Mobula6 Parking Racing

Thursday, Apr 1, 2021 | 2 minute read | Updated at Thursday, Apr 1, 2021

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A quick FPV session flying and racing Happymodel Mobula6 tiny whoops around an empty parking garage.

I went out with @luisanllo to fly our Mobula6 whoops in an underground car park.

The Mobula6 is a 65mm brushless whoop: small enough to fly indoors, fast enough to be a handful once you open the throttle. An underground parking lot turned out to be the perfect track: concrete pillars for gates, painted lines to follow and no wind or people to worry about.

What’s in the video

  • 0:00 – Mobula6 FPV parking fly, warming up and learning the layout
  • 0:30 – Mobula6 FPV parking race against luisanllo
  • 0:37 – The obligatory crash
  • 0:42 – Back in the air for another race

Racing line-of-parking against another pilot is a good reality check. It is easy to feel fast on your own, but chasing someone through the same gaps exposes every hesitation and every clumsy line.

Gear

  • Happymodel Mobula6 - 65mm brushless tiny whoop, the actual aircraft
  • Turnigy 9XR Pro - Radio transmitter
  • FrSky - RF module / receiver link
  • Eachine EV800D - FPV goggles with a built-in DVR for the onboard footage

Why tiny whoops

Whoops like the Mobula6 hit a sweet spot for practice:

  • Cheap to crash - ducted props and a ~20g airframe survive most impacts
  • Fly anywhere - a garage, a hallway or a living room is enough
  • Same skills - throttle management, smooth stick inputs and line choice all carry over to bigger quads

Music in the video: Julius Dreisig - Where’d You Go (feat. Luna Lark) [NCS Release].

More flights and crashes to come.

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Based in A Coruña, works at Innogando S.L., and has been quietly stockpiling GitHub repos: a one-hand bottle opener, a 3D printer parts library literally named “Pezas_Printer,” sumo robots, line followers, and enough H-bridge motor drivers to open a shop.

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