RC Helicopters

Bigpops · 11 Jul 2013 at 20:44

Hubsan X4.

Less than £40 delivered, parts are everywhere and cheap if you do manage to break it.

Brilliant fun. My father has one and I've had a few goes with it. It's like lightning in expert mode.

The only other option would be kit build from say hobbyking. You might get it under £100 excluding a transmitter.

@Flukester - You won't miss fly bars, trust me. The other week I decided to fly my only model that still has a fly bar. It's a Trex 450 SEV2, and it was horrible. I still had a minute left on my timer when I landed it. I know I'll never fly it again, and I intend to give it away at the earliest opportunity to someone that wants to learn to fly.

DailyGeek · 11 Jul 2013 at 21:31

Feel free to give it away to me

I broke my Century Neon V2 on the first flight last summer

pyropetepete · 11 Jul 2013 at 21:41

Bigpops got my 2nd for £20 at a show at the weekend. Have modded it with a camera which has been fun

Have a Kyosho Nexus 30, bought it cheap and been fun. Might go bigger

Reality Bites · 11 Jul 2013 at 21:49

Flukester said:
Hum, maybe, reading around there is not much between them.... Can't wait till tomorrow though. I can't get my head around how simple head is... No more flybars !!

Lol, my first heli was a trex550 FBL .... Scared the hell out of me so got the 130x. Never owned s flybar.

Just finishing the setup of my logo400se too....

Reality Bites · 11 Jul 2013 at 22:04

Bigpops said:
Hubsan X4.

Less than £40 delivered, parts are everywhere and cheap if you do manage to break it.

Brilliant fun. My father has one and I've had a few goes with it. It's like lightning in expert mode.

The only other option would be kit build from say hobbyking. You might get it under £100 excluding a transmitter.

@Flukester - You won't miss fly bars, trust me. The other week I decided to fly my only model that still has a fly bar. It's a Trex 450 SEV2, and it was horrible. I still had a minute left on my timer when I landed it. I know I'll never fly it again, and I intend to give it away at the earliest opportunity to someone that wants to learn to fly.

Even a fb450 will get 120-150 ....

rhysduck · 12 Jul 2013 at 08:40

Reality Bites said:
Lol, my first heli was a trex550 FBL .... Scared the hell out of me so got the 130x. Never owned s flybar.

Just finishing the setup of my logo400se too....

You're getting into the hobby well and truly then RB

Reality Bites · 12 Jul 2013 at 08:56

rhysduck said:
You're getting into the hobby well and truly then RB

LOL...i've done more, building/buying and selling that flying unfortunately.

Started with the 550 and shortly after an mcpx. MCPX was a little mad for me. couldn't use it indoors and wasn't big enough for outside so it went. The 550 was an awesome machine but i didn't get out much over the winter and i kinda went off it all. Crash cost worries got the better of me so sold it. Lost around £250 in 8months of ownership but did upgrade a lot on it (80a HV ESC and BEC, 7200BX, ally battery mount, AR bracket and tail servo mount etc).

Bought a compass warp360 to park fly thinking it would be cheaper to crash and run etc. (lipos were £18 instead of £90!). was ready to give up as i just wasn't enjoying it. My mate let me have a go with the 130x and for the first time i actually enjoyed it. a week after i had a 130x, upgrades the head, swash, tail slider and grips, motor etc and it's awesome!

I did sell the warp though......after just one hover

The 450 size was a little too twitchy for my skills and a unfinished logo400se came up on the forums with good electronics so bought that. Just getting it finished but spare time is sparse.

I'm sticking with the two models i have now and will see where it takes me. Flying is getting better. gone from nervous hovers to circuits in the park now.

rhysduck · 12 Jul 2013 at 11:23

Too bad about the 550 RB, it's such a big heli to start off on though! But you've done the right thing by the looks of it.

Resurrecting my 450 tonight hopefully for a trip next week... fingers crossed there's nothing terminal about it

Reality Bites · 12 Jul 2013 at 12:17

yeah, it was too big at the time but i think may be OK now i've got my confidence a bit. The logo is in between a 500 and 550 but runs on lipos for a 500 giving 6min plus flights. Looking forward to getting it in the air.

Flukester · 12 Jul 2013 at 16:45

Well parcel force delivered a shiny new toy... so impressed im hooked. Climb speed is jaw dropping and the thing is so precise running little circuits around my lounge. Not even bothered to setup the head yet (its a little off). Devo 10 TX is nice quality also, and feels comparable to the DX6i

Cant wait to take outside with idle up

Collection of toys, Belt CP, Walkera, 2 Bluetooth iPad coaxials for kids and some sub £10 IR Coaxial

Reality Bites · 12 Jul 2013 at 17:38

Looks the spitting image of the 130x. If I remember I will post a pic of mine later

Bigpops · 12 Jul 2013 at 17:40

Your Warp 360 is doing fine RB. Here it was at the field a couple of weeks ago.

It flies really nice. Noticeably better than a normal 450 once it gets a little breezy.

I've only last week stopped being terrified of my Fusion 50. I actually enjoyed flying it for the first time last weekend, which was probably only about the 6th or 7th flight I've had on it.

Reality Bites · 12 Jul 2013 at 19:02

Looking good! It was an ace machine, I just always had a soft spot for the logo. Don't know why. Good to see you changed the main blades, the compass ones look ace on the bench but I wasn't a fan when it was airborne!

Bigpops · 12 Jul 2013 at 20:49

Yep, £30 on Edge blades just for white tips.

I did try some holographic reflective stickers on the compass blades, but they only showed up if it was at the right angle. They fly just like the edge blades, it's just they disappear in the air.

Reality Bites · 12 Jul 2013 at 22:10

Bigpops said:
Yep, £30 on Edge blades just for white tips.

I did try some holographic reflective stickers on the compass blades, but they only showed up if it was at the right angle. They fly just like the edge blades, it's just they disappear in the air.

Hoping they are as good as you say as the edge blades come as standard on the logo

Flukester · 14 Jul 2013 at 19:47

Went to local field today, flew 3 battery's of gentle circuits and nose in hovers is very gusty wind and the v120 handled it fine, in fact far better than 400 size BeltCP ever could

Got home to show wife new found nose in skills and crashed in lounge snapping tail rotor servo link. DOH

New parts ordered :-)

SimonCHere · 22 Jul 2013 at 16:32

I love my little Walkera. I do much more interesting things with it than I do with my 450.
It seems to bounce quite well

Get some spare tail gears as well, the b gear goes very easily.

Uncle Petey · 22 Jul 2013 at 17:41

Got a Syma 107G that the dog bodyslammed and destroyed Godzilla/King Kong style

Also got a Syma micro Chinook. Good fun and value, but basic.

Also got a WL-V911 that hasn't been flown much due to toilet bowling like a mofo

May have to grab replacement linkages and see what happens...

Flukester · 23 Jul 2013 at 07:10

New toy time, a Hubsan X4.... this has got to be the most fun you can have for under £100. For £28 delivered it's so much fun. If you're a beginner it hovers very stable and you can fly about tail in... but if you fly around and hover nose in it's quite a challenge (nose in feels like a heli nose in). Speed wise these can reach 25mph!. The 2.4GHz TX has dual rates and in 'expert mode' the Hubsan is super responsive with masses of power and turn rate.

Also got a little stripped out Keychain Cam with SD card, still experimenting with it. The Hubsan has so much power it can carry it no problem. Once wind dies down will try some high altitude

The yellow blobs under arms are ear plugs glued on to protect motors when crashing, also has drinking straw shims under props to prevent bashing end caps off motors should you land inverted while doing a flip.

Flukester · 23 Jul 2013 at 07:18

SimonCHere said:
I love my little Walkera. I do much more interesting things with it than I do with my 450.
It seems to bounce quite well

Get some spare tail gears as well, the b gear goes very easily.

For sure, on my second set.. it seems the core of gears strips out. Got a slipper clutch on order.

I managed to snap the end off the locking grub screw on the collar on main rotor shaft, any ideas on getting it out bar cutting collar off with dremel ?