How do I make a model airplane that's really good at flying

>>1054240
get a quadcopter board like kk board and use plane stabilization firmware

>>1054244
Agreed.
In addition to a 6+DOF gyro, you'll want a pitot tube to measure airspeed so you can compensate for wind.

Ardupilot and others have 'stabilization' and other modes to filter out either environmental or pilot induced fuckery.

It's also nice to toggle into a stabilized 'loiter' mode that circles around a point when you have to take a piss/smoke/wardrive/stalk/etc.

http://ardupilot.org/copter/docs/flight-modes.html

>>1054240
I just added a gyro to the roll axis of my RC airplane to stabilize it in high winds.

>>1054425
Wouldn't you need two to counteract the torque from gyro?

>>1054478
It's a feedback gyro. It measures the rate of spin of the plane and compensates with the control surfaces.

>>1054488
That's not as cool as I initially thought it was.

>>1054504
A spinning gyro would be a pain in the dick

>>1054240
Use high wing loading?

>>1054240
>Enroll in college

>>1054523
Done. I already have a pretty good idea of what to do, but I wanted to see if there was anything else out there in hobby world that I wasn't familiar with.

>>1054526
If you didn't know how gyros are used in electronics, you should go back to school or maybe not take on a project that's way over your pay grade

>>1054527
Except I do? I'm not sure what you're talking about.

>>1054530
Are you
>>1054478
?

>>1054534
No

>>1054523
>>1054527
youre an idiot, get off this board.

making a plane would be very hard for you to "auto control" changes in wind, even in real airplanes (the simple ones) usually the pilot assists using the wheel to compensate the wind and ease off the yoke or use the rudders to compensate, I'm with the rest above a quad copter with an smartphone (used or old one) that has the gyro already in it or buy a kit, the advantages is smaller size easier build in my opinion and the other advantages an helicopter has over a plane

>>1054510
>A spinning gyro would be a pain in the dick

But it'd keep ya level

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Build a hotliner and git gud.