Projet mq-9 reaper manual

The landing gear is smack in the middle of the CG, this makes the plane unsure if it wants to rest on the nose wheel or on the tail skid.

Richard T Leiterman July 20, at am. And, that is good news! Keith Sandell August 15, at pm. Hey everybody. Good news But bad for you.

Shortly an hour after putting my MQ-9 up for sale it was bought. Good luck to all. Keith Sandell August 14, at pm. Bad news But good news for perhaps one of you. I am selling my MQ-9 that is almost completed.

NitroPlanes does have more of these in stock, but I'm willing to ship worldwide. Those interested SmartieParts offers a Turnigy programmer that is solderless and includes a backlight screen. They even offer various colors. I Plan to use er9x as my firm wire since it has ArduPilot Binaries all ready to download and install and tweek.

They even have a tutorial download on VTail mixing. My total estimated weight on my entire build is somewhere between 7. Most people seem to recommend w per lb. Many customers gave this motor good praises which is why I decided to try it out. I plan to use various model rocket parts to build 4 scale Hellfire missiles which I plan to house the 4 batteries. This will free up a lot of space in the fuse lodge for the electronics.

Plus make it a little easier to balance the plane, I will also make pods to hold two per side and do my best to make it look like the real deal. Still not sure what to do for the servo's. Have some ideas but still researching. Still a long way down the road but my beginning plans for a ground station will include an old Dual Core PC board I have with a " LCD built into a suitcase ran off lipo batteries.

Still researching this but a ground station is probably close to a year away at this point. It has a SD card built in and also will output live video. I plan to use a video switcher which I will change between cameras in Autopilot. Still have a lot of research here, but so far this idea is rather expensive and I am having a hard time finding a setup that will transmit enough data at a decent distance that is light weight.

Now before anyone posts, I will admit that through my research most say that this is not the best platform for a lot of weight or electronics. I plan on looking into adding some extra strength to the wings and as long as I keep the airspeed up this plane should handle well.

With wide gentle turns it should be fine, I have no delusions of pulling high G turns barrel rolls or other acrobatic maneuvers. From my limited research on the real MQ-9 it is not a particularly slow flying aircraft. It was designed more for range and endurance.

Im sure that if the engine cut out on it, it will still fall at steep rate. However I can confirm my theory. These videos are done by NightFlyyer , they were also used by NitroPlanes on the site, they are great videos.

This guy has definitly forgotten more abour RC than I will ever learn. He has a lot of knowledge and a lot of great videos on youtube something like !!! Worth checking a lot of them out.

By glazier Especially the lights. RC Reaper Camera Turret. Fwrd avionics bay. Other tweaks include a slight camber and a thickness adjustment. Calcs show a feet per minute ROC, or better, depending on flying weight. Much more weight can be flown, hence with more batteries a much longer flying time is possible.

Flight time is a function of energy consumed. Doing the calculations yields much information in terms of altitude, time aloft, battery power and more Happy flying! I experienced an early crash in testing - wound up rebuilding it with Carbon Fiber reinforcement I noticed the wing deflection problems and even though they came out with a second version of the MQ-9 98 inch wingspan, I modified it.

You can see the build for yourself: about 7. So, instead of a hardpoint attachment of the strut the rod is attached making a much larger wing connection.

I just placed a order for a new Projet MQ-9 Reaper 98" and would like some feedback on what parts should I get for it as for as the size servos, motor, esc, etc? Haven't flown it yet, but I am hoping it can handle it. FYI - It fits perfectly in the airframe. Sign Up Sign In. You need to be a member of diydrones to add comments!

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