Moderator Comment by Hooks on May 27, 2010 at 10:44am

Sign me up for one! I LOVE IT...

Comment by Daniel Gru on May 27, 2010 at 11:07am

Any price estimate for the octocopter?
Although i guess we are all waiting for arducopter *grin*

Daniel

Comment by automatik on May 27, 2010 at 11:10am

website: XAircraft650

Comment by Tedro on May 27, 2010 at 11:33am

I just want a source to buy the parts!!

Developer Comment by John Arne Birkeland on May 27, 2010 at 11:45am

Great looking quad/octo, but can't make up my mind if I like the concept. Stacking two motors like this makes it a lighter and easier build, and will make it easier to handle the loss of a motor. But at the same time you lose some lift since the lower motor propellers have to work in the down wash of the upper ones. Also you do not get the added maneuvering flexibility/stability of a eight arm setup.

Comment by Jack Crossfire on May 27, 2010 at 11:48am

Maxxprod's retirement is secured. When are we going to get to the tri rotors?

Comment by TESTPILOT on May 27, 2010 at 12:05pm

I have found some videos on it http://u.youku.com/user_show/id_UODQyOTgyNDQ=.html

it flys nice cant wait to get one also how cool would it be to add the H-CELL 2.0
Hybrid Hydrogen Fuel Cell Power Kit and get a 60 min flight time dam another 20 years away

Comment by TESTPILOT on May 27, 2010 at 12:17pm

also one last cool thing i found what goes up must get shot down with this !! http://www.paintballsentry.com/

Comment by Niall on May 27, 2010 at 12:18pm

When I asked one of their resellers recently ( www.cnchelicopter.com ) they mentioned it would be about USD$900 (over priced in my estimation) and about three and a half months away. They had a lot of issues with the X500 and X600 and so they are trying to iron out all the bugs before they release this one.

Apparently some of the old units got out into the wild outside China before their customer services were able to deal with International support and so there were a lot of dissatisfied customers. They appear to be doing a good job on this one however with a programme to invite professional international "players" :) to try and break the thing before International release.

Still I think the proposed Arducopter will blow the socks of this unit if it can be made for USD$350 ish and does everything it says on the tin.

Comment by TESTPILOT on May 27, 2010 at 12:50pm

what im trying to say is Arducopter for me ?

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