Before I go too far down the road with this idea for my next VTOL build, Can someone confirm if this is possible? Im thinking of tilting the entire canard with tip motors, either fixed together or independent for vectored yaw. Question- in forward flight can the same tilt servos now become ‘elevators’ or even elevons (if independent). Im quite sure this is possible if the layout was conventional but not sure the setting would work in this arrangement.
The pic is nicked off the net for example of the front wing layout. Probably I would use fixed rear ones, redundant in forward flight. I realize having an ‘all flying’ canard may have its own challange but Im just brainstorming at this stage.
I would expect transitions to VTOL to be exciting as you will have significant pitching moment when transitioning. I am not sure if elevon control will be possible but vectoring for forward flight control is possible.
Yes the transition will be an issue. The canard type is quite tempting for a quad layout as there is not much extra structure for the VTOL part, however I have not had much success with them over 40 years of RC modeling. If a new project could take over a year, like the last one, it may be safer to go conventional.
Next one will be a bit bigger to take a ZX10 sized gimbal.
The last one - tilting tri -
