I've attempted to trim down one of my Dragonflies to see if I could make a smaller, more indoor friendly version. I've had partial success. My smallfly is not tremendously smaller than the original DF but it is maybe 2/3 the size. And it's not any more indoor friendly than a regular DF, but it's been fun trying to make it. Took a bit of fine tuning but finally got it flying decent. In fact, to my surprise it does indeed fly very well.

I started by removing the body and trimming down the weight by removing excess parts of the plastic frame. I snipped the tail carbon fiber rod in half and moved the tail rotor closer to the body.

I initially started by just cutting down the original wings but I cut too much mylar away and they didn't have the needed lift. So I removed the carbon fiber rods from them and simply used some mylar gift wrap (it was the only mylar I had handy) to make my own wings. I was quite surprised that my first try at making my own wings worked so well. As an afterthought I just added a white spotlight type led to the underside.

I'll try to get some video clips of it in flight but not promising anything. But I do have some photos...