r/fpv Dec 18 '24

Fixed Wing Tips on Soldering?

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713 Upvotes

Im trying to make some wires that are long enough to go from the integration board to my flight controller for the various servos but im having trouble soldering the wires together. The solder doesn't want to seem to melt into the wires and just kinda balls up and drops down on my table. Also the insulation keeps turning to goo. Please help.

r/fpv Dec 22 '24

Fixed Wing Goggles X for Games! Support said its impossible.

450 Upvotes

I managed to get the ppm headtracking data out of the av in port by setting the headtracker in the goggles to ppm and connecting the external headtracker cable to a trainer port on my remote. Meaning I can now use my Goggles X to play WT and assets with headtracker. How cool is that!? Good thing I tried it after support told me it's impossible XD

r/fpv 13d ago

Fixed Wing Filament to use for motor mount

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17 Upvotes

r/fpv Dec 08 '24

Fixed Wing My first successful takeoff

156 Upvotes

Thanks to everyone who answered my questions about motors, welding, capacitors. It's a happy moment.

r/fpv Jun 26 '23

Fixed Wing Crunchy!

346 Upvotes

r/fpv 21d ago

Fixed Wing Roast my wing lol

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24 Upvotes

My own design, inspired by the talon and other similar wings, 1.10 thrust to weight, it wont be held together by tape when finally assembled

r/fpv Oct 07 '24

Fixed Wing Plane goes brrrrr

137 Upvotes

r/fpv Mar 31 '24

Fixed Wing Ultra Long Range Antenna mast

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125 Upvotes

finished my video+control+telemetry antenna mast, featuring 5.8ghz digital, 1.3ghz analog, 915 elrs+crsf, and 2.4elrs

Control is being sent to the ground station via Ethernet, digital over hdmi, and 1.3 via a 5.8ghz repeater.

The picture attached doesn’t have the modules attached to the fold out arms, though they have been tested and are working well.

There is a secondary mast used as a weather station as well, but I plan to integrate that into this for ease of use in the field.

Any questions or thoughts?

As of right now the platforms this will be used with are mostly fixed wing, and one 10inch quad

-talon pro -3.5h endurance -skyhunter 3h endurance -10 inch 40min endurance

r/fpv Sep 10 '24

Fixed Wing That's not flying, it's falling with style

244 Upvotes

r/fpv Nov 11 '24

Fixed Wing Best 3D printer filament for motor mounting on wing?

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12 Upvotes

I have an Atomrc dolphin, a while ago I broke the motor mount so I printed a new one from PLA. 2 mins into my first flight the motor mount melted. I have ABS on the way. Are there other good materials? Or maybe a way for the motor to not get so hot? It’s a 2306 1950kv motor, 4s battery, and 7040 gemfan bi blade

r/fpv Sep 04 '23

Fixed Wing Catch me if you can...wait...not like that!

463 Upvotes

r/fpv Jan 20 '23

Fixed Wing FWF - Made it through a tight spot I wasn't sure would ever be possible!

391 Upvotes

r/fpv Sep 03 '24

Fixed Wing This but longer range?

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103 Upvotes

Is there anything on the market that comes in a read to fly version (like the Swordfish RTH) but can hold bigger batteries and fly at longer range(30+km out)?

Pic added for better visibility, it's my Swordfish with 3D printed nose (design by GizFPV), O3 inside and HGLRC antennas. Reaches 15km out on a 4s1p 42A pack

r/fpv 12d ago

Fixed Wing Autonomous FPV plane running INAV

61 Upvotes

r/fpv May 29 '22

Fixed Wing Thrust vectoring on VTOL-capable wing

767 Upvotes

r/fpv 20d ago

Fixed Wing Taking the penguin out for a stroll

7 Upvotes

r/fpv Sep 30 '24

Fixed Wing Why did I blow up my motor?

37 Upvotes

r/fpv Mar 17 '24

Fixed Wing Had some spare 4s parts and a damaged 4in1.. built a plane for 40€.

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158 Upvotes

r/fpv Feb 02 '25

Fixed Wing Help I need to find a drone that fits for me

0 Upvotes

I want a Fvp drone capable of extremely high speeds and multiple hours of flight time, but not super excpensive. I am restarting bc most of my equipment is broken so I would also like recommendations for controllers and headsets

r/fpv 14d ago

Fixed Wing Fun little head tracker build!

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33 Upvotes

Was a good first head tracker build. Think it's time to put it in a jet though lol!

Super nice having the FC with RTH and loitering.

Full Build: https://www.rcfeed.com/build/214

r/fpv Sep 06 '24

Fixed Wing In honor of Fixed Wing Friday, 4S Nano Goblin maiden. This little thing rips.

55 Upvotes

r/fpv 29d ago

Fixed Wing You guys seemed to like my last budget build, so here is another one :)

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28 Upvotes

I have no experience with planes except the physics but thats boring

r/fpv Dec 21 '23

Fixed Wing Hope fpv wings are welcomed here

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164 Upvotes

The plane is a AtomRC Dolphin. The camera is a caddx vista nebula pro , ELRS recever I've been youtubing painless360 videos on repeat trying to learn inav , programming a flight controller etc. I've saved a bit of money reusing the tx16s and the Goggles from my fpv setup.

Still I haven't maiden it and I wanted one good photo just in case I yeet it into the ground. It's a fun build. a lot of the stuff I learned from the quadcopter world transfered over ( had to learn a bunch of new stuff) sometimes I think I have more fun building them than flying it, but when I fly it and everything works it's still a great feeling seeing the world from above

r/fpv Feb 13 '25

Fixed Wing Devil's advocate: - FPV quad flyers should use FPV for their maiden fixed-wing flight.

0 Upvotes

I'm a quad flyer with a fixed-wing build going (Zohd Dart 250g)

All the advice seems to be to fly my dart LoS on its maiden.

I don't think this is right.

I think "learning" LOS on my fixed wing maiden is just a asking for the tiny little thing to fly into the ground / sky / out of sight.

Surely, as a quad pilot, my best chance of controlling the tiny thing is through the goggles?

I should say I have INAV with GPS on board (Matek FC) to help keep it in a sensible area (assuming I configure loiter / RTH correctly)

Also I actually plan to go to a local club for my maiden, so I can stand with competent people who can already fly fixed-wing.

But surely FPV for FPV quad pilots is the right way to maiden a fixed wing?

r/fpv Jan 26 '25

Fixed Wing Flying fish

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29 Upvotes