Just like the Standard CrazyBall, release all controls to center (1/2 throttle on left stick) and it immediately rights itself and begins a slow, gentle climb out giving you time to think,
If you have practiced on the standard CrazyBall, you will already be accustomed to the way it looks and as long as you keep it a ‘mistake or two’ high, a simple tap of up will let you know which direction that is. When it gets to maneuver height, you can just tap up elevator and it will go in that direction giving you a visual clue.
When launched at 1/2 throttle, it simply flies like a free flight and will slowly climb out. No, you will not be able to easily ‘visually’ tell what side is up…but consider this. Truely a fully symmetrical airframe in every way. Higher performance motors (brought to us by the Quad racer segment ), newly redesigned control surfaces/servos and modified size now offer little or no restrictions on performance. The ‘Standard’ CrazyBall morphed into a high performance version. Here is a link to one of the very early lighted CrazyBall with a tail The LED lighted CrazyBall created some excitement in the middle of the Grand Solar Eclipse we had a few years ago as well as a few fourth of July summer nights. Really cheap small receivers and motors over time were improving but the CrazyBall needed to be a bit more universal so the site was taken down for a long wait on new technology and materials. Unfortunately the only European manufacturer of the Depron Aero material decided that they were too busy with the floor underlayment industry to make any more material available for the model industry and ceased shipping to the US and there was only a limited amount left. Better decals (stickers) were utilized and the lighter weight made the CrazyBall great for indoor as well as outdoor flying. The prop cutouts were quietened and some light weight 6 mm EPP was used as reinforcements and extra lift in a Kf configuration. Depron Aero (3mm) was a lighter, and prettier material which greatly improved performance. There was also an inline twin motor version (sk’Eyeball) which did some excellent FPV work at slow hovering speeds when quads were in their infancy. What aircraft can preform maneuvers in most any direction with impunity?, The CrazyBall can! The CrazyBall was easily capable of most any 3D maneuver as well as a 4D candidate using variable pitch prop system for reverse pitch. This uniqueness allowed one to not only launch it easily at half throttle but when in trouble, just release the controls at half throttle and the plane would simply right itself and continue flying level rather than crash.įor the ‘pros’, the battery could be reinserted horizontal in the top of the battery slot making the craft not only symmetrical but balanced symmetrically as well. One of the unique features of the CrazyBall was at half throttle, the plane actually flew like a stable free flight plane and with the battery in the lower novice position, it would fly as if it had a lot of dihedral being quite stable.
Due to the light weight and multiple lifting areas, the 90 watt motor could easily power the CrazyBall at only half throttle never getting outside its amp limit as full throttle was only needed for radical maneuvers. One problem with the design was in a hard crash the prop would sometimes scoop the XPS foam and dig it out in grooves limiting the life of the shroud. The XPS Prop shroud/annular wing was needed to keep the EPP from deforming as well as give extra thrust and lift. The motor of choice was a popular lower KV Blue Wonder swinging a 10″ propeller. The original material was foamboard but EPP made for a much lighter, more durable and repairable airframe. HERE- is the original video for its reference. Way back in 2010 the CrazyBall RC plane was born.