First Look!! AtomRC Swordfish: 1.2m twin designed for modern FPV and comes with INAV!

ThankYou for your excellent video.
I bought the same swordfish “RTH= with pre tuned FC “,but the strong vibration -gyro hunching !
What must I change?
Could you show me your PID parameters?

I’m one of those getting into use of flight control board. That being said I purchased the full version with Fpv and rth. The issue I have is hooking up the vtx supplied and it has a harness with six wire. According to the manual I’ll use 4 of these. My question is if I need to solder wires directly on pins on the FC. THIS IS A DIFFICULT JOB so I want to get a confirmation before going ahead. I’m not getting any response from Daniel and figure he must be very busy so I’m getting your input. Any help here will be great.

Hi, thank you for the great content - so helpful. I have just ordered the swordfish and I am fitting the new SpeedyBee405 FC in it. Can you recommend a camera and transmitter - I am on a budget so can't stretch to DJI! I would like to be able to record the video too.

I want to buy a model for long pleasant flights. I wanted a hee wing t1, but I watched a video about swordfish and now I don't know what to buy. which aircraft do you prefer? reliability, maintainability, the impression of long flights.

Do you have your config available?

But I tried to configuration inav software but when I use the transmitter and receiver connected to flight controller I can’t control the twin motors connected to inav red flight controller for swordfish rc plane but I tried configuring again but I can’t control twin motors swordfish rc plane so I need some help please please make video step by steps but don’t use skipping video or speed up video please

Which do you prefer the killer whale or the swordfish?

Please do a comparison video between this and the t1 ranger

Can you use ELRS_Crfs ?, thanks for all you Do! Lee... Cheers from Nashville TN

Stock motors = rebranded DYS Samguk Shu

This looks like an ideal upgrade from my Bixler 2 inav soarer.... :-)

I hope someone comes out with something between the swordfish and the flying fish, in a twin. I really liked the smaller form factor personally, but you needed a tiny bit more from to really run fpv and what not

I think it looks better with the nose cut :)

Does it come rtf like with the transmitter

Finally, an aircraft with a flight controller installed that isn’t Spectrum. I hope this is a trend. As much as I appreciate the build part of the hobby, I struggle with getting iNav to fly comfortably. Even planes with something like Kopilot would have been middle ground, but no one sold them preinstalled.

It looks like it’ll make a good sloper, too.

Interesting looking plane. Looking on their website it says you can have it with either iNav or Ardupilot pre-installed. Though i cannot see that option on the order tabs themselves. Not yet tried iNav, all my builds have been Ardupilot. One part of me wants to try it, but the other part of me is saying stick with what I know. Going to have to bite the bullet oneday and give it a go, if this plane flies nicely I may well give it a go with iNav.

Excellent vid think I'll be ordering 1 when they hit the uk market as tax and import duties are rubbish

Thanks for the review. Hope to see the model “fixed” by AtomRC soon. For the prop interference with the ground… what if using folding props?

Looks like the FC supports Arduplane as well. These guys did good! Good review.

Why would anyone want inav over ardupilot? I've always been ardupilot and trying to see what the buzz is on inav. Please advise.

WoW ! I think that I will have a great Christmas this year. I have my AR Wing pro, Ranger T1, and the XIAKE 800 VTOL. and now the Swordfish. I really like how you can remove the wings easily. I never had a v-tail before, I'm sure I will figure out how to set up my Crossfire. The only different choice is I think a Headtracker system in the canopy that way you can look back at the motors and tail. I would love it to be able to take off from the ground. Hand launching is difficult. Thanks again for the video and information about the Swordfish

Hopefully they remember to turn on the esc brake to prevent prop strikes. Also it would be nice if the nose was removable and had vents cut into it for HD vtxs like you did Lee.

I wonder if that plane is being sold arf with onboard inav to be used in conjunction with another upcoming product that will give it remote ID

Wot! GPS unit installed upside down? C'mon AtomRC! 😠

Interesting product & great video Lee! I’m one of the people that are interested in bnf / rtf fixed wing models as I’m only experienced in multi rotor building…

Nice model. I have the sonicmodell binary with inav installed. The nose gear rod keeps breaking on landing and it tip stalls at slower speeds. The swordfish may make a nice replacement. Thanks for the first look. Looking forward to your full review.

Woud be nice to put an Dji O3 airunit inside when everything is fixed in the next batch. But as you show the gps mounted the production process is very poor and the stuff has no idea what they´r really doing.🙃

I love the duel tractor drive ! I love this plane !

I love the look and features but heavy plane and a skinny wing... I feel like we've been here before. I'm going to be very interested in the low speed handling

I’ll be flying mine without a fc like the rest of my planes ✈️. I ordered the kit version because I have plenty of motors, servos, wax’s, and props. I might even put an EDF on it 😂

Can’t wait til mine gets here in a few months haha Shipping is super slow on this haha

Fantastic looking airplane, Lee! 😃
I'm definitely going to keep an eye for this one!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

Paweł sent me the diff from the Swordfish, and I was pretty disappointed to see that it was pretty much a default setup, with no flight tuning. But it’s good to hear that they’re listening to your feedback. I did notice they have 80% weights in the mixer for the V-Tail, which will oversaturate the servos. So hopefully you’ve fed that back to them to get this back to 50% and get the correct throws (when they’re known 😉) mechanically. The plane itself looks decent. So lets hope the final production version has a good, tuned INAV setup and a decent manual.

Nice video Lee 👍🏻

I like the style of manuals they do offer while others have close to nothing in their shippings.

The V tail looks too flat which means a less effective vertical component. I don't know what they were trying to achieve that way because flattening it only serves to put the tail surfaces more into the turbulent prop wash.

Thanks for the first view ... fantastic plane, I think this is totally along my alley:
- Silent (twins usually are, especially with big props/low RPMs) - you can fly without raising attention / annoy people
- Fast (Oliver C flew it with stock motor&prop almost at 150km/h with a 4 S battery, he loved its handling), slick fuselage, thin wide wings and V-tail for minimum drag
- Light (Good compromise of making it possible for a beginner to squeeze a few things in but in case of a bad launch it may be more forgiving than a heavy plane)
- V-Tail gets the elevator off the ground for less damage
- the relatively wide wingspan may even give it good power off gliding characteristics?
- I wonder if the V-tail has enough authority to copmpensate if one motor fails?
Though I am not a fan of the landing wheel ... I never flying on asphalt, may just be extra drag and a single point that takes all the punch if you really hit the ground accidentally?!
I guess you can take it out, fill it with foam and put some teflon stripes in that entire area, making it slicker and more robust?!
Anyway great design and looking forward for your maiden flight and experience

Good idea makes it simpler for people new to inav. To be honest I wish this was available when I first started, having said that I've really enjoyed the learning process. Stay safe Lee

Could the included flight controller be reflashed to Ardupilot/Arduplane?

I love the look of the v tails. I may look into this model in the future.

that looks like the best plane.

Yes, love this design!

Lee:
What is the all up weight? Can this plane be flown on 2 or 3S batteries? Looking for your maiden and the INAV details. Like the prepackaging of a flight controller but wonder if it will be the same Matek quality. - Jim

I like the looks of this one! I reached out to AtomRC and asked about a review sample, they said they were sending it, then communication stopped. lol I hope I get it, if not I'll have to buy one when they hit the US resellers! I'm hoping to do a full tweak/tune with Arduplane, and it would be nice to have an off-the-shelf plane available set up with a decent FC, and a param file back up to plug in and go. Easy way to get into AP.

Looks nice. It’s been a while since I did an FPV build and as this is also a twin, I could be tempted! Thanks for the video 👍🏻

It's a great looking model. The wing connecters look great, I hope the sort the fuselage connecters out before production.

INAV at the moment is having issues with V-tails and the continuous servo trim. At the moment its trimming the plane to fly sideways. I believe it is being looked at to see why. Myself and a couple others have talked to Marc about it. This plane looks neat other than the tail. INAV aside, the tail just looks wrong. With the tail being so flat and the skids on the bottom I can see it getting ripped out or off when landing on some rough grass. Better FC access from the top would be nice for newbies as well. By the looks the flipped the FC over 180 degrees and rotated it 180 as well. The rotate can be done easy in the configurator but the flip has to be done in the CLI. Have been looking for a twin, just not sure about that tail.

Nice looking bird 👍

Looks great 👍🏻