Steve Fox
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Hi everyone, this is my take on the cessna 180 featured in a article here, I built it to the plans then had a few after thoughts and so there's internal mods but aerodynamically it's to the plans. One of the major things I did after building it is hack the nose back off and convert it to a battery hatch, wish I'd thought of it during building as it's a bit scruffy from being built then ripped open again!
I've got a full light set, steady white tail and white tail single blink strobe, white wing double blink strobes, the red and green steady navigation lights just forward of the wing strobes, top and bottom red anti collision beacons and landing lights when flaps are down.
Everything is controlled with an arduino nano.
Oh and the hole in the windscreen is for the telemetry antenna
I'm running an apm flight controller, GPS and video with osd, that's the reason I built this plane, I wanted something big enough to carry all the gear and plenty of battery power and was a high wing for the stability, I've built the ft racer and ripslinger too but they are not a good platform for calm "sightseeing" style fpv and have been flying all my fpv on a ft simple cub till now, it's actually pretty good for it, load it up with a 2700 3s and go for a pleasure flight!
Anyway, my highly expensive balancing rig is right on the stated cg point of the wing, what do you all think, too nose heavy?
I can shift weight around easily, there's two 3s 2700mah lipos where there power pod would have been.
the great thing is the second sits right on the cg so I'm not relying on both for balance, I can get the balance with just one if I want to fly on just one pack, removing the second has no affect other than overall take off weight.
Steve.
I've got a full light set, steady white tail and white tail single blink strobe, white wing double blink strobes, the red and green steady navigation lights just forward of the wing strobes, top and bottom red anti collision beacons and landing lights when flaps are down.
Everything is controlled with an arduino nano.
Oh and the hole in the windscreen is for the telemetry antenna
I'm running an apm flight controller, GPS and video with osd, that's the reason I built this plane, I wanted something big enough to carry all the gear and plenty of battery power and was a high wing for the stability, I've built the ft racer and ripslinger too but they are not a good platform for calm "sightseeing" style fpv and have been flying all my fpv on a ft simple cub till now, it's actually pretty good for it, load it up with a 2700 3s and go for a pleasure flight!
Anyway, my highly expensive balancing rig is right on the stated cg point of the wing, what do you all think, too nose heavy?
I can shift weight around easily, there's two 3s 2700mah lipos where there power pod would have been.
the great thing is the second sits right on the cg so I'm not relying on both for balance, I can get the balance with just one if I want to fly on just one pack, removing the second has no affect other than overall take off weight.
Steve.
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