Blogs

Beeler UAV Part 5 (Death of a UAV)

Posted by Anthony Bee on January 16, 2011 at 7:00pm

 

This is the death of my beloved proto-type! =[

The crash was completly pilot error.. I wanted to test how goo the stabilize was by performing an aerobatic manuver, and turning on the stabilize mid trick..

Sadly while planning to do a loop, I turned off the stabilize mode, and a cross wing picked up the wing... (Alt. 50ft, Velocity 40mph?)... not a great idea.. haha

Great news is almost all of the electronics lived!

I am only out a Ublox GPS, 1800mah lipo, and an airframe...

What I've learned out of this crash:

  1. Im a horrible pilot with out a APM helping me.. haha
  2. I should probly protect my GPS, and battery better just in case...
  3. Never underestamate deprom.. I may be missing a nose, and fusaloge, but the wing, and tail was still in good shape!
  4. Never put anything before God! (I slept in, and missed church...)
E-mail me when people leave their comments –
Follow

You need to be a member of diydrones to add comments!

Join diydrones

Comments

  • Anthony Bee April 7, 2011 at 7:15pm

    thanks for your advice but this lil jet will saddly never fly again =[

    I hope to share my BIG bird very soon with yall, as in real flight!

     

  • Thon April 7, 2011 at 2:56pm
    Try a KF2 or a KF3 airfoil on your wing. If you go with the KF3 then you can use a 6x6mm CF square tube as a spar and stiffen the wing. Also with the KF3, you can use CF sheet or Basswood along the center section of the second step to act as a rigid mounting point for your tail booms.
  • Anthony Bee January 18, 2011 at 6:07pm
    In my past design the booms were made of Depron and acted like a long rudder, but my new design is just CF booms, with a inverted V-tail
  • Anthony Bee January 18, 2011 at 6:04pm
    The big problem Im seeing sadly.. is how my wing will support (2) 30" 14mm CF tubes.. My whole wing is depron, so I dont think it can hadle the torqe.. 
  • Anthony Bee January 18, 2011 at 6:01pm

    Nah I am working from a new air-frame watch my dev. video part 4 for my plans, and fusealodge.

    I saw a twin boom pusher on here somewhere?

    and I liked the design so i altered my proto-type design to fit my vision.

  • Russkel January 18, 2011 at 4:45pm

    Uh oh. Are you rebuilding it?

    Also out of curiosity which post on rcgroups did you get the plane design from?

  • Anthony Bee January 17, 2011 at 8:09am

    Thanks guys, I wasnt even mad/disapointed when I crashed..

    But so far flying RC in stabilze mode is really fun!

    As soon as I crashed my proto-type, I said... hey, lets go get my Cessna! XD

    The only thing I was disapointed about was loseing a Ublox =[

  • John C. January 17, 2011 at 7:29am

    I was going to say the same thing....won't be your last!

     

    I was completely new to RC aircraft when I started up here.  I went through 3 massive crashes before I was able to reliably utilize the AP, and most importantly, land.

     

  • SilverFox January 17, 2011 at 6:01am
    Sorry to hear about your crash, but it won't be your last. I have crashed several and they were all a learning experience.  Keep at it, don't let one setback stop you.
  • Ritchie January 17, 2011 at 4:25am
    Sad :( Don't get disheartened everyone crashes just a shame it was all custom.
This reply was deleted.