The AWESOME UAV Q95 Brushless Micro FPV Racer is now available as a Flysky BNF, Frsky BNF or PNP model without receiver. Click me to purchase one of these great little micros.

AWESOME UAV has been making some nice flying quadcopters since coming into the FPV racing scene. Their Youbi 130 has been a popular 130mm option with many enthusiasts. I also recently reviewed their RS-220 model which I was really impressed with for the price. Now they have stepped into the micro brushless scene, which has been a booming segment of the hobby for the past couple months. Let's take a look at their latest offering the AWESOME Q95!

The Q95 is, as you would guess a 95mm quadcopter. This little racer has a pretty cool frame layout with twin vertical upper plates that surround the FPV camera, and radio receiver. The upper plates are 1mm thick, while the main lower frame plate is 2mm thick. The whole assembly feels quite robust, and has minimal flex. Weight without battery is 50.9 grams on my scale. I am flying it with the same Nano-Tech 300mah 2s batteries that I've been using on my ARFUN 90 and it is quite zippy. To my surprise it is also the quietest brushless micro I have flown yet.

This micro racer is equipped with an Omnibus F3 flight controller, a 600TVL 5.8ghz AIO FPV camera that transmits a surprisingly good image quality. Power is handled by a 4 in 1 BLHeli S 10A DShot ESC, and it has AWESOME 1103 7500kv motors. The quad is available as a Frsky BNF, Flysky BNF, or as a PNP...Continue Reading

Lately, it seems like there are new micro, brushless quadcopters being released almost every day. Many of these new micros are very similar to one another either in terms of hardware, and or appearance. One of the micros to recently hit the market though has a different, and uncommon design. The GB90 has a carbon fiber frame that completely surrounds the motors, and props, much like a Tiny Whoop. This quad also has two of its motors inverted which is something very unique to this particular racing drone. Two motors are installed in the typical manner, and two are mounted upside down. I am anxious to see how well this works, and if there are any noticeable differences in performance, or handling.

This quad comes equipped with an F3 6DOF flight controller, an FX798T AIO FPV camera, 4 LittleBee 12A Opto Pro ESC's, and DYS BE1104 4000kv motors. This set up is designed to run 3 inch props, on 3s batteries. I have a good feeling that this will be an excellent performer. (flight video coming soon)

Because of the way the carbon frame surrounds the props and motors, the quad itself actually has a physical size of about 165mm even though it is classified as a 90mm quad based on the distance diagonally from motor to motor, which is 88mm. The upper and lower carbon plates are 1mm each, and are held together by 9 aluminum stand offs. The fully assembled quad comes in at 80 grams without battery. My test flights will be done with a FuriBee 620mah 3s that weighs 46 grams.

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The DYS Elf is one of the latest of the Tiny Whoop style FPV racing quadcopters. One thing that sets the Elf apart from many of the other Tiny Whoops, is that this little 83mm ducted quad is equipped with 10,000kv brushless motors, an F3 flight controller, and a 10A Dshot compatible 4 in 1 ESC.

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This quad is available as a Frsky BNF, or as a RTF for only a few dollars more. One very notable feature, is that for those extra few dollars, you get a Frsky computerized radio that can be used to fly other Frsky BNF models. Some have said that they didn't care for the included radio with the RTF version. I find it to be perfectly fine, and while obviously not a full featured radio set, it does what it is supposed to do, and the quad flies very well with it, indoors, and out. The radio actually has some nice features, and is set up with Angle, Horizon, and Acro flight modes assigned to a 3 way switch right out of the box. It also has OSD features programmed to a switch, as well as motor arming, and a switch activated beeper to assist in finding it should you lose sight of it in a crash.

The little racer is very well built, and is fully programmable via BetaFlight. (See Betaflight config in photos) As mentioned earlier it is also equipped with OSD which is a very welcome feature, and is a must for many pilots these days. I also like that the landing legs are well lit with LED lights making LOS flight, and night flying very easy to do.

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As many of you here know, I am fortunate enough to get to review a bunch of cool toys. As a sort of pay back to the community for having to deal with my rambling on about RC quadcopters, and trucks etc. I'm going to give one lucky member an SPCMAKER SPC90 90mm Flysky BNF. This is a great little brushed micro, that has 10mm motors, will come in a nice little storage tin, and will include a 500mah 1s battery, spare props, and a charge adapter.

Here is a video of this little guy in action

SPCMAKER SPC90 90mm Micro FPV Racing Drone 1s 10mm Motors (1 min 48 sec)

To enter is very easy, simply post in this thread, and on June 20th I will use a random number generator to select the winner. The member who's post number matches the randomly generated number will have 24 hours to send me their shipping address via PM. If I have not heard from the winner within 24 hours, I will repeat the process until someone claims their prize.

Good luck to all who enter!

Due to lipo shipping restrictions, if the winner of this contest is located outside of the USA, you will receive everything shown except for the battery.

For anyone interested in learning more about this quad, see my Blog post here.