I bought the Wing Porter for my flying cam project because the box claimed it could carry 500g.

The following pictures show how the plane evolved over time
Rebuilding pieces into a new plane changed the plane similar to evolution - the weak parts broke, have been replaced and improved, so the current plane does not have much in common with the original Wingo Porter.

I built it following the instructions, added a bit of strength on the wing:

first steps with accidents (eg June e28th or July 19th )and success

The plane has been modified

replacing what broke and rethinking the whole design I ended up with a completely different airplane:

A big improvement was to drop the two cheap motors and install a brushless geared motor

the second wing improves lift quite a lot, and it seems to fly more stable as well.

this configuration carries both the still picture and the video camera (both below 300g) with ease.

(Pictures Fuji FinexPix | Pictures Nikon coolpix | Pictures Sony DSC-T1 )

Sample Kodak mc3 video short | long

Sample miniDV camcorder video short | long

more information about my flying adventures can be found in the 2004 history

Detail pics Sept 2004

Change of battery system

I have purchased 3S3P LiPolymer batteries Although I had planned to change the plane to accomodate those batteries, the change came too sudden

fixed