FPVRaptor 1600

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FPVRaptor 1600

Postby penguin » Sat Oct 20, 2012 3:51 pm

My new UAV/FPV airframe is ready for maiden...

FPVRaptor ARTF from Schweighofer/Hobbyking
Wingspan: 1600 mm
Length: 1044 mm
Weight with Flaps, 3S/3200, HOTT-Telemetrie and Electric Airmodule: ~1500 gr.
Tomorrow is maiden and I'll see if it's worth to build in GP...

I've replaced motor, esc, prop and servos because I don't trust them.
Only the plane is almost original ;-)
It's pity, but you can only get it ARTF :(


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Re: FPVRaptor 1600

Postby Tom » Sat Oct 20, 2012 4:10 pm

Looking beautiful!

Any useful ideas what to do with the large internal space?

Let us know how it went!

Good luck!
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Re: FPVRaptor 1600

Postby penguin » Sun Oct 21, 2012 9:25 pm

I flew FPVRaptor with slow tailwind at mountain because my ESC had mysterious errors late afternoon
so I installed a new 40A Torcster and had no more time before sunset and too much foggy mountains.
No risc, no fun... But maiden was great and I'm absolutely thrilled about this plane!

With ~15° flaps and 60% throttle and handlaunch FPVRaptor rose as on rails up to the sky.
Flying is possible at a wide speed range and landings are amazing slow and exactly and with flaps
also funny ;-)
In my opinion the FPVRaptor is worth each cent and I will install GP asap and go on flying!
It's somewhere between Easystar and FPV168 and very similar to Skywalker EPO and thus between
the other both. If you push throttle it's like a crazy Easystar and 100km/h fast but you can fly it
slower than each FPV168 and thats the calmness you need for slow and safe landings...

At my favorite 'airport' - fog of horror:
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Ready for takeoff at alternative 'airport':
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Flaps down for landing - speed is surprisingly slow but control still exactly.
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Not that as well - air traffic!
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The Raptor must not be transported in the luggage space (or should I better write can't be) ;-)
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Re: FPVRaptor 1600

Postby Tom » Sun Oct 21, 2012 9:37 pm

What a beautiful place to fly!

There is a flaps-mixing mode too on gluonpilot but since I don't have a plane with flaps I wasn't able to test it myself... maybe worth a try!
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Re: FPVRaptor 1600

Postby penguin » Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:16 pm

I've never seen a flaps-mixing mode :o
But GP should control this without additional mixers, shouldn't it?

Do you have a suggestion for meaningful regular parameters at beginning for that plane?
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Re: FPVRaptor 1600

Postby icebear » Mon Oct 22, 2012 6:08 pm

Very nice airframe! Looks like it would fit in my SAAB too :)

Looking forward to hearing how the GP integration goes.


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Re: FPVRaptor 1600

Postby penguin » Mon Oct 22, 2012 7:52 pm

Hi Björn,

yes, your inputs inspired me to take that picture! Perhaps we will awake a transportation-standard on the 'parcel shelf' ;)

According to weather report it will snow here next weekend with temperature fall below 0°C. I thought I didn't hear properly. Perhaps and hopefully they'll be wrong...

Thanks Rainer
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