Tinywhoop freestyle flips around a fast food drive-thru

Oct 11, 2026 Last reply: 1 hour ago 4 Replies
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When this little analog whoop is up and running, it flips around a drive-thru menu board and weaves past elevated post signs outside a Carl's Jr, after starting out at a fast-food restaurant table with a drink poured and people eating. Freestyle flying smuggled into an ordinary evening is my favourite kind of flying.



The setup is a Betafpv Air75 II freestyle model running analog FPV, with an OSD overlay on the feed. The OSD carries a top header reading 0881 and a battery readout along the bottom, which sat around 4.23v to 4.18v while disarmed and ranged roughly 2.93v to 3.83v in the air. The maker calls analog such a vibe and says digital could never, and the character of the feed makes a strong case for that view.



What stands out to me is the playful framing: the maker calls harmlessly flying in public guerrilla whooping, and snuck the whoop along on a date. There are ground rules too, since the girlfriend made the maker promise not to fly inside that day, and the flying stayed outdoors around the building, parking lot and drive-thru lane.



One thing left open: the frame, flight controller, motors, ESCs and camera model cannot be identified, so a full parts list remains a mystery for anyone wanting to copy it. There is also a real trade-off the maker names: flying FPV without a spotter breaks line-of-sight rules, so the maker picks the most harmless lawbreaking. That seems an honest way to weigh it.


That OSD typeface is doing a lot of work here. Is it Symbyoze Font, or something else? I have been hunting for a clean header style like that for my own overlay and this one reads really well on analog.

Keeping every flight outdoors around the building, parking lot and drive-thru lane seems like a smart call given the promise not to fly inside that day. The flips around the menu board and the elevated post signs read as genuine freestyle, and the whole session stays harmless. Respecting that promise while still getting a full session in is a nice balance.

For the next guerrilla whooping outing, bringing a spotter would tick the line-of-sight box and remove the only rule being bent. A second pair of eyes standing nearby could also allow closer passes around the menu board and post signs, since someone on the ground watching directly would add a layer of safety the maker currently trades away.

On the font question: the maker has already said it is a similar font found online rather than Symbyoze Font itself. So if you were about to go searching for Symbyoze, that is close but not the exact one used on this overlay. Worth browsing similar OSD fonts online until you match the header style.

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