The Night Wraith
By fmcprogrmr on Jan 19, 2021
My new night cruiser I will fly out of my house with a VAS Shapeshifter and a 5.8GHz pepperbox on the roof. What an amazing experiance. It's quiet, under 250g and flight time is excellent. Easily 13 mins of cruising when I fly the 95c 850mah battery down to 14.4V with a little bit of reserve left. 13 minutes give me about 5km/3.1 miles one way in calm winds with the crossfire still at 10mW and excellent video signal. CRSF RX antenna is homemade and tuned exactly to 915MHz with a SWR of 1:07. I can highly reccomend the Lumenier AXII micro antenna. My new favorite 5.8 antenna.
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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..
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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..
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Any DVR to share ? How dark is it when you fly ?
I'll share one in the next few days. A couple of streetlights are plenty for flying in the middle of the night, even hundreds of feet high. Moon light is also enough for flying out in the desert.