<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" /><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId" /><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator" /><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator" /><link href="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\J&K\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip _filelist.xml" rel="File-List" /><![if gte mso 9]><xml><w:WordDocument><w:View>Normal</w:View><w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom><w:PunctuationKerning /><w:ValidateAgainstSchemas /><w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid><w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent><w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText><w:Compatibility><w:Br eakWrappedTables /><w:SnapToGridInCell /><w:WrapTextWithPunct /><w:UseAsianBreakRules /><w
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My first post here... I'm returning to R/C helicopters after a long absence. My last and current helicopter is an X-Cell 30 with a HP 40 in it. The HP makes about the same power as a good 30ish helicopter motor. I will be using my JR X347 radio after I get new batteries for it. I'm thinking about a new machine and am curious what would make a good next step up. I want to stay with nitro. I am also aware that my 347 can have the CCPM activated so that should be one hurdle I don't need to worry about.
My first helicopter was a ???. I don't remember the name but is was built kind of like an old Schluter machine with a flat belt tail drive. It was a collective pitch head but it was very fragile. You worked on it for two hours and flew for two minuets... if you were lucky. If you looked at it crossed eyed, you were back to square one. The next helicopter was a GMP Cricket. Never had much success with that and traded that for a GMP Cobra 40. I upgraded that to a 60 with a Webra and a tuned pipe. Had a hoot with it. It was an auto rotating fool. Very light disc loading. I still have it although it is not in flying condition as the last crash broke the blade holders. Then came the X-Cell 30. And now after about seven or eight years I want to give it a go again. The X-Cell is in the process of being torn down and being referbished. It is in amazingly good shape.<span style=""> </span>I’ve always flown wood blades and I know just about everybody flies carbon blades now.<span style=""> </span>What would be a recommendation for a carbon blade for this machine?<span style=""> </span>I’m thinking I’ll get my feet underneath me with something familiar and then make a move to a new machine.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o
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