====== Thermal Drone ======

===== About =====

This project is based on a [[https://flightory.com/product/stallion/|Flightory Stallion]]. These are excellently designed models with high persistence times. This project required designing a custom nose section to hold a Axisflying thermal imaging camera. This provides a low resolution thermal overview of an area sufficient for identifying humans and vehicles. I 3D printed the body from LW-PLA.

Because it is printed, it is very light which helps with flight time. The disadvantage of a printed drone is that is more fragile than a foam drone. A Heewing T1 Ranger is used for practice flights because it provides very similar flight characteristics. The Heewing is about half scale and with a much more forgiving foam body. The main difference in flight control is that he Heewing uses a conventional tail and the Flightory uses a V-tail.

===== Components =====

^ Item ^ Count ^
| Flightory Stallion body kit | 1 |
| 10X800mm Carbon Tube | 1 |
| 8x600 Carbon Tube | 2 |
| 6X430mm Carbon Tube | 2 |
| 16x435mm Carbon Tube | 1 |
| 4x260mm Carbon Tube | 4 |
| M3 Threaded Insert | 18 |
| M3 Screw | 22 |
| M3 Nut | 4 |
| LW-PLA | 1kg | 
| Polyester Hinge (25x20mm) | 14 |
| Pen Spring | 2 |
| Velcro Strap | 2 |
| Servo Extensions | 4 |
| Control Horn | 1 |
| Pushrod | 1 |
| F90 1300KV Motor | 2 |
| Speedybee F405 Flight Controller | 1 |
| Matek M10Q GPS | 1 |
| 929MG Servo | 4 |
| BlHelis 40A ESC | 2 |
| 4S6P 21Ah Battery | 1 |
| Matek R24-D ELRS Receiver | 1 |
| HDZero Freestyle V2 VTX | 1 | 
| Axisflying Thermal Camera | 1 |