My latest obsession, $25 micro helicopters

[badger]

Dpdsurf got one of these $25 Syma micro heli's from Amazon as a gift from a secret santa at work, said he went home flew it and immediately bought 4 of them. He told me about them so I bought two of the Syma S107G's which have been an absolute blast and seem to be indestructible. Was browsing Amazon for other models and came across the plastic bodied scale heli's so I bought 4 of them, the Black Hawk UH-60, Apache AH-64, Mini Chinook and the Marine Cobra.

These are so damn easy to fly so I wanted to see if I could fly them with one hand and shoot pics of them with my other hand.

[The DC]

Those are cool! My son spent the last of his Christmas money on one of those in the top pic (they were around $40 at Hobbytown USA here). Here's a tip...they're not only not indesctructable if you're in the unheated man-cave and it's about 20 degrees,the plastic landing gear is downright fragile (well,duh! :p ),as I found out when there was a glitch (that's my story ) and it landed off power from about 4' high...I shoulda had more brains...small plastic bits,20 degrees,LOL,but they had the part in stock (was $5) and it was a quick/simple fix.

You're absolutely right though,these things are addicting and pretty easy to learn to fly (and land :P),he loves his,we just don't take it out there to fly it when it's below 45-50 degrees F (not really enough room in the house for him yet,but he's getting better)

[chino63]

Wow, those are cool!

Need? No.

Want? Yes.

Always liked the Chinook, what kind of payload can it lift?

[dieselmudder]

one of our tool guys had a couple of the chinook, one of the guys in the shop bought one. they do fly real easy. amd incredibly well for the price. thing would hover great and turn on a dime. keep it inside though. doesnt take much of a breeze to carry it away.

[dezfan]

Gawd damnit!

I have enough hobbies as it is!

Ordered!

[jmz6]

My daughter bought me the cheapo Protocol heli (no gyro) for Christmas. It doesn't have a gyro so it is limited, but I consider it a "gateway heli".... I just ordered the $24 Syma S107G two days ago

[stanmondz]

i had a blade mcx a year or so ago, flew the hell out of it
my wife got me a quad copter for christmas. these little things are bad to the bone

[Crawler Ted]

That micro quad is a blast , just picked one up myself .
Them and the micro helis are pretty popular at the Garage too .

Mcx 2 , Mqx , We had one of the Traxxas micro quad's there yesterday .

Originally Posted by stanmondz

i had a blade mcx a year or so ago, flew the hell out of it
my wife got me a quad copter for christmas. these little things are bad to the bone

[dieselmudder]

the 1sq got really good reviews. i would have ordered one, but already decided to get an FPV system for my land units.

[mmatthews]

I've got the Apache at my office. Alot of fun for the cost.

[Gula]

I have the big chinook. I think it's easier to fly than the single blade ones. But I still have difficulty controlling mine.

[smuggl1n]

What make is that quad copter?

[stanmondz]

heli max 1SQ. busy little thing up in the air. super durable little thing

[Cheatin]

I've been flying the Hobby People CX 200 (much like your fist pic) since X-Max, great little copter that's super easy to fly.

[rik]

i just picked up a $40 4 ch helicopter from a 7-11 a few days after christmas. these things are addicting and very easy to fly.

[halfcab]

Flew badgers at his place and ordered a chinook an apache and 2 like the metal frame top pic $101.78 shipped with ca tax for 4 heli's, can't beat that they fly awesome, got them yesterday and my 9yr old son was bombing around during the first charge