[Closed] I must be missing something because.....

Unfortunately there was a horrific accident with the paper lampshade, and I'm afraid my heli is now a little bit borkedificated. 🙁 The lampshade is kaput too.

I will need a new tiny one. Recommend please.

Look how tiny!!!!

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If you still want something which is really easy to fly and this isn't too expensive then http://www.wonderlandmodels.com/products/silverlit-z-bruce-4-channel-remote-control-helicop/ - is by far the most controllable helicopter which is also dead easy to fly out of the box. If you leave the right stick alone then it flys just like any 2ch toy heli (though with all the controls on the left stick), but the right stick gives you so much more control. Otherwise just get one of the cheapy Picooz ones.

Blimey what have I done! I only started the thread to get some sympathy! 🙁

any one of the EFlite Blade M-- series would do you Elf. About £100. Or Twister Medevac, now down to about £70 incl radio, if you want something a little bigger but still indoor friendly

Note unimpressed woman at 1:29

Emma82 - lol and what do you expect? They ALL want a helicopter because they all still want to grow up and be a pilot, astronaut etc...

(okay, some probably are, already)

Rachel

Oh - should probably admit to having had some microlight lessons at one point...

I expected them all to be super cool dudes and think 'ahhh what a saddo poor Emma lives with' and restore my faith in men. Luckily ben decided to come out with the most sexist comment ever last night in response to my 'what is it about men and these crappy flying things' was something along the lines of 'of course you don't get it sugar tits, you're a woman, men find cool stuff interesting, that's why we invent stuff like planes and tanks and ways to cure cancer, because were men and we are better'. Needless to say he got walloped and I went to bed.

No need to hit him just because he states the obvious.

'of course you don't get it sugar tits, you're a woman, men find cool stuff interesting, that's why we invent stuff like planes and tanks and ways to cure cancer, because were men and we are better'

mrsconsequence agrees 😆

for example:

http://www.camerent.co.uk/accessory_hire/video_cameras/airborne_cameras/accessories_video_cameras_UA_video_and_camera.html

i could cry (real men get emotional about such AWESOMENESS!) i want one so much!

They look boring as a very boring thing!

apologies for thread ressurection, but I have just come across this whilst searching to write a classifieds ad to punt a 2 week old one - not my type of thing I have discovered but a gift which I can't return..

If you are attempting to try and sell it to my other half then please don't..... you will be in big trouble. He's been out in the garden flying his big one aroun for 10 minutes now. Hoping the battery dies soon 🙁

Iain - pics?, price?

I'm afraid 5 minutes would be enough with that toy - seems to be my limit for most things 😉

Blimey what have I done! I only started the thread to get some sympathy!

Ha ha! Well that din't work, did it? 😆

Remote control helicopters rawk. If you can't see this, then you are simply uncaring and insensitive to a man's needs. In fact maybe your boyf would actually be better off without you....

😉

.............................but Elf, your opinion would carry more weight as an adult if you didn't still live with you Mum 😆

I don't live with my mum. She was just visiting.

She still tells me what to do, in my own home, mind... 😀

My mum had hidden it in a kitchen cupboard (behind some cleaning products ).

I see, she just pops round to do your cleaning then...................lazy elf 😉

😆

If only. She comes in, sits down, demands tea, then does her Sodoku.

Then moans when I fly a tiny remote controled helicopter around in [i]my own home[/i]. 🙄

I dunno...

Wunundred!

This has been a very funny and entertaining thread. Thank you Emma! 🙂

I'm afraid 5 minutes would be enough...

Clearly more of a man than me Woody. If it doesn't invlove a bike and I can't be done in a minute, I ain't interested. I'd rather just go straight to sleep.

Well, I'm afraid I think they are ace too, here's my EF Mash

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/cheesyfeet/5120769290/ ]EF Mash Indoor Hover 3[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/cheesyfeet/ ]gary_foulger[/url], on Flickr

In fact, I may charge up the batteries in a bit and annoy Mrs Feet, scare the cat and blow the newspaper around the house with it 😀

This thread has reminded me that mine is sat upstairs. I'm going to get it and charge it up now. Thanks Emma 🙂

That's identical to my one, Cheesy! Apart from the colour scheme.

Mine's impossible to fly really. Just spins around too much, and you're constantly fiddling with the trim. I suspect it's performance may be compromised even further following the horrific accident with the lampshade.

If I told my mum I managed to destroy the lampshade by messing about, she'd probbly give me a clip round the earhole and call me an idiot. She'd probbly be justified, too. 😳

I don't find remote control things exciting at all.

edit - actually the camera one looks cool, but I wouldn't trust myself strapping a 7D to that!

It's this one, a Hobby Engine Storm IV:

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Fred, took me ages to get the hang of getting it off the ground, yes there's a bit of trimming to be done, but found the best way was to give it more power and properly airborne straight away whilst feeding in more stick input to counter the rotation if it happens.

Now lusting after something a bit 'better', ideally in kit form so. Can build it up myself

More on the EF Mash [url= http://www.rcuniverse.com/magazine/article_display.cfm?article_id=869 ]Here[/url]

When I used to ride at Western Park pretty much every day, most weekends and sometimes in the week there was this group of middle-aged men who used to take their petrol-powered rc cars over the jumps and stuff then giggle when they crashed. How sad 😆

here's mine 😛

[url] http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/fs-ot-rc-helicopter [/url]

Phil - That airborne camera link has just shown me the perfect accessory to go with my GoPro Xmas present. How cool would it be to have it flying down the trail in front of you!!!!!!!

I wonder how fast it is.

This has been a very funny and entertaining thread. Thank you Emma!

I'm glad someone is happy. 😐

If it doesn't invlove a bike and I can't be done in a minute, I ain't interested. I'd rather just go straight to sleep.

Perhaps this is why you are still single TSY? Some things require more than a minutes attention 🙄

8) 'pends how good you are at fings...

One minute.. TSY .... is not enough, I promise you 😯

elf, I can see why it doesn't work properly, the tail rotor seems to be pointing upwards 😉

mmmm... I used to love that tamiya goodness.. until I discovered women and booze

strangely I never even briefly considered RC toys ever again..

does this reflect anything about RC toys and their adult fans..?

Don't know about the choppers, but I [i]so[/i] want one of these:
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the Parrot AR Drone, as mentioned previously. Love the fact that you can see via it's cameras what it's seeing on an iPhone. Great fun.

[img] [/img][url=] http://www.trademe.co.nz/Toys-models/Radio-control/Planes/auction-349182101.htm ][/url] X wing fighter here
At one point there was a Millenium Falcon version as well.