 Three, two, one. Oh my god, what's up? What's up guys? Welcome to Road to Ride. I'm Wes Flair C. And I'm Alex Manover. Now, Alex is the fastest pilot that I know. He is so fast that there's no chance I would ever beat him in a race, right? So I made something new. Check it out. Woo-hoo! This is Turbo Drone. Interesting. You have some pretty crazy projects, Sean. I, it's not expecting this. But once again, you seem to surprise. It's really cool. So far, all I've done is hovered it. So I haven't actually got a chance to do anything cool with it yet. But I think it's going to be pretty neat. I talked to Barwell about how to set up a flight controller to make a servo output. The ESC, the fifth ESC, is actually connected to a servo output on the flight controller. So when you flip a switch, the middle position is half throttle and the up position is full throttle. So I want to beat you out of race. So I'm going to see if my little cheater drone can give me the advantage that I need. All right, so let's talk about the differences in our quad. Because there are some slight differences. Obviously you have a fifth motor. I don't have a fifth motor. This is the Rotorite CL-1 BS, which stands for Vanny Style. I worked with Druitt Rotorite to basically make a more sleek and aerodynamic version of the CL-1. That's ultra light weight, much more stiff than the original version. And it's a little bit different, though, than the SEPI IPA. This is the HT-1. Right, this is the HT-1. I actually put the HT-1 frame with your arms and your motors. So it's almost identical. But the middle section is actually a little bit fatter or longer, I should say. And that gives me a little bit further to stick the motor out towards the back a little bit. I do think, though, if just going on a racing track or in a drag race where our quads are tilted like this, I think if you can get the angle of this just right, I think you'll definitely. But yeah, I did make this mount adjustable so that I could actually match the camera angle so that when I am tilted up like this, these motors will be acting against gravity and actually pulling the quad forward. And this one's just going to be pushing it forward. I don't know if I can even handle the speed through the course, but we'll see. Let me find out. All right, line of sight, flying, test. All right, so we're just having a race. It just looks cool. It does look really cool. Three, two, one. Oh my god, oh! It wasn't supposed to do that. That didn't work at all. I just got to change the problem, though. It's OK. So I haven't actually tried to go full throttle yet from zero to full throttle. And I just went zero to full throttle and it freaked out. And I think because it gave it this direction, it wasn't expecting it, the flight controller probably freaked out. So I'm going to try to give it half throttle, because I can flip the switch to the middle position and only give it half throttle. And then if that works, maybe I'll switch to full throttle. We'll see. All right, here we go. I'll try to stand back. Three, two, one. Here we go. Oh, that was pretty cool. Here we go. It worked. That was pretty cool. Is this? It's not that cool. It's so funny. So cool. I want to try it. You want to try it? I want to try it. Oh my gosh, it's so cool. Oh my god. Look, I have zero throttle. I have zero throttle. What? Zero throttle. No way. Look at the throttle. Oh my gosh. That is so crazy. Is it like flying an airplane? A little bit, is it? Where can you go full throttle? Oh no, it's just on. Uh-oh. He saved it. He saved it. I don't know how I saved that, but so yeah, I'll do it again. So it's like an airplane. I'll switch it on. It's so cool. That's zero throttle. That is so funny. That is so insane. Oh my god. Here we go. What? What? That's half. That's not even four. That's half the back power. Oh no, rock switch. Rock switch. I'm just sorry. This is so funny. That was 50% throttle on the switch. I know. We haven't even gone full yet. I was at zero throttle and it was I think that if we get the camera angle actually correct. The motor angle. Yeah, if we get the rear motor angle to match the camera angle, then when we get it full throttle, it won't react as badly because it's going to go in the right direction. I want to see the drag race. It's time for the draw. I want to see if Sean can beat Alex Vanover. Everybody freeze the golf thing. Three, two, one. Straight line. And then just going past that gate is the finish line. So today we're using the DJI digital FPV system. What's nice about that is for the first time in FPV drones we're flying in high definition. It makes it much easier to fly through a race course or freestyle around some trees or some buildings. Just really makes the experience a lot more enjoyable. We have the Cadix Vista, which is the not only FPV video transmitter but it's also the RC controller receiver. So we're using the DJI radio as well. Overall it makes the combo super sleek, easy to wire up and really no failure points. Although just Venmo you. Venmo works. So what I've done on the quad is I actually removed the bottom two screws so I could crank the camera angle up. So this is about a 45 degree angle. It's going to allow me to fly much faster. I'll still be looking at the ground a little bit but not very much. In the yellow corner we've got Captain Vanover the fastest real drone pilot in the world. Don't give him a sim. In the orange corner we've got Let's Fly RC has to build a cheer to even have a chance of keeping up. Who will win this Titan throw down? I think Skull is out of a job. Ready to take off? Taking off. Okay, on your marks. Get set, go. Three, two, one. Woo! Oh man, I'm keeping up with you. A little bit. Go back, go back, go back. Do you want to do it again? Dude, I did trail you though for a good set. Like I was on you I just couldn't catch it. On your marks. Get set, go. Okay, I'll see you now. Oh, you passed me on you. I didn't know I'd catch you but you were catching up. Hold on, let's go back again. Let's go after her. Are you just boosting right away? No, I boosted in the middle. Okay, just boost right away. On your marks. Get set, go. And boost. Boost. You're so fast. Woo! Okay, I got to remember to turn it off. I could see your shadow in my FVV feed. I felt like your shadow was catching up. Yeah, I felt like your shadow was catching up. Yeah, I think one of the times I beat you but I'm not sure if I did it. Oh, you beat him one time? Yeah. For sure. Okay. He's at a slight disadvantage in weight and he's obviously at an advantage in power with the boost. Regardless of boosted doing something. No, I just think Alex is so much better at flying that fast. Yeah, absolutely. I just think keeping up with Alex is hard even if you have turbo boost. Yeah. I think what we need to do then set it up so it's van over versus van over so we should set up a course and Alex should run it once with no turbo boost and then run it again and see if he can actually improve his time using the boost. I'm thinking that the turbo if I can get used to being able to flip the switch while I'm flying I think during the actual course itself it's going to be really hard to fly but when I hit the straight away I think I'm going to be able to really get going faster. So what Alex is doing right now is he is changing the rates on the drone. So rates are something that change how the drone responds to the stick. How much the drone moves given a relative stick position. Every pilot has their own preferences some like a little more responsive some like the drone to be a little bit softer and what's really nice about this setup is that if you're trading off the drones you can change the setup right using the goggles. Normally changing these settings requires a computer and you need to use a program called Betaflight and go in and all this stuff but with the DJI goggles it's really nice you can just use the menus in there to change the rates to the ones that you like. It's a little bit slower than using the computer but it's really convenient when you need to make quick adjustments out in the field. So I got the DJI screen here I'm able to see everything that Alex sees in real time. Anyway this DJI screen will allow me to be able to see my stopwatch and see Alex's flight at the same time I will be able to time his flaps. It does have a lap option You're okay. Can you beat that with turbo boost? I don't know. I think I'm so used to the way my normal like 5 inch quad with like my PIDs and everything flies. However I think when I hit the sweeper as long as I can keep it smooth on the course just normally flying it I think when I hit the straights with the turbo boost I think I might be able to beat the time. I'm actually very excited about this. It's very draggy. It's supposed to be using the boost. Now he's using the boost. You can hear it. Oh it doesn't like it. Alright I have two. Lap. That was 24.7 seconds. You're blowing past the power loop. Thank you Captain Obvious. It's on. Oh no. I tried turning it on. Here we go on. Forward right into the ground. That was a really long lap. I gotta say this though when I was just in the sweeper I turned it on I didn't feel like I was going faster. We have almost identical quads but when I'm flying this one just without the boost on it just feels like I'm having to really try hard to get it through. It feels heavier. Yeah it's probably because of the drag when you don't have the boost on it's almost like you would have to have the boost on the whole time to make it useful. Yeah like with the boost on it was controllable until I turned. Hopefully we didn't make a simpler course so let's just try an oval. Like all the way around all the trees. That's the plan. I'm just gonna do an oval around these trees. That way you can go full throttle turn off. Full throttle turn off. Here we go. Ready? Here we go. 15.1 seconds. That's incredibly consistent. Yeah it was like 5.5.5. Yeah. Oh she's vibrating. Ready? I'm ready. Yeah we started. That one. Is the boost on? Oh my God. Oh my God. It was so fast. Oh my God. Oh my God. 15.01. How are you kidding me? We made it by 15.01. That was half throttle. That was only half throttle. What do you mean that was only half throttle? Oh you're doing it all the way? No I didn't do all the way. Ready? Ready? Here we go. Oh my God. I didn't get used to the tiny movement you made on pitch. It was so fast. I couldn't believe how fast it was going. That was only half. I was shocked. I genuinely thought at half. I literally saw the turbo boost. It was pretty slow. I didn't think I would see it. I saw the boost. So it was a hair faster. Oh yeah. It felt faster. It felt like going around the trees. It was noticeably faster in the video. I could see it bolt forward. It was crazy. I messed the motor angle so I tilted it more. So I tried to match it somewhat with my camera angle. I know I'm going to be looking at the ground a little bit. You probably changed a little bit when you hit the ground. It did. Because every now and then we hit the ground and it kind of changes its angle. We have to readjust. I want to try it in the air to see. Count us down on the turbo. Hold on. I want to try it. Oh my God. It's so fast. All right. All right. It's possible. Three. Two. One. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. That one. I'm adjusting it. Half turbo, full turbo. Oh wow. Half turbo, full turbo. Half turbo, full turbo. Half turbo, full turbo. Half turbo, full turbo. Okay. I did get to fly though. I did actually hang in there. That was worse. It's so much faster though. Why does it work? Probably because it's not turning as smooth. I can't. Let me try another one. Let me try one more. It is clear. Here. Reset, reset. You can do another three. See if it's really done. I wasn't interested. That's it. The carbon is perfectly fine. Oh, dang. Look at this. The screw ripped out of the mount. I just want everyone to see. The carbon is perfectly fine. Oh my God. I just want everyone to see that. Then you stop. What did you hit? I'm just saying. Most durable. Oh my God. Is that? Wow. Is this what you did? Yeah. Look at this. It's like metal. This is rebar. Oh my God. Are you sure that's where you hit? I'm 100% sure. Was it like that before? No, no, no. Sorry. I was not. I was not like that before. No, I think of this today. It was not like that before. That's why he just did? He just did this. There's no way. Okay. Look at this. Look at this. It's cracked. Oh my gosh. The turbo mechanism is a little... Yeah, it's done. Oh, I broke. The stack? Oh, the stack is... Holy crap. The stack screws are bent. Oh my gosh. The impact. Are you kidding me? You broke the stack screws. Yeah, I hit it at Mach 6. You hit it. John works for weeks in advance of view pilots coming in. He knows Vanova's going, oh, I got to build something cool. I got to build something exciting. I got to make it special for Vanova. Vanova shows up one day. Bam. That's what you do. Oh, come on. That's what you do. So, Sean, I broke the build that you made for me. I'm sorry. But I had a lot of fun flying. I'm very thankful because it was a whole new experience for me. And I don't know about you, but I had a lot of fun flying. This thing was crazy. I'm super excited about how fast it went. I can't believe how much difference the motor made. I didn't think it was going to do that much difference, but it was insane. Yeah, I think once we got the angle right that last time around on the motor, you could really see the speed of it in the straights. The problem is it just got really hard to do corners. If I was trying to turn it on and off, and actually I could get into a rhythm of doing so, but it is a little bit distracting, and that makes it hard to fly tight. I could see that. Yeah, I could see it being distracting, trying to remember to hit the switch at the right time. And you have to, if you got it timed perfectly, it's where you could flip it on during the straightways and turn it off right before you turn. It might be beneficial. Well, guys, that was my turn for you. I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. If this is something you want to see us maybe or you visit in the future, leave a comment down below. Tell us what you think. What would you have done different? What would you think we did wrong? I'm very, very curious. I could have flown it better, I'm sure. But I had a lot of fun doing it, and I hope you guys had fun watching it. I'm Les Flaircy. And I'm Alex Manover. Thank you so much for watching this episode. Be sure to go check out the Road Riot Store, and buy this frame. Be sure to like, comment, and subscribe to the channel. Don't forget the bell! Don't forget the bell. Don't forget the bell. And we'll see you guys in the next one.