The Backup: QAV-X Clone

By flexd on May 19, 2017

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This is a cheap clone of the QAV-X married to a stack tower, making it a pretty neat frankencopter. Combined with the biggest motors you can imagine, it's headed for space! The added clearance from not having the body means I can fit 6" props on this if I want to, and it's capable of up to 6S batteries, making for quite the awesome ride :D

The Rotaro Mjölnir 2308-2600KV motors make this build ridiculously fast on 4S. It's like a rocketship!

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