Electric helicopters

[julian64]

Wife asking me what she can buy me for christmas.

Seeing as I've bought her a car I wondered whats a good electric helicopter recommendation for her to buy me.

Preferably able to use indoors, and not an electric motor tail, belt or shaft.

I was thinking of walkera dragnofly. Anyone know about this stuff?

[Dakkon]

A lot of them break really easily when crashed into walls and furniture.

[jas xjr]

try in the scale models forum. maybe search it , has been discussed in there before

[julian64]

Currently I use a buzzfly, perhaps the most difficult to control little bugger since the invention of the housefly.

I think I can miss the furniture with a more controllable version

He's 6 chanel, or 4? Love to know what some of the eight channel versions on ebay are all about.

[boomboompow]

The Gadget Show did a review of quite a few of these things recently; check out the channel 5 gadget show website, they'll maybe tell you about retailers as well.

[julian64]

Emsman said:

Try mailing me!!!

YHM

[shirt]

we had a dragonfly in the office for a bit, great fun and really well built for what it is. check this site for a review:

http://www.rc-airplane-world.com/walkera-dragonfly...

[Kaelic]

brother got me a little apache one from debenhams for my birthday and so far its still flying

even with an 8 year old playing with it for ages too (sure test of its durability)

[langy]

I bought myself one of these a month or so ago http://www.wonderlandmodels.com/products/e-flite-b...

Good fun, can be used outside in little or no wind and I'd say it's pretty close to an IC heli.

[julian64]

call me picky, but its got to have

1) two blades at the top, not two sets of blades.
2) a tail rota controlled by a belt or shaft from the main rota, not its own mini motor.

In other words its got to be a bit more pro realistic. With pitch not speed controlling the main and tail. Y'know, like the real ones

Something along the lines of this picked at random

http://www.tjdmodels.com/e-commerce/tjdmodels/prod...

Just wondered if anyone had any experience to point me to the right one in this bracket.

Edited by julian64 on Tuesday 8th December 13:19

[Paulbav]

Blade cx2 or mcx are brilliant helis, fly great out the box and lots of upgrades available.

Paul

[Holst]

Paulbav said:

Blade cx2 or mcx are brilliant helis, fly great out the box and lots of upgrades available.

Paul

I have a CX2 and its a good way to start.
(If anybody wants it PM me)

[Roop]

E-Flite Blade 400 RTF. Proper helicopter. Perfect.

[AntwerpMan]

before I clicked on your link I already knew what I was going to recommend which was this:-

http://www.heliguy.com/Electric-RC-Helicopters/Tre...

but it turns out to be exactly what you were looking at anyway. I have used Heliguy to have parts delivered to both the UK and Belgium and I have been to the premises and chatted to the guys there. They are really helpful and service is top Notch, I would highly recommend them.

I also bought the Trek-450 and it is a really nice machine, you wont be disappointed BUT get yourself a simulator as it is difficult to fly that thing straight away by yourself (if you intend going to a club it may be different)

The simulator I got (Pheonix) allows me to plug the actual RC I use for the helicopter in to the simulator and use that, so you get to practice with the actual hardware you will use (I have the spectrum DX7 TX RC)

Spares are readily available and not too expensive which is a boon as it is easy to eat up blades, etc......