R/C Helicopters

[Garysim]

Guys have a look at this site in the UK for turbines they produce some lovely scale gas turbine Heli's.

http://www.rcturbinehelicopters.com/

[float test]

Its how i got started. The most common RC helicopters are called Concept 30 and 60 made in japan. I had a sixty, took me 3 months to build it then i had to take it to a specialist to sort it out.

After twenty hours training sort of got the basics but extremely tricky to fly especailly when its coming at you ( all controls reversed ) The power is extreme, vertical climbs to its out of sight in seconds

But at the end of the day its the same as the real thing you just need two arms and legs (quick legs help to get out of the way when its screaming at you).

I stopped after falling out of several trees retrieving it, no joke!!!!

[GS-Alpha]

I got my first RC heli when I was 16 years old. I worked all Summer to pay for it and built it in my free time. I crashed it in about 7 seconds. During that short flight, I nearly put it in three different trees (one of them more than once) and eventually crash landed into a pond. I say eventually because it was the longest 7 seconds of my life! To be fair, it was also more of a crash than a crash landing, although I did kind of decide to let it go in there because it seemed like a better option than the trees.

16 years on, and several thousands of pounds later, I still love the hobby. Eventually crashing becomes a rare event as long as you know your capabilities and the right pace at which to improve them. Patience makes the hobby a lot cheaper.

These days there are commercially available training skids, buddy box leads and computer simulators. It's relatively very cheap and easy to learn.

[glyn thrash]

if you need help on R/C, go to www.helifreak.com great group of guys!! they have scale, turbine, nitro, and electric.. some great vids on there too..

[7balja01]

i fell in love with rc helis when i was fourteen, even though i've never flown one to this day. the micro electric was a mini dragonfly.


piece of S#$T!!


It was a cheap piece of crap. However, this hasn't put me off. Im going to work my ass off all christmas holidays so i can get my hands on a .30.

[Simon853]

When I was seven I used to gaze for hours at r/c helicopter magazines, and I longed for one for many years after that. Back in 1999 I finally bought my first one: An X-Cell 60 Graphite kit (yeah, I had more money than sense!) I built it and set it up entirely on my own as there were no specialist helicopter shops near where I was living in Canada. I had to order everything I needed over the net. I taught myself to fly it, and feel I did surprisingly well considreing I had no help whatsoever. It wasn't until I was on my third gallon of fuel and after I'd learnt circuits and nose-in hovering that I actually had my first crash. That however was expensive enough to convince me that I needed something ceaper. So I bought a Raptor 30. I practiced on that, pushing my boundaries, and saved the X-Cell for stuff I was alread comfortable with. I've not flown my helis now for a couple of years. I've got a Raptor 60, half-built Airwolf with Vario mechanics and an electirc Eco 8 all sat in the garage. One day I'll get back into it, just at the moment all my money's going on real world flying!

Si

[OFBSLF]

Its not so much rekit them but more like replace the bent bits!!!

Rekitting is the action that bent those bits that you now have to replace

[Skeeter Pilot]

Movie of rc turbine

How about this?
http://website.lineone.net/~sarrac/Wren-Pred/
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