Peace Drone scratchbuilt collapsible FPV platform

Here's an idea for a collapsible canard planform UAV/FPV aircraft I designed.  It is scratchbuilt out of Dollar Tree foamboard, packing tape, and hot glue.  It weighs 1500g AUW with a GoPro and basic FPV setup for a 10 minute flight.  Tested with 500g additional payload.  60" wingspan, collapses to 32" x 8" x 8" package for transport.  Pusher powerplant places all the flight electronics in the rear and a detachable nose pod houses the FPV gear.  Takes about 4 hours to build from scratch.  There are a few of them flying around with good success.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq0HSwuosW0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZS2Husi1HQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIY6SloFHFU

Tags: canard, drone, fpv, peace, scratchbuilt

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Permalink Reply by George Myers on March 16, 2012 at 9:42am

I like the idea, and it is cheap to build.  Have a few ideas for carrying different equipment as a payload depending on what I want to do and your pods will make it easy just to take one plane and 2 or 3 different "pods" to my flying area depending on what I want to do.

Thank for the videos,

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