I Built an Ardupilot VTOL Quadplane from a $5 Lidl Glider

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[@AxelsDIY]

I like your approach of building fast and cheap. A fun way to learn about the technology. I've built a few VTOL planes with Ardupilot also. I saw you used my plane as an example in the video. Keep up the good work!

[@KnockKnockShows]

This could be a whole series where you 'pimp out' cheap toys and make them into advanced aircraft. Great video. Very inspirational!

[@Videolinquency]

Really elegant solutions! One tip from the full size world, though: The pitot tube (airspeed sensor) will give you more precise readings if you orient it a few degrees down to match your angle of attack during transition. Yours seems to be at zero degrees incidence, which will always be slightly askew to the slipstream, more so at lower airspeeds. You could google 'calibrated airspeed' to dig deeper into this. Thanks for an inspiring video!

[@hjvanderlinden]

Thanks!

[@altermannfliegt3927]

I wish you and your family a happy new year. Nice to see a new video from your channel.

[@wernerpretorius5354]

Looks like you had a tip stall on your second crash. Wing dipped and AP tried to counter but only deepend the stall. Flaps are generally on the root, wing tips are also twisted to have lower angle of attack to delay tip stalls If you had full length flaperons or just normal root flaps it might've been better but pushing it that close to stall without enough altitude to recover did it for you. Usually in manned aviation you neutralise ailerons, push the nose down and throttle up.

[@AddictionFlyer]

Wow - really like the project and looking forward to seeing your future builds - keep the great work up!

[@danielkukua1708]

3 motor quad :D would fit here better - 2 on the wings and one on the tail. You could even make the ones on the wings tiltable to point up or forward. Maybe the tail one could be tilted also ?. This way you would have only 3 motors instead of 8.

[@lucaminarelli3564]

Wow! That’s a great achievement

[@ones_flow5652]

Cool video! Thanks for sharing! About 40 years ago I had such a thing, but with a propeller and a rubberband which was used to turn the propeller for a while. Flew pretty well. But it had wings made of plastic foliage over a wire frame which could be inserted into the main part made of this stuff.

[@nikhayes3396]

Ardupilot is so freaking powerful, as someone who thought he knew a thing or two having “mastered” betaflight, my first ardupilot project was a real eye opener. I didn’t realize that ardupilot OSD works with walksnail, nor did I realize the screen on that radio shows a live map. One thing I thing I find really interesting is that the speedsensor mount saved the plane, I wonder if anyone has developed a “sacrificial nose cone” if nobody has, that would be cool.

[@HumbleM0nster3]

Earned my subscription with this one lol. Entertaining and educational channel, keep up the great work

[@davidpenfold]

That's really cool. And happy new year!

[@andreasneumeyer6550]

FROHES NEUES JAHR 2025! Es ist wirklich ein Super Video geworden. Selten, dass ich mir so etwas mit Begeisterung ansehen kann. Deine Technik, die Umsetzung und Ausführung ist sensationell! Ein riesen Kompliment an dich. Liebe Grüße aus D-59073

[@michaelioannidis2885]

Excellent work!!!

[@garyhilson7220]

BRILLANT!!!!!!!!!!! This video was just what I was looking for and I'm extremely interested in your engineering and design process. KEEP GOING!!!!!! What are you studying in College? Aero, Mechanical, Metatronics?

[@uzer12387]

Świetny projekt! Dzięki za filmik

[@deboies6591]

beautifully, it's really cool.

[@SebastienChedalBornu]

just a hint, when you wnat to take of and more importantly land always face the wind even in VTOL mode.

[@jotham123]

Ardupilot stall prevention just reduces throws near the defined stall speed (which you were still discovering, and the entered value may have been too conservative?). Minimum airspeed also needs to be defined appropriately (~20% above stall speed). The part of the wing that stalls first is the part with highest angle of attack. The flaperons aren't helping here if they are deployed as the flow would detach and you'd loose control. Better to not use flaperons at low speeds without the vertical motors going. Ideally the wing near the fuselage has higher AOA, that stalls first, and ailerons still give control due to washout. Something like 3-4 degrees washout is a great number for models like this in my experience. Makes a very big difference and from "tip-stally" to predictable and just increases sink rate when you go too slow.

[@hrdroneracing]

Nice work Jacob!

[@maddercat]

Yeah when you're flying in the wind, against the wind, and you turn away you basically have 0 airspeed so you stall, I've had this happen to me several times before, you have to really add power if you want to turn in windy conditions.

[@ashers_workshop]

that is soooo awesome! I really need to get into Ardupilot!

[@ioannisbatas1614]

Superb !!!

[@JulianMakes]

Lovely job!

[@sidrides]

Great project and amazing results ! Thanks for sharing !! +1 subscriber

[@trollenz]

Deserves a sub 👌🏻

[@Johnellenberger1]

Awesome bird!

[@h8er137]

Nie wiem czy nad tym pracowałeś czy tak wyszło ale poprawił Ci sie Angielski i przyjemnie się słucha, pozdro.

[@sgcdialler]

Nice video, and cool build! One thing to note about the Walksnail Goggles L: the built-in directional antennas point straight out the front of the goggles, and are completely useless when your head is pointing them at the ground 😂

[@ericseidel4940]

Some advice : for control surfaces you should never use the linkage to push, only to pull (avoid bend and flex, reduce flutter occurence). For horizontal stabiliser, effort are to move it up, so linkage should be on top of it. Additional benefit : servo arm would be upright, so not exposed to landing hasards. For ailerons and other wnd surfaces, effort are to move down, except for only upper surfaces like airbrakes. So for ailerons and flaps, servos and linkages under the wing.

[@nefcodes]

VTOLs are the future of private flights

[@N00dsA55Payments]

Dude, use 2 mitors for the plane function and mount them on the front or back of the carbon fiber rods. Also would add one rod so you get an H shape with the rod with one being in the middle connecting them for more stability. Trust me dude

[@dronepilot260rc]

Never been interested in V-tols wasted energy but this is an amazing video so I have to watch 😂it

[@ayaankhanna1722]

Where I'm watching this it released on new years. Good luck in 2025

[@timhorick94]

Im watching from the past cheers

[@Hilden0408]

great Instruktion!!

[@michaelenglund]

Interesting. However the weather doesnt suck. It is winter time. It is almost normal. A little too warm.

[@CosmoSimpDragon]

nice one im also gonna make smth lik this soon for myself

[@andreadellamico1217]

bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Lobonova]

Wow, i really want this.

[@MauricioHernandez-de8is]

Hi, could you increase the yaw authority using the horizontal motors in order to apply differential trust in hover mode? that will fix the quadcopter yaw problem.

[@javanoliveira8789]

excellent video. I was able to put the audio in Portuguese and I was able to understand much more. Do you have any videos that use Ardupilot with a boat? I want to build a boat that does missions automatically.

[@mauriceupp9381]

I love that Dracula speech pattern

[@maddercat]

really fascinating. I'm about 80% done building a tailsitter using betaflight 6.0. Really concerned on how to do the pids on it. I wonder if you can use the pitot tube to change the pids automatically with ardupilot.

[@oljobo]

Great video! I wanted to see more transitions though… maybe later? 🙂

[@wojtuz4542]

23:55 yeah it sure can "stay in the air for a really long time" :)

[@jamesmanning4786]

nice plane.

[@Brian-S]

The crash was likely from turning into the same direction as the wind was going and not having high enough airspeed to maintain lift. That's my guess at least

[@tempacc9589]

This is like those car videos which pimp an old mini car by swapping out everything except the chassis 😂

[@sherwoodp2738]

Subscribed and liked!!! I didn’t see your link for the parameter settings in the description. Do you have them somewhere it can be downloaded or can you send via emai? Do you know what was the water temperature was when you were molding the frame using the rag? Awesome tip! I am very interested in learning how you programmed your Radiomaster TX16S radio with the map, Mission Planner and Telemetry data. That would make a great video to consider making for us.

[@astratech3671]

Please work on a tail sitter next with a full tutorial including programming Please 💯💯❤️❤️

[@lundebc]

Good video, easy to follow for a newbie. The build is straight forward, but how are you recording the fob video ?

[@piotr.wozniak]

Super robota

[@fireskull2394]

Waiting for this ..........

[@jotham123]

needs more motors!

[@andreyl2705]

awesome))

[@ayaankhanna1722]

Will we see you do a video on the ardupilot cansat quadcopter

[@Sandokans]

Congratulations for your work. I just subscribed to your channel. Why don't you use, tilt. Motors?

[@dronepilot260rc]

Looks like you stalled it 24:10

[@sampamnl.8964]

ขอบคุณมากครับ

[@maddercat]

peetoh He was a french dude, Henri Pitot.

[@danymogh]

Can this lift weight?

[@dronepilot260rc]

The more weight, the higher the stall speed. Probably need to stay above 30 km/h to be safe

[@SebastienChedalBornu]

dangerous the way uou hold it at 27:40, better hold it on the top of the wing

[@_bs5349]

hi mate wr are u from originally😁

[@dustinhensen464]

Make it smaller

[@Eryk-gt4zg]

Want some scholarship? Lockheed

[@wingviewrc]

hear me out. Lidl glider with jet turbine.

[@WetDoggo]

Next: let's build flying bmbs for Ukraine out of 5$ lidl planes 😂