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Hybrid Plane/Copter - is this possible?

Posted by Andrew Bailey on April 23, 2014 at 11:59am

I have been interested for a while in the possibility of creating a VTOL fixed wing which transitions into forward flight after a vertical take off using multirotors. Finding this article prompted me to post this to ask whether this could be achieved using existing APM code. I suspect that this would be have to be custom crafted to allow a smooth transition from copter to plane mode. Has any work already been done on this or planned for the near future?

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  • Duane Wittaker August 15, 2015 at 9:44am

    Hey how'd your research go with this? I know of the 'BirdsEyeView Aero' which is pretty nice. 

    I'm wondering if there are any others and in what price range?

  • Havardr July 24, 2015 at 5:57am

    I have been thinking about just adding wings to my quadcopter, without any motor angle adjustment. I don't see any reason it would not work, it would just be terrible at hovering.

    Will work on the design after I get my replacement motor and my quad nice and stable.

  • Ultrafuge May 20, 2015 at 4:22am

    Has been done 'many' times. An example with APM: http://www.wingcopter.com/

    With KK2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qKHUme6ZVY

    A more intelligent one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DzqO1xBF7A

  • Gary Hethcoat April 15, 2015 at 4:07am

    Hi Andrew,

    I'm interested in pursuing this also.  I've seen some projects, but so far all of them use draggy rotating (or even fixed) rotors for copter mode.  What I have in mind is more like the V-22 Osprey, but with much more wing area for longer endurance.

    I'm pretty sure there has been some work done in this area, but I have also only begun my research.  Let me know what you find out and I will do likewise.

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