If you fly BANDO, you already know the drill.
Ripping through rusted rebar, threading gaps in busted-up concrete, heart pounding in time with the props. Then out of nowhere - smack. Your quad is in pieces and you’re picking up the mess, already counting how much that one’s gonna cost.
We’ve been right there with you. For years, we hung out in the BANDO scene, watching guys run the same busted building over and over, hunting for the perfect line through the steel jungle. And the more we talked, the more we heard the same thing: when you're flying hard in tight, janky spots, you don’t just want something that flies. You need something that takes the hits, keeps up with your thumbs, and doesn’t leave you grounded after every mistake.
So we built this frame from all those crash stories. Every little detail came from actual wrecks.
We Built This Thing to Take a Beating
Nobody knows the cost of BANDO better than the pilots themselves. Hitting walls is just part of it. Eating dirt is in the budget. Scrapes happen every pack.
We ran the arms at 7mm — yeah, we pushed past that “standard” everyone else sticks to. That one extra millimeter? That’s the difference between picking it up and sending it again versus bagging up what’s left after a high-speed hug with concrete.
But thick arms don’t mean anything if the joints fold. So we went with full 7075 aluminum for all the structural bits — that’s the good stuff, aircraft-grade. The main plate is CNC’d so tight the arms fit with basically zero slop. Not “close enough.” Dead solid. No wiggle means when you eat it, the force spreads out instead of snapping something critical.
Even the tail got the treatment. Ditched the standard carbon plate back there and swapped in aluminum. Carbon splits and peels when you smack it hard enough. Aluminum just takes it — and it actually more lightweight.
Less weight, more snap. Stronger build - fewer repairs. Less time fixing - more time flying. That’s the whole point.
