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Scratch-built monocopter tutorial

Posted by Chris on September 21, 2018 at 8:00pm

I recently made a monocopter(drone with one motor but can take off and land vertically) that can fly and wrote up the instructions on how to build it from scratch. Enjoy !

https://hackernoon.com/how-to-scratch-build-a-monocopter-an-airplane-with-a-missing-wing-8df6bfca58ab

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Sophie Wilson September 28, 2018 at 6:30am

Add another prop and it can move in many directions.

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Joe Breznai September 25, 2018 at 8:27am

Built one of these YEARS ago with an Cox.049. Maybe of some help.

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Stefan Olofsson September 23, 2018 at 11:30am

Cool. For all of you who have been on this site since around ca 2010: I guess this is full circle now.

https://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/this-week-in-marcy-1-aviation-1

Even your interior design matches Jack's really well :)

https://diydrones.com/photo/pi03?context=user

Thanks for sharing and good luck!

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