Whoop & Rip!... the SkyLite! 

Im a c7 quadriplegic. Being paralyzed is hard. Sometimes you just really want to be able bodied. I got into fpv because of you and Bardwell and its been an incredible addition to my mental well-being. Thanks Drew. I have a Skyliner Mk3 on the way as well as a Tanq. I dont know how to say Thanks enough.

I am so excited for this because I have always dreamed of a 3.5 inch drone with the capability of turning into a Cinewhoop and still being able to do freestyle with a hd camera! Can't wait to see more and hopefully I can save up enough to get one for myself and see how EPIC it will really be! Love your vids Drew and as a 13 year old who has been flying fav for almost 11 months now, you are a huge inspiration for me. Thanks!

Drew. Awesome frame has some versatility to it. One thing I'd like to see is a revision on the arms to support 9x9 or 12x12 motor configurations. It would open up alot of different motor options.

I was watching a random bouldering competition and suddenly saw your face in the crowd, pink hair was a dead giveaway. It was so jarring lol cool to see two of my interests interacting.

It's a great flight, bro

Awesome flying dude!

Savage flow yet again! Nice work.

RR Has great frames 👌...I like the look of this little guy. ...just ordered one just now. Word to the Drib! 🥰

Crazy timing. Just put this kit in my cart for preorder before I watched this. Appreciate you including your crashes, btw.

Funny to see also all the crashes too, nice video as always!

I love your cinema like video style!

I’ve been looking at building this for so long, just waiting a few more weeks. I’m so happy to finally see some ripping on this frame :) can’t wait to feel the tiny POWER!

Just ordered one can’t wait for first flight!

I’ve had my eyes on the frame for a while now, since the build vid. You’re really pulling my arm now Drew 🤣 cheers brother

This looks pretty awesome! I need a 3.5 to complete my collection from 63mm all the way up to 5 inch and this is looking like a great sub250 freestyle option!

great rip nice obstacle course smooth flight

Slick little drone. I might have to build one. :)

Skyeliner 5 inch has been my goto frame for a while. It's not the lightest or sleekest of the dozen or so frames I've built but it is by far the most durable and fun. I'm definitely going to have to try it's little brother! Keep up the good work, Drew!

Just waiting any day now for my kit to arrive with the ducts. Updated frame DOH! I was looking for a frame to put the electronics out of a busted iflight dc3 hd in. I`m excited to have both a cinewhoop and a mini freestyle all in one with this bad boy. Great job!

Just ordered this! Can't wait to build it and fly it!

I have tried a couple of frames and I have to say any of the rotoride frames are just bulletproof and fly great. In my opinion of the best value for the money easily

Drew, add braces! One of the things that I noticed after a crash with the skylite Or even after some heavy ripping the arms seem to shift from their original position. With 3.5 inch Propellers, if the arms shift then they start touching each other and I can hear the clicking while I’m flying.

you got your play button hell yeah! that power loop at 13 minutes... so sick. but arm bracers? im for em!

Flies pretty good 👍

10:43 was the shot of the day!! Great work.

Great video. Super thorough demonstration of the Skylight and your freestyle flying was outstanding. I've got a couple of older 3" machines that would do well in the new frame. When is the updated one going into stock?

In these times of global crisis, persevere couldn't be more suited as an outro. Take care Drew, and keep this coming, love it :-)

Nice design!

Great video drew, is there any plans to add removable ducts to the 5" skyliner to get a durable 5" ducted whoop and a 5" ripper combo?

Wait, Vortex roller blades?! Badass! I picked up the Rampage edition in May while at Ramage and wow am I in love! That's probably one of my favorite drones right now. Super easy to fly and I think it's fun that technically if you wanted to go fly a quick hit spot, that's all you need! Very cool review, awesome drone, thanks again for signing it at Rampage, I almost didn't want to fly the dang thing after you did that so yes, you did ruin it. ;o)

Pretty cool man, I've been looking for something this size, but I always have the controversial cinewhoop or regular frame. Definitely cool you can do both.

Looks great, Im thinking of getting the frame and movin the kopis cinewhoop parts over. Any tuning tips?

From a professional licensed drone pilot, have to say, I absolutely love my SkyLite! I printed the ducts and spent the first 3 days training with them on, until I crashed into a 4x4 and broke the additional duct support arm you install with the ducts. I do have to say I crashed into that 4x4 over and over as they were supports for a sign about 20" apart from each other. Yesterday was my first day flying with the GemFan Hurricane 3.5" props on and it was a beast. I've been flying with the Tattu 850Mah 75C and the Rotor Riot 1500Mah 100C (crazy fast with these). Just posted a video last night of it here, "Day 4 of FPV Training". Can't say enough about this little screamer. Thank you Drew, built a little tank here! Love your work, Rotor Riot team is pure inspiration!

Just got my DIY kit in this week and was looking everything over, the one thing I was a bit disappointed in is no skidz or something to help protect the motor screw heads from getting messed up when landing.

Been looking to get into a cinewhoop quad set up and I believe I’ve found it!

Now water proof it and design some custom floats! This would literally be my dream drone. A tiny freestyle/cinewhoop that would also be able to crash in water without any Consequences.

mad skills

Drew, we need some quad skids for the SkyLite! The regular ones are too big and It’s annoying to constantly be worrying about messing up the motor screw heads every time you land. Otherwise, fantastic frame! I’m very happy with mine 🙌

😯Wow 😯 2in1, that's my style!

Skyeliner Eyeliner.

This didn't age that well. But it only mean we need new Drib content! ❤ (Preferably with the much loved eyeliner 😍)

Which props are you running for the open prop configuration? I was only able to find some super low pitch 3.5 inch props for mine.

I want one as a birthday gift for my self

I just got one of those. I really like it, but when I put the 3.5 in props on it, the props hit each other a bit.

cool

That battery. Ha. You are very comfortable with a low thrust to weight.

Dribble dribble

hi drew,great design,great video! whats the weight of the frame?

Nice 👍

I'm new, how does this compare to the slammed squirt? I'm really liking how this is a twofer.. looking to do indoor/outdoor cinework.

Excellent video and I have been loving the Skylite. Been running it in the 3.5" ductless configuration. Have you had any issues with the arms moving? If so, do you have a solution to make it more ridged? I have been having some issues with the rear arms rotating forward an the props coming into contact.

Damn this was very punchy! What batteries are you running!?

Hey drew, get some 4s/650 They are full 100g lighter than your 1500mAh Monster - and they come under 20 bucks each Oh, try out the caddx peanut instead of the DJI - thats another 25g off.

Skyliner and Apex top frames

I fly with a 1500 funfly with no action cam and get like 7 to 8 min flight times. Really fun quad to fly digital on this small form factor. Flight time so long I’m in danger of getting blisters on my thumbs. :-P One request, throw up those profiles for flying with and without the ducts in the finally released Betaflight. I’m struggling a little bit with ducts on. Might be a weight issues with throwing a hero 9. I’ve had a couple scares of flyaway but I know it’s because I rushed to Betaflight 4.3 early and didn’t know what I was doing. So easy to throw on the ducts but with the Caddx and DJI goggles I think I’m figuring out how to change the profile in goggles but I don’t feel like my ducted tune feels right. I’m sure you would want a different tune for flying ducted and no ducts right? Especially if you want to got super light on ductless and heavy on those cinematic flights with higher end camera. Actually I wanted to ask about those 2203.5 motors. If I really want to push that Hero9 with ducts, is it worth the upgrade to those motors?

Le Drib , I’ve got a walkera f210 and an eachine eb185 , I have really been wanting to get a 5” , what did you start on and what do you recommend ?? And also I started a week ago so I don’t really know…I can’t even get out of stabilized mode yet , the turning is hard for me . So I guess the real question is , what should I start out on man ?

What pile of boxes is my Dominator HD sitting in

Kim loves hers even though you "ruined" it @ rampage LOL I need to build me one because I love baby skyliner/removable duct option. An ultimate work than play quad

We're you using rock steady on the open prop setup?

I´m getting that correct - the outdoor part is with 1507, 3,5" props, 1500mAh PLUS the action cam? - I find it interesting, since I´m flying the out-of-the-box GEPRC Dolphin which runs 1507´s, but on 4" props and I use 850mAh. So I guess this build has significant more fling / momentum or how ever you call it. But Considering the 20A AIO, I think that is sort of the limit of what the Dolphin can do. I don´t think, the ESC´s would like more load.

Are you using stabilizer / gyroflow On dji action 2?

What’s the flight time on the biggest recommended battery for cruising?

Whats the weight if that full build without props? Wow 1500mah.. thats crazy heavy.

Damn I could never fly with that much money on the line like that😅

Will this frame work with the HDzero freestyle and 90 camera and Elrs

Woto Wiot Warehouse. Wascally Wabbit! :)

add motor mount slots to the ends of the arms to accept a wider range of mount sizes...

Do you think 2205.5 3600kv motors would work on this? I have a 4s protek35 begging to go on this frame instead haha

Definitely would love a 3" skyliner but these ducts look like total overkill and weight. About half of the size would be fine as well I guess. "Soundesign" might as well be a topic as 3" can become quite intimitatingly loud.

How can you charge more for the ducts than the frame itself?

I’d really love to see it with a smaller battery.

You already made a video about this quad. You did a build video about it if I'm not mistaken

🥰🤩💥💯👍👏

What motors are you using?

How does it rate as a first drone?

Put that bad boy in the hands of a rooky pilot, that would tell me how good it is. LOL don't get me wrong, drib is perfection builder. But he's also one of the best pilots in the world. Why do I want to get my hands on one of these so bad🙄 Ok, ok.. take my money again 🤣 🍺🍺 Drib!

Is there a European shop that sell this frame? When i order it at rotorriot shop it cost me more for shipping than the frame :-(

I know some pilots need 30x30 electronics… So Bardwell?

You should sell an action 2 tpu mount for this frame!

no mention of plate thickness or overall weight here or on the website when buying. We need to know these things especially for ppl that stay sub 250. I feel this isn't really sub 250 and at that point your better off with the full size.

Since when did overweight 3.5" setups have such little propwash, thats crazy!

Idk what’s wrong with mine. Takes 3/4 throttle just to maintain flight on 4s

3rd

whene you build titanium drone chasi soo it will never brake

Avatar version when? :p

No middle standoffs tho. Oof

Haven't seen you for a while. I wss subscribed to you I am 100%sure, but youtube unsubscribed me. Can't understand this. Why youtube is decreasing the number of your subscribers???

Only pro pilots or guys with lots of dough fly places with all of this concrete. I simply can't afford it or do I want to go through all of the repairs and parts needed to fly these type of places. I fly parks with grass and trees. More fun IMO, because not so much risk of breaking stuff. And, they are nature made, not man made slabs of concrete! Course, these reviewers get most of their parts for free or really cheap. Nice product. Ducts seem like they're from 2018 - 19, but the quad seems solid. I do fly 3.5" with an 850mah 4S, and not a super heavy 1500. You can tell a guy who's addicted to 5" drones because even though he can afford to fly places he knows he will continually have to replace a lot of parts at, he doesn't own a single 850mah 4S lipo, that is the perfect size for THE DRONE HE DESIGNED AND SELLS! LOL...kinda ridiculous. 5" are so drastically overrated! Loud and big and you need huge space, and the KARENS will be a complainin'! That's pretty much a given. I suggest people buy a quad for the places they want to fly. Scout the parks and areas that are close to your house or work. Then buy the size of quad suitable to these favorite spots near you. Not just because a ton of reviewers fly 5". ;)

I accidentally disliked this video, I changed it tho. Sry 🥔🥔🥔🥔

Vortex lost most his cool points rollerblading. Lol. He does it well its just not cool. Lol. They have professional rollerbaders and there's a reason you never hear about them. Lol

I can not get my skylite 3.5 to arm Iv had it 3 days now and have yet to I have reached out on every platform please contact me back