Uploaded November 2012 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here's a random aside video on how I assemble the Ozone scratchbuilt foamboard airplane for FPV.
This plane is 100% Dollar Tree foamboard, packing tape, hot glue, Gorilla glue, fiberglass helicopter blades for the landing gear struts, and titanium plate from salvaged saltwater pool chlorinator cells. The left boom houses the FPV camera and transmitter, the right boom houses the long-range control receiver (DragonLink, which is amazing!), and the main fuselage contains the batteries, motor, OSD, and fully-articulating, ground-adjustable GoPro.
The spars are carbon arrow shafts of 5mm OD and the spar channels are carbon arrow shafts of 7.5mm OD. All the nylon screws you see are 3/16" and obtained from Ace Hardware.
Why no flight video this time? See that guy humping bags of stuff up the hill in the background? That was an unexpected soccer game about to happen on my operations field. I had to abort the mission, which was to have been shooting side-looking and down-looking video of the hill back there for digital elevation model images. More to come soon.
Here's a random aside video on how I assemble the Ozone scratchbuilt foamboard airplane for FPV.
This plane is 100% Dollar Tree foamboard, packing tape, hot glue, Gorilla glue, fiberglass helicopter blades for the landing gear struts, and titanium plate from salvaged saltwater pool chlorinator cells. The left boom houses the FPV camera and transmitter, the right boom houses the long-range control receiver (DragonLink, which is amazing!), and the main fuselage contains the batteries, motor, OSD, and fully-articulating, ground-adjustable GoPro.
The spars are carbon arrow shafts of 5mm OD and the spar channels are carbon arrow shafts of 7.5mm OD. All the nylon screws you see are 3/16" and obtained from Ace Hardware.
Why no flight video this time? See that guy humping bags of stuff up the hill in the background? That was an unexpected soccer game about to happen on my operations field. I had to abort the mission, which was to have been shooting side-looking and down-looking video of the hill back there for digital elevation model images. More to come soon.
