Thrust Vector Assembly - BUILD

by FliteTest | February 12, 2014 | (17) Posted in How To

If you would like to cut this project out yourself we have free plans at the bottom of this article. 

The main body all keys together in one way. It's actually difficult to put it together wrong. 

Here is a shot of the modified Z-bend. 

Once it's all tested slap on a motor, or a camera, or whatever else you might think of!

Get creative! Send us some videos and pictures of your masterpiece. 

 

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FT Elements Thrust Vector


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COMMENTS

rcperson123 on February 12, 2014
time to do thrust vectoring!!!!! very well explained and this for vid
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Hunter Staples on February 12, 2014
I'm liking it. Time to do some thrust vectoring on some of my EDF's (-:
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EZ Air on February 12, 2014
you guys need to figure out a VTOL system for EDF's 8P
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rcspaceflight on February 12, 2014
How about a two axis thrust vector assembly? That way you can mount it on a power pod and make a servo-less plane. Thrust vector for up and down, and left and right. You'd end up with a true swappable then... even if it does fly horribly.
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Hookdriver on February 12, 2014
Two axis wouldn't be all that hard. "Even if it does fly horribly." I don't think a two axis system would fly horribly, it would just be difficult to control with out other control surfaces. For a simple yet durable system the guys at flitetest nailed it with this one. As experiment I think it would be neat to try one of these reversed on half rate in the f-22. Since it is ahead of the control surface and near the cg up would be down on the motor and vice versa. Could be an awesome little head turner.
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Kurt0326 on February 13, 2014
Thrust Vectoring power pod? YES we must! HAY Flite Test Get on it... in Gulom voice "We wants it".
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Ben Presten on February 15, 2014
I bought one of these along with a viggen I fried the motors of 2 metal gear servos because it was binding, then when I thought I had it fixed I put it on the airplane and it bound up mid flight and crashed the airplane and fried another servo.
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Hasi on February 15, 2014
Please make a 2 axis thrust vectoring assembly for the blue wonders!
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danallen82 on February 18, 2014
Couldn't you also use it like a rudder? Since the Viggen is basically a flying wing type aircraft.

Any plans to make an offical EDF thrust vectoring?
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merik1403 on February 21, 2014
How do I do the mixing here? How to connect and mix channels on elevon setup?
Thank you, you are awesome! 8)
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chatenever on November 23, 2014
Have you tried putting the TV on Aux channel and then creating a mix from rudder to Aux at 100%?
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chatenever on November 23, 2014
I've read on other forums that the motor weight should be located partially behind the pivot and partially ahead of it to minimize the gyroscopic forces. This design has all of the motor weight ahead of the pivot . Comments?
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prem48science@gmail.com on January 31, 2018
free build plans are not available...the given url for free plans is not working.
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