john68,

A Kaos? Man that's so totally cool old school. When I flew RC planes as a kid, that what I wanted! I never got beyond flying ugly sticks and the like.....then got distracted by other stuff like girls, school, etc and left modeling behind. But back in the day, those guys w/ their .60 powered Kaos's w/ a tuned pipe and retracts flyin' the 'pattern' were like rock stars to me.

This was in the 70's. I think it was then that the very first heli's came out. I remember (I think) going to a show where they had a demo team from Dubro fly a Hughes 500. It was pretty crude, but really amazing too.

Do you remember the original heli sim? Before computers? It was a platform mounted on a 3 axis hinge w/ 2 servos that caused it to tilt. The 'heli' was a ball bearing that would roll around on top.