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Old 11-05-2005 | 03:16 PM
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DarkWombat
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Default RE: E-FLIGHT BLADE CP

He's asking about the upcoming Blade CX. This is a totally different heli, fixed pitch, counter-rotating blades. It's geared towards the beginners. The Blade CP was never intended for beginner use, E-Flite assumed that people who had heli experience would be getting them. Well that wasn't the case for the most part, and they had NO IDEA it would take off (pun intended!) and become this popular.

The upcoming Blade CX is designed for people who don't have heli experience. The Blade CP is a more difficult to fly chopper, because it is more capable, aerobatically and aerodynamically. The Blade CX is a MUCH more stable and easier to fly heli because of those counter-rotating blades. It's a fixed-pitch machine so you won't be able to do much more than basic flight, hovers, yaw.... But I think it's a great starting point for getting into helis. Not only is it less expensive and cheaper to fix (rotor blades are plastic and only $4 for a set of 4), but it takes a lot of the stress out of learning to fly helis. Granted, once you go to a cyclic pitch, single-rotor heli it will be harder to fly, but you will have a nice head-start with your Blade CX experience.

We've got several on order at the shop I work at. They're due in December, when they come in and if we get a demo unit I will be more than happy to update you all about it.