Miscellaneous

Tim Williams flying his newly acquired Pentacopter built by Sam, RCG's COCO2010.
Winds were 15 guating to 20mph at the AVTI feild at Lancaster CA.

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The Pentacopter takes its first flight with its red LEDS in full glory, the video doesn't do it justice, it looks amazing.

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Pentacopter is an augmented battery powered quadcopter by attaching an engine powered propeller at the centre. The central propeller gives 60-75% lift so that the quad propellers need to generate only the remaining thrust, inaddition to the thrust needed for manuvering. Central propeller unsually runs at constant RPM, and the adverse yaw motion it generates is conpensated by two small horizontal-axis thrusters symetrically mounted on eother side of one cross-arm.

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