The genesis of Kriegerpus was simple. I was looking at Krieger's pod and thinking how nice and modular it could be, and it suddenly occurred to me that it would be super easy to make a hex with it. I changed the X plates to hex plates and that was pretty much that.

Most FPV hexes aren't symmetrical – the front rotors are splayed out to make room for the cams. The fact that everyone's flying so much faster now is really liberating for me. There's no need to put the cams up front for a clear view any more, just stick them in the middle and tilt them waaaay back.

One cool thing about drawing up a perfectly symmetrical hex is that its minimum size is prop length x 2, no trigonometry needed here. There's a certain beauty to the hex, since circles naturally want to nestle into a 60 degree grid. The minimum size for a 4" hex is 202mm (8"), and the 4" Kriegerpus is 210mm. So close to ideal, and so much easier to tune, no custom motor mixes needed.

Now a quick aside on miniquad design. Much of miniquad design up to now, some of mine included (but not the Fast Forward), has focused on 'coolness'. Designers made them look pretty, nasty, like a UFO, like an animal...they swept the arms one way or another instead of taking the shortest and most direct route to the motors, making them heavier, weaker, and flexier...they gave them curves or jagged edges...they laid out the motors in dead cat configurations...they made them 'aero' but not in the most common direction of flight. None of those features enhanced performance, in fact many of them hurt performance.

For me, Krieger and Kriegerpus are an acknowledgement that a multirotor is nothing but a force vector in space, and it works best when its motors are symmetrically spaced and its weight is as central as possible – that's what the code was written for. It is nothing but an arrow that pushes in one direction, and when added to gravity's and aero drag's vectors they yield a direction of flight. None of the cool looking parts of most quads contribute to that math. When I look at Krieger I think, 'never has something that looks so slow flown so fast'.