Thought I would tell about my experience with a new heli I bought recently. In Feb I bought a Quick learner heli from the mfg with no upgrades, just as is. I installed a O.S. 32sxh engine and carbaon blades.

The heli took only 2 evenings to build, it truely is one of the easiest helis I have ever built. Anyway, once I finished building and dialing it in, I flew it for about month. I live in Bellevue, Wa, so it rains a lot and once there is a small break in the clouds, I run outside to fly until the rain returns.

I must report that it flys great, better than expected. I am not flying inverted yet so I can't comment on its acrobatic characteristics, but I bet it would do great with that as well. I am impressed with the metal parts that make up this heli, there is very little plastic in it.

Anyway I broke one of my main rules of flying, I forgot to check the battery level before I went flying last week. The sun came out for a change and I was so excited to see the sun, I ran out with the heli before the sun could leave. I started it up and flew through about a half a tank of fuel, it was about 8 feet in the air (I was admiring my piloting skills at the time) and all of a sudden it just laid over on its side and fell to the ground before I could do anything about it. I could not believe it, my brand new heli laying on the ground looking up at me as if to say, why did you do this too me you moron?

To my surprise the only part broken on the Heli was a $10 dollar blade grip and a bent control rod. The metal parts were all in great shape and its ready to fly once again. If I would have done that with my virgo or my nexus 30, they would have been on life support. Anyway I thought I would pass this on.

P.S. I am not a rep for any company and I have no stake in the future of this product or any RC product I am just an RC nut.
Regards
Nosedive

Can you post a link where we could see what you are talking about

what radio are you using. i just brought one and have a futaba 9cap transmitter with pcm rec. but i don't know anything about setting up heli. i just started learning to hoover. been with a shuttle before.
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allen

$10 blade grip, a bent control rod, and wrecked blades, right?

Better check the spindle and main shaft.

The heli tipped over and you didn't break a blade or bend the flybar?? Sounds really strange to me. I've never heard of the blades not breaking or bending the flybar or spindle. My friend had one of these helis and whenever he ordered a replacement part it was different from the original part which caused all kinds of trim changes in the head & tail. Carefully compare the replacement parts with the originals, I think you wil find some difference in measurments which will cause trim changes.
VD

Yes the blades were destroyed and the flybar was bent as well, I forgot about the fly bar, it was $9.00 to replace. I think any time you crash a heli like I did, you may get trim changes because of the impact to the heli, parts tend to move a little.

There was a review of the Quick Learner in Rotory magazine back in January, 2002 or December, 2001, that is how I found out about it.

The heli is flying already and there is no vibration, the main shaft did not bend. The main shaft is the same size as on their 60 size heli, its 10mm thick.

The web site is: http://www.quickheli.com

I use a jr8103 for my helis and a jr 10sx for my turbine jets, I know nothing about the Futaba radios, I have heard they are very good.