This Japalura Has Brains

By RENOV8R on Sep 18, 2018

16  1,185  3

I wanted to build a 3" Jappy with a full-sized flight controller as it has a surprising amount of room under the hood. The stack is a BrainFPV Power Board, Radix flight controller, topped off with an AKK FX2. The Cobra Championship motors and RR Edition Swift 2 really set off the silver frame. It's never going to have the agility of say a Catalyst Superlight, but it's a blast to fly and pretty well indestructable

Photos

Discussion

Sign in to comment

Sync FPV   Sep 25, 2018  
1

great build! I'm waiting on partds for a japalura with basically the exact setup (motors/esc's/battery) slightly different FC and vtx, but I'm super happy to see the combo I'm waiting for flies well :)

_xaeronaut   Sep 18, 2018  

How did you secure your R-XSR? I'm having trouble locating a space other than on the underside of the top plate.

RENOV8R   Sep 18, 2018 

I've just got it attached to vtx on top of the stack with 2-sided 3M tape. I don't know if the tape actually sticks very well as the vtx gets pretty warm, but there's not much room between the R-XSR and the top plate, it isn't going anywhere

Guides & Reviews

Jun 21, 2021

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 more
Mar 04, 2021

With 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..

Read more