BlueMaxx
01-22-2003, 06:37 PM
I'm building (from scratch) a small battery-powered VTOL craft that roughly resembles a V-22 Osprey in vertical flight mode. It has 2 main rotors (fixed airplane props with ESC controlled motors) and pivoting engine nacelles. My question is what kind of radio equipment would I need to accomplish the following control scheme...
Left stick, vertical: Collective/throttle increases and decreases prop speed simultaneously, controlling altitude.
Left stick, horizontal: Tail rotor/rudder pivots engine nacelles in opposite directions, causing the craft to pivot.
Right stick, vertical: Forward/back cyclic pivots engine nacelles in the same direction, causing forward and back movement.
Right stick, horizontal: Left/right cyclic decreases the speed of one prop and increases the speed of the other, causing a side-slide movement (and a little torque-induced pivot).
A heli junkie can tell that I'm going for the same controls as a heli with a main rotor and a tail rotor, and that I need a crazy computer radio to be able to create the desired mixes for this control scheme. Do you think that a Futaba Super 8 has enough mixing options, or should I go with a Futaba 9C or even higher? Is this possible at all?
Thanks...
Left stick, vertical: Collective/throttle increases and decreases prop speed simultaneously, controlling altitude.
Left stick, horizontal: Tail rotor/rudder pivots engine nacelles in opposite directions, causing the craft to pivot.
Right stick, vertical: Forward/back cyclic pivots engine nacelles in the same direction, causing forward and back movement.
Right stick, horizontal: Left/right cyclic decreases the speed of one prop and increases the speed of the other, causing a side-slide movement (and a little torque-induced pivot).
A heli junkie can tell that I'm going for the same controls as a heli with a main rotor and a tail rotor, and that I need a crazy computer radio to be able to create the desired mixes for this control scheme. Do you think that a Futaba Super 8 has enough mixing options, or should I go with a Futaba 9C or even higher? Is this possible at all?
Thanks...