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Old 04-12-2006 | 02:40 PM
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Default RE: E-FLIGHT BLADE CP


ORIGINAL: jzitting

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Hey Gary, I was wondering if you might be thinking about making superblades for the CP heli's. I think it would be very beneficial
for those of us that are new to the CP and are going through the stock woodies. I do know about the other people making plastic blades for this heli I was just curious if you might be getting into it.
It is something we're considering, James. It will be a while before we get to it, though. We're still working on the FP blades, and I'm facing delays with those so we can get our new batteries out (I should have a final sample of one this week) and the new design for SuperSkids™ finalized and delivered to dealers by the end of May. Our design philosophy will be different than the new Plasti Blades, though, as we want to achieve high performance with a light weight, flat bottom, plastic blade using stock Blade CP battery, motor and pinion. So, I don't think we'll be in competition with Plasti Blade or Like90 (very good blades), but simply offer another choice made to work with stock CP helis. And, since these other blades already exist (along with the new beta symetrical blades at heli-fever.com, which I rather like), we don't feel there is as much urgency to bring out our CP heli blades as there is for our FP heli blades.
The problem with the stock wood blades for the BCP and HB CP2 isn't that they break, it's that they damage so easily. As others have mentioned, it's better to break a blade than damage a main shaft or head parts, but we feel there is a lot that can be done to the blades before we reach this point. As I'm sure you know, the stock wood blades damage before they even pivot, and that's just ridiculous.