Thursday, March 8, 2007
RC Helicopters

Searching for electric RC helicopters? A lot of people are doing the same thing right now! That's why Trend Times had to span the globe for the most amazing RC helicopters and put them here just for you. Don't pay thousands of dollars for RC helicopters when Trend Times offers high quality ready to fly (RTF) electric RC helicopters. Serving both the beginner pilots and experienced pilots. Our electric RC helicopters come assembled and ready to fly (RTF).
New 6 Channel Dragon W/Belt Drive, HB Pro, T-Rex, and Super Dragon helicopters with belt drive/aluminum upgrade parts are collective pitch RC helicopters which allow 3D flight and inverted flight maneuvers.
 
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Tuesday, March 6, 2007
E-Flite Blade CX RTF Electric RC Helicopter
Blade CX RTF electricCoaxial Heli

With the new Blade CX you get a completely assembled and ready to fly micro heli with a coaxial counter-rotating head design that is so stable almost any first-time flyer can be hovering like a pro in no time. The Blade CX offers things other similarly designed micro helis can’t – the power and precision of E-Flite S75 servos, an advanced 4-in-1 controller, and a great looking, lightweight body that really stands out. The Blade CX features counter-rotating main blades that cancel out the rotational torque that makes hovering a challenge in conventional helis. They also make rudder turns much easier by slowing down one or the other blade without affecting the stability of the aircraft. This is truly a helicopter that most anyone can fly.

E-Flight Blade CX Features

  • Coaxial, counter-rotating blade rotor head design provides incredible stability and positive control
  • 4 channel 72MHz FM Transmitter Included
  • Pre-installed E-flite S75 servos and 4-in-1 control unit
  • No installation or assembly required
  • Dual 180 motors makes the CX powerful and efficient
  • 800mAh 2-cell Li-Po battery pack is low weight, high power and provides flight durations of 10-15 minutes per charge

E-Flite Blade Specifications

Type: Coaxial Electric Micro Heli
Main Rotor Diameter: 13.60 in (345mm)
Gross Weight: RTF w/Li-Po battery, 8.0 oz (227 g)
Length: 15.75 in (400mm)
Motor Size: Dual 180 main motors
Kit/ARF/RTF: RTF
 
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Rc helicopters - The best

We learnt to fly our remote control helicopter the hardway and now offer you tips on how to fly successfully. If you know something that is not on our helpfull list then please add it here at our Remote controlled helicopter , or just check out what help the RC Helicopter community has to offer for all you newbies out there.

  • Always hold your blade grips tightly when you start your helicopter. If the engine starts at a higher rpm than you expect and you don't have a hold of it right away you may not be able to stop it. This can happen if you forget to reconnect the throttle link after maintenance or forget to turn the rx on.
  • If you do start your engine and it is near full power the first thing you want to do is pull the fuel line off the carb, then kill the throttle on the tx. You want to get the RPM's down asap to avoid damaging the clutch liner.
  • If you have a radio with a lot of switches, make it so that when you start your engine all the switches be one direction. For example, when all my switches are flipped back / up and the throttle is all the way down, my helicopter is ready to be started.
  • Always tighten / check the mission critical screws before you fly, especially the ones that control the tail.
  • Be very careful with those damn e-rings, or they may either fly across the room or drop into the heli and disappear for ever.
  • When you crash, inventory your heli and make sure you picked up all the pieces, because they're expensive as hell and you can never buy one part of a set.
  • Tilt the heli back after each flight to let the oil pond out of the muffler base, or it may end up in the seat of your car.
  • Make sure your throttle linkages are secure and set to idle before starting your engine, or it may try and get you!
  • If you have one of those short glow starters, don't forget to take it off after you start the engine. Those things get hot when you try and remove them later, and the battery dies too, so that's your last flight if you forget. I tied a plastic ribbon to mine, so that I could see it hanging down if I forgot. I think I need a bigger ribbon though :-/
  • Those foam blade holders that cost 3.50 aren't just to keep the blades from rotating all over, they preserve the life of those mixing levers connected above the mast, which otherwise get "stretched" out and cause slop
  • Don't forget to put the frequency crystal back into the tx after you've been using it with the CSM Simulator,(since the tx batteries last 10 times longer without the crystal installed) it's a real drag to go to the site and just as you're ready to start-er-up you notice you don't have a crystal in your tx.
  • Secure the Rx's frequency crystal with some tape. It's not unheard of this crystal backing out from vibrations causing loss of control.
  • Speaking of using the CSM simulator: if you use a different flight mode with your tx when playing the sim, don't forget to switch back to the "real-world" model before you try and fly!
  • If you're using the CSM HH gyro (and some others that work the same) you need to turn on the tx before the receiver or the gyro will not activate!
  • If you notice slop in the tail that didn't used to be there, land and find out why it's there now, or you may find yourself practicing a pirouetting autorotation.
  • When you are flying with wind, remember that you'll need more power on the down-wind turn (when the wind becomes with you) because while it may look like you have forward flight, really you are just hovering. Hovering takes a LOT more power than forward flight which benifits from transitional lift, so be prepared for it to sink faster than usual in a turn with no wind.
  • Be sure to read through the "Crash Log" on this web site, it will give you an idea about what kinds of things cause crashes so you can look out and try to avoid doing the same things that others did.
  • Be safe!
 
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