The REAL MiniHawk // 3-Motor, 3D Printed, Opensource, Autonomous VTOL FPV Airplane Drone at UNR

[@stephencarlson6297]

Thanks Adam! It was awesome having you visit the lab here at UNR! Note to everyone here in the comments: Adam only provided a small snapshot of what we've been working on. There are other projects that I've been pouring all my energy into; something larger than the MiniHawk, which might make a bigger splash, literally? 😉

[@Jason.Manaigre]

...very much looking forward to your bigger design!

[@sanusiabdulaziz8545]

What an opportunity for visiting this guys, keep up the good work.

[@roystevenson9632]

Outstanding.

[@bl08]

Great job! However I always though that it would be probably better that the motor pods would be fixed on the wings and the entire wings tilt instead of just motors because : - air would be always free around the motors (dont need to make long motor pods to get clearance) - in transition lift ratio between propellers and wing should increase/decrease more smoothly - only one big servo for the entire wing should save few weight There is probably some reasons why most vtol don't use this design? What are these reasons?

[@aigslmnop6559]

tilting wing tiltrotor prevents up ending when wind conditions aren't favourable but will need clearance around

[@nickvledder]

I love your approach and the design looks very slick (beautiful lines). Thanks for sharing!

[@Kaspaverse]

Thought i will see a nice little aircraft. Saw the most military usable thing in a long time. Walking robot dog with a autonomous long range drone attached which can fly precisely and and makes high quality pictures

[@gregorydahl]

Thatllookslike a good tig to let ooff the throttle and glide down quiet

[@Walt1119]

Great video, very interesting, I fly rc, 99% fixed wing, have had a tri-copter too, Stephen is very lucky to have the position he has to be able to work and enjoy his 'hobby'....Thanks for sharing with us!!

[@m14srv]

the vertical stabilizers could you double them up and have 2 fold down over the rear fan during forward flight yes you will end up with a low pressure zone behind the plane where the flow is disturbed but you would most likely gain more in friction reduction

[@WilLSOwNs]

Change your propellers to toroidal ones, they are more efficient. They’re also more quiet.

[@Ridouane_Maiga]

What's the Xbee that you used to connect it to your pc please

[@АнатолийПесков-у2б]

Which program is used to configure the ardupilot, INAV or others, maybe there is a ready-made sketch for an example? I would be very grateful

[@gauravpandey300]

What is the flight time??

[@vargheseck-pg2wy]

This should have been the Osprey design, eliminating the stability issues. With tilting rotors not engines(like the Valor). The dead weight rear motor could also be dealt with -in the manner its done on the VTOL F35

[@dustinwilson492]

So cool. What does the designer think about jumper making money off his design?

[@RCwithAdam1]

He was not amused.

[@不忘初心-h8e]

可以打印这架飞机的 3D 打印机的最小尺寸是多少？please tell me

[@不忘初心-h8e]

What is the minimum size of a 3D printer that can print this airplane?

[@ashyslashy5818]

more people control

[@wildniscamper7276]

2:56 how about tilting the motor 90° and using the force in normal flight?

[@vargheseck-pg2wy]

Yes, that would be helpful, but on scale models it will drain the battery, and reduce flight time

[@linecraftman3907]

beautiful machine and a great story from the Author! The link to steve in description does not work unfortunately! Are wings 3d printed as well? Couldn't tell

[@RCwithAdam1]

Hey! Thanks for the feedback! I've updated the link. Yes! The wings are also 3D printed.

[@linecraftman3907]

@@RCwithAdam1 thank you for the clarification! I also found the capability to autonomously fly, land, charge and take off extremely impressive! Wonder how far you could push that :D

[@zeDoSauRus]

60m/s? I doubt that :)

[@googleyoutubechannel8554]

Is this impressive? High school robot team built a solar charging hopping fixed wing drone like this back in ~2010, and were by no means the first, what's new here?

[@ОлегКо-э9к]

бестолковая компоновка , у парня нет таланта и опыта , мамкин инженер, поверивший в себя .