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Post by Dillzio on Feb 4, 2010 11:16:01 GMT 1
I got a 9088 Apache attack helicopter from my girlfriend's parents for Christmas. It's good fun, but it's difficult to control, quite fragile and really easily pushed about by the wind. I haven't flown it for almost a month because it keeps getting damaged, but I'll have to take it to an indoor basketball court sometime to see what it can do.  |
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Post by vegatron75 on Feb 9, 2010 21:27:48 GMT 1
Hey Dill, I've got one of those too! That heli was my re-intro to rc. As a kid I had a couple of cars.
Your right it doesn't like the wind at all, although I found mine to be pretty stout, only thing I broke was the flybar, broke it in the first flight, luckily the guy at the kiosk in the mall that sells them gave me a metal flybar from a chinook or something.
After the Apache I got a blade cx3. The cx3 was a step up but was fragile and still didn't like the wind.
If you really want to try a cool and cheap heli,,,try the E-sky Honeybee, it's a fixed pitch heli, so no co-axial easiness. But the honeybee is cheap and tough as nails... Like $60 rtf.
Helis are fun but not even close to the fun of a plane. Although a heli like the honeybee will train your fingers quick, rudder control on the heli is way more important than a plane.....
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Post by gagallagher04401 on Feb 10, 2010 3:13:08 GMT 1
A co-axial heli will never be good in the wind. Really only used for getting orientation learned when flying a heli. Plus with a co-axail aggressive flying with usually end in a bad blade strike which will equal a crash. If yah want to get serious into heli's get a sim, even the FMS is good enough. just to get the muscle memory in the fingers, because everything is backwards when flying nose in.  How many channels is that heli? looks like 3? Have fun |
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Post by vegatron75 on Feb 10, 2010 7:35:16 GMT 1
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Post by foo on Feb 10, 2010 10:25:48 GMT 1
Plus with a co-axail aggressive flying with usually end in a bad blade strike which will equal a crash. My friend has the e-sky big lama (i think?). Also had lots of issues with blade strikes, so he ended up modding the "propshaft"? Using a screwdriver shaft, he made it longer - no more problems. Not sure why they don't design these choppers with more space between the blades to begin with. |
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Post by Dillzio on Feb 10, 2010 12:08:35 GMT 1
Actually, I've never found the two blades, or the balance bar to touch.
I think it may technically be 3 channel. One for throttle (up down) one for rotation (yaw), and another for forwards/backwards. It moves forwards and backwards by means of a small propeller on the tail, that lifts the tail up to go forwards, and pulls it down to go backwards.
There's also a knob on the transmitter that you use to set the balance between the two propellers so that it doesn't spin out of control when you give it throttle.
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Post by badlands on Feb 11, 2010 22:42:24 GMT 1
That Honeybee heli looks interesting...
Fly those on a DX6i?
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Post by vegatron75 on Feb 13, 2010 18:38:49 GMT 1
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