Nice thread. I got a SR a few weeks ago. I landed it a little hard but not that hard and had a boom strike which broke a blade and bent the boom. Topdown solved this mysterious boom strike. I guess I chopped the throttle and the blade went into negative pitch and flew into the tail boom. I'm thinking about getting a DX7 radio so I can have more control over this heli. So far I'm not too happy with these heading hold Gyros. Back in the days of the Concept 30 helis once you got the thing flying they handled like a airplane. Hopefully the DX7 will allow me to cut the gyro off or at least down when I'm flying. I want to be able to fly rather than go into 3D conniption fits as everyone seams found of doing now. I got the Real Flight G5 and have been practicing with the Heli-Max AXE CP copter.

I found a really great web sight that has good info in the Blade SR since it's a Google top rated search item I'm sure most of you have seen it but here is the link anyway.
http://www.rchelicopterfun.com/blade-sr.html

I'm most impressed with the new Li-Pos and out-runner motors. Flying this ting for 10 minutes with that little motor and small battery pack seems almost like magic compared to the aspirin bottle sized 05 can motor and heavy 7 cell 600Mha battery which barely got my sailplane over the trees before the motor cut out. I think that battery pack weighed more than the Blade SR!



Thanks for the Boa RC link C9403 I'm still waiting on some blade grips that I ordered off of ebay on May 10th. I see the guy just shipped them yesterday.