I just put the e-flite flat bottom blades on my helimax
Takes a little getting use to. But after a couple of lifts works great.
Tower is just to expensive on parts. How much could those bldes cost $ 1.40 ???
22.00!!!!!

I had just the opposite experience with the rotor blade for the Axe CP. One lhs wanted $7.99 for it and tower's price was $4.99. Go figger!

Tower was 4.99????

Damn where is that? Two of my five local hobby shops sell the blades for the Axe CP for $21 something... you guys are lucky to buy blades as low as $4.99, tell me where is that and I will make sure I buy 5 pair of them!

I just made the *mistake* of buying a set of fiber carbon blades for the CP for $29.99, put them on the Axe CP, crashed it while trying to hover at the patio, anyway... found those are crap, I feel either fooled or something....those blades are not made of solid carbon fiber as I though they were! - They are just to layers of thin carbon fiber with foam in the middle, like a sandwich. - What a rip off, I will never buy those blades again....besides I didn't see any difference.... I will stick with the wood blades (plastic covered) stock blades of the Axe CP, they have better lift power and stable as a rock... and less expensive than the suposed-to-be CF... at least those I bought that are for the Blade CP are crapy and I will never buy them again.

I might be still a beginner, but for the time being I like the wooden blades better.

Hey Fox,
I think Markzr7 is talking about main rotor blades, but W4RCF is talking about tail the tail rotor blade.
BTW Fox exactly which C/F blades did you buy, I'm curious?

I think you guys are getting tail rotor blades(7.99) mixed up with main rotor blades (20.99) for the axe cp.
The tail rotors for the blade cp are half the price of those for the axe cp, and work just as well.

Edit: Heliko beat me to it.

Oh ok, my mistake, certainly it isn't the same main rotor blades, that tail rotor blades.. ;-)

No wonder, because if they were main rotor blades, they certainly don't cost $4.99. - The least I have paid for main rotor blades was $9 dollars for the stock Walkera 22E blades, and the most I've paid so far was $29 for the CF ones for a Blade CP, the fiasco ones I though were made of solid carbon fiber.

The ones I bought are if I remember well the ones for a Blade CP, they said fiber carbon on the description, they looked like fiber carbon, and when they broke two nights ago, the heli hit something and the tips got chopped off... I noticed that inside there was a piece of foam, and it was like a sandwich if you take two pieces of plastic that look like fiber carbon, put a layer of foam inside, just like that.... certainly not what I expected from a set of carbon fiber.

I am still fairly new at this, since I just started two months ago, but it was my understanding and hope that if those blades are made of fiber carbon, they were made of *solid* carbon fiber, not like that two layers of plastic that looked like carbon fiber and foam in the middle.... I feel fooled to say the least.

If they are all like that, then I will stick with wood blades....unless someone could tell me there are CF blades that are solid made of carbon fiber, and not the crap I noticed were made of.

Maybe I did not buy original OEM blades, and they were the kind that look like carbon fiber but they are not, yet those shouldn't cost $29 bucks then, that's too much and certainly I found out I got fooled, but too late to claim anything now...... I was just angry and broke the rest of them with my hands and put them in the trash can..hehe.

Regards...

The CF blades are always made that way. Carbon fiber has very high tensile strength so it's put on the surface of a form; in the case of heli blades, it's usually a foam or wood core (e.g. balsa). The carbon makes the blades very rigid when applied on the surface; if it were through and through CF it wouldn't be as strong, and it would weigh three times as much in the bargain.

Even real heli blades aren't solid. It's usually something like an aluminum skin wrapped around a honeycomb-like matrix with a stainless steel leading edge.
Translation: the blades are hollow.
Aircraft have to be made that way or they'd be to heavy to fly.

Okay, thanks for the explanation guys. Now I know, I though they were made of solid fiber carbon, that's all. I guess I'll stick to wood blades, I seem to be able to fly well with them and the heli seems to be stable enough for me, I like even the kind that are all plastic. A month or so ago I bought a set of plastic ones that are flexible and originally for a Blade CP, and after a few bang and kaboom here and there, they are still working fine and are not broke yet. - Maybe for "pros" out there they aren't good, but to me for the time being they work great and they have lasted me enough a few crashes and hitting something hard quite a few times already.

Regards