Really like the mqx,lots of fun and pretty durable. Would like to see a larger brushless version. One thing ive noticed is it flys quite a bit better with a nicer radio,i bought the bnf version but flew the rtf version at the local shop.

Playing around in the yard and inside.

Blade MQX Quadcopter Flips,Durability, Outdoor And Indoor Flying! (7 min 59 sec)

I've had a number of quads, including Arduino-based Aeroquad and Arducopter, as well as a large "professional" MK-based hexacopter.

I've gotta say that the fun factor with the mQx is off the charts. It's basically indestructible because it's so light, and so you find yourself trying stunts that you'd never try with a larger quad because there are few consequences to failure. Of course if you crash it into pavement at full throttle you'll see some damage, but if you fly it in a grassy area you can get away with a lot. It's also amazingly stable considering it's only got gyro-based stabilization. Larger more expensive units incorporate accelerometers for truly indefinitely long hands-off flight, but the mQx will still hover hands off on it's own in calm conditions for quite some time.

That said, after a number of hours of flight one of my motors seems to be failing. The quad will drop an arm when in flight, recover, and then drop the same arm again a few seconds later. The result is a rather "wobbly" looking flight. I haven't headed into the LHS yet to look for replacements, though. And this one is likely my fault, as I did manage to have a pretty decent crash when flying in my garage, which was a bad idea on my part. It survived many prior incidents without a scratch.

I've only flown mine with my DX7, which works very well. After a while I've found myself only flying in high rates, as it's nice to have the agility when you need it. However, when you really yank and bank it can sometimes overcome the stability system a bit and it will start to wobble pretty badly. It's easy to recover when that happens though...

Final note is the prop-wash... Since it's very light it gets tossed around pretty good when you descend directly through it's own wash. This can sort of freak you out if you don't expect it. It's usually fine, but if you're dropping very quickly it can get tossed off it's head a bit. To avoid, just don't drop straight down!

Overall, highly recommended. Great value!

Why do quads just look boring to fly to me?

I tried to by one of these today and I was surprised to find them OOS everywhere online.

Quad-copters appeared to be the biggest seller on Saturday at the AMA Expo back in January and that was before this model was available to the public to purchase. We could just look at it at Horizon's booth and watch the Horizon Flight Team fly it in the Flight Center. Obviously a lot of people find them fun to fly. I find the mQX to be a lot of fun because it takes crashes (so far) with no damage and I have pressed the envelope and improved my skill in ways I wouldn't try with my bigger camera carrying models. They are fun for what I can do with them as I fly them much more conservatively. Something of the difference of flying a bomber vs a fighter and the mQX is the fighter. Mike H

I'd probably like it if I tried it, I guess I just feel like a quad is "too easy" because so much of it requires computer stabilization to work. It will fly all day with no input from the pilot just sitting there and there is no full size vehicle that it is modeling, unless you are talking about a full size drone..

Any chance on using this as a short range FPV?

Originally Posted by seeingeyegod

Why do quads just look boring to fly to me?

perhaps you haven't watched some good video's?
here's one and its not even among the "best" but certainly good

best toy ever (multicopter) (2 min 25 sec)

Damn!!! That is way more than would ever think a Quadcopter could do!!!

Thanks for posting!

Dave

Love this little quad such a blast and with the rates turned all the way up easy to flip and doesn't require that much room to do. Hopefully I can post some video of soon of double and triple flips... Best purchase I've made in a while!

* I bought the RTF version with hopes of being able to use the stock controller so I didn't have to carry my DX8 around, but that didn't work as well as planned. I can't stand the feel of the stock radio, it's just way to sloppy for me.

Greetings Michael Heer !

I am wondering why this review was placed in this Forum and not in the appropriate one...
http://www.rcgroups.com/multi-rotor-helis-659/

One only needs to look at the most active thread for the MQX on RC Groups to see the great interest in, and enthusiasim for, this outstanding craft.

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1563931

With over 4000 posts in less than 90 days, and nearly a quarter million views since, it would behoove you to review that thread and read how the other users of this craft feel about it, and discover some shortcomings you would like to know about.

I see the MQX that you were provided by HH was from a production lot that has CW motors of a different color plastic end than the problematic "black" failure prone ones (also provided as replacements by HH).

Just to add to what the reviewer is saying, the Blade mQX is absolutely amazing and if you think it looks fun you'd be a fool not to buy one and see just how much. For $129 - 169 you just can't go wrong.

The mQX is super responsive, acrobatic, and (near as I can tell) indestructible.

This is my very first quad and very first "real" anything; I've only owned two or three of those cheap, indestructible indoor foam helicopters. Stepping up to the mQX was definitely not easy, but neither was it too great a step to make. If I can do it, you can do it too! But I would ***strongly*** recommend buying the Phoenix R/C simulator and flying the Gaui 330X model (that's the only simulator I've seen with a quad model in it). I spent hours flying the Gaui in the balloon popping trainer of the Phoenix simulator and it made a profound difference on my flying ability. I had serious doubts that a simulator could help with real world flying, especially given that I was flying a non-mQX model, but was happily proven completely wrong. My real world flying made a quantum leap after a few nights of simulator flying

One of the most impressive things about the mQX is how inconceivably strong it is. In my early flights especially I would get disoriented and send the mQX screaming into the ground and it sustained absolutely no lasting damage (the canopy was destroyed and I had to bend a propeller blade back to straight a couple times but that's it).

And, coolest of all, the mQX is powerful enough to mount any of the 808 cameras. I put a jumbo keychain 1080p camera on it and it seemed to fly as responsively as it always did, and for seemingly almost as long as it always did. It amazes me that I could have a HD aerial camera platform for under $200. (Obviously it's no $1,000 stabilized system, but on a very calm day with a good pilot consciously flying for a particular shot, it's stunning!)

I don't usually bother to evangelize a product, but this one deserves it!

Thanks cryhavoc38,
that's more like it,,, as for the mini quad, while they insist that you buy one of their radios i will continue to boycott their products,,,,,




Futaba Forever,,,,,,,,,,,

Hi Michael,

Tonight I maidened my new mQX successfully.
I set 50% expo for the aileron and the elevator according to your comment.

Thanks so much for your great review.

cvlex

Blade mQX micro quad first hovering (4 min 42 sec)