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Archive for March, 2012
Posted by xatled99 | Mar 06, 2012 @ 09:29 PM | 14,458 Views
After four years, I sold my trusty 450 frankenbeater last night. The Logo will be sticking around for a little while longer.

My Solo 1500 took a week-long dirtnap due to FPV pilot error, but I got it back and have it mostly patched up. With any luck, it'll fly again this weekend.

Repairing the Solo 1500 gave me the itch to scratchbuild. I drew some inspiration from these:

https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=792173
http://diydrones.com/photo/705844:Ph...6?context=user
http://fpvpilot.com/PVCTwinBoom.aspx
https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show....php?t=1542201
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAI_RQ-7_Shadow

I'm thinking of using some 3.5" square PVC as a fuselage and a fake cctv dome as a camera turret. I can probably source the tailbooms and tail feathers locally. Might get wings from http://www.flyingfoam.com/.