It was a cold windy day with nothing to do but wait for new parts to arrive,or so I thought, then I remembered, I had all these bits laying around from my first quad build.
Out of boredom was born my tricopter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsq55fexnvA
Some spare timber, some scrap 3 ply add two-pack glue and a whole bunch of zip ties. Not copied from any plan I just made sure that the flight controller (KK2.0 v1.6) was placed equidistant from all motor shafts.
From first cut this was flying in around 2 hours, I was really stoked at how easy it was to control.
I have since broken both front arms, repaired with glue and zip ties. The original yaw servo (19g) had plastic gears, they lasted 3 flights, it now sports a 9g MG from Turnigy 6 flights and going strong.
Flight time, around 12 min on a 3S 30C 2650mAh.
I'm now looking to clean up the appearance using aluminium box for spars, aluminised plastic sheets for the frame body, Bird Dog motors, carbo props for reliability and extented flight times.
If there is an interest I'll post pics.