For the last week i have successfully flown my Twinstar with the APM. Everything was tuned and i had developed a good routine for setting things up in the field before flying. Yesterday the plan was to test a long endurance flight (25 min) that also used the relay to reset the XBee to keep the telemetry link for the entire flight. 

 

But this is what happened...

 

The Twinstar comes with a small PCB that houses connectors for the motors and ESCs. The motor…

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Ardupilot Mega test flight report.

Today i did my first test flights with the APM installed in my Multiplex Twinstar II.



I tested the Stabilization mode and the Auto mode with six waypoints in a 1,4…

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Presenting MissionPlanner Alpha 0.2.



This is a very early alpha of MissionPlanner, a mission planning tool for ArduPilot Mega. This

version is primarily built to test the mapping features, but it can produce an include file to use with ArduPilot Mega Waypointwriter. The software is published as freeware.

All comments are appreciated.



Working but not… Continue

Today i made my first tests with a Gyro/accelerometer stabilized airframe. The system is based on an Ardupilot board and the Ardupilot expansion board with an additional gyro. The software is my own, but the Kalman filter is based on code published at the Sparkfun forum.



The airframe is this 150 cm span flying wing:

In stabilization mode the ardupilot reads elevator and aileron input from the transmitter and uses this input… Continue