Pelted's Quads (Builds Commencing)

[Pelted]

New toys arrived today from TBS. The Disco, motors and ESC are now sitting on my desk at the office. I'm so leaving early today.

Since I have a F450 frame already built I'm going to hold off on the Disco until I have a few flight hours. No since in crashing this thing on day one.

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[Pelted]

I've been all over the place the few days with parts coming out from everywhere. When the disco arrived I set it aside and put everything on the DJI FlameWheel F450 frame only I had. I used the landing gear setup and a friends GoPro zip tied on.

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This was a fun build and helped me finally get some air time. (I did do a few packs before sticking the gear and camera on to get a feel for this thing.)

Got some fun shots from the videos though.

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After all that fun I was itching to use the 550mm quad frame, but was really stuck for space since I didn't want ESCs strapped down to the booms. It was a tight fit but damn its starting to look good.

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And here it is from a trip out this evening.

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I forgot to turn the lights on for that photo. ( have them wired to a switch on the Tx) but I realized now that I really need more than just 4 lights if I'm going to do dusk flying. Damn I wanted to keep things clean.

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Videos are uploading to YouTube now, just some first flight footage.