This was the first idea I came up with when I decided working on 300mm, high endurance VTOLs.
It features -
- Total weigh of ~ 500 gms
- Payload capacity of ~300 gms
- Endurance of 19 minutes
- Single 1060 slowfly APC propeller
- Structure made of chloroplast
- Turnigy nano tech 4500 mAh battery
- Rimfire 0.1 motor
- MultiWii or a KK multicopter board
- 4 control surfaces powered by turnigy 9 gram servos
The model was highly efficient due to a single motor-propeller combination and a larger diameter propeller. The main disadvantage of this configuration, the chief reason why I stopped working on it, was because it was impossible to fly it even in moderate winds due to its large surface area.
The larger version for controller testing -
