Viper Recon Vtail quad

grabcad

In February 2010, I grew tired of damaging my tricopter's yaw servo due to rough landings. To solve this issue, I designed a servoless quadcopter featuring a V-tail with custom mixing. Although a proper flight controller would have improved performance, the results were satisfactory using only mixing and simple gyros. At the time, I believed my design might be the first V-tail quad in the DIY RC community; however, I am unsure about that. Here's a link to its first flight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLxu7kBvhqw.