bdavison
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Oh, believe me.....The MX400 will not be anywhere near as stable as the XRB.
The MX400 is a full blown heli...no forgiveness there. Ive flown Bill's T-Rex, and the MX400 is supposed to be pretty close. You will need some serious skills before you attempt to fly this thing. They are extremely fast, extremely agile helicopters. Its like flying a big high performance nitro bird. If you've never flown a heli before...Id say you're average lifespan is about 3 seconds with a Trex or MX400 before its doing the dead chicken and spraying splinters all over the place.
The other problem is by the time you get finished building one of these you've got around $600-$1000 in the helicopter.
So while you didnt mind knocking the XRB around and busting foam blades, with these helicopters crashing is NOT an option.
They are spinning 24-30 inches of wood, fiberglass, or carbon fiber blades at rpms of around 2200RPM. If you hit yourself with a XRB, it would sting, maybe cut you, but most likely not be lethal. With the MX400 play time is definatly over with these. They are lethal if misused. If I remember correctly, the blade tip speed is pretty close to 200mph.
As far as other helis that are as stable as the XRB....well there are other "X-rotation" helis that fly like the XRB.
The Megatech Housefly, The E-flite BladeCX,....E-sky makes one that you can get from balsapr.com, but its ugly as poo in my opinion, its well made and flys really good though.
If your looking to move up to a single rotor head machine. Id have to say the BladeCP is a good place to look. Ive been really impressed with that little heli. Its the perfect transition machine for people wanting to increase their skills and move from the trainers like the XRB to the faster helis like the T-rex. Its ideal for this because of a few reasons.
Its low cost, and parts are cheap. Always a plus when your learning how to fly.
Its got GREAT manufacturer support. A warrenty program unheard of with models is included with the Blade. Which will save you a bunch of trouble should you have problems. E-flite is rapidly releasing upgrades to the Blade which not only make it fly better, but improve its performance and agility. The heli is really well thought out. They painted the canopy bright yellow to improve visability, included a really well written manual, its just all around a really good transisition heli.
I started with the XRB learning the basic stick movements and how not to get mixed up on them. And learning general all around flying. I moved up to the Blade to learn collective pitch and how to fly a single rotor head heli, and learn inverted maneuvers and fast forward flight. Now Im finally ready to learn the 3D stuff and go fly the "big helis", so I bought the MX400.
So whats after the MX400???? Who knows
Right now my plan is to learn to fly the 3D manuvers well enough to become a "sport" level pilot. Im not really interested in becoming a master or a competitive flyer. Just want to be able to fly around and do maneuvers confidently without fighting to keep it flying. Once I accomplish this, I really like scale helicopters, so I think I will go that route. Perhaps build a nice scale bell 222 or hughes 500MD with lights, retracts, maybe even a detailed cockpit or something.
Hey bill,
I went out to the local flying field this weekend with Pop. He wanted to maiden that little FleaFly that he built. One of the local slimer flyers was out there with a Raptor .60 got to see him do some 3D type stuff with it. Pretty cool.
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