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Old 09-29-2006 | 08:58 PM
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SergeyK
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I wonder if the parts are compatible with Esky HB FP2 or Century Hummingbirds... Probably at least some of them can be adapted to this heli. I suspect the flybar is the same.

I saw this heli at NEAT 2006 for $50 too, but I hesitated and instead ordered it online later for much more from Polk's Hobbies.
Though the box looks the same as on that picture in the previous post, the heli is very different inside, with an oval frame and one-piece oval plastic landing gear:
http://216.86.38.243/mmPOLKS/Images/PLKARCEH808.jpg

One problem with it is the landing gear to low, it is actually standing on the tail. So I made a little platform from a piece of porolon foam.
The second problem is it is very tail heavy. I'll have to create some kind of a platform to extend the battery as far forward as the canopy allows and move the receiver from the back to the front as well.

Those bearings indeed tend to get lost as soon as the head pops. Might be worth gluing them slightly to the pins.

Sergey.