After snapping an arm on my Hyperbola ultralight 5 inch and not being able to source a new bottom plate I needed a new design and wanted to move away from the single piece frames.

This is a stock TBS PodRacer 5 inch using the two peice arms however I plan on dong an arm swap and moving to the lighter single piece arms at some point. This ultralight has plenty of spare arms! This is not the stock TBS injected molded canopy. This is a custom designed by MrCanopy and printed by Itsblunty for me using Inland nylon/carbon composite filament.

I decided to use the 55amp Iflight Beast AIO pushing Brotherhobby VY 2004 1950kv motors. I have both the 4s and 6s versions of these motors and started with the 4s version on this but plan on using them on a 4 inch long range but was fun seeing the performance difference on this build. This build with the 6s motors goes from pad to speck in just a couple seconds. Calling it fast is an understatement! I may try getting a GPS on this somehow.

The rest of the build is TBS with the exception of the ANT in the pictures which was initially installed through testing but has since been replaced with a Baby Ratel 2. I’ve also installed a flywoo Bluetooth adapter for quick betaflight adjustments. The fact I'm using an Iflight beast 55amp AIO and the VY 2004 1950kv which have a recommended max current of 18amp so I started with a scaled throttle limit of 75% in Betaflight and through testing determined the motors are able to do 100% without getting warm. I am uncertain this would be the case with additional load or using an XT60 with this AIO and motor combination.

I run 6s 550mah for sub 250 and it pops like a rocket with 6+ min flight times on that capacity pictured below on scale and 6s 850mah profile pictured below comes to just over 250g

7/10
Samacked into a high tension power-line and lost a prop falling at least 45 feet into a tended soccor field with no damage to anything other than the lost prop and another bent one.

8/12
Learned the hard way that TBS recommends a 6s 650mah pack or below on this frame. This issue is the frame lipo strap slots breaking. There is no way t purchase just the bottom plate that has the lipo strap stays either. If one breaks, you can always sling the lipo the other orientation. I went ahead and had CNCMADDNESS cut me some stock 2.5mm replacement plates but a couple out of 3mm as well to try out.