Phoenix (Sub-250 4")

By Apex on Apr 07, 2018

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Update 11/13/20:

I rebuilt my 4" racer, increased the motor size to 1804 (from 1407), went from an F4 to an F7, decreased the overall stack height and stripped out unneeded weight where I could. Got it down to under 250g AWG with a thrust ratio of about 4 to 1 @ 50% throttle, and changed the color to Ferarri red (or as close to it as I could make it). It's got to be one of my favorite builds so far. Very sleek and super quick/agile.

Got about 4.5 minutes of flight time out of the 650 LiHV battery

Kept one of the old purple photos from 2018 for reference

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