Just got around to describing my 120kph Capable HK Sky Eye FPV build with

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Just got around to describing my 120kph Capable HK Sky Eye FPV build with Pixhawk/Ardupilot 3.5 I built for my overflies of Burning Man 2016:
http://marc.merlins.org/perso/rc/post_2016-08-05_120kph-Capable-HK-Sky-Eye-FPV-build-with-Pixhawk-Ardupilot-3_5.html

After the few upgrades I did, it’s actually a very good FPV long range platform that’s still able to glide and hopefully ride thermals on a good day :slight_smile:
Blog link above build details, and more random pictures below v

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What happened afterwards?

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@adf3b5131c1ac702cce3 afterwards what?

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@adf3b5131c1ac702cce3 sorry, I thought the page was clear :slight_smile: I built one, it had a horrible crash due to a stupid design where nothing but good luck and hope keeps the wings in, and they came out during a high speed shakedown test.
The plane was destroyed, so I just built another one and redesigned the wings so that it wouldn’t happen again (as well as share how I did it so that others can apply the same fix)

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Cool. Thanks for sharing.