Breaking the speed limit - How fast is your drone? Find out on our leaderboard!

Sustained for 3.5 secs, you would have broken the sound barrier.

The Eurofighter Typhoon - brakes off to Mach 1 = ~28secs.

Maybe they should drill holes in it and fit Master Airscrews then!

To be fair to the Eurofighter … it will have reached about 30k ft by then, too.
Beat that! :stuck_out_tongue:

Not me. I abide by the drone code - 400 feet maximum for me :angel:

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Mavic 2 Pro - possibly a new (vertical) speed record! :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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Not the circumstances we’d like to award the Speed Freak Badge … but, heck … you definitely topped the current M2P speed of 55.42 mph.

We’ve decided it would be a little (?) unfair to have your speed as an entry on the leader-board - but it will at least be in this thread for all to see.

:+1:

(Anyone reading this at a later date … this thread relates : ESC Failure - Catastrophic - Mavic 2 Pro)

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Very fair… “mentioned in dispatches”

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Took me ages to find the log, not the fastest but got to be up there lol

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A long way to go!

Fastest P4 is 65mph.

Check all the fastest speeds by model in the first post.

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Oh dear!! So the other day i was messing about putting the quad through its paces, i had it up at around 120m or so!! and was seeing what it would fall like if i cut the throttle and it fell like a brick! luckily i was able to recover its downward demise…proper twitching time…never again!!! just had a look at my Telemetry and lo and behold it hit 230kph!!!

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Just a note, i have no way to verify this other than the telemetry, would a free falling quad hit that sort of speed?

Could possibly reach that kind of speed, you just need to work it out using the formula below. . . . . :laughing:

{\displaystyle V_{t}={\sqrt {\frac {2mg}{\rho AC_{d}}}}}

where

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http://www.calctool.org/CALC/eng/aerospace/terminal

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230kph v 240.033kph, close enough for government work. . . . :+1:

Damn scary way to try for a “Speed Freak” badge though Wayne . . . :rofl:

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Only the horizontal speed is permissible for Speed Freak badge consideration.

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Won’t be doing it again!!.. :thinking: as it didnt even count!! :rofl:

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Sorry must have missed that in the rules!!

In all cases, those methods report only horizontal speeds.

That is what I posted !! anyway, nevermind it’s only for fun!! I did try though and did it by the rules :wink:

‘Wowser’?? Tuning into Mikey by any chance? :grinning:

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