apparantly Don Incoll's one had to be held by the rudder slightly in the hover but i think he experimented several times letting it go and having a little heli flight with it and it usually turned out okay. I think he was always quite cautionary about one of his engines failing so he didnt like to hover around much. The main reasons i built one was to explore something comlicated and try and make a cheap heli basically. I think so far the whole project has cost me about £270 approximatly which is about $460 i think, probaly a little less.

I dont know what prices of heli's are other there but if you add the price of a transmitter to mine then to kit yourself out with it will be about £320 in total, for heli's like that in britain will set you back usually at least £500, sometimes a lot more.

Considering that, and the fact it can transtion, as long as it works then i've made a very cheap basic heli and a plane. Someone who i know has said that if it flies like a heli and can do everything as planned then i should approach some manufacturers about making it into a kit. Don't think it would ever get that far but it'd be pretty good if it did

I've been making a site for my VTOL (called VeeTol, pretty cheezy i know) and that will have a lot of pics then so hoefully in about 2 weeks time i'll have a lot of pics on the net for everyone to have a look at, and a pic of it either flying or in a thousand different bits

For the first test flights i'm going to have it securely bolted to the ground and give it about an inch of movement with fishing line or something. First thing i'm lookin for is to make sure it does have enough thrust to get off the floor! As long as that bit goes okay then i'll gradualy let out an inch at a time until i can get an idea of how unstable she is and find someway of correcting it.