BlueFlyer's Skywalker 1900

[Coyote]

I do like the lego idea :)

[English Turbines]

Looks good Blue, very neat build with the plugs etc....Guess you like the Vector huh..?
  So much internal room in the SW, unlike my Bix 2....:)
Looking forward to some nice raw downlink footage when the Sun comes back..... ;)

:vulture:

[Dillwhacker]

I hope you know I'm nicking all your ideas
I hope you don't mind me watching and taking notes....
:laugh:

[Lola]

Nice and tidy build there Blue, looking forward to the maiden.

[BlueFlyer]

Looks good Blue, very neat build with the plugs etc....Guess you like the Vector huh..?
  So much internal room in the SW, unlike my Bix 2....:)
Looking forward to some nice raw downlink footage when the Sun comes back..... ;)

:vulture:

Mate, when I built a Bixler 2, I cut out a side hatch, just like what the skywalker has

I put my Storm OSD in there (before the Vector came out) right in the belly, under the wings.

I had my tail servos back at the tail itself, with servo cables running down the inside of the tail to the flight controller.

You'll be surprised how much room is inside a bixler 2 if you cut a hatch in the side

[BlueFlyer]

I hope you know I'm nicking all your ideas
I hope you don't mind me watching and taking notes....
:laugh:

feel free bud :)

[BlueFlyer]

Nice and tidy build there Blue, looking forward to the maiden.

hehe, maiden?

This thing has been flying since the summer, i've just been lazy with updating this thread with what I've done on it lol

[Dillwhacker]

feel free bud :)

Just off to steal blag borrow buy some Lego off my mate's kids...

[BlueFlyer]

done a bit more hacking at my skywalker today...

I had this old camera lying around, so thought I'd set up a 2 camera system on the plane for the live video feed. I've got a turnigy camera switcher that's operated through a channel on your receiver.

http://www.surveilzone.com/fpv/fpv-camera/sony-super-had-ccd-600tvl-fpv-ir-block-camera-2.8mm-lens

I've now installed it into the wing, pointing down to the ground... far enough away from the fuselage as to (hopefully) not get any of the fuselage in shot when in use.

[Lola]

hehe, maiden?

This thing has been flying since the summer, i've just been lazy with updating this thread with what I've done on it lol

Ah sorry mate, I thought it was new. Which still means I missed the maiden.

[BlueFlyer]

Ah sorry mate, I thought it was new. Which still means I missed the maiden.

[BlueFlyer]

I was just prepping the walker for a possible outing on Sunday, and it's a good job I did a full run up check.

Since relocating the ESC, I must have plugged the motor wires in a different order, so now the motor is going the wrong way lol... easy fix with this ESC... programmer can swap the direction, no need to dig the wires out again.

motor now spinning the right way and fingers crossed I'll get some flying in on Sunday... I want to try out my new FPV bivvy :)

[Dillwhacker]

I had a reversible ESC on my Skipper XL.
The instructuons said don't reverse while the motor is turning...
I did, to try out the new 'short landing' feature....
Lots of smoke leaked out, and it blooming trashed the motor too...
:o

[BlueFlyer]

haha... would've been gutted... but this isn't a ESC with reverse... it's just a normal fixed wing ESC with the option of being able to program it to swap direction using a programming card as opposed to having to swap 2 of the 3 wires over. Ideal for situations where the wires are buried in the model.

[Dillwhacker]

Yep cool.
I'm pretty new to this and glueing it all up so u can't get to stuff to change it is a bit scary to me..
That's why I have made 2 doors on my SW1900 - so I have some hope of reaching inside and fixing stuff.
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