Last week I was, finally, able to perform a maiden flight of my DIY wooden quadcopter (here and here). I will not say it was huge success, but it was a success alright. What went like expected? Well, quite alot. First of all, it flies and has enough thrust to weight ratio to do flips and rolls. And is pretty stable in hover. What went not like expected? It is highly unstable on yaw. Really, really unstable. Probably rear propellers are too close to each other and I have to work on PID settings. As soon as I will have enough spare time...

In a mean time, here is a short video from DeadRat's maiden flight:

Final configuration goes as follows:

  • Motor to motor diagonal: 500mm,
  • Motor to motor front arms: 370mm,
  • Motor to motor rear arms: 300mm,
  • Materials: 3mm plywood and 15mm wood spars
  • Motors: Suppo A2212/13 1000KV
  • ESC: XT-Xinte 30A
  • Flight Controller: OpenPilot CC3D (clone)
  • Battery: Turnigy 5000mAh 3S 25C
  • Propellers: Gemfan 1045
  • Start weight: 1212g
  • Hover time: 21 minutes

Next steps: tune it up and move battery to top. Somehow I do not want to construct a landing gear for it...