This RC Plane can Fly Itself - Flying Plank Build Tutorial and Ardupilot Setup Guide
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- Опубликовано: 18 июн 2024
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Hi Everyone!
In this video I am attempting to break my RC Plane crashing curse by making an Arduplane Plank that flies by itself.
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You can find all the files and build plans here:
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For additional Ardupilot information check out my recent Tricopter project:
• How to build an Autono...
Ardupilot Website - ardupilot.org/
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
0:37 - Airframe Types
1:45 - Design
3:00 - PCBWay
3:50 - Installing Arduplane
4:20 - Before Assembly
4:52 - Assembly
8:57 - Setting up Arduplane Parameters
13:42 - Testing the Plane
Music:
'Three Sheets To The Wind' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au
Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
uppbeat.io/t/moire/new-life
License code: GF2GMUJIZVHJWLPI 
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Thank you for a great explanation of the KF airfoil. My name is Dick Kline and I am the inventor of the KF Airfoil. It has been tested on a Darrieus Wind Turbine and it improved efficiency by 47.04%. I salute you for your work. The concept originally came from a paper airplane back in 1964.
Having so much space but flying next to the high voltage power poles!!
😂😂😂👏👏👏
Hello, im a high school student in Turkey. me and my team had financial issues about building a drone prototype and your wing design blew our mind! Really inspiring.
Really inspiring and simple approach. Love it 😍
Thanks, dude! A lot of good information in here. Coming from INAV, I found Ardupilot/Mission Planner quite challenging. I'm getting there.
This is awesome! Loved it.
I want to congratulate you for your wisdom. You are doing this and many are not. You are sharing the good and bad to help us learn. Thank you. There are many negative people in the world. Ignore them --- they are jealous. My best wishes to you.
Sensible Build, awesome flight.👏
Thanks!
Great build guys!
That is brilliant and the video is really interesting and detailed .
Thank you so much for taking the time. To do this.
Really fantastic, I was very impressed with the stability of that model and how much fun it must have been to fly. I found the programming part a little harder to follow but nevertheless, it is something that I would seriously like to have a go at making. Thanks for sharing this.
Fantastic video, well done
Amazing build!
Outstanding job! Excellent video. Thank you for sharing.
Subscribed immediately! Clear and makes you want to build one immediately!
Really nice build Jakub. Well thought out and well explained. Keep up the good work I think you're going to do great things.
Great build. 👍
Nice work Ardu Pilot. That human fellow you got done alright too! Thanks!!
Nice, thank for your lesson
nice, thanks for the detailed video. Looks good! there are some nice ideas here. Dziękuję
Nice work!
Well done. Keep the nice work, mate!
Nicely done!
Thanks!
I wasn't even half way through this first of your videos I viewed, before I subscribed. You have an interesting but easy to understand accent, great organizational skills presenting material, great video simulations, and good background music.
I forgot to mention great father/son cooperative development. Wish I had that. My dad is now gone.
What is not to like? Keep going! - Jim
A modern da Vinci. Enjoyed the presentation.
Dobra robota! Super kanał! Super projekt! Sukcesów życzę
This is so GOOD! 👍👍👍
Thanks a lot!
Very inspiring!!!
Also I am your new sub - commenter - and liker --- really great job --- I will look at the patreon as well. I am sure your channel will keep growing --- give it time --- never give up. Thank you.
Superb !!!
Good Stuff!
Good job and good on your Dad !!!! 😉😎
Nice!!!
Well. Done
Yo I was searching for the Australian flat pack builds on RUclips. I couldn't find any so I looked up autonomous ardupilot builds and found your video!
Great!
You can make it a tailsitter by adding extended fins at wing tips and extended centre rudder as landing gears.
I had a thought regarding the KFm3 airfoil. To find the difference in energy usage in flight between covering up the steps versus uncovered steps. How much of a difference in flight time the steps make regarding the drag that they would produce while in flight. Hopefully it would be negligible. Thanks again for a great explanation of the KF concept.
Beautiful design and execution. For landing, how about coming in low, back off the airspeed, raise the nose high and stall out.
Awesome!! Gongrats!! Next challenge morph it into a V-tol... 😁
This channel is the find of today... Love it!
You should do more of this... You have the RUclips vibe...
Just joined your Patreon...
Thanks, you have no idea how motivating it is to hear that!
Also you are my first Patreon! I am beyond grateful for that❤️
To reduce drag, could you cut the back of the wing on an angle, similar to the front?
"free from obstacles", cuts to field with power lines on it :D . amazing video though, thanks for the inspiration!
(if only this stuff had existed back in the late 70's when my uncle used to break his months long builds in seconds!)
Nice build and fly demonstration. I started with a 3-channel motor glider. Moved up to a 4-channel trainer, and started building my own Flite Test Models. You should try a Simple Scout!
Yeah Flite Test models are great. The plane I show at the beginning is actually a modified version of FT Explorer, but it was a bit underpowered for good flying
This is great! But I have a couple questions. Al Bakstrom's Plank planes, upon which this was based, required for longitudinal stability for the center of pressure to not shift in flight. This can be accomplished using a symmetrical airfoil or a reflexed airfoil like Max Munk's M-6 used in the original Pitts S-1. This KFM airfoil is clearly not symmetrical, nor does it appear to be reflexed, so does its center of pressure move? If it does, are you relying on the Ardupilot to provide artificial stability? Thanks again.
Hot glue worked great for my first good models, and it's great for quickly getting up and going, but you will absolutely LOVE e6000 and CA glue. As long as the Cyanoacrylate doesnt melt the foam you use, in which case I'd switch to EPP foam anyways The amount of weight vs the strength you're getting from all that hot glue makes things a lot harder to balance and fly well. Give the other glue's a try, I know you won't go back!
Hotglue is fast, but heavy. Thin double sided tape is fast and light. But great build, go go go!
I made a plane like that before and we called it the big red boat. The engine was OS FP 40 and it was weak. We needed something like OS FS45 or 60 at the time.
Ditto. FS45 on my 'plank' which had a balsa sheet wing. Anything will fly with enough power 😂
Woow it’s awesome build my friend 😊very successful. Done subscribes
Looks familiar😄 but can it VTOL?
With bigger motors probably, Ardupilot can handle tail sitters
Oh hi, I love your channel! As for the VTOL, it is already on my to-do list. With a 4S battery and some airframe modifications, I think this plank might be up to the task😁
Good job here . What visual design software did you use for this project ?
This is a GREAT and informative video- IF you are open to it being one! As a 55 year old Engineer, I cringed early on at the initial design choices and soft and bendable materials used, as well as DUCT TAPE being used to both make the leading edge more aerodynamic and ALSO as a control surface hinge. It was almost as bad as thinking you will find ANY kind of real character development in a Star Wars movie. It was a very good idea to show what the Ausie's are building for Ukraine- the point made is excellent. There is a difference between GOOD, and GOOD ENOUGH. You HAVE to view this video in this way, and you will come to see that many "poor" engineering/design decisions are not really that bad- they more accurately, GOOD ENOUGH. Consider for example, the fact that none of the electronics are protected from "The elements" (that is to say the weather)- you COULD complain that everything can get wet easily.... OR you can acknowledge the genius- no need to do anything more to make sure the electronics stay cool. Lastly, this video is really funny.... the initial flying field is small. Very hard for a relatively inexperienced pilot, which this guy acknowledges he is....... SO, he goes to a BIG field to be safe- with ENORMOUS wind turbines nearby and even more enormous- MONSTER size power transmission towers VERY close by. These two things make the massive field an obstacle course- the wind turbines ready to slice your plane in half, and the massive transmission line towers ready to ZAP the plane like a bug zapper in your backyard. This video is not only eye opening and thought provoking, it is hilarious. WELL DONE!
Hi, thanks for such a long comment!
I just wanted to clarify that in a world of hobby RC planes foam, tape, and hot glue are the most used materials. Guys from Flite Test have been building great planes with those for years. Sure it could be made more durable by using balsa wood or fiberglass but there is simply no point in doing so for a slow flying beginner plane.
Moreover as you said some seemingly bad design choices were made on purpose, I could add a top canopy by simply attaching a piece of foam but I left it open to have fast access to electronics and to better cool the ESCs.
Also the perspective can be a bit misleading on the last field, those wind turbines were way too far to slice my plane, the transmission lines were closer but it was still the best place I could find around my area :)
@@BasementCreationsChannel - I agree with your comments. While my PREFERENCE is more refined engineering choices that lead to better performance and endurance, and quality, etc.- YES, what you say about the slow fly FPV community is right on- and it does impress me-very much so- planes that are built so simply and for so little money, and yet they GET THE JOB DONE. Good to hear the wind turbines are not so close by, and be careful with the big bug zappers.
Great model. No artf here. I’ll get those plans
Very nice. I need to flash my flight computer with ardupilot and try. I will still probably crash into a tree though.
Delta wings do need a vertical stabilizer. The one at 1:09 is stable because of it's winglets. Gryos however can remove this requirement like with the B2 Spirit.
B2 uses split control surfaces to act as a differential rudder. Gyro controlled.
Yep. His aircraft around 109 didn't have a vertical stabilizer because the winglets were doing that job already.:@@ColinDyckes
they do not
even planks can fly without a fin
search for "Le Brett'le"
neat
65 roll 45 pitch in self-level works for me on new builds, in arduplane and iNav. Landing in self-level is as easy as pulling back on the throttle and elevator, balancing speed for altitude. I highly recommend FPV as your next step, as ardupilot and iNav both have very powerful On Screen Displays, for showing you telemetry, while your line of site is no longer your range's limiting factor. Great video BC
Yeah, the 45 roll limit I set was a bit to restrictive, thanks for the advice! As for the FPV I recently got myself a Walksnail digital FPV system , so I will have crisp picture on the ground and nice HD footage from the air. I am also experimenting with Mavlink Telemetry over ExpressLRS with AirPort soft, so that I could control the future crafts by simply setting waypoints on a map
@@BasementCreationsChannel The ELRS Lua script function is uber powerful - it's funny you mention Walksnail, I was just -convincing- _talking to_ my fiance about why we _need_ to upgrade lol
I mean digital FPV is undoubtedly better so sooner or later we all have to switch. But the Walksnail goggles were way too expensive for my budget so I got myself a VRX instead. I am going to use it with my 24" PC Monitor on a tripod and you all can't stop me lol
How much more work would it be to add FPV to the setup?
I've made RC boats, jetboats, gliders, powered planes, airboats and the one time I used a gyro was on a jet boat to stabilise the vertical axis spin. I have to report I didn't like the result. Two reasons I can identify, 1. It was destructive to the boat's ability to surf, which otherwise self stabilises somewhat to the wave. 2. I designed my jetboat to lock in on turns with minimal sliding. So though it was great for maintaining a course heading, it took away the feeling of piloting the boat. Persevere with developing your piloting skills. Do new maneuvers with plenty of height to do recoveries and push your skills slowly. If you try loops, remember the g-forces act on the wings and too much dive speed can break a wing off. If you try rolls, do 360 rolls first and learn recovery the right way up before you practice upside down. Get used to the orientation changes for directions relative to you with a simulator. Stay well clear of trees and poles, pylons, I mean like 10 meters clearance. If you are flying upside down high, it's kind of cool to half loop up or down to switch back to normal. Flying is not like walking or cycling, a car, give yourself a huge frontal clear zone at all times. Be aware that too slow flying will result in a stall so practice with height so you have time to work out how to recover. Be mindful of reducing power and return it back to you before the power completely fails. For many hours of flying without needing a lot of battery recharges, use bungy launch gliders or get a slick glider and learn to do slope soaring. Slope soaring is quite blissful, I used to think flying gliders was boring until I saw the aerobatics possible.
_Good thing I have a volume control to kill that random horn and banging noise!_
How much did this build cost you? This is incredable.
Lol. Mother Nature loves the challenge of the word "can't."
Hello nice work. Can you do a vtol based ardu pilot tri or dual motors? ❤
Yeah I have a VTOL model in my plans, and this plank is actually an ideal plane to be converted into non-vectored tailsitter. So such a video is definitely coming!
While walking to calibrate you should make airplane motor noises!
Why not cover the KFM with film, so you can remove the vortex and reduce drag
Try adding some solar panels on the wing.
That plane actually flies.
Though it seems to me that it could be lighter and easier to fly. Even without on board autopilot.
That KF airfoil looks promising at first, but you could use just a flat wing for better performance as it would be lighter and have less drag.
The other thing, the foamboard, that with layers of cardboard on outside is a far better material than a floor insulation. It even allows to build a real profiled wing easily without all that rib structure.
And the last, not least, the straight flying wing is not quite a best choice. Adding just a bit of sweep, like 20 degrees, allows you to shorten the nose and reduce the vertical planes. Both improve lift to drag ratio and reduce wing loading, making the plane easier to flight.
One of my old planes. ruclips.net/video/yBKOo478_wo/видео.htmlsi=lURHB5K84DEJrYcl
After several crashes it has lost some parts, like the nose fell off, the vertical stabilisers got much smaller, but it was still quite flyable.
It was naturally stable, qutie light and slow flying, so no need for artificial stabilisation whatsoever.
Hi would you like to share more information related to the hardware that we use to build this autonomous plane?
Currently I only know about normal plane (Receiver-ESC-Battery-Motor)
Hi, you can find all the parts by clicking link to my Thingiverse in the video description
2:31 ahh the old kf step
A bunch of Ukrainians are now out buying foam boards.....
Already been done I saw a documentary a year ago with Zohds and LTE Ramblers in the background
It turns out there's a shortage thanks to the Palestinians buying it too
We prefer cardboard actually, it absorbs terrorusnia radar very well.
@@yakymua I prefer if you mofos pay for it yourself
You didn’t watch, did you….?
Did the pony tail help the piloting skills?
What if these had missile seeking abilities where as goal is simply to get in the way and fire compressed air projectiles at the warhead to disable it you could have 100,000 of these just sitting on rooftops in feilds wherever trickle charging on solar with a 2ndary battery to run the recording base station and linking them all into a camera network for live video mapping of area whislt simultaneously defending along with irorn curtain 177mm bbs at combined flightspeed and launch speed may be enough to peirce warheads and when in doubt just add an array of angles multiple projectiles like a shotgun and interchangeable weapons packages modular and easily repairable recyclable is key being more than 1 time use kamikaze although that strategy may also be used if deemed necessary to defend homeland
Горячий клей это удобно, но он слишком тяжёлый и добавляет много веса. Без скотча пенопластовый самолёт очень хрупкий, его обязательно надо оклеить скотчем и прогладить утюжком.
I can crash anything. If my mom were still with us, she'd tell you stories.
Try adding streaming video to the plane.
Well made video with on a channel with far too few subscribers.
Man, your ponytail, every girl will have to die for.
That means I even could have flown a plane I have a heck of a time with them
Really cool build but...
Those MG 90 servos will pretty much guarentee a crash.
Hey dude great video , are you maltese by any chance 🙂
Almost... I am from Poland 😁
I forgot to ask you --- how long can this fly for approximately?
Hi, during my test flights I could fly for about 15 min with 3S 3000mah Li-ion battery pack. Also thank you so much for the kind comments!
@@BasementCreationsChannel --- Yes Sir --- my pleasure - you're welcome and thanks again for the reply about amount of flight time....this is really great.
Now it's time to put a camera on it and fly fpv
I like the idea, but I have to say your choice of montage music is kicking it.
Pozdro z polskim akcentem.
I can't crash that? Hold my rye.
Great howmit kept missing the powerlines. I,pressive.
Ещё от них очень хороший учебный самолёт с бесплатным чертежом ruclips.net/video/tWwcpQmUuz8/видео.html его очень сложно разбить даже без автопилота. Вы просто отпускаете ручки и он снова летит. А если упал то не сломался. Это очень удобно когда вы только начинаете летать на моделях. Но он маленький и не может летать если ветер больше 5 м/с.
I was not able to finish because the background music
*sticks to balsa and tissue and a 1970s futaba on 36mhz*
until i see a glider stay up all day by itself, i find this all rather pointless...
the satisfaction, i find, is in flying a plane without cheating.
I can crash it I garruntee it
Wish you did a wing like flite test usually does. Dumb design.
You can't crash it mostly because you ain't flying it 😂😂
Most underrated comment. IJS
A uncrashable plane? Sounds boring. The fun to me is in the challenge.
fucking stress music!!!!!!!
I left a like on the video but why do you guys use the word "conquer" so much.. conquer a mountain, conquer the seas, conquer the sky.. its not possible to conquer these things... figure out how to fly would be more apropos...
I’ll crash it
1:34 will they send some to Palestine too
information 5:38 the load-bearing main spar should be located at Thirty percent of chord. a spar made of CF is Heavier than one made of poplar or pine. 6:52 aileron configuration is WRONG. ailerons should be 'cut out of' trailing edge of the completed wing/airfoil. 6:57 E PROPELLERs should be used. 7:12 elevon control horn NOT correctly configured. 7:25 still wrong. sources of thrust should Not be located so far outboard.! that outboard-located mass is Reducing roll-axis stability. 16:04 'small field' yeah, right lol.
Hi, thanks for additional information but keep in mind that it’s just a simple Plane made to demonstrate Arduplane capabilities. So the additional weight of carbon beam or drone propellers don't really matter, this plane was not made to be super efficient. Also the motors are mounted so far outboard on purpose, the goal was to take advantage of differential thrust and gain yaw control without a rudder. The roll stability is not a problem in this case as the plane has active stabilization.
@@BasementCreationsChannel and therin in the difference. Your plane is designed sub par, so it NEEDS electronic stabilization to even fly.
If the model is designed properly taking into account aerodynamics, weight, balance and other factors considered properly, it will fly better than that model without any electronic stabilization at all.
Dont worry, giving advice to these 'content creators' is like leading a horse water and then trying to get it to drink. They will never admit they are wrong because that would invalidate their video and getting them sweet sweet subs and likes they so desperately yearn for.
What a total prat
Why did you use duct tape vs packaging tape?
Just say no to useless CLICKBAIT arrows!