X-Class early flight

Racing Quads, Self-builds & FPV
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Managed to go out again today - with an action cam this time (took a good couple of hours to install the mount - while you can easily swap an arm, trying to ‘open’ the quad - ie removing the top plate is quite a process )

Really happy with the result - only downside is the bigger the drone, the heavier it is to go fly - with this one just the drone & batteries for 3 flights - about 10kg :sweat_smile:

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details of the build - Thor 12S X-Class

Last set of batteries for the day so taking a break from tuning and just flying a bit around enjoying the experience (happy with the filtering so slowly increasing gains now)
I messed up the cam settings (to ultrawide) so no stabilization and also noticed the mic seems on its way out - but you still get a sense of how this beast flies :slight_smile:

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Sounds like a dentist drill lol.

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Audio recording is quite bad - was never very good (known Action 2 cam limitation) but the mic is now clipping and emitting those high freq noise when it does.
Would love to find a good way to record good audio on those big quads - the sound is epic irl

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Horror film vibes I loved it
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You could plough a field with that as well. :joy:

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You’ve got that well locked in Cedric.
Well done, looks really good :clap:t2:

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I’ve got some ‘USB Stick’ looking self powered audio recorders. I’ll be trying them out this coming weekend on planes. I’ll post the results.

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I will just leave this here

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Painless360 did a video on this a couple of weeks ago.
Fun for future BM’s :thinking:

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I have some LED hard strips on order to lighten the thing up - I’ll look at smoke machines after that :smiley:

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