Tag: Airplane
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ZOHD Drift Review – a smart FPV glider
Airplanes are fun, and I like to fly them. Unfortunately, most RC airplanes have a severe flaw: they are big, bulky, and traveling with an FPV airplane can be a pain in a posterior. Sure, some can be disassembled into a few smaller parts, but usually, those parts are not small, and assembling the airplane…
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Ritewing Mini Drak Center of Gravity
Ritewing Mini Drak is a fantastic R/C airplane. Fast, stable, and thanks to smooth lines and negative swept wing, it looks great. Thanks to negative wing sweep and a long nose, it has a very unusual center of gravity (CG). Mini Drak’s CG is located almost at the leading edge of wings. The Center of…
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How to use INAV Autotune
Autotune is a feature in the INAV flight controller firmware that helps automatically tune PID settings for fixed-wing aircraft. It simplifies the tuning process by adjusting roll, pitch, and yaw rates based on flight behavior. How It Works: Autotune (or Auto Tune) that is present in INAV for quite a long time is a working…
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How to use INAV Autotrim function – since you should do it
INAV Autotrim is a feature in the INAV flight controller firmware that helps automatically adjust servo midpoints for fixed-wing aircraft. It ensures that the control surfaces are properly trimmed for level flight, making manual mode transitions smoother. This is one of the most useful INAV functions for fixed wings! Servo autotrim solves the problem of…
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DIY FPV RC Plane with foam board – The RedCruiser Project
Few months ago I’ve wrote about my first handmade Depron airplane. It was cool design. Super simple, with KFm-2 airfoil, durable and easy to fly. But it had few serious flaws: That’s why, I have build a second foamboard airplane. This time with pusher propeller mounted on a tower behind wing. Wing is almost the…
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Depron RC Plane Build – Everything You Need to Know
How hard it is to build a RC plane without plans and starter kits? To do it in “Trust me, I’m an engineer” style. In mid June I’ve decided to give it a try and right now I can tell: it’s hard, but not that hard as one might imagine. All the problems I’ve faced…