This is kinda how this build went...
I think I'll make an enlarged version of the Versa Wing like the Kraken. Lets see, 50% bigger sounds good...no, let's try 75%. Nope. Gotta be bigger. 100% bigger will be just about right! (actually, it's 102% bigger!) Awe, man. All the DollarTree has is black poster-board. Hmm, black...stealth...flying wing. I think I might have seen something like that before(out of the corner of my eye). Let's see, stealth has to take pictures, right? Add 1 GoPro camera. All right, for camera work we need a stable platform, let's add dihedral. This would look better(cooler) if I seperated the wing here and made the outer wing anhedral. Sweet, done. Not sure if this is still stable, but it looks cool. Wait. Where do I mount the motor? Motor? More stable with 2 motors! Let's add 4 more inches of level wing in between the inner and outer wing as a motor/esc/battery base. Awsome! Wow, those swappable pods just don't look right. Let's cover them like...this. Whoa! This thing is freak'n sweet! But it's so huge, I don't think I could ever hand launch it. Wheels it is. Ooooo, all my friends are getting Fat Sharks. Now I can put the GoPro to work. ...and so it goes.
Here's my VersaWing ontop of the NiteHawk.
Here's a side view.
And here's a front view.
I haven't "flown" it yet but did get air while taxiing in the yard at about 1/2 throttle. As I did not have it set up yet, it was very tail heavy. It nosed up to about 4 ft. nosed over and put a small divit in the yard. Didn't hurt the wing at all. Whew! Ok, no more taxiing until it's set up proper.
Here's a list of what I have into it so far.
6 Dollartree sheets of poster board 20"x30" (black)
1 Dollartree roll of green duct tape
2 cheap foam wheels (not sure where I got them)
2 Hobbyking Propdrive 28-26s 1100kv motors (supposed to be for my quad) (ordered more!)
2 9-4.5 props (1 standard, 1 counter-rotating) (supposed to be for my quad)
2 Hobbyking 30A Afro ESCs(20A would have been sufficient) (again for the quad) (ordered more!)
1 OrangeRx 6 channel receiver
2 20 gram high speed servos (ailerons)
2 used Futaba S3003 servos (elevators)
1 GoPro3 Black Edition camera (already had)
1 Fatshark Attitude SD FPV RC vision system (just got it, already was going to get it...friends beat me to it)
some piano wire for the wheels
5 lbs of hot glue (not really, but those cracks on top and between wing sections took about 5 sticks) :p
Also may install:
1 ArduPilot APM 2.5 (already have, again for the quad)
Hoping to be in the air this week.
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