Thank you Jeff! Yes, these are for experienced pilots for sure, and considering they are the only 3 prototypes in country, the pilots did an amazing job! All the best!
Beautiful jet, glad mines coming. The winds looked pretty stout to me, it you see the number on the guys cap that was shooting images. All things considered, I think they flew super nice and scale, thanks for sharing 👊🏼
Beautiful planes,was surprised they were released in the fruit basket, they were in development for over a year by the manufacturer. Glad to see they made it to market. Good job.
Well John, you've "filmed" a small part of rc aviation history. They look great together. Smooth landings, all of them. Looks like they're still evaluating these prototypes. Good stuff my friend!! AirHammer out!!
Thanks for checking in my friend! Yes indeed, Jeremy Solt (the demo team leader) said they weren't afraid at all to demo these planes in front of the public, and literally show the various adjustments in "real time". These are in fact the only prototypes in the USA as of the time of this video. They are "Beta" test models and any changes made to production models will likely come from the very flights you are watching. Pretty humbling when you think about it, and yes brother, I think we captured a small piece of RC history...
I have no idea, but I suspect we'll know more as the release date approaches. These are beta test prototypes, so we should know soon enough about power options...
Just a basic flight to demo so three ships at once. Regarding the gear, there was an initialization issue that might have been pilot related. It was rectified later on and all subsequent videos will show that. Thanks for checking in!
Two have flown quite a bit together, one was new. Oh, BTW, the planes had only been in country less than a week. Maybe you should check the three other videos I posted of this model...
Absolutely beautiful jets. Thank you John for bringing us the video. Is there some kind of design flaw in those main gear mechanisms? Looks like one of them got stuck in the retracted configuration after he lowered the gear again at 8:07. I hope Xfly can fix it with the production batch.
Thanks Enzo! There is NO design flaw with the gear, just some things going on with the initialization which got rectified on subsequent flights. The gear worked flawlessly in the many flights after this one, almost all of which I captured and will be showing up in the next few days. This model is absolutely amazing! Cheers my friend!
@@enzok6414 Indeed Enzo! I think I heard sometime in the early summer; I have another video coming out soon where the lead demo pilot (Jeremy Solt) explains a lot of what's coming next with the project. Stay tuned!
Seems like there was a lot of wind for this one John. Any reason they didn't retract the gear and only flew circles with the wings extended on this first flight? Looking forward to the details and the acro! 😁😁 Great capture brother!
Hey Adam, there was some wind (slightly cross-quarter) but it was very manageable. This first flight was kept tame on purpose, really meant to show the models all displayed at once. The gear was initialization issue, nothing wrong with it at all and they all functioned flawlessly from there on out. Just wait until you see Jeremy's solo flight! Yeehaw!
Kudos for a fantastic plane. It would be nice to have a stabilized camera, or even a chase drone as the vid was very poor quality considering such a monumental release.
I didn't even know these models would be at AEF, so I was taken by surprise for sure! I was just happy to capture the moment, however amateurish it may appear. All the best to you!
So I need to ask a question as I have been out of the hobby for a few years. Banana Hobby used to have a horrible reputation from putting out terrible products. Have they improved? Perhaps they are under new management and have cleaned up some of the issues. I love these B-1s and was seriously thinking about getting one. I just don't want to waste money on something that is not any good. I am not trying to throw anyone under the bus. Serious question here, should I spend the money?
These are real, honest questions. I can only say this: all companies can improve, and I think it's likely Banana Hobby has. Besides, you have to realize this model is made by Xfly. Xfly is to my understanding, basically the top 4 or 5 model designers and engineers that left FMS to start XFly. Banana Hobby is the exclusive distributor. Watch the next videos I have posted about this model, and in particular the video with Jeremy Solt explaining the various design features, and I think you're going to be impressed..
I've posted 4 videos of this jet so far on my RU-vid channel. I'd recommend you check out my other videos and I guarantee you'll see the gear and wings in action 😉👍
Not sure, but in my walkaround video with Jeremy Solt he goes over the specs of wingspan, length, etc. I'm sure you could figure out the scale from there...
Nice video. I wish I was there. I do a lot of aerial chasing videos. Can't wait till someone gets one near me so I can do some epic in air filming! So Banana hobby if you're listening. If you're anywhere near El Paso or Albuquerque hit me up I'll get you some good promo shots, for free! Lol
@@JustwingitRC Andy a guy I know from Albuquerque was out there I didn't find out about it until that afternoon while you were filming. I'm kind of out of the loop on things like that.
3 of them, but not a single high speed pass or even a gear up pass? Can appreciate a new product, but I'd want to know more about what a $700 aircraft can do before I'd put the money down for one.
We had an odd anomaly on the debut flight where the gear didn’t cycle on two of the 3 planes. The gear and wing sweep flying happened several times during the event. As a note we figured out the issue in later testing and have resolved the issue we found. The final production In final quality tests has V-2 gear retracts.
@@bananahobby Thanks so much for checking in and YES, in the other videos in the series I shot at the event, the gear cycled flawlessly and the wing sweep feature was very impressive! A fantastic and ground-breaking model!
I was excited until I heard 700 dollars. 300 to 500 might be reasonable for a PNP. Not interested anymore. It is just a twin 70mm. If there's a kit version, I have plenty of extra fans and servos. I'd be happy to put my own together.
To each his own. Twin 70mm fans, swing wings, all the tech inside to make it all work. Not to mention all new molds, never been done before. Yeah, 700 is actually pretty fair. I suspect they will sell all their pre-orders...
@@JustwingitRC you're probably right. I just won't be buying one. They'd sell more and profit more at a lower price point. When you don't price-lock certain people out of a product, you'll sell way more products. Especially something that hasn't been done before. If it were another twin flanker, twin airliner, or model that has other options in different brands, the higher price point might be more profitable as long as there were more scale features than the competition. This is a plane that would sell exponentially more products in a lower price tier. That's just my opinion.
Ummm...you might want to check out the very next video I posted of this plane. In fact, I currently have 4 videos up on this plane. And yes, the gear retracts...
@@tabdycollins You might do yourself a favour and check out the other videos I posted on my channel of this model...far from being demonstrated poorly...
The reason was because we had an anomaly with the gear we hadn’t seen before. We landed, recycled power and flew a full on performance flight with all that you are questioning.