Air Hogs - Star Wars Darth Vader's TIE Advanced x1 Starfighter - Review and Flight

This is a 2ch plane, as is typical with Air Hogs, except this one has ducted fans and a rudder. This plane takes a larger area to fly in, and a bit of practice at the controls. But, once you get the hang of it, it is plenty flyable.

Enjoy!
-Flyin' Ryan

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[Dontbeweakvato]

great material and great commentary. I always learn a new word whenever I watch your videos. like when your quad had Authority in the turn

[quadflyingmav]

That looks really cool flying around. The fun is in the challenge and reward of figuring how to fly it good.

[terryandrews]

Love your videos man. The reviews are awesome! My girlfriend is always telling family that im up to four in the morning watching a guy fly radio controlled vehicle. Lol

[daquino]

Thumbs up man! Glad you finally reviewed a fixed-wing and not another multi-rotor.

[Jefafa]

I wonder if you could add a little more weight to the front end if that could help with the touchy throttle. Seems like you need to find that perfect amount like the X-Wing otherwise it wont fly.

[scottfirman]

Reminds me of the X-Wing, once you get the hang of it, you can get some good times with it.I didnt have to do much to make my X-Wing to fly higher than normal, after that its a matter of how to work those controls. I used bamboo skeewers on the ends of the wings painted white with red rings painted on the tips. It is really durable. As far as battery and all that, like you said, pretty much 8 minutes at best. bummer they make it so you cannot swap batterys. A shame really. I avoided doing any radical mods to mine. I wanted to keep it as original as possible. Air Hogs needs to step up their game as far as better quality stuff. Its a disappointment for any young person to get something so cool looking, only to fly like total crap.

[alansavage]

Great review & flight Ryan!! Got a friend at work who is a Star Wars fan & will have to tell him about this one :)

[acesonthego]

i like the different type of rc's you show on your channel, keep up the job your doing

[DavstrWrexham]

hmmm, a good candidate for a full RC conversion. It wouldn't take much to cut a couple of elevens and a couple of sub-micro servos. It would be much more flyable and controllable then.

[ericdamexican]

Interesting use of thrust vectoring! Really seems to crank that thing over for the control surface being so small but surely low throttle kills turn ability huh? Flies alright though, not like old school Air Hogs!!! The need to revisit older designs.

[Edgewalker]

Turns faster but more unstable?
Have you seen the 6th movie? I'd say they're spot on with the flight characteristics of this one!

[headfog]

maybe try glueing a pice of plastic on the rudder to make it bigger...

[krang]

If I ever see it for half price at Target or Wal-Mart I might get it. Otherwise I think your paying for a Disney product mainly. If I did get one I`m sure to trim some of the foam off to reduce the weight. Like the X-wing they tend to be over weight and/or under powered so it makes it sorta difficult to fly. Once I tweaked my X-wing a bit, it flew really nice.

[widdlewaddle]

I wonder how does it fly with out a propeller

[Dontbeweakvato]

you know what would have been cool for Halloween an Addams Family 'Bat'. imagine that thing black with like little bat wings it looks just like one of the bats on The Addams Family show the old one

[DutchRC]

Dual ducted fans.. That's actually interesting.. Looks cool this one Ryan :)
I think it would do A lot better if you'd have a real proportional rudder on it.. Now it stalls out.. Hmm nice thing to try to scratch-build this :)
Great video as allways sir! :)

[FrequentFlyerRC]

That was a pretty nice flight Ryan! Though I must say that I am upset with Air Hogs as I heard they are blocking the nicer (IMHO) Propel Star Wars Quads from USA release! Air Hogs should stick to the planes as I think foamy bodies work a lot better for planes than it does for quads lol. Great Review man

[Dod]

Nice 👍. Have you seen the Tie fighter and Millennium Falcon on Banggood? The would say it looks nothing like a Tie Fighter or Millennium Falcon lol. Thx Dod.

[madmarshmallow]

How do you decide what models you are going to review.Do you just buy the randomly? Great vids btw

[andresarredondo]

i saw this drone at the flea market for 7 bucks and i didn´t get it
:(