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R/C Helicopter cruising my shop

Windy Heap - 25-9-2014 at 10:24 AM



























Shot with GoPro on a headband.

dialing in my new helicopter. fun toy, had it less than 24 hours, so it's not broke yet.........grins..........dave dave dave.



It's way friggin' fast outside on the ranch pastures when you give it room to zoom.









for now, a tour of my toy box man cave.





I just doubled the lighting in there, with 7, twin tube 8 foot high output light fixtures. Nice high bay for winter wrenching!





enjoy the fly by and wall art.







https://vimeo.com/107162888


flyguy0101 - 25-9-2014 at 11:25 AM

looks like fun- i have not flown any of my helis since i discovered (got sucked into) FPV with the quad- just ordered the frame for my 3rd one- yes i may have a problem :D

cheezycheese - 25-9-2014 at 11:54 AM

Quote: Originally posted by flyguy0101  
looks like fun- i have not flown any of my helis since i discovered (got sucked into) FPV with the quad- just ordered the frame for my 3rd one- yes i may have a problem :D


Dude your first fpv post was only a few weeks ago... you have 3 already..? Might be a worse addiction than kites.... :lol:

flyguy0101 - 25-9-2014 at 12:23 PM

cheese- 1 to learn on, 1 for andrew to fly, and now the new one is all about power and durability (all carbon fiber and smaller than the first one) been fpving since june just got arpund to throwing a video together

PHREERIDER - 25-9-2014 at 12:50 PM

cool i have same, fun for sure ! they last around 60hours +

i have few different sizes and that one by far is the best..for indoor goofing

Cheddarhead - 25-9-2014 at 03:02 PM

Sure looks like fun! I'm afraid to give that or a quadcopter a try. It may be all over if I do. Looks like that can be even a deeper money pit than kites can. All the quad vids I've been seeing have really got my filming juices flowing. I........must........resist!

One of the best vids I've seen so far was a quad following a guy kite skiing a lake on an Ozone LEI. Very unique point of view without having to hire a helicopter. I couldn't find the vid.....I'll have to do another search.

Aaeolien - 25-9-2014 at 04:27 PM

I have a micro helicopter to fly around the house when its crummy outside. Love to chase the cat with it. HAHAHA. Blade MSrX is what I have. Love that thing. Of course when there is no wind outside its out with the airplanes. :)

PHREERIDER - 25-9-2014 at 05:09 PM

yep

Windy Heap - 25-9-2014 at 07:24 PM

my new indoor winter toy.


for only $25.


http://www.banggood.com/Eachine-CG022-Mini-2_4G-6-Axis-LED-H...

Red and Blue ones 2X on the slow boat from china.


buy spare motors and batteries and prop guards at the same time.


watch the video at the 1:30 mark, for water skipping.


prop guards will save the house interior drywall.


Indoor winter toy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwOam7RNoE0&feature=play...



Aaeolien - 25-9-2014 at 08:16 PM

That mini quad looks awesome. Cheap too. May have to order a couple of those. Lol.

skimtwashington - 27-9-2014 at 11:33 AM


seen this..?


Smeagol - 27-9-2014 at 02:22 PM

Nice! I just started getting into these myself. Already have a smaller v911, a blade 200 qx quad, blade 200 sr, and a couple bigger 450 and 600 sized helis. It's been 2 months, need to slow down a little. ;) It's worse than kites, at least for me. Hah!

Windy Heap - 11-11-2014 at 12:43 PM

My new twin FX071 birds.


tuned and tweeked.

hot glued lead weights in canopy(s), 912 canopy of the yellow birds' weighs 34 grams, and is about .3" longer than the stock red other one, which is 44 grams with lead and the LCD mounted.


CF boom about 1/4" longer. Custom Carved Heli-Heaps' Carbon Fiber boom brace. Turned out nice.

PCB screw and other vibration zip-tie mods to board.

Got heat sinks on the main and tail rotor motors now.

On-board Battery Meter, I hope these CF booms hold up, the thin wall stock alum ones were short lived.


no fast forward flight yet, but I've flown both indoors with the new CF boom brace and have them manually trimmed and ready to play outdoors.


Insane fun for $75. full metal frames, twin servo blade head, 6 axis stability, not cheap Radio Shack / walmart crap, yet only $70 through Banggood

http://www.banggood.com/FX071C-4CH-Single-Propeller-Without-...


http://static.rcgroups.net/forums/attachments/5/2/9/7/6/4/a7...

WELDNGOD - 11-11-2014 at 01:05 PM

I'm falling in the same hole.... Got this one to learn the basics.
http://www.aeroboticsolutions.com/products/cheerson-cx-10-mi...

It's a blast . Getting parts for a QAV250 FPV build now. Another money pit :o

WELDNGOD - 11-11-2014 at 01:12 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Cheddarhead  
Sure looks like fun! I'm afraid to give that or a quadcopter a try. It may be all over if I do. Looks like that can be even a deeper money pit than kites can. All the quad vids I've been seeing have really got my filming juices flowing. I........must........resist!

One of the best vids I've seen so far was a quad following a guy kite skiing a lake on an Ozone LEI. Very unique point of view without having to hire a helicopter. I couldn't find the vid.....I'll have to do another search.


It's called the "air dog". Not in production yet. The inventor is on "Kickstarter" to get funding for the project. I Must have one!!