Unmaned surveillance plane for Airsoft

[MMatersk]

Originally Posted by horto

I have one of these. Might be for sale soon.

http://ardrone.parrot.com/parrot-ar-drone/usa

Never used it for airsoft. Too afraid it would get shot

Its already for sale you can order one through bestbuy or a local RC model shop

[kalnaren]

Those things have nearly zero payload ability and are too light to fly in any kind of wind. Endurance isn't that long either. Still, they could be useful some of the time.

[viking9934]

i have a UAV under development(finale touch on the way) it's based on a Hexacopter frame similar to this model: http://aibotix.com/products/aibot-x6/ but in smaller dimension

The frame is made of high impact resistant fibre glass reinforced with carbon fibre and the skeleton is also made of 7075 t-6 aluminum.

Cameras is a SONY FCB-IX11A( Get this from a friend, who's have made the autopilot algorithm)
Autopilot module: Ardupilot
motorization is still under testing

The goal is to being able to plan a ''circuit'' or flight plan to the autopilot with a auto landing capacity so you could have someone in the team that would be in charge of the cameras controls without having the ''flying''. this reduce largely the time the operator is down. The autopilot is accessible by any type of tablet or electric peripheral that have a exploitation system(windows). You just have to set way point and the drone is autonomous.

The cost is high if you consider that the frame is made of composite and the cameras(if we have pay for it...but we haven't),
but we have made test on ''cheap'' RC airplane and it's working. the payload is not really a big problem beside for the batteries.the heaviest part of the system is the batteries( who is variable with the flight time you want) and the cameras but she's not weighting more than 95gram.