OK...wipe your eyes, and blink several times....Yes, its me....I am ALIVE!!!

Been missing for a bit, lots going on with family, church and work, but I am still using my PP and making stuff.

I figured I would let you guys see this. I designed it to use for FPV, since I have recently finally gotten to "drink the Kool-Aid" (FPV'ers understand)

The design is basic, meant to provide a easy platform to mount the VTX out in the wind to keep it cool, and mount the RC RX in the tail boom to maintain separation. There is a HUGE amount of room in the fuse, much more than is needed, to accommodate pretty much anything you can think of..even separate VTX/RC batteries, if you are so inclined.

You guys feel free to change it up, play around with the design..have at it. It flys well, and I am gonna install the FPV gear next and do some normal flights to verify range of both the RC gear and the Video gear before I go full FPV with it.

I still am not great at Sketchup, so I have posted a couple of pictures also to aid in the completed look. Any questions, just ask. I will do my best to help you guys out!!

Tim
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Thanks, Buk.....I will take a few more pictures to show how I have it set up, but basically, midway down the boom I cut in (after the fact, and by hand) a door to let me mount the RC RX in. It is just a bit in front of the servos for the tail.

The left side of the fuse, at the bottom, and centered under the wing, their is another hand cut door, allowing access to where I have to motor battery. Their is a hatch on the nose as well, on top from the front of the rolled over section to the base of the "windscreen" area that opens up to allow for OSD, separate VTX battery, and anything else you want. I figure on mounting my VTX to the windscreen, so it is out in the airflow to keep it cool, and the camera will be on the hatch in front of the VTX. I have plans to later put the camera on a pan servo as well.

I want to keep some fuselage in the camera view, but one could mount the camera in the nose, and leave off the rounded part, substituting a piece of foam behind the camera to keep the strength.....

One thing I didn't mention in the original post is the wing is a KFM....but I think it would be easy to adapt to Gefahren's single wing viewtopic.php?f=34&t=1021&p=8921#p8921

which I want to try as well...

Tim
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Love the cast and the plane. Might be good for Randy Covington huh? :roll: Have it ready for SEFF. I'll wear my hat, remember?

 

That is just begging to have wingtip floats added to it and a boat type fuse made

 

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