"Sorry for the lack of attention.  I responded in line from my phone without reading the postmortem report in its entirety.
I would share my configs for the pixhawk but bear in mind I only have a couple of auto-tune flights on it  and have only…"

"After reading this, I'm going to wrap the back of mine with strapping tape.  Really don't want to add anymore weight to the motor end but don't want it to shed the weight like yours did."

"I changed the shims on my motor mount to reduce the nose down thrust at full throttle on mine because I had the same difficulties you're describing.  At full throttle the plane wanted to drive the nose down into the ground on hand launch before the…"

"Thanks Ben for the tip.  I'll give FreeCad a try.

Mike"

"Found the link :
http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/drones/a-remotely-actuated-inter..."

"Looking for ideas on a front nose for my Talon build.  Was going to print up one of these but M3D printer is too small.  I've built up a foam cone for now but I'm sure it will be short for the world as I will have to land in grass, stubble, gravel…"

"https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11113
Try this; with some fairly simple programming on the board I can trigger my S100 using the camera control from pixhawk.
If you need the code, I can dig that out of my home computer later.  I hacked it out of a…"