Flite Test - Stingray 500 - OVERVIEW 

I think this quad is in need of a re-launch!

Man, where is this stuff today? As a helicopter/fpv pilot, this would be the perfect combo!

This is CRAZY to look back at!

Well done Curtis! This is why America rocks! People like you with the knowledge and motivation to make something this cool without the resources of all the big companies. Very impressed!

Extreme FPV RC Racing....sweet. Sponsored and televised. That could be huge.

My buddy and I have been talking for years about wanting to have a twist rudder setup like this! It's fantastic to see someone actually use that setup, and for a moment had hopes this would be widely available. We have used twist rudder setups for years in Flight Sims. Superb stuff, I want one! The Quad is pretty amazing too!!

Bought it. Loved it. Belts stripped. Belts on back order for months. Its a high maintenance quad but so much fun to fly and soooooooo easy. I would call it intermediate at its hardest. Not for indoor flying though as it is fast.

I've been wanting to see someone do a collective-pitch quadcopter (I've been calling it "CQ") for years now! This is spectacular, not only in functionality, but in simplicity. I'm absolutely floored by what you've come up with and really looking forward to the other features you said you'll be adding in the future. Way to go!!!

Awesome, I need to get one Stingray for myself. For those thrilling fast Aerobatic FPV i could do with it. Hope Curtisyoungblood ships to mainland china? :D

I was trying to working in one variable pitch quad around a year ago, but due to lack of time and not a clean idea on how to do it, I ended up dropping the project. This looks much much better than what I was going for. Really awesome

My brother has been waiting for this ever since he first saw multirotors

I completely love that heli - wasn't keen on how it looked at first - but oh boy can it fly. Kudos to the designer and pilot. Truly amazing!

Wow !! You guys actually got the OG CYB on deck !! This a good look for you guys! Oh yeah I enjoy watching you guys evolve into better pilots and programmers! I've grabbed some great info from you guys regarding quads and tri's. Keep up the good work.

Wow that is an amazing piece of machinery!! Well done Curtis!

That is some crazy ingenuity. so simple yet complex at the same time I don't understand it. Looking forward to having something like that in the near future.

geez!! That's the best quadcopter I've ever seen, great stuff!!

That is incredible. What an innovative twist on multirotors. And that guy is an amazing pilot.

Saw the Hall of Fame bridge in the background. Right near where I went to college! Cant wait for these var pitch multis to become widespread/affordable!

Must see more! I'd love to see more of the mechanics and flight of this. I'd say this deserved a 25 minute episode, not 8! :)

WOW, Curtis Youngblood, Flitetest stepping it up again in a major way!!!

This is a Mean machine! This design has room for so much potential in the future

one of the best videos ever , i love it :) congrats to you Curtis

Hooray for Texas!!

Collective pitch mulirotor developments like this will soon give birth to the first gas, and nitro multi's!!! Anybody else stoked to see that!?!?!?!?!

The single stick radio from back in the day was referred to as a "Cuddle Box" because you would actually cuddle the transmitter in your arm like you were holding a baby. The throttle was a slider on the side of the box, so the arm that was cuddling the transmitter would control the throttle and the other hand on the single stick. I've been to and flown with Curtis at many events, he is one of the best in the business he is actually one of the main reasons I got into flying helicopters and doing FAI/FC3. And he is a super nice guy to boot!

WOW that quad looks like amazing! 3D seems like no problem considering it has 4 blades! It looks like you dont have to worry about bogging at all! Great video!

Amazing.... Great to see people who work outside the box. Thanks for the video.

Great throwback episode. Phenomenal pilot!!!

Love the video, great craft and ingenuity. Really wish there was more to this episode...wanted to see David fly it! They had two, he couldn't even show us his attempt to fly? Would've been nice to see them race a makeshift course!

Did not expect to be so impressed by this! There's a lot of possibility

Geez I can’t get enough of David’s hello at the beginning

I would love to see an updated version of this!

Man that was awesome! I always wanted to see one of these in action. ☺

IVE been waiting SO LONG for this

simply breathtaking. this multicopter world is balooning and I love it!

The simplicity of this design is just stunning..

The idea he had of racing in the Grand Canyon is awesome! I'd love to see either FPV racing with planes or helicopters or quads there. It'll be like pod racing but on a smaller scale

Few will be able to afford the stingray but the ability to slice through wind and make smooth fast dives is the holy grail of FPV multirotor flight.

Love to have that controller setup (and bird) for my disabled grandson. He manages to fly his copters and quad, but with very limited left hand mobility, that would be a great plus!

That's great that Curtis finally got it out for the pubic to own damn I sure can't wait to see one up close in action someday at a flying field?

That is just about the coolest thing I've ever seen! WOW

This is absolutely insane!! I don't do anything RC but dang I've gotta have this!

This looks Awesome!!!! Very well designed!!!!

Such a nice idea and as David says, an amazing pilot.

Curtis you invented an amazing quad :-) You made history in rc-heliflight again !

Very nice to see that someone has taken what MIT developed 3 years ago in the lab, combined it with the basic design of a 4x4 RC car and created a functional product. Very impressed

Ive never been much on regular quads but that one is a Game Changer.

Amazing engineering. Greatest quadrocopter I ever saw .. (sorry for my english)

Actually had the opportunity to meet Curtis at our local Heli meet. Awesome guy.

I would love to see the Flite Test guys do there own hands on review of this awesome quad

Very cool. I bet David got a chance to fly 'er. Really nice work Curtis.

Very amazing. Thank you for this perfect video

Amazing. Makes me want to rethink my next investment. So light and agile. Variable pitch is dope.

Beautiful! After I saw this video, I do not day-dreaming about 'classical' quadcopter style anymore (four motors, no servos). This one is in my dreams now (unfortunately, no money to buy)!

Very cool! great 3d action!!

Best Quad I've seen so far

Amazing-I wonder if there are any plans for a scaled down version too.

wow this is really amazing

Brilliant design wish I could buy one

Dang! Someone beat me to it. Well done! I love the implementation.

I want to see David fly it!

This is still one of my favourite episodes

Woa! awesome job guys!

Awsome video i hope to get one some day alittle exspensive for the kit but would have alot of fun with it though

Great RC flying !

wow! this guy is the future of quads!

most crazy video ever, this guy is a genius, plus an awesome pilot!

woow!!!!!!!!!!!! thats awsome.. glad i didn't get an ordinary quad just yet.. i knew something good is coming up..

Absolutely SPECTACULAR!

dude is unreal. thats amazing flying.

This design is so epic!

Well...I was up in the air in so man ways on which quad or tri rotor to buy, many many on the market. To build or not to build, FPV, or just camera...questions after questions. I think my questions have been answered with this set up. Simply awesome design, and well engineered. Coming from Curtis, what would one expect?

curtis youngblood is an icon. glad hes from good old texas! but seriously, this guy just took it to a whole new level. quadrotor racing. YES PLEASE

That honestly looks cooler than regular 3d helis.

This is amazing ! The Stingray 500 - Amazing

This is incredible!

We need to get our hands on one of these.

I like this video allot! good to see what you can do with it. but are we going to see you guys flying with this?

Very unique design, I like it!

how has this thing not blown up!?!

That was freaking awesome .

Josh and David from FliteTest & Curtis Youngblood, with his Stingray 500 3D Quad Copter, simply Amazingly Awesome :-)

That is one awesome quad!

Amazing quadcopter

Holy crap, i want!!!! Best of all the 3d axis worlds.

Awesome guys!

miss this flite test

this looks very cool, would of liked to see Josh and David fly it and hear their feed back

Wow multi rotors just took a whole new track with that baby. and only one motor, and autorotation is now possible with a multirotor. Great Vid guys as always.

dann man u just take it to another level, rock and roll...

I was a bit skeptical at first but now IM GETTING ONE!

I hope we have some Cars in the Future they can fly like these cool Thing! Amazing Quadcopter! Great Work Dude!

Amazing!!! love it!!

Howly Cow! That thing is AWESOME, I'm imideatly changing my wish list for the cristmas day's! I heard you talking about this in the podcast but this video makes makes me really, really excited. I'm sure this will be the new "must have" in the rc world. I fly 3d heli and i have a quad. I think i can fly it so... STINGRAY, I'M COMING!

I had the chance to hang with Curtis during the 1996 World Helicopter Championships (Real full size) is Salem, Oregon. I was the Technical Inspector of all the helicopters during the event.

wow this thing is a beast!

Although I've never seen this or anything quite like it before, it just occurred to that I might really need one of these.

This is INSANE AMAZING...WOW.. i was laughing at my screen when watching this video. Curtis Youngblood, Salute!

Josh ,Josh & Curtis; Your Stingray is really Nice! & looks like it can Fly Great Also ! & Thanks for the Video!

Wow, look at miniquads now! ZoeFPV, 3Ding all over the place! Multirotors have come so far, from when Chad Kapper and David Windestal first did tricopters. Love to watch the old content sometimes...