How to build an Autonomous UAV for Long Range FPV & Autonomous Missions - Flying Wing

How to build an Autonomous UAV for Long Range FPV & Autonomous Missions - Flying Wing
I've linked the electronics down here:
Matek F405-WTE: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_Dlk...
Matek F411-WTE: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_Dl1...
Racerstar BR3536 950kv Motor: usa.banggood.com/custlink/GDK...
Hobbywing 40A ESC: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DBK...
MG90 Servo's: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_Dmw...
FrSky X8R Receiver: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DFC...
Eachine TX805 800mW VTx: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DFx...
Beitian BN-220 GPS: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DFN...
My Radio, FPV Goggles & Antenna's:
Eachine EV800D: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DCx...
FrSky Taranis X9D Plus SE: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DCw...
Triple Feed Patch Antenna's: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DCg...

[@AeroStuffFPV]

Link to the Electronics Matek F411-WTE Flight Controller: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_m0p... iRotor 5010/750kV Brushless Motor: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_onn... Hobbywing 40A ESC: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_okD... 12x6 Propeller: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_Eu7... MG90S Servo's: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_oCK... Beitian BN-180 GPS: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_oE6... 5.8Ghz 600mW Video Transmitter: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_Eyj...

[@hradynarski]

@AeroStuffFPV Where are you getting depron that size or in general? Thanks for great videos.

[@asdf-uj7wv]

Hi, a question regarding the hardware.. I am building a ton of stuff with Raspberry Pi (automated boats/subs, machines etc) and wondering - why don't you use them? A pi is significantly cheaper than this flight controller and even allows you to code your logic in it or do some remote stuff through LTE. I am using it with big success on boat drones, but of course, those are different than planes - maybe you have some words to it ;D (mainly cuz at the beginning things often crash/blow up/..and that's expensive;DD)

[@jays233]

Do you have a video explaining how to set up all the electronics? That would be sick

[@iloveaviation-burgerclub-a8145]

5.8 GHz is illegal at 600mW in Europe and is also the wrong frequency for long range fpv. Go for the 800MHz band which is also illegal but works 😊 It is vital in hobby long range (illegal!) to have permanent live stream and 360deg view with a moving cam for airspace control. I will never advise to do this! A glider colliding with a drone can lead to catastrophic events causing fatalities. I think no hobby is worth this! And no ego should be bigger than that.

[@IllesticSnippets]

Hey aerostuff, would you be able to make a thrust vectoring drone? would be interesting to see

[@k1ortia]

Absolutely crazy what can be achieved, with just some foam, electronics and imagination..bravo brother 👏🏽👌🏾

[@Sp3ktral22]

👍🏾 like a younger, cooler version of me. I wish back in the 80s there was an aviation role model like you. Kudos

[@TechplantChannel]

DUDE, I love your videos, the results you get with stuff anyone can afford and build is amazing. Once I find some time I wanna build stuff like this. KEEP UP THE FANTASTIC WORK I LOVE IT

[@Zoey_the_Rat]

You builds get better and better, keep doing a great job

[@michaelwhinnery164]

Well done young man I like your style. These are simple designs built out of affordable materials and easily sourced electronics. I'm looking forward to seeing just what this model and your future designs are capable of.

[@alancalvert953]

Very cool! I love the efficiency of flying wings.

[@Graybear78]

Excellent job! Excellent explanation of construction steps. You make it look so easy. Thank you.

[@jimross898]

Love this design. One if my favourite foam board wings is the FT Spear. Your plane takes that and builds on it. Weaknesses of the Spear are it won't take a large battery and air to the prop is dirty with the blunt back end. You've addressed both those issues. Moving that motor back allows larger batteries and the tapered back end really helps with clean air. You can hear in your video how quiet it is for a pusher. I found the Spear flies better with the larger center vertical stablizers. Less yawing around. Would be interesting to try that on your plane. Regardless, you've built a nice looking wing. Docile and stable.

[@wilfredo1734]

Estoy fabricando mis alas de Foam, con los planos que FliteTest. Vuelan de maravilla a igual que esta del vídeo.

[@AeroStuffFPV]

Sharp Eyes! This design was indeed inspired by the FT-Spear, I love the pratical 'central-pod' idea of the Spear, in relation to other flying wings, which have everything built in the wing-structure itself. Note that the hand-launch adjuct acts as an additional stabilizer, which eliminates the need for additional stabilizers on the wings. Less pretty, but practical & safe!

[@TheRoadtoGonzo]

Great tutorial, thank you for sharing I really appreciate it. This will probably be the first plane I build when I switch to wings here pretty soon, awesome 👍

[@InfiniteNesLives]

Great work on this design! Thanks for sharing, your explaination and details really make a build like this feel approachable for a noob. Excited to see the future of this project!

[@megauti]

Thank you very much for all the details.

[@dave20874]

Way to go! That design flies really well.

[@jojo-._.]

Nice! Comment for algorithm but dammit this video deserves it. Very well done. Especially the Air to air shots look so professionel!

[@21bCreations]

Impressive build. Congrats!

[@Archer_82]

Great design and fabulous job communicating it! Thanks for sharing.

[@TomTalley]

Thank you for the amazing patient detail. I've always thought a wing was the right way to do it.

[@Zoey_the_Rat]

Not really, wings are tougher to balance, fly worse in terms of stability and are generally less efficient than conventional designs due to wing sweep and reflex, which are needed if you want it to fly at all. Dolphin and nanogoblin are very smart exceptions to this rule though

[@AeroStuffFPV]

FPV Flying wings are more efficient than conventionals & V-Tails (No fuselage, empenage/stabilizers, less weight), but are trickier to balance (narrow CG tolerance). No need to reflex when balanced perfectly or slightly tail-heavy. This particular design does just 2.4-2.8A to cruise without losing altitude. My V-Tail's, Twin-Booms & Conventionals aren't keeping up on that. ​@@Zoey_the_Rat​

[@stoneageprogrammer432]

Man, this is insanely great. I've never built a drone before, and I've just gotten really interested in FPV after seeing what the Ukrainians have done with drones to fight Putin and rock his oil industry. My dad used to build RC planes, he was an engineer. I'm a computer science student, and I love flight sims. But an autonomous drone? Very cool. Subbed you, you rule, man.

[@codefallacy]

really outdid yourself with this one, great job!

[@digado]

great job - I'm really enamored by this one - I'm going to building one of these soon. Thank you!

[@keystonepirate2534]

Amazing work as always, really like this build.

[@robaust3049]

Nice build and great explanation.

[@FBPrepping]

Awesome! Thanks for all the details.

[@hrdroneracing]

Great flying footage man!

[@shootersix]

VERY impressive. Well done!

[@user-wg6ik1wi6s]

Omg that is awsome! great build

[@user-kp9hq1sq8t]

Kudos to you sir such a beautiful piece of technology and design is awesome

[@FLEARMOY]

Excellent build video thanks for uploading .👍

[@malcolmking752]

great work. very inspiring.

[@EndiHamid]

Thank you so much for sharing this

[@user-ty9zg8vv9v]

Good flying demonstration

[@HolaACchillin]

Cool wing!

[@cadbuildflyrc3784]

Wow. I love your channel. I would like to build a long range FPV plane one day.

[@carliusanders]

Great work!

[@Tech2C]

Great build!

[@ShahriarFarkhan]

Fantastic work! Subscribed!

[@tggggggtttttttttt6992]

Nice, simple , easy to made and it can fly 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@DrSanaullahkhan98]

Excellent peace of work, a great accomplishment, all the best and keep it up..

[@chainbenwa2713]

Nice! I like wings because they’re so efficient but I always end up going back to T or V tail. Maybe I just haven’t flown a truly stable wing yet.i just might copy this one! Looks great

[@AeroStuffFPV]

It's worth the challenge. When built & balanced correctly, they're superior!

[@creativealtone]

Super cool!

[@hawtsauce6178]

great video!

[@OneAverageHuman]

Excellent video! Thanks for sharing.

[@AeroStuffFPV]

Glad you enjoyed it 😎

[@LADY_JEMIMA_FORTESCUE]

Your skill are amazing

[@dominiq4343]

Great design! I am going to try to built a similar plane.

[@ioannisbatas1614]

Superb !!!

[@mrglasecki]

Nice work

[@guatagel2454]

Thank you!

[@brendendas]

Great build. I'm sure the hand launch contraption also adds to lateral stability due to acting like a tail.

[@AeroStuffFPV]

Correct !

[@owais146]

SPLENDID MAESTRO

[@Sir1Johnson]

I love the music💯✊🏿

[@pilotmiami1]

Bravo.perfect

[@AerialWaviator]

A very impressive design. It reminds me somewhat of blended wing designs. Evolving the fuselage pod to be more 'blended' aerodynamically may offer additional efficiencies. A possible future experiment, once have learnt how well and optimized the Silver Heron's performance. Thanks for sharing and providing inspiration to many. ♥😎👍

[@ArneChristianRosenfeldt]

I like the cone tail. It gathers most of the boundary layer and reaccelerates it to avoid flow separation and turbulence in the wake. A blended wing cannot do this. Twin boom and flying wings have this pusher prop. Let's utilize it to the max. The fuselage needs a nose point slightly downwards like on Sukhoi fighter . Then it inherits camber from the airfoil of the wing. Cone points downwards to the back.

[@ydrts_915]

First, another awesome vid; many thanks and keep up the great work! Second, mainly inspired by you I’m building a long range rc plane as well. Due to this vid I stopped testing my previous build and started on a wing as well. I’ve been going back and forth on the design because I really like larger diameter prop (less noise, greater efficiency), but especially with a wing now, I’m afraid I’ll kill the prop on every landing. Your ‘hand toss handle’ (as seen in your latest vid) seems to have saving props as a welcome ‘side effect’. But drag and nose down pitch tendency were holding me back. Guess i should ignore that as you’ve demonstrated those impressive results!

[@AeroStuffFPV]

Good luck on your wing! There is no downthrust when the centerpoint of the motor (shaft!) is at the same height as the bottom surface of the wings.

[@CarlosChavez-gs1ld]

Well done videos as always. I like your videos because they are informative, straightforward, and lack the extra fluff that is just not required. Quick tip for future videos- your discussing the mAhr figure is misleading to those who probably don't know better, which is likely +95% of your viewership. YES, you CAN, as you do, use this number BEGIN to discuss endurance with certain size batteries, but there are two problems with that- that discussion is NOT to be confused with actual efficiency of flight, and- your mAhr/km will change dramatically given the weight of the battery in UAV's like this, as the weight of the batteries are a very significant % of the total. Anyhow, efficiency calculations require power being consumed, not current, and you also need either good distance or time and velocity information as well as the total weight of the UAV. There is enough information here (when combined with one simple guess/rounding number) to calculate power a few ways. I arrived at 62.6 and 63.6 average watts. I don't know the weight of this UAV, but given the 83.7 Seconds average time to cover 1km, you used 5,281 Joules per km. Joules and Weight - NOW you can start to discuss true aerodynamic efficiency. Lastly, there are ALL KINDS of Aerodynamic efficiency calculations to make, so it is always good to provide enough information so that people can understand your figures, and use them to compare to others. For example, in package delivery, they only thing they really want to know the total energy per kg*km. In other areas, like surveillance, duration is paramount, and many hours are expected, and you talk about total energy per hour given a certain payload and speed... etc., etc. Anyhow, this is just a technicality compared to all you do, keep up the good work.

[@paulbrouyere1735]

Great build! You could make it lighter by cutting out some parts of those fill in pieces.

[@alterego2421]

super sick

[@dubster4173]

Another great vid. Could you do one just on how to set up the electronics ? Cheers.

[@secret_wasfa]

You're absolutely Genius 🤔

[@AKASHDEEPSYS]

Bro make a VTOL And also include basic wiring and config too!! Hats off to you Amazing content.

[@haydenc2742]

When you glue in the large square "filler" sections...could you hollow then squares out to reduce the weight..even if it's a few grams? Very very cool build and the thing just looks like it wants to fly! Subbed! Keep em coming!!!!

[@dronepilot260rc]

Yessir I’m sure this will fly much longer than the conventional long range planes

[@user-cw3vo8hv5u]

Thanks for sharing. Do you have a detailed BOM list?

[@Alice8000]

COOL

[@kennyking9667]

Happy new year

[@koopakoop]

this is awesome

[@AeroStuffFPV]

Thanks! 😎

[@k1ortia]

Reminds me of the reptile S800 wing. Built like a Tank, and cheap as hell.

[@CoLiC2]

Beautiful! I understand that Depron is a very nice material to work with, but I really want you to start doing carbon fiber planes! It's so easy and it's so so so much stronger!

[@peterboy209]

Hm, i like this "low tech" approach. And it's cheaper.

[@CHTO82]

Great work! If possible, could you tell us how you set up the software for flight computer? Im curios about the challenges with a delta wing.

[@wilfredo1734]

Saludos, magnífica ala con fácil construcción. Así aprendimos con el colega de ExperimentalAirlines

[@alexanderfuhrmann492]

Can you provide more information about the autopilot? As always, thanks for your inspiring work

[@irom77]

I would love more detailed material specification

[@hauskatzer764]

love it and your work, is it possible to cover the foam board in dry carbon fiber + epoxy?

[@szabolcs__]

you get my like because , kid can build this

[@robertcretu4363]

Very cool, what kind of average speed can it maintain at the 3ah throttle?

[@alantoseland6629]

I'm about to build this very interesting wing, as I've never built a foambord wing before. Just a couple of questions, relex, throws and prop size please

[@mesenes77]

Awesome build! One question, where can I get motor mounts like yours?

[@csshep]

Awesome! You should sell some kits! What is the max theoretical (no head or tail wind) range in km of this drone equiped as shown? Equiped with additional battery and more performant prop?

[@nathanz7205]

Thank you for this very informative video, quick question. Where would the best place online or in person to get 5mm XPS foam already cut for this purpose? All of the places in the USA on the East Coast only have the pink 1/2in insulation boards and i cant find any good online places to get boards that are already cut to the depth i need. I dont mind having to shave down a huge insulation board but the boards you use in the video make so much more sense than making my room into a huge mess.

[@Zoey_the_Rat]

Look in flooring sections. These sheets are used as a barrier between concrete floor and wooden surface

[@Mardn047]

Will there be a video about lion batteries?

[@iqtech_organisation]

Good evening from nigeria Ive been following you for a while now and its my first time commenting. I'ld like to make your projects but i dont have acess to the materials

[@jasonwoodruff9131]

Another great video. ? I’ve looked all over for videos of how to flash the flight controller. And I have found none. I just built my first drone and I’m using the speedybee f405 v3 on a 7 inch drone. My receiver is a coolrc flysky fs-x6b and my transmitter is a flysky fs i6x. Please help I don’t know where to find the info that it’s asking for

[@AlirezaRadRadSadeghinia-ng1yq]

That plastic glue doesnt melt the foam ? is there any heat adjustment needed to be performed on the glue gun ?

[@creativealtone]

Can you add a link for the packing tape you use?

[@ThePrintZone123]

hey can you make a video on how to design rc planes/ how you design them

[@vishnum9289]

Nice Build, but please heat shrink the solder joints of your XT60!

[@imrantayab]

First! I haven't even finished watching and I know I'm going to try and build this.

[@dominiq4343]

Same here, lets build it. I will build a 130 cm wingspan plane made from xps as well and wood, with Black and Red tape.

[@bogus_not_me]

Two missing things the test flight showed but your build video did not. Aileron servo hook up for elevon control, and camera. Pretty critical points!!

[@mgav459]

Can you tell us what you are using for a motor mount?

[@pick_pick_pick]

Congratulations, I truly enjoyed it, keep going

[@blueskyfpv]

Cool wing and build video. Thanks for sharing it. Just a quick question. What is the motor you used on the wing in the video? At 19:33 there is a clear picture of the motor, but it doesn't look like a Racerstar 3536 which is listed in the description. From your flight, it seems like it is a very efficient motor.

[@AeroStuffFPV]

Corrected link! It's a 5010-Size 750kv

[@aidan4472]

Question for flying wing, as I do plan on building one Inboard or outboard prop?

[@asjad1814]

Where I should put the carbon fiber spar ? As I have 1m long spar and I dont want to cut it, can I put it way back at the end, or does it have to be at CG?

[@swecreations]

Do note that 90-degree angles are never the best when it comes to aerodynamic design. 👍

[@blackpepperprepper2025]

Hi! Did you use just normal clear hot glue or was that something special for the foam board?

[@andrewhofmann5453]

Where were these flights filmed? Looks alot like the coastal towns here in Texas.

[@Hamza_ah76]

Great build, i saw your other uav builds too but i cant decide what to build i want to make the most efficent so it goes far, the fastest and easyest to make, can you tell me (send me the video link) thanks you

[@MattFrohnapple-ku7tx]

Great video, I really want to get into this, I would buy all the electronics you have listed but I have no idea where to start, can you help me?

[@kieren7763]

On the slow approach it kinda looked like a manta ray floating through the sky very slow for a heavy wing

[@Arrowrude]

Is it possible to install a small solar Panel?

[@DronerDan]

do you have a link to the foam board you used?