Winged Platforms that have shaped the FPV hobby

[Gundummy]

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


Skywalker


EasyStar (Bixler  HK Copy)


Twinstar


Penguin


The penguin ultimately resulted in the Titan which deserves a mention for it's mammothness!!


Ritewing Zephyr


X-UAV Talon - been around a while with a populararity across the pond:


X-8 Wing


RVJet


Skyfun

[iPeel]

Easystar, so good Hobbyking ripped it off and called it the Bixler.

[Gundummy]

Easystar, so good Hobbyking ripped it off and called it the Bixler.

Good point Ipeel - Image changed to reflect that:

[iPeel]

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.

[Gundummy]

mmm .. maybe a top ten multi chassis to follow  ;)

[iPeel]

mmm .. maybe a top ten multi chassis to follow  ;)

Ah, so no multis allowed? I like the cut of your jib my man.

[Gundummy]

noooo i'm a man of multi's over wings, but will maybe do a seperate thread.... lets see where this goes first?  :great:

[FPVSteve]

Room at the top for a Funjet / Skyfun? Some of the best FPV videos I've seen have been from those little beasts.

[Hawkview]

GWS slow stick, most people have flown a slow stick of some sort and than stuck fpv to it, great plane.

[Gundummy]

Added Steve cheers..

Hawkview? Never heard of it  :D  Any pics etc

[Jameskibler]

+1 for the easystar

Never had a more enjoyable aircraft to to just chuck and fly.

[Psychosaffa]

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.

[Hawkview]

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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[marcin]

I think everyone know that one.Zephyr 1 - Trappy was doing best FPV videos till it goes commercial road.

[Billy_boy_2010]

You only really need three IMO. 95% of fpv models are a variation of these

Zephyr
Easystar
Funjet