Just a "top ten" style open opinion thing for FPV Platforms that have shaped the hobby in no order of anything!
Feel free to add "the best of" or "the worst of" etc
Skyhunter
(http://www.fpvmodel.com/u/tmp/goods_desc/2015-05/20150512162529-5670.jpg)
Skywalker
(http://www.rcdig.com/static/media/uploads/blog/Skywalker_FPV/skywalker_fpv_cover.jpg)
EasyStar (Bixler HK Copy)
(http://www.wattflyer.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=159289&d=1335549239)
Twinstar
(http://static.rcgroups.net/forums/attachments/1/0/3/0/7/3/a1116246-208-TwinStar%20II%20with%20video%20stuff%20on%20back.jpg?d=1167485187)
Penguin
(http://www.itsqv.com/QVM/images/a/ae/PEN048.JPG)
The penguin ultimately resulted in the Titan which deserves a mention for it's mammothness!!
(http://g04.a.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1xz96JXXXXXbHXVXXq6xXFXXX4/Finwing-Airtitan-FPV-airplane-2520-kit-ARF-Electronic-Combo-FAD1301.jpg)
Ritewing Zephyr
(http://i42.tinypic.com/vzvt3b.jpg)
X-UAV Talon - been around a while with a populararity across the pond:
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HsW0hn4DWns/VY7Oi6mwz8I/AAAAAAAABAc/fEdVqnyftt0/s1600/20150610_222138.jpg)
X-8 Wing
(http://www.airelectronics.es/images/products/thirdparty/x8_1.JPG)
RVJet
(http://i.imgur.com/8M7dX7J.jpg)
Skyfun
(http://www.skyhighhobby.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/multiplex-funjet-medusa-brushless-rudder.jpg)
Easystar, so good Hobbyking ripped it off and called it the Bixler.
QuoteEasystar, so good Hobbyking ripped it off and called it the Bixler.
Good point Ipeel - Image changed to reflect that:
I'd say the Disco too, before 250s came along and filled YouTube with endless flips and rolls and more flips and more rolls the TBS Discovery was the airframe to do pretty much everything you wanted to do with a flying lawnmower. The TBS video of the Costa Concordia was iconic.
mmm .. maybe a top ten multi chassis to follow ;)
Quote from: Gundummy on April 15, 2016, 06:53:45 PM
mmm .. maybe a top ten multi chassis to follow ;)
Ah, so no multis allowed? I like the cut of your jib my man.
noooo i'm a man of multi's over wings, but will maybe do a seperate thread.... lets see where this goes first? :great:
Room at the top for a Funjet / Skyfun? Some of the best FPV videos I've seen have been from those little beasts.
(http://www.skyhighhobby.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/multiplex-funjet-medusa-brushless-rudder.jpg)
GWS slow stick, most people have flown a slow stick of some sort and than stuck fpv to it, great plane.
Added Steve cheers..
Hawkview? Never heard of it :D Any pics etc
+1 for the easystar
Never had a more enjoyable aircraft to to just chuck and fly.
Without a doubt the easystar and funjet were the most popular platforms in the beginning. The skywalker was the first real platform designed specifically for fpv and having owned one, it was great. Easily got 40 minute's of flying.
My personal record was 2 miles out and 2 miles up. That was on 35mhz radio with a 1.02m tuned aerial trailing the back of the aircraft and 2.4ghz video. It is crazy how affordable and accessible the hobby has become compared to 5 years ago.
Quote from: Gundummy on April 15, 2016, 10:01:00 PM
Added Steve cheers..
Hawkview? Never heard of it :D Any pics etc
Never heard of slow stick :o :'(
Great plane flies so slow and have really good at carrying weight, its the plane I learnt to fly on when I was young.
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I think everyone know that one.Zephyr 1 - Trappy was doing best FPV videos till it goes commercial road.
(http://s9.postimg.org/4ufahyg23/Zrzut_ekranu_2016_04_16_o_00_18_49.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/4ufahyg23/)
You only really need three IMO. 95% of fpv models are a variation of these
Zephyr
Easystar
Funjet
I would actually say no to the Penguin and the Titan, the Penguin was a short lived flash in the pan that ultimately ended up not being that great of a plane, the Titan is also not really a ground breaker of any sorts and hardly bought / flown.
I liked MarkLincs' Titan but it scores very poorly compared to a Skywalker for ease of use (i.e. loading it into the car for actually going flying). .. it's just too big and unwieldy. The type of plane you should just be able to taxi out of a garage and launch up the road ideally :laugh:
QuoteI would actually say no to the Penguin and the Titan, the Penguin was a short lived flash in the pan that ultimately ended up not being that great of a plane, the Titan is also not really a ground breaker of any sorts and hardly bought / flown.
I put the penguin on there as it had the front pod open area that everyone rushed out to get initially. The titan (back in the day) IMO was the last bastion of "how big are we going to go in FPV" and was being built specifically to carry cameras etc.
All good in the generation of discussion.... :)
No FX61 on the list? ???
i always thought the FX series were quite new and not really a ground breaker next to the ritewing/X8 etc?