Long Range 5.7 Alien

By spilly on Oct 04, 2018

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Lang range 4S cruiser. Set up with betaflight GPS rescue using M8N glonass gps. This rendition is a full rebuild from my previos 5.7 Alien that took a dunk in a river. Plenty of power and decent flight times as long as you're concious of your throttle position. The alien frame is a pain to secure batteries via bottom mount but can be done with the correct size standoffs uner the FC.

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Part List

Frame	Alien 5" Body Kit (5 builds) Impulserc.com	$60.00
Frame	Alien 7" Arm Set - (4 Pack) (2 builds) Impulserc.com	$42.24
Flight Controller	Betaflight F7 Flight Controller (4 builds) Pirofliprc.com	$59.99
ESCs	4 x DYS XSD30A XSD 30A 3-5S ESC V2 BLHeli_S Supports Dshot600 Dshot300 For RC Drone FPV Racing Multi Rotor (38 builds) Banggood.com	$65.24
Motors	4 x EMAX LS2207 Lite Spec 1900kv Motor (7 builds) Getfpv.com	$75.96
Propellers	HQ Prop 7x3.5x3 V1S Tri-Blade 7" Prop 4 Pack - Choose Your Color (26 builds) Racedayquads.com	$3.99
FPV Camera	RunCam Swift 2 Full Size 600TVL CCD FPV Camera w/ OSD (2.1, 2.3 or 2.5mm) - Choose Color & Lens (412 builds) Racedayquads.com	$34.99
FPV Transmitter	TBS Unify Pro 5G8 HV (SMA) (596 builds) Team-blacksheep.com	$49.95
Antenna	AXII-SMA (LONG) flexible - TrueRC Canada (35 builds) Truerc.ca	$11.99
Receiver	TBS Crossfire Micro RX V2 (288 builds) Team-blacksheep.com	$34.95
Misc Parts	RDQ Micro M8N GLONASS GPS Module (72 builds) Racedayquads.com	$15.99

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DannerD3H Apr 06, 2020

Hello spilly!
Nice build :D
What antenna are you using for the crosfire RX? Is it custom made?

DavidPilot Oct 27, 2018

Nice 7" build. Interested to know your AUW too.
What size batteries are your running?

spilly Oct 28, 2018

thanks! never weighed it but its not that heavy. on a 4s 1550mah battery it'll do 8 min flights if im throttle conscious. will be adding a new hero5 mount and go back to top mounting the batteries. feels more stable as a top mount.

DavidPilot Oct 28, 2018

Thanks :) Happy Flying!

Showusflight Oct 05, 2018

Looks great. Whats the range? speed? Got video?

spilly Oct 05, 2018

range is good. only been out 2km with it so far just testing the gps rescue mode. custom made rx antenne puts it way up and asay from the carbon ao LQ was 99% the whole way out and back. speed is good. fast enough to cover some decent ground pretty quick but still somewhat efficient. and just waiting on new gopro mount for video.

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