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Jeff, did you notice how responsive the flybarless head is?

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ORIGINAL: J-MICHAEL

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Jeff, did you notice how responsive the flybarless head is?

Are you kidding...?? ! That's what gave me the biggest woody ever ! LMAO.....( you know me).... But yeah, eventually I want to get a stab unit for sure. The Skookum's are good, and not so bad in price but still about $250-$300.00 bucks... The best on the market currently is the Mikado V-Bar, and then even the newest which is the Mikado Mini-V bar... BUT $450-500.00 bucks ! Yikes I know.....

Yeah some that go without a stab unit will start there expo out at like 60 or 70% and go down from there and usually end up at around 30-40%... They do have special weighted blades, and some get there CG lower to also compensate. And then just tweaking the radio some... But I'am dying to try ! The bigger the heli of course, the easier it is without a doubt... I've done a buttload of research, and so I'am really itching about it !

Here's a couple good threads about it :


http://rc.runryder.com/helicopter/t544894p1/?highlight=450+flybarless


http://rc.runryder.com/helicopter/t546219p2/


I seriously think you should try the multi-rotor unit.... If you google on You-Tube, or Vimeo for video's, you'd be surprised how stable the heli is with that unit and no stab unit.... Just include a few other tricks on the set-up of the heli, and your golden.... Seriously... Now go order one, and report back...!

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ORIGINAL: J-MICHAEL

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Jeff, did you notice how responsive the flybarless head is?

Are you kidding...?? ! That's what gave me the biggest woody ever ! LMAO.....( you know me).... But yeah, eventually I want to get a stab unit for sure. The Skookum's are good, and not so bad in price but still about $250-$300.00 bucks... The best on the market currently is the Mikado V-Bar, and then even the newest which is the Mikado Mini-V bar... BUT $450-500.00 bucks ! Yikes I know.....

Yeah some that go without a stab unit will start there expo out at like 60 or 70% and go down from there and usually end up at around 30-40%... They do have special weighted blades, and some get there CG lower to also compensate. And then just tweaking the radio some... But I'am dying to try ! The bigger the heli of course, the easier it is without a doubt... I've done a buttload of research, and so I'am really itching about it !

Here's a couple good threads about it :


http://rc.runryder.com/helicopter/t544894p1/?highlight=450+flybarless


http://rc.runryder.com/helicopter/t546219p2/


I seriously think you should try the multi-rotor unit.... If you google on You-Tube, or Vimeo for video's, you'd be surprised how stable the heli is with that unit and no stab unit.... Just include a few other tricks on the set-up of the heli, and your golden.... Seriously... Now go order one, and report back...!

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Jeff,
I am sure your right with slimming down the HUGE paddles I would get some more poop out of the old girl.

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LMAO.....I won't be ordering anything till this $$$ drought is over. I had to throw $200 at my tractor for a new rim and inner tube...haven't recovered from that yet.

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ORIGINAL: J-MICHAEL

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LMAO.....I won't be ordering anything till this $$$ drought is over. I had to throw $200 at my tractor for a new rim and inner tube...haven't recovered from that yet.

So if everyone sees us out doing the lemonade stand thing at the end of our driveways, they'll know why..........................

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JJMAN

One funny thing that I have noticed about our hobby is how there are different types of characters involved in it. Most that I've noticed, from going to Fun Flies and just at our flying field, fall into one of a few different categories.

Not saying there is anything wrong with any of them, but I have noticed the consistency of it.

NEW GUY- How far, how high, how much.

TWEEKER- Nothing is ever right, flies for 1 minute, lands and messes with the radio, flies for 10 seconds, lands messes with radio, repeat. It can be a pain waiting for your turn after this guy.

MOOCHER- Cannot do anything himself and wont learn how, constantly borrowing stuff also.

PO BOY- Doesn’t have 2 nickels to rub together but insists on trying to fly heli’s anyway. Fly’s an old TREX 450 that has parts from a blade CP and something that appears to be made from a milk carton.

COLLECTOR- Has about 27 heli’s, 4 of every model he has, doesn’t fly much because he’s too busy keeping up with all the heli’s he got.

BLINGER- Has the latest of every upgrade that can be found, spends most every night on-line looking for more upgrades to buy. He’s been known to die parts of his heli just to get the perfect color match.

BASHER- Tries to destroy the heli in-flight, bam, bam, flies around at like 2500 rpm and is so hard on the thing that it stresses every single bearing in the heli to the max. with every maneuver.

HOVER BOY- Been flying for 9 years but hasn’t progressed beyond the hover stage.

FIELD MECHANIC- Never touches his heli’s at home, does all his maintenance at the field.

HIGHLANDER- There can be only one! I'm right and everybody else is wrong, my stuff is better than your stuff and I know so much about everything, just ask, or dont ask, I'll tell ya anyway.

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ORIGINAL: Barrrick




SO I MIGHT AS WELL SIGN OFF : the COLLECTOR / HOVER BOY


cough cough

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ORIGINAL: Barrrick



i had written about 20 lines, pressed the WRONG BUTTON and lost the whole thing :
so I summarize my prior post for the sake of time saving:

First, I had expressed how great it was to hear from th ''J'' out in Northridge; so glad to know he is OK...I was remembering him and yesterday received the TX battery replacement for the one he sent me, way back, a LIPO that works well on the DX-7
also I wondered about JIM WNUK from whom I haven't read anything in the longest time. (CITABRIA ??) just wondering.
Next I had entered great remarks about flying the m-SR in the front room. I have it trimmed/balanced to such a degree that for two
whole minutes the heli will hang motionless in the air (a/c is cut off) , and is perfect in every sense, will do fast/slow piros, FF, nosein,
forever...only input required is a spot of throttle to keep it from coming down in RPM from battery depletion. I highly HIGHLY recommend this little toy. Next I want to disconnect the connectors from the SWASH and reconnect them to the two balls that sit further out and increase the input for more sensitivity in the controls, but everything is so DARN MICROSCOPIC I wouldn't know even
how to disconnect/reconnect the darn tiny balls. My health is 90% improved and the m-SR is indoor activity that keeps me busy. I do not watch TV and my piano practice is down to two hours, plenty of heli time left.

I have never flown the RAPTOR but for two times, and it sits there in readiness. Too cumbersome, for me. I think I much prefer to stick with the small electrics.
For this reason I have sent off for a WALKERA 4G6 .... yes, another heli .... only this one is fully 3D (which I will probably NEVER get into, but still) make allowances for old timers' soft brain tissue. I will make a film of the WALKERA when it arrives.
if you are curious to see what this one is : go here : http://www.rchobbyhelicopter.com/

and go to the MICRO HELICOPTERS to search for the WALKERA 4G6///////////////////////the reason I got hooked up with tiny micro heli is that on the morning I went into the LHS to pick up the INNOVATOR, they were working,demo-ing the 4G6 and it was love at first sight. this truly is a miracle, way beyond even this great m-SR
and SO IT GOES

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ORIGINAL: crashcrash

Yeah...sounds about right, Ghettoite wondering where the ''hood'' went (LMAO).....couldn't resist guy
BTW...I FORGOT to also say something bout the grass stains on the tail blades. Been there a LOT...dish washing liquid detergent and a green scrub pad...they look like NEW again, but you DO have to take them off to do it....just makes it easier I've found.
I AM seriously looking at the EXI-500 at this point, but I hate the thought of ''re-tooling'' from the 450's.

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ORIGINAL: choppersrule

Vic,

Going out to Leslies's is just an awesome experience, bar none.. Miles and miles of land.

I got the grass stains off the tail blades with some, hot water and a soap solution. Came right off.. I got it early and didnt' have a chance to set up, per say..(got that from Jeff ''Per Say'', but he's still a Kid, Lmao !!! Jeff


I smacked the Legend 450 up, in the back yard tonight... Should have zigged, instead of zagged... LOL ! Brain phart, ya know. Lol again. Blades and a flybar, that's it.. Flybar I can fix..

Later Gator,
Dave