This is a review of the PowerUP 4.0. This is a successful Kickstarter campaign which completed in 2020. I`ve received my bundle of airplane related goodies and had a few builds and test flights.
The video below goes through an unboxing, the first builds, test flights and important information on flying the plane such as the minimum amount of space needed to fly.
The RC remote control plane is controlled using a smartphone using bluetooth. This allows you to control the RC plane from either an Android phone or iPhone. The range is not particularly long, but that works well as it stops the plane from flying too far out of control.
The amount of space needed is very important. I nearly lost the airplane on my first flight due to it landing in the middle of a bunch of bramble bushes. It was only my determination to retrieve it that convinced me to walk through chest high brambles to retrieve the plane.
On Kickstarter I backed the pro early bird level. This cost $79 and included the following:
POWERUP 4.0 Module
4 Red Paper Plane Templates
Desk Stand
10 Additional Paper Plane Templates
2 Waterproof Dupont Paper Plane Templates
Night Flight LED Lights
Wheels for Take-off u0026 Landing
Foam DIY Kit F22 Style Aircraft
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to the PowerUp 4.0
01:03 Unboxing
16:59 Building the paper plane Invader
19:25 Flight test for the paper airplane
20:14 Building the foam plane F22 fighter
25:09 Flight test for the foam airplane
26:16 Crash damage
26:29 Space required - recovering the plane from brambles and trees
27:23 Summary from first two test flights
Taking an off the shelf free flight glider and turning it into an RC motorized airplane, using micro brushed motors to power its flight, a very fun and simple project to make
