V22 Osprey Maiden

It was time for the maiden flight of my new V22 Osprey VTOL airplane!  I received it Friday morning and spent the afternoon setting it up and applying decals to it after lunch.  Since I bought the PNP version I also need to install a serial receiver into it.

For the maiden flight I just hovered around making sure all the controls responded correctly and that self-leveling was active.  All went as planned!

For the next flight I would transition to airplane mode for the 1st time.  I've heard that if the motor nacelles are not parallel, the plane will turn during the transition.  But, I checked the alignment on my plane several times, and all looked good!  I forgot to center the sticks during the automatic transition though, and still had the elevator forward from flying as a multi-rotor.  When the transition completed the plane dove for the ground!  Luckily I was up high enough to save it from crashing into the ground on the 2nd flight!

The last 2 flights went smoothly, now that I centered the right stick before transitioning to airplane mode.  I only flew around in self-level mode, and the Osprey flew great!  I was flying around pretty fast, for this size of plane anyway.  I was having a great time! 

Side view of the decals I've applied so far.

Three-quarter view.

Now that I've gotten the maiden flight session out of the way and confirmed the plane is working correctly, I went ahead and removed the stock JST connector and replaced it with a Mini-T style connector, which is what I have on my 3S 800mah size batteries.

Replacing the stock JST connector with a Mini-T style connector.