Ok, just got done with first battery charge, spent on successful hovering with my new Blade CX2!!

First impressions:

Hmm, my BCX2 canopy was cracked right by the lower right support grommet.

Everything else came out of the well designed box just fine. I think I'll inquire about a replacement canopy. I'm wondering if the yellow canopy from the BCX would look ok with the red fuselage of the BCX2. Hmm?

Read the instructions, checked out the CD, charged the battery. While charging, fixed the canopy with a little thick goey superglue, seems ok. Attached the training gear!

Went through all the startup tests - all pass. Excellent!

Went outside to try first flight - hmm, too much wind...

Oh, well - went for the bedroom, and set up on the bed. Went through the startup tests - all pass. Muhuhahah!!! [>:]

Then I powered up and hovered very nicely just over the queen sized bed!! Tracking looks very close if not as good as can be. WOW! I could actually keep it over the bed with little effort!! My wife was freaked and I hooted!

She runs pretty smooth, but I think could be smoother with the aluminum hop-ups on the way. Its like she needs to be broken in, even so she made a pleasant humm as she buzzed around over the confines of the bed. She needed almost maximum left rudder trim, oddly. Also very slight forward and left trim made her really easy to stabilize in hover. I was very light on the sticks after trimming.

Great job on a great toy, E-Flite!! I'm sure I'll get my $ worth of fun outta this!

PS: The canopy was tricky to mess with. To help this, I used light sandpaper to round off the canopy support bars so they could slip onto the grommets more easily.

Also, the flight battery was tricky to install, and kept binding somehow. I'll work on a fix for this later.

And finally, it appears the 4-in-1 unit needs a rubberband to help secure it. No problemo.


~Mark Indiveri
Test Engineer
NVIDIA Corp.
www.nvidia.com