someone to help me re-do the mixes in the Ardupilot ACM2 code, for this, and the Octo desigh (uses 5 channels for 8 motors)
Mathew I'm enjoying your models a LOT. I want to do at last one of your hexa configs.
They are very interesting, mainly on the V tail resource. It should improve the YAW authority.
What flight controller board are you using there? Congratulations by your innovative models!