Long distance milestone for multirotors?

I have seen a few users with "100 km" badges, and I believe these were all achieved with fixed wing platforms. (Right?)I am wondering... what are the longest distances people have been able to cover with a copter? Anybody up to 20 km? 50 km?! Is ther

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Forward flight -- how fast is too fast?

Do you have a multicopter running APM, and do you use it for waypoint missions? What do you have WP_SPEED set at? The default is 5 m/s... Anybody had luck flying up to 10 m/s or higher? How about in winds? How about with a payload? It would help if y

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