Amazingly quiet and efficient drone. It gets 5 min of fly time on 650 mAh 2S batteries. Really good camera, well matched to 16:9 Dom V3 goggles.
The frame is nice but it's tight, not easy to squeeze all the components in.
AirbladeUAV has done it again and this time they've brought long range to the 5" class! Based on the popular Transformer Mini, the new Transformer 5" Ultralight adopts a lot of the same design philosophies with larger props and more payload capacity. It can fly upwards of 20 minutes on a 4 cell Li-Ion battery pack and in ideal conditions it's got a range of over 4 to 5 miles. In this guide I'll walk..
Read moreWith the release of the DJI FPV Drone cinematic FPV has become a lot more accessible, but you certainly don't want to crash a $750 drone! The QAV-CINE Freybott is a compact, lightweight cinematic FPV drone that can take a hit and keep going. It's a lot safer to fly indoors and around people. With a naked GoPro or the SMO 4k you can capture some great stabilized footage. In this guide I'll show you..
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Wow! 5 minutes on 2S with 3 inch props!? Impressive! Looks like these 1402's are crazy efficient.
Since then I have upgraded this quad to 1404 motors (4 min on 3S) and put the 1402s on 2.5" Ascent X. With the Ascent, I get 4-4.5 min of flight time. Go figure. Probably because the Ascent with 1402s is too much fun to fly!