Friday, July 8, 2011

A shameful screwup

It has been exactly two months since I made the last post. I know I've been quite lazy, but the last days in school was pretty though and when the summer started I had to relax a little. Currently I am doing summer work so I wont have much spare time but I hope that I can do at least something on my plane.

Anyway, last saturday I was out and flew little with my Calimero elektro and it flied well. I also tried to get my plane, in which I am going to install my APM, manually. It didn't went very well, I did totally screw up of which I'm ashamed. When I installed the motor just to see how it was looking mounted, I just used 1 of 4 screws. I forgot to check that before I went to the field, it ended with a minor crash the moment after take off. I was wondering why the plane turned right after it left the ground, but when I inspected the plane, the reason was clear. The only damages to the plane was fortunately just that the tree around the only screw had cracked, otherwise everything was looking nice. I can probably fix it in a couple of minutes.

Bellow is some pictures, the first is showing the motor and the second one is me starting the Calimero.
(O well i couldn't find the camera, well I'll post the pictures later)