"this sounds like a good idea with lots of development ahead!

well, first of all, there are lots of things that you cannot predict. i would suggest you to start with a small foamy, with simetrical wing airfoil. it'll probably fly, but i'm sure it…"

"an octa-V is not a bad idea, it has more vibration, but it works. a quad would fall like a brick in case of a single speed/motor/prop failure. looks really awesome, but i would not install an expensive camera on it."

"look for "singlecopter", made out of depron. more simple, easy to build and less drag. haven't built anything like that, but yours seems too complex."

"wow, 3.4h is really amazing for a electric plane this size! what motor and prop are you running?"

"you don't need the prop to be pusher...just mount it to the front and swap 2 motor wires, the motor will turn on the reverse and the prop will be ok!"

"that's the tricky part of open-source. the guys from china really loves these words, they can copy with low-cost components and don't even need to take their time to see how the board works.

i still believe that saving $100 on these things is not a…"

"nice tutorial, i spent lots of days searching for this info in the past!"

"Leo, how's the gimbal going?

i'm now starting to use my plane for generation of mosaics, was thinking about a simplified gimbal, with about 20 degrees of freedom for each side on pitch and roll, just to keep the camera looking down. not sure if…"

"ah, one more tip. about the airspeed, try to make a fuse on its base, so if it hits the ground, the tube goes out without bending.

on mine, i fixed it to the nose with 8 rare-earth magnets. 4 glued on the fuse, 4 with hotglue and a heatshrink…"

"is that the same engine from that video with high grass? do you have the takeoff speen on both of them? on the first it takes off almost stalling, on the last one it goes up like a rocket! congratulations!

also, thanks for the tip on the gravity…"

"Leo, do you have any hint, or maybe a source material, for cutting the styrofoam on the hot wire? i never worked with this material (just found it in Brazil about 2 weeks ago), this week i made the molds (clark-y 200mm) and tried cutting it with…"

"that's great, Leo! i never thought that the broken nose wheel could rip off the entire servo body, but problem solved, the takeoff on high grass was fine. but if you plan to fly always there, with this new huge motor and that big field, you can do…"