HAL takes flight!


3689580443?profile=originalAfter several weeks of building, waiting for parts, and building some more, it all came together.  HAL took flight for the first and second time.  I have a lot of trim work to do over the next few days when I can get back into the indoor arena or without any wind outside.  It was very difficult to control, even in stabilize mode, so I used loiter mode for most of my flying. In loiter mode, even in a 12mph wind, it held rock solid in place.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/5kN3SXp5T1M

Flight controller and receiver mounted on the mid-deck  

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Kyosho Zeal vibration dampening gel, with double stick tape on both sides to mount the flight controller. Vibrations were 1 to -1 on the IMU logs!

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GPS and Compass mounted to the top deck

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Fully assembled, just need to attach the motors.

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After my first two flights, already broke the landing skids. They're flimsy, not surprising. Newer better ones on order.

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  • What motors will you use? I have a that frame but i am changing to a hexa and need new motors that can handle this frame, it was to heavy to carry a camera with the ntm 28-30 750kv 

  • MR60

    Oh my god you sacrificed Command & Conquer CDs! You would better have taken some dutch singer CD nobody would regret ;)

    Nice original build!

  • Ya. And I figured Command and Conquer was appropriate for a drone :P

  • I'm really digging the CD assembly. 

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