Getting a small FPV wing to fly low and fast is hard enough, but this build tackles a specific headache: a quad motor layout that fought itself. The initial setup ran into trouble from motor thrust mixing with the V-tail, so the maker went back to two motors and that settled things. The result is VENOM, a fully 3D printed blended wing with a 600 mm span, built for carving close to the ground and rolling through trees, with low-level aerobatics as the design goal.
The hardware list is tidy. Two 1103 motors swing HQ T3x2 props, and a 2S 1000mAh LiHV keeps the whole thing at 249g all-up weight. Four servos handle the elevons plus the V-tail ruddervators. On the electronics side there is a DJI O4 Wide for the view and a Matek F405-Wing WMO running INAV. The airframe is printed in ColorFabb LW-PLA, which keeps weight down on a plane this size.
What stands out to me is the development work behind it. The maker tested several aerodynamic configurations and CG positions, and reworked the control mixing arrangements along the way rather than settling for the first arrangement that flew. That kind of iteration shows in a machine that reportedly performs well and ticks many of the boxes the maker set out at the start. Roughly 7 minutes of mixed flying from that small pack sounds reasonable to me for a 249g airframe carrying video gear.
The one open item is that the maker has asked for opinions on the finished aircraft, so the evaluation is not fully closed. From where I sit, a twin motor V-tail at this weight for tree-level flying looks like a strong answer to the problem it set out to solve.
Project by WUDFLY. Watch it on their YouTube channel: