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Multicopter Crash Expert
I'm a new pilot, and after trying a couple Multi-rotors I thought it would be fun to get the Inum. It's my first RC Plane.
The Inum is very, very, VERY light. about 0.3 ounces, just over 8 grams. This makes it less than half the weight of a Blade Nano and about 3 grams lighter than a Proto X. It has an 8" polyhedral wing, large tail, and a pusher prop, and two channels: Throttle and rudder.
The Inum is designed to fly in small spaces. It can just manage a large living room. The tightest circle it can turn is about 8 feet.
I've flown it two or three times, and though i've crashed it a lot, crashes don't damage it. It is *damaged*, but it's mostly from incautious handling rather than crash damage. (One crash did manage to pop a landing wheel off, though.)
All in all, I like it. The novelty of an indoor plane is awesome, and it's small enough to actually fly inside, and not "Sports complex" inside, but "Classroom" or "Living room" or "Basement" inside.
Mine took tweaking. I had a bent rudder, so I bent it back a little, then nearly destroyed it with CA (Forgetting that garden-variety super glue hates foam.) it's fine now, I've got it taped up and it's tracking straight. But between the bent rudder and the stock battery placement it always wanted to bank left. My battery is now housed on the right-hand side of the airframe, and a bit back, but it flies like a dream now.
At high speeds it tends to do oscillating stalls, but when it's calmer, around half throttle, it flies pretty nicely. it taxies really well when it has both its landing wheels
It's fun to fly, and I'm going to enjoy it until the airframe sustains irreparable damage. But even after, I ahve plans. I'd love to turn a rubber-band balsa plane into a real RC plane with the Inum's guts. at $40 for an Inum, that's the cheapest super-ultra-tiny-micro plane guts I've seen. I'd also like to build an F1D style stick-and-film plane, but as an RC with Inum electrics rather than simply a free flight plane. The Inum doesn't fly as slow as I'd hoped, and the thought of doing something to make it fly even slower is interesting.
Anyone else taken the plunge on one of these, or share my desire to see a super-slow indoor plane or a RC version of the venerable balsa kits?
The Inum is very, very, VERY light. about 0.3 ounces, just over 8 grams. This makes it less than half the weight of a Blade Nano and about 3 grams lighter than a Proto X. It has an 8" polyhedral wing, large tail, and a pusher prop, and two channels: Throttle and rudder.
The Inum is designed to fly in small spaces. It can just manage a large living room. The tightest circle it can turn is about 8 feet.
I've flown it two or three times, and though i've crashed it a lot, crashes don't damage it. It is *damaged*, but it's mostly from incautious handling rather than crash damage. (One crash did manage to pop a landing wheel off, though.)
All in all, I like it. The novelty of an indoor plane is awesome, and it's small enough to actually fly inside, and not "Sports complex" inside, but "Classroom" or "Living room" or "Basement" inside.
Mine took tweaking. I had a bent rudder, so I bent it back a little, then nearly destroyed it with CA (Forgetting that garden-variety super glue hates foam.) it's fine now, I've got it taped up and it's tracking straight. But between the bent rudder and the stock battery placement it always wanted to bank left. My battery is now housed on the right-hand side of the airframe, and a bit back, but it flies like a dream now.
At high speeds it tends to do oscillating stalls, but when it's calmer, around half throttle, it flies pretty nicely. it taxies really well when it has both its landing wheels
It's fun to fly, and I'm going to enjoy it until the airframe sustains irreparable damage. But even after, I ahve plans. I'd love to turn a rubber-band balsa plane into a real RC plane with the Inum's guts. at $40 for an Inum, that's the cheapest super-ultra-tiny-micro plane guts I've seen. I'd also like to build an F1D style stick-and-film plane, but as an RC with Inum electrics rather than simply a free flight plane. The Inum doesn't fly as slow as I'd hoped, and the thought of doing something to make it fly even slower is interesting.
Anyone else taken the plunge on one of these, or share my desire to see a super-slow indoor plane or a RC version of the venerable balsa kits?