Scale V22 flight

[MiltosMetalfun]

just land it!!!!

[discombobulate123]

it is very ovepriced though

[whitey22222]

@discombobulate123 Over priced? I have been to the site you do realize the programing work that went into make this thing convert and still fly like a stable heli? This is no exaggeration a small marvel of RC flight and the first of its kind to be produced and sold to the masses not to mention a licensed Boeing reproduction with a scale fuselage OFC he is gonna get payed for it! And yeah I'm saving to buy one :P!!

[Rotormast]

just go to the rotomast web site, Tom

[lamgve]

hi, where I can buy one of these planes?, please give me a link ...

[Rotormast]

Go to the rotomast web site and look up the instructions. You could probably get enough ideas from that to build one. Good luck!

[Hockeymikey8]

How can i build this from scratch?

[Rotormast]

Please go to Rotormast web site. Thanks

[MultiAndreas009]

what's the price of the plane?

[CommentAccountA]

nice, was looking for a an rc osprey capable of full airplane mode

[bliglum]

Looks more stable than the real thing!!! LOL!

[ShadowGKCP]

very nice. what's the prop size and motors?

[Rotormast]

thks

[JollySwagman2006]

That is one Awesome V-22

[xxkil]

if you paint it and put wheels on it ..it would be the dogs bollecks

[Rotormast]

They are on one way bearings, Do not see why not. If you buy one you could be the first to try!

[elkmaster02]

@Rotormast I assumed they weren't on OWB by the way it spooled down. Maybe there isn't enough mass in the rotors for an auto. Put a couple ICE controllers on it with auto-bailout feature,,sure,I'd try it!! I just may get one!

[Rotormast]

@Rotormast I have a couple of ICE 50 light. Am putting in my secnd ship. About 1/2 way thru the build.

[pinoydad0811]

very nice ..impressive it is ..

[elkmaster02]

It was evident that the rotors are not on one-way-bearings. Was that ever considered? OWBs would make auto-rotation landings possible,,yes?

Very nice and exciting plane!

[badastinner]

@elkmaster02 couldn't auto this unless the rotor's are collective pitch..

[xraptor10]

Impressive, most impressive

[oohaahbird]

superb you have cracked the transition from vertical to forward flight ,you know there will be people queueing up with good money if you could get this in production and in the model shops.

[quaffman10]

Your website says you use a 7 channel controller. What do you use each channel for?

[Rotormast]

@quaffman10 Standard helicopter stuff plus conversion axis

[MSJDesign]

impressive.

[iloveaeroplanes]

the best flying skils i have ever seen !!!!!!!!!!!! you are the best awsum m8 wd cant wait to watch it again , superb

[Rotormast]

@iloveaeroplanes Its not the pilot, its all in the electronic controller

[mailtopravit]

This is amazing.

[Rotormast]

@mailtopravit Thanks

[AllyzzzzAcirzzzz]

what kind of electronics are you running? and how much does it weigh?

[Rotormast]

Rotormast

[Rotormast]

@AllyzzzzAcirzzzz full scale ship is 6 lbs, check out details on rotormast web site

[Rotormast]

@AllyzzzzAcirzzzz Standard 450 size stuff, 5.5 lbs, look at the rotormast web site for more details

[Paketjunge]

Auch aus "good old Germany"

Phantastisches Modell

[Rotormast]

@Paketjunge Lindburg

[Rollover0105]

Wow, great model and great flying! It's nice to finally see an RC Osprey fly like it's supposed to. I'm really curious about the flight control systems when transitioning from heli to airplane mode and back. Is it basic stick and rudder control in airplane mode with Ail/Elev/Rudd, or do the rotors still respond to stick inputs in forward flight? Do you have a build blog anywhere? I hope you'll be selling these as kits or ARFs because I'm starting to think I need one. Happy flying!

[Rotormast]

@Rollover0105 rotomast dot com

[ehakan2]

WOW, great aircraft, great pilot ! Amazing.....

[SubieSleeper]

Amazing!

I lived in Ridley Park Pa. where half of this aircraft was developed (Boeing) The security in town on the night the fuselage was shipped to Bell Textron in Texas was UNBELIEVEABLE. Awesome model!

[Rotormast]

@SubieSleeper thaks

[BigDuke6ixx]

Nice to see an RC V22 actually transitioning to to forward flight for a change. Really cool plane.

[iamhereforever]

WoW that looks painfull to the wallet!. nice heli. also you are a Great pilot

[cemkapt]

good job..

[KhyronDesintegrado]

awesome !!!!

you know the military is being trying to do this for many years!!

and they spent millions..

how long and for how much did it take you to make this one?

[6V92TA]

@KhyronDesintegrado Yea....and the Military has to lift like what, 30,000 pounds of aircraft while this one prolly weights no more than 3 pounds lol

[KhyronDesintegrado]

@6V92TA still pretty awesome!

[6V92TA]

@KhyronDesintegrado hell yea!!! no doubt!

[adolz1000]

you nailed it...good work must have spend a lot of time of trial and eror....

[SomeUselessGeek]

It's been a while since I checked on your progress. Well, it certainly looks like you've made some. You are gonna sell a jillion of these.

[scolen3]

I have a feeling this will be very very expensive.

[Rotormast]

@scolen3 , well if you put together 2 450 size heli kits and a 36 inch fiberglass scale model airplane kit and add the electronic controller it will get you close.

[ap0lmc]

Really awesome job with all the research wish you had a better camera person and a closer view of the conversion. Good luck with production of kits I certainly would be interested.

[Xid3d]

Hi Rotormast, thanks for the email, and I've subscribed to the news letter.

Have you had any luck with finding distributors?

My friend has RC shops on Army and Air Force bases, and contacts in the RC manufacturing industry. We are still attempting to contact you and hope to be of help in getting your kits produced.

Please PM xid3d for contact details.

Cheers,

dpf

[Rotormast]

@Xid3d , I will talk to my manufacturing contact in China. he handes that part of the project.  I know he is working details,

[planesRus]

does it have full flight control surfaces or is it vectoring thrust?

[Rotormast]

@planesRus

no flight control serfaces

[Cjudd001]

Hard will pay divedends! brilliant work.

[Rotormast]

@Cjudd001 thanks

[manhill]

wow... i hope you can make a fortune with it. i wanna buy one!

[jumpingking13]

coool!!

[n3bxh]

Needs some landing gear..

[Xid3d]

@n3bxh Seems to be working fine without landing gear.

Why don't you build one with landing gear and show us.

[n3bxh]

@Xid3d THis one is already built... I was thinking it might look more scale with some gear

[Xid3d]

@n3bxh yeah, amazing model, might as well add the finishing touches.

Hoping Rotormast starts selling kits. I gave him a retailer reference, but no reply. Must be looking only for a big distributor.

[n3bxh]

So why are the Marines having so many problems? This thing flies great, but it must ba a handful.

[Rotormast]

The real one and the model flys great. Both thanks to a kick flight control computer. Mine is a bit smaller. Its a joy to fly

[tstew18]

Thank the air force for adopting such a terrible program from boeing. fly-by wire isnt exactly a safe mechanical piece of gear.

[bravopiloto]

I will be interested in one when will be available, and do you have any idea of cost?????

[Rotormast]

@bravopiloto We are shooting for mid year

[ohiorc]

Is this going to be available as a kit/arf?

[Rotormast]

More of an ARF than a kit. There will be some work involved. The body will come painted. We will probably sell an unfinished one also. If somone wanted to do a super detaild kit

[rdavit]

Outstanding!!! I can't even imagine the technical problems involved (and I fly multi engine in the hobby).

Any type of gyro set up similar to heli? (or is this handled through speed controllers?)

Are the control surfaces functional? (i.e. flaps, elevator, etc.)

Keep building.....fantastic!

[Rotormast]

YEs, three axis gyro, controll is thru cyclic and CP, no control surfaces, isnt that great? only 6 servos total on this ship

[nakazatoGTR]

dude like you beat the government with this if this cost below what a real v22 costs!!

you demonstrated you can build what the military specified without the cost! anyways the real v22 is there, might as well use it!

[schlusselmensch]

It's a very fine accomplishment but describing it as scale is a bit of a stretch, don't you think, without control surfaces?

With no interconnect on the drive, I imagine she's toast if one pukes? Don't take this as criticism, it's not. Congratulations.

[Rotormast]

You are an idiot

[schlusselmensch]

@Rotormast Better that than an impolite prick like you.

[jacquesone100]

Good work RotorMast!....keep it up dude :

greetingz from holland

Jacques

[flyby8906]

WOW Bravo I'm speecless that is one awesome VTOL's great job wow

[BRANDORC]

Just a beautiful piece of work. The second a kit is available, I'm on this one.

[rcFoamFighters]

Awesome Build! You did a great job on this model. One of the Best VTOL's i've seen. Keep up the good work!

Paul

[cmulder002]

next time aircraft companies want to develop new technology they just should do a model aircraft competition ;)

Saves them milions and years .

[MrMindfucker]

@cmulder002 Absolutely!

[Guinnie]

You are a genius You should sell the buid process as a plans/dvd This bird would make a great FPV ship 5 stars easy

[Rotormast]

Thanks. It just took time. Working through each problem one at a time. I am working with a manufacturer to have a kit made. I will updat the progress. Just about to go on contract. I think

[diewont]

@Rotormast

Great great news, as soon as you get the info, please let us know on the vtol section of rcgroups - you are a god there!

[Rotormast]

Will probably have kits avalible by mid year. Will post on all the rcgroups at that time. Not sure if I will try and direct market or bring in thru a distributor. I am working out details of the kit every day

[diewont]

That sounds awesome! Well done! Have you thought about designing a model suitable for a UAV? ie. larger more efficient wing and payload? I would think even as far as civilian application goes an airframe with those capibilities would be very valuable! Seriously, even a full flying vtol wing layout would be worth its weight in gold, great loiter times and ability to precision land etc. Im sure the IMU would be easy to adapt to this craft. Oh man... the possibilities!!

[fishboy77]

Very well done, sir. 5 stars.

[gokartin1]

thats amazing how long did that to build

[Rotormast]

about 3 years to get it all worked out. Not working full time. Was not easy

[felarfurlong]

so. at last, it is actually possible to build the osprey. awesome engineering job!

[mguw]

Hi Rotormast

Your achievement is awesome! Only comment/suggestion, I would have (seen from far away and not knowing anything about the problems) is that in plane mode you should try to increase a lot your pitch (x2) while slowing down the head speed. This will give you the same thrust but with much less gyroscopic effect that seem to be a pain in plane mode (the plane is not flying straight like a usual tail stabilized aircraft). Regards Marcel

[TDOBrandano]

Actually, there is no way to lower the RPM in conventional flight without slowing the plane down, unless you use twisted blades. Seems to have power to spare, twisted blades would definitely help forward flight.

[diewont]

Do you have a build log? Is the a world first for transitioning? Great job!

[Raptor50aus]

Great plane but needs landing gear dude

[lesath82]

I shall only confirm you did an amazing job!! Five totally deserved stars!!!

[Rotormast]

Thanks, Seems to fly better and better as I get comfortable with it. Have at least 25 flights with all scale parts inatalled. Its a blast to fly.

[v22crewchief]

Thats Really cool

but now to add some real V22 stuff add a Fuel leak and when you start it up add the smoke that pours out of the engines! haha Just kidding very Cool airplane.

[Rotormast]

Thanks, The V22 is a great ship. And a great project to model

[boost918]

Looks great.

[danilloshin]

You did it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[maxvtol]

Very nice work. Is you mixer anything your plan to replicate for other vtol enthusiasts and how many output channels does it have?

[Rotormast]

I am having a prototype controller built now. I hope to kit this model.

[tungym]

Rotormast, Your effort worth the merit. The video lady did a great job!

[Rotormast]

Thanks