FT Bronco VTOL

[jpot1]

I was inspired by another club member to learn more about flight controllers and VTOL capabilities. I wanted to do it as cheaply as possible and found the old FT video where Peter Sripol showed a brief clip of an FT bronco converted. This project leverages some 3D printed parts that I designed/modified for tilting front motors and a single rear motor. Speedybee F405wing with inav v8.1 was quite the learning curve from simple soldering to all of the programming. A lot of YouTube was watched in the process.

I’m using FT C pack equivalent motors with 40a escs and two 3s 2200 batteries.

1300g without batteries so a bit heavier than I wanted but the three motors should output ~3000g of thrust with current props.

So far first hover test was a huge success. Next up a longer hovering test at the field and hopefully a transition to forward flight.

 

[Mr Man]

Cool! Looks like it hovered nicely 👍

 

[jpot1]

Success today! 2 hovers transitioning to forward flight and back to hovering. Overall tricopter mode was the most challenging. It would start oscillating in the roll axis. Need to adjust PID for tuning. Time for more YouTube videos. Forward flight was rock steady!

 

[Mr Man]

Success today! 2 hovers transitioning to forward flight and back to hovering. Overall tricopter mode was the most challenging. It would start oscillating in the roll axis. Need to adjust PID for tuning. Time for more YouTube videos. Forward flight was rock steady!

Awesome!

 

[FlyerInStyle]

How did I miss this thread...

 

[tomlogan1]

I was inspired by another club member to learn more about flight controllers and VTOL capabilities. I wanted to do it as cheaply as possible and found the old FT video where Peter Sripol showed a brief clip of an FT bronco converted. This project leverages some 3D printed parts that I designed/modified for tilting front motors and a single rear motor. Speedybee F405wing with inav v8.1 was quite the learning curve from simple soldering to all of the programming. A lot of YouTube was watched in the process.

I’m using FT C pack equivalent motors with 40a escs and two 3s 2200 batteries.

1300g without batteries so a bit heavier than I wanted but the three motors should output ~3000g of thrust with current props.

So far first hover test was a huge success. Next up a longer hovering test at the field and hopefully a transition to forward flight.

Will you share the stl files? I tried another version from Thingiverse and never really got it to work consistently.