A Ready To Fly Smart Plane That Flies Like A Dream: AtomRC Swordfish Maiden 

Love the fixed wing stuff. More drone pilots should. Once you get everything tuned and it’s flying good it’s the most chill FPV experience.

Yeesss! Love seeing some fixed wing action from Stingy!

Good to see you are well in the new year Kevin. Great video, i have been messing with fixed wings myself. I miss the times at brook run and have not found a place or crew of guys like it since. Happy New Year bro.

Definitely want more! I just maidened my first inav fixed wing build in a t1 ranger. It's fun but your right about stressful maidens. So much has to go right and very little has to go wrong to end up with a trash bag of foam and wires.

It's a refreshing change love it.👍

You had offset polarization on the dipole that's why it went from 1500mw to 25mw for anyone watching that didn't understand. Just fly with the same orientation and the vast majority of the time your TX should be vertical.

Finally someone who knows that fpv are not just multirotors. They do fly the best I know that very well. But fpv planes and helicopters are fun too. Subscribed. 👍

Good and helpful video. Thanks

Nice to see another fixed wing video from you. Autolaunch is the best aspect of these fc enabled planes for me. Takes away so much unnecessary damage ;) my few inav planes are never well trimmed so I ended up always flying them in acro, perfect flying there. Currently it's a little too cold for planes here, but in spring I hope that full osd is working for inav on DJI o3. Greets, Mario

That's a pretty sick plane!

That bird : Oh, nevermind, evasive maneuvers engaged.,

it is such a beautiful plane that is fpv has the controller and it is massive with return to home this plane is underrated!!

Awesome flying, Kevin! 😃 Yeah, more airflow is definitely going to help. But you should definitely look for a better spot to fly... Without drunk birds! 😬 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

Those Walksnail antennas should be the thing to be replaced. Once I changed mine the range and experience became better and more enjoyable. Thanks for doing some fixed wing content Stingy, We need more of it

Thanks for the great report. I'm in the middle of a build right now and the VTX is equipped with I am not happy with the way the VTX is mounted and was concerned about how to get good cooling. I'm trying to figure out the best way to cool it down. Thanks again for your helpful report! Thanks again! From Japan

Neat plane. I have not flown in 3 or 4 years. Videos like this make me want to get black into it.

It’s interesting to see how your plane dropped too once you cut the motors. Iv only flown mine once and it pretty much nosedived when I cut the power! Need to sort that before the second flight. Great video mate

If you can, add some exit air holes in the foam, couldn't tell from the video, but the model only seemed to have air "in" holes. Should help with the over heating. Thanks for the vids.

I have my walksnail in the nose with only that little vent at the bottom and has not over heated. Have enjoy the flying I've had so far with the sword fish keep the content coming enjoy

Have a Strix wing I have yet to maiden. Really would like to do another fixed wing when I get back to flying again. Was where I started in 2013 and the goodies we enjoy now were not around then.

That’s awesome Kevin 🤘🏻🦾

I love my swordfish it flys really good!

Dude I got my first plane this year I can't wait to start flying! LOS first then FPV! Coming from freestyle quads!

It looks like a cool plane. The only plane I've had or flown was the Harbor Freight $99 foam plane they use to sell about 10 or 15 years ago. The day I learned how to keep it in the air for longer than 15 seconds is also the day I got it stuck in the top of a 60 foot tall tree. This looks cool though. I was trying to learn to fly before there was FPV and FPV is how I want to fly a plane. I just hope the new rules and regulations don't put an end to RC planes.

Nice work. I have ardupilot on my Flying Fish, the baby of yours.

Thanks for the video. My Swordfish is due in 2 days (shipped from US warehouse). However I've only flown Spektrum. What radio and Rx do you recommend?

bravo.Thenks

I have a Swordfish but sadly the winter weather here hasnt allowed me to maiden it yet (either storm or rain nothin else). Looking forward to flying it though! All custom electronics though.

Yes, more fixed wing with Ardupilot, please

somehow the way you cropped this video is really chill to the eyes. How are you liking the Boxer so far? chilled video overall btw!

wud you recommend this smart plane. i fly alot of motorised gliders but this looks pretty gud

Nice bird action at 7:58, lol

Stingy-wingy! 👌🏻

Do we want more fixed-wing content? Yes, we absolutely do! Maybe overlay the Walksnail OSD for next time? Thanks for sharing! My Sword Fish is currently on the build bench!

Yes more fixed wing stuff please. To me the walksnail cameras let the system down tbh also it seems they are trying to single handedly show why most manufacturers dont include antennas.

More content on wings please

Uhhh - near-collision bird strike @ 7:58 - scary...🙂

Can't wait to chuck mine in the air.. If only this weather would cooperate..

Fixed wings are fun to cruise around 👊 teach me some ardupilot 👍

If you have not switched your goggles internal ufl pigtails, you have an omnidirectional antenna on the only TX the goggles have. Antena 1 is the TX, your patch should be there. you can open them up and switch the pigtail so antenna 1 is on the bottom. your range will go up 100%

I didnt know stingy knew how to fly planes too. ROTFLMAO

I prefer to fly planes on 3s to get more efficiency. I have some 6s setups when I get the need for speed ❤

at 7:58 there was a bird LOL! it was flying along then seen the plane and shat itself LOLOLOL

Yes, Ardupilot would be great.

Like see more with DJI on it and how far can you fly with DJI running on it

Walksnail overheating? Currently flying vista's in the body of planes in 100-110 without overheating issues. Low power on disarm.

Do you have the stl or link for that mount?

you need to round file all those stock antenna.

Any idea what the stall speed is on this guy? I love the idea of quiet dual motor tractor style fixed wing but afraid it wont fly like a custom cut lightweight 40-50" EPP/EPS foam wing which you typically can cruise as low at 10mph without stalling

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Some guy said the same thing when he first got the vrx. It kept overheating why he was flying around snow on a cold day. Forgot the video, but it was one first VRX upload.

I think that I miss u ( take it in a very macho way ) and that now I need one of those Kevin ….thanks for making me a little bit Moore poor

Sounds like the overheated VTX didn't come out of Standby Mode to me?. It should exit Standby as soon as you arm the FC. I assume you checked all that?..Don't cover or bury the VTX it gets hot if you do, a common mistake...If you put it in Cruz Mode, it will auto servo trim for you, as long as it's a GPS mode. I assume you selected constant trim in iNAV ?...Or is it Arduplane? Not sure really, which is it?...🤔🤔😳..Where's your OSD?...🤔🇬🇧

Is there a way to get the mw callout if you are using an external module?

If you do end up using the auto-tune feature, please make sure it doesn't sound like Cher singing "Believe"?

Is the FC compatible with elrs?

Hah Hah Mr. Stingray Swarms. You make good video about the plane. It make want to fly it. Is it easy to fly because you are a excellent pilot? Could a beginner like my self fly this plane well like you?

3s battery?

Yes do ardupilot wack a GPS on it load it up with a battery and put DJI on it and fly long long distance.

Buzzard soils itself at 7:58😳💩

Throw it with your chest, Stingy 4:51 😀

the walksnail stock antennas suck, i got the antenna kit from rotor riot and haven't had rage issues since

ArduPilot FTW

Where can I get one of these your props suck shirts?

Did anyone see that bird at 7:58?

My Swordfish is being held hostage in china since early November 😢

Need to lay off the donuts

Focus Mode doesn’t work correctly with WS right now. Don’t use it. Also make sure you run the latest fw and get rid of the stock antennas. They are complete crap.

Bird at 7:58

When is this thing going to available from all the usual retailers. Don't want to order from china and wait.......

Pilot

Mine was a Friday-afternoon special. *LOTS* of work to get it flying properly. Reviewer's curse strikes again 😕

Great video, but I won’t do business with atom rc anymore. They just kept on putting random parts in the order. Super shady.

Elrs?

Sorry but I don't take anyone seriously when they say 'I don't find the video reliable/good on the walksnail' but are using the stock antennas. You don't use the stock whip antennas that come with 5.8 analog units so why do you think using stock antennas on 5.8 digital unit would be any better

Aspect ratio = high CL? Hardly.. why does nobody discuss airfoils? Does anyone understand the twin configuration? Perhaps just nobody cares? Such generalizations.. the v tail looks cool but is very problematic. If you have to add nose up ruddervator trim to get it to fly SAL, then either the incidence is wrong or the CG is. Props are exposed on landing. At least they’re rotating the correct way.

Change the antenna of th goggles. They are crappy as hell

In the UK the CAA have killed the hobby with more rules yet to come. No FPV without spotter. Can't fly further than a kite string because you must be fully aware of your crafts orientation at all times. Not just where it is. Height restriction has just risen for you guys in the last few days ... ours is 120 metres/300 feet and all other crafts like helicopters/planes/balloons safety has been passed to the drone pilot on the ground. They're even concerned about using phones plugged in to controllers because you may get a call. Even though they've made a rule that you can't look at your controller to fly it. A member of the CAA Even stated he classes the use of phones as a risk because its battery may go flat 😳 when the controller charges the phone whilst docked. And he's one of the guys making the rules at the CAA.