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Do you have some links to some of these videos? I'm interested :)

IMO it's more fun watching mini-quads than fixed-wing FPV videos especially from the very best pilots like Charpu, BorisB, Final Glide, Blackout etc.

The scream on FinalGlides 6S quad [4] gives me chills.

Crashes are always fun too, like when rianrex split his quad in half [6].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DyRGpKtz-M

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNObwimthF0

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5a9TLb1Yl0

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxU4GdlTHDg

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4DeK7zuLSw

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=OKT4cx7UKsk#t=171

[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avmc-vQRB4U

Add some small arms to something like that and it would be an urban terror. I assume the sole challenge is the ammo would be too heavy, but clearly looking at the future of warfare...

There's always so much fear around quadcopters being weaponised. Yet it hasn't happened to RC helis which have been around much longer.

Presumably you've seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYz_D89BLUg

The AA12 is an automatic shotgun

Seems to be some debate as to if this is real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNPJMk2fgJU

I came in 3rd place at the last MiniQuad race I went to in Oakland. Only because Charpu was not there lol otherwise would have been 4th for sure.

Wow, those things are so much faster than the Phantom 2 we have at the office.

Oh the Phantom 2 can be fast too (not as fast as those I linked to though). The Naza flight controller is very restrictive.

tbobborap1's channel on YouTube is a good start: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMQ5IpqQ9PoRKKJI2HkUxEw

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