 Horizon Hobby is hooking us up with a big flying wing to play with and we're picking it up from Graves Hobby Shop in Orlando, Florida. I'm so excited because I don't get to go into hobby shops anymore and they're so fun. This is not going to be easy to fit. Hi, I'm Josh and this is Josh. Welcome to the contest. Oh, wait. It's a wrong show. This is the Horizon Hobby Optera. They have been wanting us to try out some fixed wing stuff for a while so they sent us this to play with. I mean, they just went right for it. That's a big wing. It's bigger than me. It's definitely. You can't even see me. Where did I go? Hey. Hi. This wing is made to be an FPV wing, but we've done something a little bit different and we've actually fitted on the DJI digital FPV system. Hopefully she's nice and stable because wings are a little harder to fly than quads. This does have the AS3X receiver flight controller. Okay. So it's got stabilization. So nice and stabilization built in. It's not going to be quite the same level as one of our FPV drones. So when we fly one of our FPV quad copters on Betaflight, I mean the responsiveness and the stability that they provide, I mean, it's just unmatched and you're not, so even though this does have a gyro in it and it's going to provide some stability, it's still not going to be the same because whereas a quad operates with differential thrusts and is able to just apply thrust to whatever corner, this actually just has control surfaces. So if you're really not familiar with planes, these control surfaces move and the air moving over the wing hits the control surface and that's able to change the angle of your wing. But I mean, it's foam, it's flimsy, the air has to pass over so it's not going to be as responsive. It's not going to be as instantaneous as spinning up a motor. So as we've been using this DJI system, one of the more common questions is how do you wire the thing up because there's like six or seven wires that come off of it. It can seem a little daunting where all these wires are going to go, especially in something like a wing. But the beautiful part is ours that up, we only have two wires, you get ground and power. You only need to power it because to send the video to you, that's all you need. Everything else is going to be for more telemetry information to know what your battery is and if you're going to use the control link, but we're not using the control link. Right. We're going to use the spectrum radio and we don't, we're not too worried about getting the telemetry information. So all you got to do is power the thing up and it's going to send beautiful HD video back down to the ground. I went over to Sean's place and he helped us put this together because he's our, he's our resident plane guy. I like drones. I like rigid pieces of carbon fiber and screws and things that thread together. Planes go together with like foam, tape. Sean, thank you for your help. You really made me feel a lot better. Hey, time guys. What they're doing. Who's going to fly this thing first, man? I'll fly it. Wait, have you flown a wing FPV before? No. Oh, you've never done an FPV wing before. So we're going to double check the balance here. It should be good, but that is kind of a pain with wings that we don't think about too much with drones. It's a little nose heavy, but do you want to leave a nose heavy, but this is probably too much. Okay. So we'll just scoot the bat. It is easy to fix. This wing, you kind of want to keep up a little bit of speed. Okay. If you slow down too much with it, I bet she had it tip stall and do a spiral of depth into the ground. Oh gosh. I don't want that to happen. So actually, before we take off, there's a couple of settings I want to make sure we set in the goggles. There's a function of the system called low power mode, and when your drone is disarmed, the system can sense that and it reduces the power of the air unit to keep it from overheating. And depending on how long you might be powered on and idling somewhere, that can be a good feature, but we don't have a flight controller in here. So it's not going to know whether we're flying or not. Now it should be smart enough to know that it's not hooked up at all and just not use that low power mode, but if you're doing something like this, I recommend going in and turning off that feature altogether just so that you can be safe. I'd give it three quarters for all the problem. Oh boy. How's she flying? It feels like it's going to nose dive, but I'm like, okay, I'm going to pee. All right. I feel a little scared to turn. Okay. Okay. That's not bad. Just do a low pass. Why don't you do like a turn around one of the light poles? Holy crap. Oh, low pass. That was true. Oh, that low pass. I was sick. All right. Let's see if I can go. Oh my gosh. He was like, he was right there against the tree. Am I like coming in way too fast to land here? You need to start farther down the trees. Go way past the tree. Well, the tricky thing is there's trees. So I have to be at elevation no matter how far away I go. Well, I would say just be like skimming the trees. So like go out further and be like, you know, cut off. That was fun. I'm used to a quad. So I was trying to get it up to the speed of a quad. So I was like full throttle the whole time. And I just want to go fast. Drinking is a little slower. So I might get a longer flight time out of this. Are you going to fly next? I will. I will fly. Get me a wash mode. It's so beautiful. The colors look really good today. Good lighting. This is just relaxing. Dude, I am screwing up. I keep trying to yaw. No yaw. There's no yaw. There's no yaw. The turns are a little scary. I'll just get a little height. My left stick was like before. I'm like why aren't I... But look at this. I've throttled all the way down. Hand off the stick. And I'm just hanging out, man. I'm pretty much just hanging out. I feel like I could almost make it. Oh, it's starting to get... Oh, okay. I'm starting to feel the stall. Wow, you went a long time with no throttle. No throttle, man. Oh, but you know what's weird about when you turn, it really wants to stall on you. Because you end up, you shave off so much your speed. Yeah. Wow, that river is so pretty. Yeah. The trick isn't to do flips and stuff. The trick is just to not stall, keep it in the air, and then just like enjoy the ride, man. I'm no throttle. I'm shooting. That looks good. That looks good. That looks good. Maybe give a little pitch down, a little pitch down. Not much, not much. But don't... Yeah, that's perfect. Just keep it going. Keep it going. Keep it going. Keep it going. Just down a little bit. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. You're good. I had to jump the gap. That was too fun. Too fun, man. I thought you felt like wings. Well, I hate everything that comes with wings. Screwing with foam and glue and CG mattering so much, but like once you're up in the air, you're stunting with it. It's gonna be. I don't know if I've gotten to chase an FPV wing that's being piloted at FPV. I think anytime you chase wings, they're usually always being flown line of sight. So the patterns are different, right? Line of sight pilots is just like circuits. But you're FPVs, so we'll be able to like line up things better. Yeah, it should be better, yeah. Yeah, and maybe like we can even fly between some of the light poles or stuff like that, you know? You're on channel three. I'm on channel six. There should be plenty of separation. I'm ready when you are. All right. Ooh, my video is terrible. Is it? Yeah. Oh, we're standing so close to each other. Hold on. Can you move? Hold on. I'm just someone telling me I'm about to hit something. Yeah, it's much better. Thank you, Sean. So that is something that we have to keep in mind with the DJI system. You got me? No, I backed off. So I'm over the soccer field. Is your video better now? I'm right over the soccer field. Yeah, it's much better. Okay. Right above the guy right now. There you are. Landing is the responsible thing to do. Oh, the rolls are pretty fun. Throw it off a little far away, but. So I just practiced landing on the plane while it was parked. What do you think about landing on it in the air? You probably land and then fall off of it and keep going. No, I want to see if I can get it parked and just ride that thing. I mean, I'll disarm before I come down, but even. The only thing I'm worried about is that it's so round that it might just like roll off, but we have to try it. I mean. At some point, maybe get a couple more flights first. You want to get a chase in? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Props gets on the plane. No. Oh my gosh. I told you I did this the first time I flew mine too. Ripped the motor mount right off. The props a little messed up too. Oh no, where? Yeah. How bad is it? It's all chewed up. On a wing, it's probably pretty bad. Really? Yeah. It's a drone. Yeah, we got to change that. What? What's it going to do? It's going to vibrate a lot. It's going to vibrate a lot. And? And it's for your footage. It's got hyper smooth. We got to try it. You killed my filter. It was an accident. Everything was going so smooth, and then I thought I would just copy your move, which is fly over the parking lot too low until it hits the ground. We both kind of made the same mistake there. Well, but the difference is this quad, I mean, we've got tons of props, we'll put on props, and we'll go, the plane, I ripped the entire motor off. The whole motor's just off. Well, I saw that, and I was like, so the entire plane is just destroyed. And Sean's like, no, you just glue it back. It's still wild. One of the main reasons that we wanted to make this episode was to kind of reach out to the plane guys, and do you think they're going to make fun of us because we just got a store-bought plane rather than built our own? There's nothing wrong with buying a store-bought plane, but if you really want to get the full experience, you got to build one for yourself because it's a lot of fun. I like building the plane just almost as much as like flying the plane. So Sean put something together for us, that scratch build. We got to experience a real polished store-bought experiment. I mean, I love how polished the kit is. It comes with stickers, and it clicks together. So when you put yours together, what'd you do? You just cut some foam. So after building about 100 flight test planes by hand, I bought a 5,000-hour laser so I could cut them out quickly. So I actually laser-cut the plans. Flight tests getting me for free. I modified it a little bit, but then I used hot glue and just a little bit of time. Just fine paper and glue. Paper and glue? And that's a machine. So this is a modified flight test arrow. I widened the center of it so I could fit more stuff in it. And I've got the DJI air unit mounted in there. That is the actual air unit itself. Does that have y'all, since it has two props? No. I made this plane a long time ago, and I tried to use differential thrusts with it, but they're so close together that the yaw doesn't really do much. Well, also, doesn't a plane when the motor accelerates tend to want to twist? So do you have them go in the opposite direction so they counteract each other? Absolutely. They're counter-rotating on purpose to counteract the torque roll that a plane or a wing usually gets. So this one won't torque roll at all. So usually when you have a wing like this, in order to get HD footage, you have to have some kind of mobius or run cam on top of it. But with the DJI air unit, it's awesome because I can literally record 1080p and not carry any extra weight. And it's streamlined still. So that's awesome. So did you put an SD card in the air unit? No. What are you doing this? Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy. Looks like you got to take a walk. Yeah. You got the one-wheel though. Your boy's up to the challenge. Just a little concern because it's rounded. I think just make sure to disarm. So just get past the winglets and then just kind of flop down on it. I think the little nicks in the prop really helped bounce it out. Where are you at? Oh, I see you. You got me? I'm going to turn around and come down the field. I have chop throttle. I'm going nice and slow. Mount the plane whenever you're ready. It flipped and re-armed. So I didn't quite stay on you. I was a little too far back. Oh, you were good. Yeah, nice. Oh, you're done. You're spiraling down. Oh, what just happened? You must have got into a... Why did it stall? I just couldn't get out of it at all. You have to drop throttle and just glide for a second. Drop throttle? That's so counterintuitive. I just kept adding throttle, trying to get out of it. Yeah, that's what I did too. And that's why I landed in the water. Honestly, we might be OK. Dude, I think we might be able to just take this back on and throw her back up. I was too fixated on the stunt with Jeff that I just fell back to my old habit and I went for a sharp turn and essentially brought it to a hover. And these don't hover. Are we going to be able to try again? Oh, we're trying to do that. Oh, nice. We're going right back up. Just get it going across the field as slow as possible. OK, we're going to try to land on it. We're going to try to land on you. OK. All right, here you go. Yeah. Jeff, let's see if Jeff make it happen. Still up, though. Oh my gosh, no way. I'm so glad Sean piloted this. Did it just tip you up? Oh, yeah, I just did a flippy flop. I felt like I was flying a quad again. I'm going for it. Here we go. Coming up on the trees. You're getting close to the trees now. All right, I'm bailing. I'm just scared. I can't believe you've done it so many times, Jeff. All right, I'm trying it. Where are you? Oh boy, here we go. Touchdown. I came off. Yeah. That's awesome. Oh, I'm sorry. I wrecked the plane again. Oh, the props broken too. We're done there. Is it really? Oh, that's the end of it, huh? That's the end I was looking for. This was so fun because it was like reliving all the cool stuff you see, like jet planes refueling and Avengers landing on their helicarrier. I was like, I'm Iron Man right now. And I'm just up front getting hit every now and then, doing this. But neither of us would have been able to fly the plane. Oh, it won't say it happened to me or anything. No, because you saw, I just, I tried to turn around and just went down. So you're the only one that could have done this, like seriously. It was fun. 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