Got distracted today

[zeke]

Indoor fun fly season is here, what takes you away from working on your project car?

[marco_1978_spyder]

Aw, those are cool...where do ya get 'em? what do they cost?

[chevyart]

zeke looks like you have enough flying machines to start your own air force. have fun art

[zeke]

The heli in the foreground is a great one to start with Marco:

http://www.bladehelis.com/Products/Defa ... ID=BLH3250

Fixed pitch and loads of fun for 40 bucks or 50 with a cheap radio. Radio control as oppossed to IR cheap chinese and parts available in most local hobby shops.

There is a even easier style to fly, coaxial
(the ones with 2 sets of counter-rotating rotors) or as we call them: "mall copters" but you get bored with them pretty quick. They r meant to be really slow and stable so anyone can fly them.

Me flying the third in the pic, collective pitch heli:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZxF0t3NuWA

Collective meaning it has negative pitch and flies inverted.

Buyer beware, this hobby is addictive!

[Sunula66]

Zeke!.."Buyer Beware this can be CONTAGIOUS??!!".REALLY?!!! gee thanx for the disclaimer but I've already been bitten by the flying chopter-bugg!
I too was fooling around one day with the gyro style egg-beaters and wanted more challenge, I went out and purchased a 12in. model which flew nicely indoors but needed more area. I decided to take it outside where I could expand my new knowledge and show off my minimal skill to my daughter in her back yard. As the instruction pointed out, this model wasn't able to negotiate any more than slight breezy conditions...no shit Sherlock! ..as I commenced to demonstrate level flight, a Mosquito must've farted from yon evergreen and as I applied full throttle into the Gail force turbulence, away she went in a reversing stable flight over 4 fences past adjacent neighbor yards and as I lost visual, I set it down with memory shit lucky I find out in a few minutes, that the large copter crushing canines that lived there where luckily indoors and with the cute neighbor girl....as I went up to the door and rang the bell, a pretty young woman answered the door at which time I asked to recover my "helicopter" from her backyard....."What?!!" she exclaimed! .."Sorry" I said "ya, I crashed my "chopper" in your backyard, but I'm sure that there will be only minor damage....to the copter that is"...."it's only a toy one"
(took a hit on the ego on that one) and it was an accident...did I mention she was cute?....ACCIDENTLY crashed in her yard, C'mon, I aint no pre-vert!
So anyways, later that afternoon, I found myself drooling at the hobby store over a 6 channel RC unit! ...See the PATTERN here??!!!
I took my new SR UH-1 Huey Gunship by "Blade" out to demonstrate in real wind that this nearly 20 inch long with it's 21.8 inch blade span 14 oz. killer within 20 ft. of spectators and small dogs...(these would be the other copter crushing canines, the ones belonging to my daughter that would leap and snatch any and all RC aircraft mid-flight and destroy,yipp yappin' lil shits)..soooo, I cut loose and to my amazement, this bloody thing produces "RotorWash"..WOW when I tried landing, I noticed that the plastic coated wooden blades really shatter "alltohell" quite nicely when touching down at an angle, and when they come in contact with stationary objects such as pavement....oh wait and it doesn't end there. You see, as I am now in control of utter mayhem to all living creatures, including "chasing shit hawks", with this deadly instrument at the hands of a mere novice, I must now purchase the more durable and less breakable style hard razor blade compound type material rotors. KOOL! As I now am able to transport a beverage to many sitting around the camp fire,( and yes, perhaps a fresh arrangement of cut flowers to the cute neighbor woman, just kiddin' being arrested means less flight time)...it occurred to me that I could scare the livingshit out of the little bastards down the street on halloween last night....stay with me here... .I would hoist a white silk sheet with a LED lamp under it and a tiny transmitter from which a blood curdling scream and laugh could come from as I flew out from the trees beside the walkway where the trick or treaters walked by! all this planning and I had to work late....good thing though, most guys in small town Alberta own high powered rifles and would jump at the chance to fire on to a moving target!!
check this out, bladehelis.com it's the most fun you can ever have, next to driving an H-Body!! Zeke, we'll bring them with us to Monzaque!!
PS watched the video!!!! YOU TH'MAN!!!! the MADMAN of INVERTED CHOPPER FLIGHT!

[zeke]

Great post Ron!

I'm thinking Bryan has some open area at his place for flying maybe.

My addiction started with an impulse buy at the corner store, great hobby, very rewarding but a very steep learning curve. Best place to start is with simulator software / radio package like this one: http://www.horizonhobby.com/products/ph ... RTM40R5510