AtomRC Swordfish Sloper
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- AtomRC Swordfish on the slope in 15 to 20kn.
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A beautiful flier, smooth, stable, quiet, acrobatic and a decent sloper.
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Wow... flying in that much wind with the props on. Impressive, AtomicRC did their homework designing the Swordfish.
that was pretty great conditions, and that thing handled it incredibly. Awesome little performer!
Beautiful flight Andrew!! I wish we had some hills around Fort Worth, Texas but we are mostly FLAT! But with some pretty good winds, 8 to 14mph, I can keep most of my powered gliders up for 30 minutes to an hour. But for UA-cam purposes, I will keep the videos to only about 10 minutes. Love your videos and choice of gliders!!! You have such beautiful sights to fly from!
I imagine you would have some pretty good thermal days
Dude, thanks for this video. It confirmed my purchase. Just went online and got it this moment. $360NZD including postage to New Zealand. Should be here in 10 days. Nice little model and very well priced
Good luck on shipping I think everything is on 30 day hold
@@dronepilot260rc well that would be poor advertising. When I checked out standard postage was 10 days. Hoping so. Will find out when it gets here. Thanks for the advice to not hold my breath.
@@dronepilot260rc just update, The Swordfish arrived yesterday morning, smack on the Ten day mark. Was very surprised, from Singapore to New Zealand.
Wow, now thats a plane that checks a lot of boxes. Maybe all of them? Quite nice mate.
Nice to see it slopes as well as it does. 👍
That is an amazing little twin there! For you to show it is great as a slope glider just adds icing to the cake. Amazing video Andrew! Thanks!
Thanks mate. It's a sweet model
Really enjoying watching you have such a great time with this model
Really great little kit. Cheers.
Yes still the best FPV twin I have
She is definitely a beauty. That sloped extremely well even with the prop on ;-) Well done and I'll see you in the Air!
Yes it loved the strong wind
The bluff has so much lift !! Looks AMAZING...😎👍
Yes, special place.
Great fun and the mic worked great!
Awesome!! It's an acrobatic sloper too. You could probably even try some FPV slopping.
A possible mod could be a installing a pair of folding propellers, then the Swordfish will be ready to handle anything you could throw at it.
BTW: Andrew, your mic handled the wind very well too.
Folding props along a wing?! Only if the motor sticks out more that the radius of the prop, else you will not be able to get it started. And that modification might move the center of gravity way into the front, which might then be difficult to counteract, I guess?
Wow really a great model and outstanding aerodynamics. Must have
Has a little bit torsion on the V-tail. But Gfk models also have that.
Sweet it glides well.. Ya mic was fine but ya hatcam didn't seem as good as usual???
Looked solid in that wind, must be the 2306 ballasts that you had on the wings.
Like ya snake killin sandals as well mate..
Cheers
Special anti snake aroma
looks great 👍👍
Love it
Bravo.thenks
A very nice flier! And such great weather! I went river rowing today, and the temperature was 0°C (to later increase thanks to the continuous sunshine to about ten degrees).
It would probably be difficult to fly a plane from a boat...
With frozen finger I bet!
@@AndrewNewton, :)
Even in summer. I am thinking about take off and landing: while some RC planes could, indeed, be launched by hand, they would, I assume, be difficult to catch when trying to retrieve them at the end of the session.
@hntrains You want a big net to fly into suspended by poles. Plane hopefully gets caught in netting, then lower it to the boat to retrieve.
@@blackbirdboy1, that, indeed! And it could be fun! But it would also be too complicated to actually be worth trying - other, that is, than for an experiment to post on UA-cam to delight one's audience.
Better, then, keep the two - rowing and RC flying - separate! :)
I just got over of these. I am about to fit my dji o3 unit. I was wondering there you placed the air unit. I see the camera at the front, i like that. I also see the aerial at the back which is good. I have the max camera cable of 200mm which puts my air unit in the battery bay, not happy about that due to lack of air flow.
Air unit and camera up on top, not on the nose.
This is so nice 👌
It’s almost perfect! It’s just missing…. Well, i wish it could… it needs to… Huh, I think this one actually checks *all* the boxes. I see a bunch of people complaining about the default iNav setup, but come on! All the hours of soldering and splicing and running wires through here and there and sorting out how to fit everything in are gone! I’ll take plugging it into a laptop and tweaking a few settings over having to spend days re-configuring and printing parts, etc.
Well said John. Just assume you will do your own INAV config, as you always should.
Lifts like its in an elevator!! 😄
Great action, you know how to fly 😅
Thanks 😆
Backwards acro is a bit 🤮🤢, but apart from that this plane is fantastic.
I am so jealous on the weather in the southern hemisphere on this beautiful coast - Greetings from foggy cold Munich, Germany.
Haha sorry about the view
Thanks for all your amazing videos Andrew. So incredibly helpful. FedEx is delivering my Swordfish today! However, I've been flying 100% Spektrum gear. Before I run out and buy a new radio, I'm wondering if it's possible to get a Spektrum Rx to work with the flight controller via the "xbus" port? On my other models I use this port (4 wires) for an external gps module so I don't know if this port offers 2-way communication. Any thoughts or advise you may have are greatly appreciated.
Thanks Gary. No idea about Spektrum connections sorry but here is the list of protocols for the NAVI board www.youtube.com/@AndrewNewton/community
You didn't say if the sub-elevator brought anything. Would it be possible to mount folding propellers to keep the possibility of coming up from the hole in the event of a drop in the wind?
Finlets didn't make a radical difference. Need more air time to compare. Cant put a folding prop on a wing.
Andrew - did the fitting of the two black tail fins make a noticeable improvement in yaw control ??
It was't too bad without them, but probably a little more stable in yaw.
Naisch 😃
Mine is held hostage due to shutdown in china 😢 I guess I’ll have to wait til spring to fly mine
Curses!
Slopes!
What size battery are you running. Is it XT60 or XT90. Asking as I'm wanting to order one for mine so I'm not waiting around after it has arrived. I'm not looking to use it for fpv. Just as a powered glider. So guessing my battery might need to be a little larger to help add the nose weight without the fpv gear there to balance. Thanks for your time and advise. From little New Zealand
ZOHD Lion 4S 3500mAH XT60. Wouldn't need heavier, could even use a 3S 2200 Lipo for gliding
@@AndrewNewton awesome. Thank you for that. The down loadable Manuel is very vague. I got the PNP certain coming. Might break into FPV though the new year. But thinking as a hand launch power glider this will be ideal. Thanks for your time you give these videos and veiwers
Thanks Russ.
where is that beautiful place?
South Australia
thank you Andrew,, i’m faraway from that place. just wanna tell you that i like your videos.
do it come with the controller and what's the cheapest controller to find for it.
No radio included. The cheapest I would recommend is Radiomaster TX12. You could fly it with any radio really but cheaper ones wont have much range or adaptability.
What's happened to Allen these days???
Just stopped posting videos, he's flying as much as ever.
Heyy Andrew. Please tell me about the mic you had. It was incredible at no overwhelming wind noise . I like it buddy. Great sloper mate
That was my normal Firefly 8S 90º hat cam mic (in a little tube, clipped to the cap peak and pointing towards me with a fur covering)
Did the new CLI fix most issue except battery draw?
Unbelievably stable airframe. So excited to get going can't wait.
The start of a better off the shelf platform then the Parrot Disco. The Discos still my Favourite 4g long range plane.
Some improvements but the VTail mix is wrong and arming without sats is a bit dodgy
@@AndrewNewton so the didn't fix the vtail mixing? Well that suxs, I generally stay away from vtails as stuffed mixing on first ever one that ended badly. Anything else would have been fine 😅