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Flight preparations Tundra 2

First thing to do when setting up any plane is  to set up transmitter to output 1000-2000 us pulses, with 1500 us at the mid-position. Then set all the servos to their respective  mid-positions. The servo horn should then be perpendicular to the housing (within 1 tooth snap of the horn), except for the servos for the flaps, if applicable. Those last ones will generally be at the flaps up position. The left servo horn could maybe be turned clockwise by one click This ensures equal control surface deflections in either direction when anything else than mid-range is output, and symmetrical deflections of the control horns, and therewith control surfaces, w.r.t. the mid position. Aileron pushrod Flaps servo The next thing is to align control surfaces by adjusting push rod length. For the flaps, the adjustment should be done in the flaps up position, ensuring that the servo does not make a buzzing sound, while the  flap surface is as good as possible in lin...

Big Plans!

Rebuilding my Durafly Tundra took longer than expected, and the result was not good enough. So my plan was to do things right, this time around, and get new parts wherever needed. That ended up in me buying a new Tundra all over again...

First look: FuriBee F90 Wasp

Today, I'll be having a first look at this: The FuriBee F90 90mm "Wasp" quadcopter . A nice minidrone that resembles ... a Wasp! The model was kindly offered to me for review by GearBest . Mine is version 1, with a Spektrum receiver.There's also a version without receiver, and one with FrSky receiver, but that one also comes with a transmitter and goggles. I thought that would be a little over the top, but because I don't have a Spektrum transmitter, I requested and got a FlySky micro receiver with the package. What's in the box? In the relatively small box, we find quite a lot, actually! Besides the drone itself, there's a spare seet of 4 props, a 2S 600 mAh LiPo battery, a USB charger for that battery, and a manual of course. The whole setup is very light: only 67 grams, and that's including the LiPo! The Wasp has a "real" Flightcontroller (FC): a personalised version of the OMNIBUS F3 FC. That means, amongst others, t...