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  • QAV540G with integrated brushless gimbal goes on Pre-Order

    May 11, 2013 Featured 0 Comment
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    The QAV540G quad airframe with integrated brushless gimbal is now available for pre-order and has an expected ship date of the “2nd half of June”. Also available for pre-order is the new brushless gimbal upgrade for the QAV500 quad airframe. The QAV500 quad airframe has become the airframe of choice for…

  • Preview of QAV540G quad with integrated brushless gimbal

    April 10, 2013 Featured 1 Comment
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    The newly available brushless gimbal control boards are quickly bringing commercial grade aerial videography to the masses in an affordable way. Gimbal motors are now becoming available and the first commercial gimbals are already available as well. I want to show you the current status of fpvmanual’s new frame prototype…

  • Team using QAV500 wins in local Semi-Autonomous Competition

    April 10, 2013 News 0 Comment
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    Congratulations to the team that won the Category D (Semi-Autonomous) of the Singapore Amazing Flying Machine Competition. The young team was using a modified QAV500 airframe and a lot of custom hard and software to put this together.

  • OpenPilot CC3D Flight Controller, the fpvmanuals edition

    March 13, 2013 Featured 0 Comment
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    The CC3D has become one of the most sought after flight controllers due to its crisp response and smooth flight characteristics. The OpenPilot (“OP”) community of developers has done an unbelievable job with the CC3D. Many videos posted by pilots on the OpenPilot forum demonstrate what incredible performance is possible with…

  • Save FPV!

    March 08, 2013 Featured 0 Comment
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    Our wonderful, innovative, and extraordinary FPV hobby is being threatened by legislators who are crafting overly broad and uninformed laws that will effectively make it illegal to fly FPV and in many cases RC models altogether. One of the most severe and overly broad laws is being crafted in the state of Oregon…

  • QAV400 Build Manual Live

    February 26, 2013 News 0 Comment
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    Jere Dotten has done a fantastic job writing the build manual for the QAV400. It is now live here. He documents the build with great pictures and very methodical step by step instructions.  


  • Plane Build Manuals

    ZII Zephyr Build Manual

    It took us a while, but we finally published the first version of the ZII build manual. This manual includes an online version of the PDF prepared by Chris Klick at Ritewing. It will be kept up-to-date and enhanced with pictures and video over time. Separately from this build manual,…

  • News

    Team using QAV500 wins in local Semi-Autonomous Competition

    Congratulations to the team that won the Category D (Semi-Autonomous) of the Singapore Amazing Flying Machine Competition. The young team was using a modified QAV500 airframe and a lot of custom hard and software to put this together.

  • Auto Pilots

    Assisted FPV: “Launching a FPV Zephyr”

    There are UAV/Drone enthusiasts that will pursue fully automated flying (waypoints, etc.) and there are FPV purists that won’t even consider a “Return to Home” feature. I want to describe an area in between the two: I call it ‘assisted FPV’. Assisted FPV is for pilots like myself that can…

  • Featured

    QAV540G with integrated brushless gimbal goes on Pre-Order

    The QAV540G quad airframe with integrated brushless gimbal is now available for pre-order and has an expected ship date of the “2nd half of June”. Also available for pre-order is the new brushless gimbal upgrade for the QAV500 quad airframe. The QAV500 quad airframe has become the airframe of choice for…