Basically the title post. Im ready for a step up in planes and these 2 have caught my eye.

Has anybody in here owned/flown both and can compare them? I will eventually buy both just not sure which first. Im thinking the viper will be slightly easier to fly (i have 2 battery packs through a buddies, never seen a v1200 irl) i do know about the v1200 torque roll issue

Im making a 3d printed A4 skyhawk made of lw pla. The A4 will have a 600 mm wing span and the engine is a 50 mm edf with a 50a esc. Now​ I want the longest flight duration possible so could you advice me what battery to get for the longest flight time? I know it says recommend with lipo but im looking more into LiHV. Thanks!

edit: I use the 2627-kv4600 engine

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I had an idea and I'm going with it. It will mostly be airbrushed and some feathers will be near the edges just to break up the straight lines. I'm hoping when I'm done nobody would give it a second look if it was flying high

Hey everyone, looking for advice on how I should precede in getting back into RC airplanes. I used to fly a bit with my grandfather when I was younger before he passed away. My old airplane (a small foam beaver) crashed beyond repair years ago. I have a transmitter and this orange box, (still looking for the receiver side of it) and a couple of 3 cell lipo batteries. What would be the best option for me for getting a new plane to fly? and also maybe where would i buy the receiver side of the orange box if I can't find it? Looking for any advice as I am not super knowledgeable but used to fly with my grandfather a lot and would really like to get back into the hobby as it seems fun and really nostalgic and a nice way to remember him by.

Brand new atom squared. The owner brought it out for the maiden and a few friends got some flights on it. Everyone that got to fly it really enjoyed it!

Waited 2 weeks of this bad boy to arrive. Soo happy freewing is jumping on the larger edf bandwagon. This 110mm will end up in a 3d printed mirage 2000B at some point over the winter.

A while back I shared the initial design of my new quad-tractor V-tail FPV wing here and asked what you guys thought of it. Well, after a lot of development and flight testing, I thought I'd share how it turned out!

Quite a few things have changed since that original design, most notably dropping from four 1003 motors to two 1103s.

The quad setup was an interesting experiment, but the interaction between motor thrust, pitching moment, V-tail and elevons made this one a real challenge to get flying the way I wanted.

I've been through multiple aerodynamic configurations, CG positions and control mixing arrangements, gradually working through the problems until I arrived at something I'm really happy with.

The result is VENOM, a 249g, 600mm wingspan, fully 3D printed FPV aircraft that's now happily ripping around at low level doing acro!

Final setup:

• 2× 1103 motors with HQ T3×2 props
• DJI O4 Wide
• Matek F405-Wing WMO running INAV
• 2S 1000mAh LiHV
• Four servos controlling elevons and V-tail ruddervators
• 249g AUW
• Approximately 7 minutes of mixed flying

The most satisfying part has been getting the aircraft to perform the way I'd originally imagined, even if the route to getting there was rather different from what I expected!

Thanks to everyone who commented on the original design. It's been a really interesting project.

What do you guys think of the final result?

More info on VENOM

Original design post: https://www.reddit.com/r/RCPlanes/comments/1w3kzfy/what_do_you_guy_think_of_my_new_quad_tractor_3d/

I call it the Shitfire. Here are the specs:

2208 1800KV turning a 6x3

900mah battery

4x SG90s,

Fully printed balsa-style structure, no carbon spars.

Tape covering

Printed living hinge control surfaces

860x130mm wing

400g ready to fly.