multirotor

If you haven't heard of the magnus effect I suggest you go to youtube and check it out, very fascinating how it works.' My idea is to take a multirotor and have 4 spinning barrels with veins on them to catch wind and create lift hopefully letting you ease off the throttle and conserve power...

I recently discovered a very easy and inexpensive way to build an FPV gate for multirotors, but I was wondering what other people have done to make their own. FPV gates are very expensive to buy and not always the most cost effective or easy to build, but I'm sure there are some easy and cheap...

I pre-ordered the DJI Mavic Pro towards the end of October. Unfortunately DJI has had massive shipping delays due to the unforeseen overwhelming demand for the Mavic Pro. Needless to say, I've yet to receive mine. Has anyone received their's yet? If so, about when did you order it? (I've been...

As Christmas approaches I am thinking of getting a Versacopter for my first multi-rotor and I am curious if this is a good decision. I want a small drone plat form that I can later upgrade, and the versacopter is right in my price range. If the versacopter is a horrible starter multi-rotor...

The beginner series was a great resource for me when I started in the hobby a few months ago. The series primarily/only discusses fixed wing aircraft. As many are starting the hobby with multirotors, I think it would be great to update the series to help beginners, such as myself, feel more...

Hey guys! I've been watching Flite Test for about a year now and am not new to flying, but this is my first post on the forums so woohoo! =D I mainly fly quadcopters, and am getting into the FPV racing hobby, but I'm really looking forward to building and flying airplanes. I've had a couple of...

Hey, I'm new to this hobby and I'm building David Windestal's Tricopter 2.6HV for my first multirotor w/ a set of a Turnigy 9x Tx and Rx. When I finished building, I had this problem where the motor to the front right spun up and began throttling up even when I was barely giving any throttle...

Hey everyone. I'm still fairly new to the multirotor hobby and had a question i was hoping I could get some help with. I have a QAV 250 running a cc3d. Im interested in switching to clean flight from open pilot. I have found plenty of resources on how to flash clean flight on to it. Just need to...

Hey guys, Over the past few days I've been building my first multirotor (H quad) and i finally have everything done but I'm having one problem. The 2 motors in front are spinning fine, but the 2 in rear are spinning slower and starting slightly later than the front 2. I've done all the...

Ok, not really but if it gets you to look then good.:p I had an idea to try on a Dragonfly tricopter. Instead of mounting the two engines on the center spars in the inverted position what if they were mounted horizontally to supply only forward and reverse thrust? They could also be used to...

So kinda want to open a general talk about 3 bladed pros vs 2 bladed props. My quad came with 3 bladed props but alot of people fly it with 2 bladed and they do seem a bit easier to find. So pros, cons, what do you guys think?

Hello! I am looking forward building my first tricopter that i can be proud of! Any advice and tips are welcome! I am pretty new to this kind of stuff but I'm willing to learn and hopefully make quality work! Still looking around and trying to find right parts for my build, so I'm turning here...

Hello My name is Sky Ive been looking into building my own quad for almost 3 months after using several begginner quads and the DJI phantom 3 I want to build my own quad.... that can go the distance I plan to start small and use the same transmitter with a better FC and Reciever but for now I...

I recently put together a new 250 size multi rotor from some parts that I had lying around from an old multi rotor I had built a couple years ago (It was a knuckle H quad) I got a flexybee frame to put the electronics on and sadly found out that it no longer flies due to the motors now being too...

hi folks i am newbie to multirotors, earlier i have made an 450mm quad with kk2.1 control board. Now for a college project i have to make a multirotor which can lift a weight of 6 kg , it should be autonomous ,fail safe and have flight time of upto 30 minutes. i need valuable suggestions on...

Question for you professors of quad fun! What are you setting on your transmitters to arm your FC board? Some people are using sticks in certain areas (like lower left etc). Some people are using a switch. What do you do? And, if you would be so kind as to tell me why you chose what you...

I found this motor online, with a kv of 2600 and a power rating of 260W: http://rclife.co.uk/Brushless-Motors/Brushless-Outrunner-Motors/DYS-D2822-8-2600KV-G-Power-Series-Brushless-Outrunner-Motor?filter=4 And I thought it would work really well on a miniquad, and it is much cheaper than...

Hi, I just wanna say Thanks to Flight test for bringing me to this step, and maybe learn a few more things about flight and with you guys (and girls) maybe build and fly my own airframe. So yeah this is me Ryan-Sam. I'm a University Student from England (UK) and I would like to think i have...

I have had an interest in multirotors for a while, and now i'm looking to build a diy one. I have a micro quad I fly around and have considerable amount of flying time on a "simulator" on my phone. I am looking for suggestions for basically anything; electronics, frame, flight controller, etc. I...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DREHnDY1WVk This guy has put an fpv setup on his h8 quadcopter. I don't know if any of you guys have tried these little $15 gems, but they are wonderful. They can also be reflashed to work in acro mode. He also has a video on how to assemble the 5 GRAM!!!! fpv...