Telemaster Airplane

This is our 12’ wingspan giant Telemaster airplane. Back in roughly 2009 when we were doing a lot of aerial filming for John Deere we needed an aerial platform that could cover a lot more area when airborne. Our R/C Helicopters at the time were only good for about 300 yards from the pilot which is a small area in a 1 mile square corn field. This aircraft with full flaps could fly as slow as 25 mph and was comfortable to fly out to 1000 yards, greatly improving the quality of shots that we could get in large open areas. Originally a single engine aircraft we modified it to be a twin motor electric aircraft. It ran on two 50 volt 5000 mah battery packs. Pitch, roll and yaw axis were stabilized via three Futaba GY-701 Heading lock Gyros. These gyros had three modes; off, stabilize and heading lock. In heading lock mode you could put the airplane in basically any attitude and it would stay there unassisted until you released it. The three axis gimbal housed a Panasonic HPX-170 camera. We flew the crap out of that camera for a number of years.