Helicopters suck !

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Helicopters suck !

Post by :FI:Sneaky_Russian » Tue May 25, 2010 3:36 pm

Well 2 ch RC ones do anyway.

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Found this in the charity shop for the price of a couple of decent beers. Boxed and I'm guessing un-flown.

Sure it goes up and quite naturally down, left and right too, but without that 3rd channel (no forward/backward control) is soon out of TX range and the inevitable heavy landing (= 1 broken skid). Should have gone with my first intent and put it on e-bay, but at least I didn't pay the £39.99 rrp for it.

Will probably just bolt it on top of my rig for extra cooling this summer .

So any other novel suggestions?
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Re: Helicopters suck !

Post by :FI:Heloego » Fri May 28, 2010 4:58 am

Taht's a rather novel base for the Dell monitor. :)
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Re: Helicopters suck !

Post by :FI:Armitage » Fri May 28, 2010 2:45 pm

put some petrol on it fly over a flame and boom
burning helipcopter

would be cool

could make a nice video as well
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Re: Helicopters suck !

Post by :FI:Sneaky_Russian » Fri May 28, 2010 4:15 pm

:FI:Armitage wrote:put some petrol on it fly over a flame and boom
burning helipcopter

would be cool

could make a nice video as well
If it steered well enough that would be an option. Maybe I'll wait till November and strap a rocket underneath.
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Re: Helicopters suck !

Post by :FI:Mefisto » Sat May 29, 2010 11:35 pm

HI,

Are you sure it is the 2ch?
What spare do you require? maybe i have some? what is the model number?

the skids are common problem even for 4ch/6ch (in most cases the very end of the user interface problem); a piece of foam is good replacement - it makes it float too - call it tuning and the piece of black foam glued to the bottom becomes something like hmmm unique improvement.
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