 I'm gonna show Alice what we're gonna do tomorrow. Are you excited? I'm not sure. Let's see what this is. I don't know if I want to see it. What the? Okay, so it's like a quad, so it's two quadcopters. Like, it's a three inch octopter. It's an octo. A three inch octo, but like half of it's turned upside down. So the props can interleave. Hey guys, welcome to Rotorite. I'm Lydred. I'm Alex Vanover. Today, we are gonna be trying out a really weird drone. So this is something that was sent to Joshua Bardwell to check out. And he brought it here for us all to fly together. It was built by a guy named Victor. It's his own weird brainchild. So the idea is that this guy is gonna sort of split the difference between a three inch and a five inch, right? And it's not like your typical octopter, rather it's like actually eight motors, like all facing up the same way. Half of it's turned upside down, the other half is right side up. Right, right. It's got like two offset plates and then the, it's set up so that the prop disks overlap because some of the motors pointed up and some pointed, it's super different. It's a really weird, but kind of awesome design. This is probably the weirdest drone that we've gotten to check out so far. I would say so. Yeah, so this is you build it, we fly it. All right, so he's gonna fly the octo first. Not you. What? Yeah, not you. And he broke the Tommy's hex. The throttle. Oh! Oh, and the whole clean plate stripped off. Sorry, you've lost your privileges. I won't crash it. I'll take it really easy. No, you won't. Barbell's going first. I'll go first. No, that's fair. Vincent did reach out to you, so. And Drew is a freestyle pilot. I'm sorry that I'm the only one that actually pushes it. All you guys are like, oh, it's so interesting. Oh, I did a flip. Oh, well, I did another flip. No, he's right. He's right. I crash a lot less, but I also do a lot fewer impressive tricks. I just do impressive tricks. I like to take my quads home and Drew doesn't. I just don't, I mean I'll fix them. Let's see if they're covered. Oh, that is so weird because it sounds like a three-inch with that thing. Wow, not a lot of prop wash coming down. Let's do that again. I think Boogies. Now, is this his tune on the corner or is this? This is exactly as Vincent said. No prop wash. Ock that we're flying today is actually on clean flight. Yeah, it's not a beta flight or flight one or kiss or anything. It's on clean flight, which I was a little bit surprised his tune and everything though. That's the biggest thing. I think Victor set this up on clean flight because I think it was the only board that he's using that he could get eight outputs. You have to seal racing and you get eight outputs and it is made for clean flights. So I'm really impressed, especially with the handling. It didn't feel slow. It picked up speed a lot, had good handling and really good battery life. I mean, we're flying a 1300 more cell, which is you would never, With eight motors too. You would never fly that on like a baby Oc three-inch. It'll be way too heavy. No, it looks pretty good for a time. So we had good flight time. So you're using the same battery that you would use on a five inch. Flight time here is four minutes and we're resting at 15.3. So I mean, we could probably do, I'm sure we could do five minutes at least. We'll have to see. All right. I wanna fly it. Let's get another battery on it like that. All right. So first impressions. What did you think when you flew it? It was different. It was, I was surprised first off at how long it flew. I was really expecting it to die. Yeah, you were thinking it was gonna be more inefficient. I thought it was gonna have like half the flight time of a five inch quad. It actually flew longer than some of my five inch ones or about the same comparable times. It had a lot of control. Yeah. The biggest thing was the yaw authority because there were so many motors. There was a lot of things that could spin up or slow down to get that. Cause y'all works weird, right? It spins up and slows down motors and uses that angular acceleration of the motors to counter spin that. It was a very locked in yaw feeling. And on top of that, it flew really good. It flew kind of like a five inch freestyle quad. It definitely didn't carry its momentum as well as a heavier quad, even though the weights were not the same. Yeah, which was weird because it felt like it would weigh the same so you thought it would toss the same way, but it didn't. It kind of, I don't know. And the throttle was a little bit different. It almost felt lighter. Do you think it felt lighter? It felt lighter in a way, but the throttle curve was a lot different as well. It felt like there was really not much going on down low, which is kind of nice. You were trying to cruise down low and keep your line smooth, but then all of a sudden the top, it was really powerful. Oh, that thing bogeyed. That thing bogeyed. Well, actually, so then we started wondering, is it going to be faster than one of our five inch quads? So we put my freestyle quad with a GoPro up against the octacopter without the GoPro. No, exactly who won. I want to say I won, but here's the thing. I definitely... Here's the thing is I'm bad at going in a straight line because you would actually go and I would go up. Well, the thing is, and what I noticed was, at first your quad was faster. I was shocked, but it did seem faster. I would see you in front of me and then I think what would happen was your battery would start sagging a lot more than my battery. I did have battery sagging. And we were using the same brand batteries. It wasn't the battery. No, it was the same battery, but I think that your drone, the three inch octacopter, there's less amp draw. It's not just pumping out thrust in four motors. It's kind of less amps, but to more points. Which kind of doesn't make sense. It should all be the same, right? It should either all be the same. It still doesn't make sense. I figured the octacopter would be way more inefficient. Eight motors, that sounds like more amps. And on top of that, because the props overlap each other, you should be losing efficiency. Yeah, but it is weird because I noticed, and noticed with the freestyle too, I was able to do pretty long flights and it felt really consistent throughout the whole flight. In fact, I flew a little bit too long and over discharged, but I was going and all of a sudden the other were like, oh no, you're down to like 14 volts, whoops. So you took the GoPro off and you went to just do some all out ripping. Yes. Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God I can't even keep up with what you're doing as a spectator. It's just happening too fast for me. Oh, I don't like it, I don't like it. You found the prop wash. See that's why I wanted to race it. I was trying to do as many corners as possible because honestly in a straight section, the speed felt pretty similar to my five inch quads. And what I noticed in the corners is the control was really, really good, but it was almost terrifying. Oh, what the hell? How did you do that? It just accelerated so fast. I was swallowing around the trees as fast as I could. If I'm going around a tree or something and I'm trying to 180, it felt like the five inch quad kind of carried its momentum through so it takes longer to stop it and then reaccelerate in the next direction. What was scary and awesome about the octacopters and I would stop and they would just stop me there and accelerate straight at the next slide. Ouch! I'm a little bit buried in the camera and I just see it. Ouch! What just happened? How did he not? I don't understand how he reacts. It's that fast. That's why I didn't crash it. All right, let's go see the thing I would have been. I just caught a branch. Yeah, I clipped a branch, as you'll see in the DVR clip, these branches turning in. And I mean, it slung me into the ground pretty good, but like not more than a five inch quad would. It was moving, but not that bad. A five inch would have taken, it wouldn't have taken it. It was moving. Two arms, you broke 25% of this drone. The problem is, because it's a unibody as well, it's a lot harder to fix. Wait, and did you break one on each? Yeah. You've complete, that's 100% destroyed actually, because it's two unibodies. Exactly. That drone is 100% destroyed. That is way worse than I've ever done. Is this true? That is way worse. All right, this is true. That is way worse. You can't even. Feel the motors. Feel the motors. Oh, jeez! That is insane. He's not exaggerating. No, it's pretty hot. It's pretty hot. It's pretty hot. They're really hot. I was just pushing it really hard, because I want to see how it would take a crash as well, and it was kind of fun to fly out of my comfort zone a lot. It's really, really nimble. It's really, really fast. Do I like it more than five inch? I mean, I like it until that. So I think what we could say is that, if you race as hard as Alex Vanover, this might not be the frame for you. No, definitely not. This is gonna take a lot of work. But it's got a lot of potential. But like, it's really, I think like on a course like this, where you have a lot of tight sections, but also a lot of sections where you're going, you know, we talked about the prop wash and I wanted to address that. It looked like there was more prop wash than like a tuned five inch quad or something would have, but I have to note that it was turning a lot faster through it. So I think what's happening is, it's turning so fast, that's a whole nother level of prop wash that we haven't really gotten to in races. Well, you think it's turning faster than you can turn your five inch quad? I don't think I can turn a five inch quad around that fast. Really? Oh yeah. So there is a performance advantage. There is a performance advantage and there's also the disadvantage because it's lighter. Really? Because it seems lighter still than a five inch quad. A five inch quad threw us basic slalom. We'll carry some momentum a lot through. This quad, if you watch the UBR, you can see it. I'm like forcing it through the slalom, like pitching down into the slalom to get it to keep the speed up. So I really hope you guys enjoyed that actually. I enjoyed flying it. And listen, as much as I'm giving you crap for you being the one that broke it, for the record, when you broke it, it's because you were going full van over sand. I don't want to talk the frame. I hit this tree branch at actual full throttle. Well, like I said, this is just a passion project of a guy. It is pretty thin here. But let us say that for, I've never seen anything like this before. And for what it is, it's really amazing. I'll say this. This is really, really great. And just because the first pass doesn't stand up to the van over full stand durability, I think this is a- This concept has a lot of potential. Different stuff. I want to build one. I'm going to build one. We just tend to get so stuck in our ways of like five inch quad, five inch quad, five inch quad. We don't experiment. Yeah. I like experimentation. Well, that's where the you build it. We fly it series comes in handy. Absolutely. If you guys want us to fly something weird, send it our way and we are happy to just crash it. I mean, test it. Test it. Thank you guys so much for watching this episode. Thanks to Vincent for sending this awesome quad for us to fly and destroy. And if you enjoyed this episode, leave us a comment down below. Let us know what you would like to see us build. What weird drone? What weird drone would you like to see us to have sent to us? What weird drone would you like us to try and get a hold of? Guys, be sure to check out the Rotorite store link in the description down below. All right guys, I'm Ledrub. I'm Joshua Bardwell. I'm Alex Fanover. Thank you guys for joining and we'll see you next time. Woohoo!