New material to make deltarotors from.

[multicopterdesign]

I guess this can go here because it is still experimental. I designed this in Autocad Inventor then made a prototype out of wood and flew it. I am still a novice flier. But it does fly for a beginner like myself pretty good. Plus it folds up. I plan to use the name Deltarotor on my drones, because of the controversy over drone vs toy.

I found a material that is light as wood and strong as carbon fiber to make these designs out of. The CNC is lined up to cut these out. These will come with custom cut aluminum studs with brass knurled inserts that accept a 3mm screw. The lead out time for the production is 3 weeks before I can get the first run cut and shipped out. Plan to sell these as kits. The weight with all the hardware attached will be 500 grams. This will fall into the 430mm class. This kit will include directions on how to assemble and dissemble it, recommended hardware and equipment, along with beginning PI settings for a KK2.1 board.
Now we can have drones that are beautiful, appealing to the eye, and with the strength of carbon fiber. These drones are neat in design and simple to fold up. The handle will provide a secure method to carry it, and at the same time protect the FC. The speed controllers are neatly packed away. The entire drone can be dissembled and assembled to add new components. There is room to add FPV and other accessories.
Fly something you can be proud of and easy to learn on without worrying about breaking parts in a crash or mistake made by the pilot.
Kitting these will mean there will always be parts available. The plan is to sell just motor mounts as packs because of the strength of this material.

The first one in the picture is the prototype made out of oak and pine. The second ones are from the new material

 

[ZoomNBoom]

That wooden frame looks awesome!

And wood is actually a pretty decent material, however, lets not kid anyone, a material as light and strong as (decent quality) carbon fiber, that just isnt going to happen unless its carbon fiber- or you figured a way to produce graphene.

There are many ways to define strength (tensile, torsion, stiffness, shear,.) and its not always straight forward to compare, but generally you can build something thats as strong as cfc, but its going to be heavier (way heavier if you dont use aircraft grade metals); or you can make it as light, but its not going to as strong.

If anyone does come up with a material thats stronger per weight (or produce graphene economically), that person will be a bazillionaire and will revolutionize aerospace industry, automotive, etc .