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That's pretty impressive, it's obvious how hard it struggles to go vertical with no pitch authority. Little idea i just had, tell me if it's nonsense, but what if you transitioned by doing a half-roll and yawing yourself vertical with differential thrust?

What camera are u using in the wings?

A circled red star on each wingtip represent something, and it's not TEXACO gasoline. 😅

Thanks!

Are you in the uk as looks like our coastline

Odd compass advice. The absolute opposite advice given by inav

0.1mm 38AWG Heating Resistor Wire Nichrome-Wires for Heating Elements 10Meters for foam cutting temu a few dollars

I wish you could select number of cycles to do. I am retiring my Powerlab 8 for this, hope it is good :)

If it's over $79 and without a single joy-stick TX in RTF form, then it's not for me. That's what the new pilot in you becomes after even a mild to moderate ischemic cerebral stroke, as was in my case. Sooo ... please, take care of yourselves. Health comes before everything else. I learned the hard way. For those too lazy to look-up what the medical term ' ischemic ' implies: ... it designates a blood vessel/artery ' clot ' type of cerebral stroke which causes oxygen starvation to the neurons involved. The other type, which is more severe, is a ' hemorrhaging ' ; which is a rupture of a cerebral blood vessel/artery.

I see at 10 min it straightens the image as well ! Really useful split screen thanks Andrew

Andrew you must have struck it rich! On Banggood the NZ price is $707.78!!! Reasonably price my “donkey”.

Have you tried doing more action things with them like a light jog?

How u find cg of this plane?

Hi Andrew, is it possible to have the vario setup using a FC as the Matek 743 WLTE? I can’t find the Vspeed value in my telemetry.

Chinas answer to the very expensive Spectrum "Apprentice"....Having the symmetrical section wing for more advanced flying is a great bonus giving the model more appeal...🤔😮😏😏🇬🇧

Wow keren bro

Very smooth looking finish on the foam. Appears to fly quite well. An excellent price. What type of hinges does it have, Mr. Newton?

Looks to be a real ripper! Impressed to hear that the EPO foam is very robust. The thought that went into including two wings, and easy takedown/assembly is excellent. Expect we might see more of the TopRC Blazer as a general testing platform in future. It might be fun to test if the Blazer remains stable (at slow speeds, stall handling) if those big ailerons were configured as flaperons for STOL flying.

in 2024 I would definitely not call it a trainer, ie a beginner LOS airplane trainer. Yes it is like the Eagle 63 trainer I had in 1981, but that was not an easy introduction to RC flying in retrospect. I'd call this more of an intermediate LOS plane. A trainer for the last 15 years has probably been a UMX cub, followed by an Easystar belly lander-pusher. Truly forgiving airplanes for learning LOS with low speed and high crash resistance. Once you get into having landing gear and especially tricycle gear, you need to be solid on landing the UMX and belly landers or you will have doing a lot of repairs. Especially for park flyer situations without unlimited smooth grass to land on - need somethings lighter, slower, belly landable. Some would say a 3ch plane with dihedral and no airlerons is more beginner friendly too, but I feel ailerons should be in the mix esp with gyro stab to help. And there is also the 250g exemptions to consider in some countries (eg Remote ID bull snot)

Nice flyer. Does that have a break-away prop? I like the user-friendly features. I only have a few umx I fly but would like a sailplane or similar but want to put a cam on it and looking for those little action cams I used to see are gone? One I liked a lot was the ...firefly? Those were great little cams to tape to your plane but can`t find them on banggod or gearbest. hmm idk

Nice if you are like Andrew here and get a free one just to do a review for BangGood. By-the-way Andrew; how does one approach BangGood to do what you do ?

Good beginner designs can be excellent mod material for those of us who have been at it for a while. As an FPV long ranger flying STOL from my back yard, I immediately added a twin mod of this one to my bucket list. What I love is the sturdy aluminium gear with no ingenious parts that insist on snapping in half, and what I hate is the bottom loaded battery bay. But there's nothing more than foam between me and a better solution, so thank you for the comprehensive review!

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Great review and flights. TopRC do make some fantastic planes ;-) See you in the Air!

BangGood is Nuts... They want $333Cnd to ship that $306 Cnd Plane.... IDTS

i've same FC and i am working on Vtol (4+1) with inav 7.1, i can share with you my experience with pleasure. I finished the first part of the Quad with all settings waitting for the finishine of the plane construction..;-)

This is now a NO GO in various countrıes such as the u.s. & canada with the RID ( Remote ID ) requirements. Aircraft 250g ( 8.82-ounces ) or iess are exempt from the ruling.

Try putting in the flaperon function with the sport wing, that would be interesting.

Would be a 9/10 if it wasn't a bottom feeder.

This is a good price for this plane!

Hi Sir Andrew. Can a Speedybee F405 Wing be used for VTOL too?

Not sure why you would need a 4s battery in place of the ubiquitous 3s/2200 (before even a test flight) ? Hauled itself off the deck with plenty of power - even on that rough track. It IS a trainer after all (and quite nicely made too by the look of it). Spare wing reminds me of the Chris Foss Unowot?

Nice review, unfortunately they lost me at ‘bottom hatch for the battery’

Can't wait to see your Quadplane Andrew....Looks like your Winter has arrived....🤔😳🇬🇧

Looked like the Runcam was using an ND filter Andrew...?...🤔😳

Runcam may be a bit more, but worth the extra IMO. I assume you can remove the battery in the Hawkeye...?...🤔😏🇬🇧

I've ordered the pnp version. What do you recommend for fvp? I'm new to fpv. Not wanting to break the bank.

Thank you for making video of this FC I will Also try 😊

Which motors and propellers did you use? Battery, 1 or 2? ESC, 1 or 2? Thanks!

Thank you for the video, Andrew! Maybe you know where I can find power configuration for 4+1 VTOl plane with SpeedeBee F405? I found only for tricopter VTOl configuration.

I have this board in a T1 vTol. 18 months in, it's hovering but not FW flight as of yet. I am used to Ardu and Matek too, so . . . . . . . it's got a good loud beeper. Which I used to locate the plane after the first FW test. It was a VERY long walk, don't point the plane at the ocean is all I'm saying Mr Newton :)

You just watch ya fingers with those VTOL's Andrew.........

RunCam definitely better for my eyes.

extra servo amps is good for tilt motors I guess. Makes sense for a quadplane but I like the single-board lightweight f405 wingV2 all on one board and feel it has enough pads for 3 motors imho. I have yet to complete and fly my Dart tilt motor vtol though, hope the v2 has enough servo amps.

Hi Andrew, I'm having vtol problem with this fc on skywalker x8 with mission planner. I cannot get it to hover. The skywalker wing flipped over every time I increased power. I would like to see how it works out for you.

Great overview. With so much flexibility in configuring, it may be hard to decide what could be your next fun build to pair with this flight controller.

i stopped buying matek when they stopped supporting and started cheating the elrs team. Matek is no longer elrs supported product but Matek tells their buyers they should use another elrs target instead to get any updates. Imagine this second vendor will stop supporting then the whole mess starts again. I have bought speedy bee fc instead and sold my old matek flight controllers I hate to see this kind of cheating.

No switched 9v/12v for VTX use ???

I wonder if this would work on my nano goblin.

Andrew. Get hold of a Bixler and strap 4 motors onto it via a couple of carbon tubes mounted on the wings. The standard Bixler motor remains as the plane motor. You do it first and I’ll follow you