As many of you likely have experienced, I always felt that even my most favorite frame was missing something. I'd always wish I could take this aspect from that frame and that aspect from this frame to create what I'd consider the most prefect frame. It got to a point where I decided to just start designing and selling my own frames. And this is my first release - the Ronin Mk1. The Ronin being my freestyle category of frames and the "mark 1" designating it as the first release version.

One day I was looking at my wall of drones, as one does. And realized that by far I flew my smaller 3 inch drones more than anything. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing like the feeling of a tuned in 5" Apex 6S ripper. But living in the metropolitan Los Angeles area, I'd have to drive somewhere to properly fly the thing. Whereas with my smaller drones, I was much more confident ripping it up at local parks. This is why I decided to focus on ultra-light sub-250g oriented frames. Oh and then there's the whole FAA thing too I guess lol.

I will be straight up - I designed this frame with flight performance as top priority. Specifically, I wanted it to be rigid enough to show a very clean gyro_scaled. This is actual gyro_scaled spectrographs of this build:

But once I achieved this noise profile which in turn allows for very aggressive tuning, I turned all my attention to weight mitigation. Put another way, I sacrificed some degree of durability to ensure flight performance and flight time ensuring a sub-250g AUW.

With a 179mm MTM wheelbase, this build spins 4" props with 1404 motors making use of an F7 AIO and split 4K HD camera, this build clocks in at 240g with an 850mAh 4S lipo clocking in well in excess of 4 min hard acro as you can see in this video ...