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Hackaday Blog and More Progress on the Propellers

A project log for Goliath - A Gas Powered Quadcopter

A BIG Gas Powered Quadcopter

peter-mccloudPeter McCloud 06/21/2014 at 13:453 Comments

If you haven't seen it yet on the blog, Hackaday wrote a great article on Goliath!  Thanks to everyone so far who's followed, skulled or posted some of the great feedback.

This weekend I'm cutting the latest version of the propellers (see below).  If all goes well I hope to have all four cut by the end of the weekend.  I decided to stick with fiberglass for the first set of props since it's about 4 times cheaper than the Kevlar I was going to use.  It'll be heavier, but weight isn't an issue yet.  The fiberglass should arrive on Wednesday, so doing the layups will be next weekend's project.  After those are done, it won't be too long until the first test flight!

Also I've setup a github account to start sharing the project files at https://github.com/mccloudaero/goliath-quadcopter.  I'll start  uploading the design files as I complete them.

Discussions

zakqwy wrote 06/21/2014 at 13:51 point
Peter, what's your target thrust::weight ratio?

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Peter McCloud wrote 06/22/2014 at 20:39 point
I'm shooting for 1.1:1. It won't leave much for maneuverability.

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zakqwy wrote 06/24/2014 at 15:48 point
Yeah, I'm sorta in the same boat. As long as it's more than 1:1 it should hover!

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