r/drones

Hello, I am Sleety, a contributor to Arrow, I have occasionally posted test flight footage here on r/drones. We are a reasonably large bunch of aviation/tech nerds that meet online (discord) and design aircraft, all open source. Any one is welcome if you share simialr interests and would like to hang out!

Repo is in the comments too if anyone wants to dig in.

The video is me scrolling the docs for Project Quiver, our first finished aircraft. It's a 25 kg quadcopter, licensed CERN-OHL-S-2.0, and it's documented down to the build steps so anyone can make one, fork it, or tell us where we got it wrong (people do, and we're working on making it better)

What we've been up to lately:

- Quiver (quadcopter drone in video)

- Spearhead, a fixed-wing VTOL for longer range, flew with its wings fitted for the first time last weekend. Hover only so far, forward flight testing is next.

- Caribou, a bigger hexacopter for heavier work, has had its first prop tests.

Thank you and everyone welcome if you like to design/build/test drones and/or solve hardware problems ⚙️

Goofing around on a shoot for some other stuff and got this. It's weirdly relaxing

Flying before the fall peak