L Edge
Master member
About 11 years ago, thrust vectoring became the rage. EDF's were underpowered and were very heavy(battery)and over time, they dropped out of the picture.
The 2 areas of interest is that wild acrobatics are now possible as well as exploring high angles of attack for slow and precise maneuvering. Have 2 EDF's going within the plane with differential thrust and you have a handful. A few even explored the front end by pivoting the motor/prop and it did some weird motions you never expected.
Bored, try some EDF stuff. Here is a F-22 and you can fly it in your backyard. I also explored hovering using thrusters, partial go due to lack of EDF pressure. Watch 1:57 sec for hover.
Don't like EDF's, do it with versions of props. The first is modifying a heli swash plate so that you get additional thrust in elevator and rudder movement and do either acrobatics or high alpha.
Here is elevon and rudder thrust vectoring plus a second set of canard controls for elevons. You needed 4 cups of coffee to stay with it.
I then modified this by putting the motors onto the elevons giving me thrust vectoring for rudder, aileron and elevator plus the canards as elevons. I needed 7 cups of coffee to fly that and within a few flights, it destroyed itself in the air. Flying is bored? Go try different things.
Josh should build and demo the trickster to the FT group.
The 2 areas of interest is that wild acrobatics are now possible as well as exploring high angles of attack for slow and precise maneuvering. Have 2 EDF's going within the plane with differential thrust and you have a handful. A few even explored the front end by pivoting the motor/prop and it did some weird motions you never expected.
Bored, try some EDF stuff. Here is a F-22 and you can fly it in your backyard. I also explored hovering using thrusters, partial go due to lack of EDF pressure. Watch 1:57 sec for hover.
Don't like EDF's, do it with versions of props. The first is modifying a heli swash plate so that you get additional thrust in elevator and rudder movement and do either acrobatics or high alpha.
Here is elevon and rudder thrust vectoring plus a second set of canard controls for elevons. You needed 4 cups of coffee to stay with it.
I then modified this by putting the motors onto the elevons giving me thrust vectoring for rudder, aileron and elevator plus the canards as elevons. I needed 7 cups of coffee to fly that and within a few flights, it destroyed itself in the air. Flying is bored? Go try different things.
Josh should build and demo the trickster to the FT group.
