Vultee XP-54

[ratcheeroo]

My next build my friends, can't believe I am doing a pusher but going going with landing gear so that takes the fear element of it away. Going big , 55 inch wingspan. Pretty cool looking bird, should be a good flyer, maybe do an FPV thing with it.

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[Burkeomatic]

I've always thought those were cool planes. the late WW2 x-planes were pretty freaking neat. I have been thinking about doing the shinden myself.

[hondo76239]

May 6, 2022 20:41:42 GMT ratcheeroo said:

My next build my friends, can't believe I am doing a pusher but going going with landing gear so that takes the fear element of it away. Going big , 55 inch wingspan. Pretty cool looking bird, should be a good flyer, maybe do an FPV thing with it.

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Yeah, I like that one!

Been thinking something along those lines myself and definitely FPV

[ratcheeroo]

Yeah I have a cheap AIO and a receiver that hooks up to my phone that I have had for over a year now and never used. I think the app I have is GoFPV, good enough setup to give me a taste of FPV, but I gotta say the long range stuff is very interesting

[Burkeomatic]

May 6, 2022 21:33:54 GMT ratcheeroo said:

Yeah I have a cheap AIO and a receiver that hooks up to my phone that I have had for over a year now and never used. I think the app I have is GoFPV, good enough setup to give me a taste of FPV, but I gotta say the long range stuff is very interesting

That is all I have, is a cheap AIO and some Eachine goggles that I paid like $60 for (Although I had to buy a separate DVR I haven't wired up yet, should have just got the $100 ones). FPV is extremely fun. It is way easier to fly like that too. I have some long range capable planes, but I don't want to start pushing that until I get the flight controllers good and cemented. The Sparrow FC is good for proximity though. It will only let you go about 1000 feet out if you use geofencing. It actually works well if you take it out about a half mile, and hit RTH, it flies the plane back for you. I've probably only flown about a half mile out though, and my goggles started getting fuzzy. Only so much those little boogers can do. I am looking for a decent VTX/camera combo without paying a ton, but still has some decent range. 

I also want to put a camera on the mig, I bet that would be a blast. 

[ratcheeroo]

I have a sparrow but haven't used it , I'll be picking your brains on that one

[Burkeomatic]

May 6, 2022 22:23:51 GMT ratcheeroo said:

I have a sparrow but haven't used it , I'll be picking your brains on that one

I literally just used the directions you gave me. It took reading them and figuring it out a couple of times, because it doesn't explain the logic. 

My two biggest takeaways:

You need your trim adjusted manually because the gyro ignores trim from your controller. So trim your controller all you want and it does nothing, manual trim only. You think you have your plane trimmed and flying great, then you turn the gyro on and it all goes to hell. 

You really, and truly do need to make sure the plane is set at the exact attitude you want it to fly at when you power it up. The gyro remembers the position the plane was at when it powered on, and always tries to attain that attitude. So if the wind kicks it or something when you are powering it up, you have to start again, or else you will be fighting an out of trim plane. 

[ratcheeroo]

I thought we had discussed that before, now I remember. Good to know about the trim and attitude

[bwarz]

That's cool - I think it was you that gave me the idea somewhere else except after some digging I like the lines of the XP-68 just a tad better.  If there's an Xplane challenge, I'm in!

[ratcheeroo]

May 18, 2022 1:39:51 GMT bwarz said:

That's cool - I think it was you that gave me the idea somewhere else except after some digging I like the lines of the XP-68 just a tad better.  If there's an Xplane challenge, I'm in!

I think we can make that happen, pretty sure Duramax expressed interest in doing an Xplane. 

[Burkeomatic]

I called it the "failed prototype challenge" but the x plane challenge would be a better name. I was torn between the XB-42, the XF-14C, and the YA-9.