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-The new CNC tail rotor from MicroHeli is designed to replace stock plastic tail rotor of the popular E-Flite Blade 400 helicopters. It is made of strong aluminum and machined at very high accuracy to provide highest tolerance fittness. All screws, bearings and hardwares are selected with highest quality. Nylon lock nuts are used to better secure the tail rotor blade grips at high tail rotor rpm.

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CNC Aluminum Tail Rotor, Blue: Blade 400

RC Helicopters stand as one of the most fascinating field of the RC hobby world. Very few can resist its charm. Nevertheless, not too long ago they also carried an extremely heavy price tag and required more maintenance than a ten-years-old car. To make matters worse, flying one required countless hours of practice and tremendous amount of patience. However, all that is about to change. With the introduction of electric RC helicopters, flying these amazing models are not as far-fetched as they used to be.

First is silent and clean RC Helicopters might be amongst the most fascinating radio controlled models, however, one undeniable fact still stands against it; they make more noise and create more pollution than a breaking down truck. This makes flying around the neighborhood almost impossible. The problem of noise, pollution and size is almost entirely eliminated with the electric models; the amount of noise greatly decreased while the amount of pollution vanished altogether. These two facts allows these machines to fly anywhere without causing too much annoyance to other people. Second is low cost flying RC Helicopter used to set people back thousands of dollars. People had to buy the helicopter kit, servos, engine, starter, gyro, receiver, radio controller, a hundred other equipments, and of course – fuel. When everything has been purchased, you still have to assemble it! On the other hand, electric helicopters almost always cost less than 200 dollars with cheaper but better versions coming out regularly. Even better, most of these helicopters come ready to fly right out of the box. In addition to that, every necessary equipments and accessories often come included as well. Finally, by using batteries, the running cost of these helicopters is greatly reduced as it is no longer necessary to buy gallons after gallons of gas. Third is reliable and easy to fly: With gas helicopters, countless crashes occur not because of pilot errors, but because the engine fail in midair. Who’s to blame? After all, everybody knows that gas engines aren’t the most reliable thing in the world. They also notoriously require constant tinkering to run smoothly. On the other hand, electric helicopters fly undeniably more reliable.

This is just some late afternoon sport flying with my Blade 400 on a nice winter day in Austin TX. What makes it (slightly) interesting is that I’m doing all the flying at either 1900 rpm or 2500 rpm – a much lower headspeed than most think is needed for good performance. Does it work? You be the judge. You can read more details about the setup at www.justplanechris.com

It is imperative when looking at the difference between gas and nitro powered remote control helicopters that you really check them out before committing to one kind.

It must be said that gas powered helicopters are more labor intensive; yet they are rewarding. Both types of helicopters can really showcase their agility levels as well as their flying capabilities – higher and fastest.

With you use gas powered or nitro powered remote control helicopters, fun is bound to be had. Fuel replacement is necessary when they run out. When you set up the helicopters for their flight, be careful to avoid starting a fire, so you can enjoy all your helicopter has to offer.

There was once a helicopter shopper who had a gas or nitro powered remote control purchase in their hands. They had decided that using either one of these was much more fun than using an electric helicopter. Why was this? They found that the remote control did not respond near as well.

It is not known if this customer just felt the way they did about electric helicopters because they found gas or nitro powered remote controls responded better due to this one particular failure or if there was a universal issue with all electric remote controls.

However, when fliers come together and talk about which remote controlled helicopters do better, respond better and get a height range better, most say the gas or nitro powered remote control helicopter do better. Why is this? Even though these gas and nitro powered helicopters are more work than others, their flying abilities remain unparallel to others.

Suppose you are aiming to get into the Guiness Book of World Records for making your helicopter fly backwards further than anyone else who in the world. It has been said that the gas helicopters last much longer than the battery charge in the electric run helicopters. The fuel in the gas and nitro powered helicopters will last longer than the battery of an electric remote controlled helicopter.

Even though the gas and nitro powered remote controlled helicopters work much better than the others, you pay for what you get. Not only are they expensive in their costs, it costs to fill it back up whenever the gas runs out. Don’t forget you will also have to clean the apparatus of the helicopters.

However, the rewards of being challenged are worth the money you will be shelling out in the long run. Be sure that where you buy your gas powered or nitro powered helicopter that your buying from a reputable independent or commercial dealer.

If you are looking into buying a helicopter, research the prices in your area and the surrounding areas so you know for sure that you are getting the best deal available for the money you put down.

Sometimes, it can be annoying not to mention frustrating buying your first gas or nitro powered remote control helicopter and paying more than your neighbor who has a similar product but bought it at a much cheaper price and are happier because they actually had money left over.

The choice is really left up to you… but between electric and gas powered helicopters, hands down helicopters operated on gas seem to work much better.

First Scale Heli

I write a lot of reviews on remote control helicopters, which includes electric helicopters as well. Being a professional electric helicopter flier, I emphasize the potential pitfalls and I review each one very methodically. It becomes very important to assess helicopters before reviewing or buying them. Electric helicopters are the ones with most agility and these are basically the ones which can be perilous to fly during rain or near any power line. The electric helicopters are preferred by many customers and hence I tend to concentrate more on these.

I don’t intend to make money through these reviews like other reviewers who write it to endorse any electric helicopters which are controlled by remote. As a matter of fact, I would rather abstain from endorsing any brand of helicopters as I do not want people to go buy helicopters after reading my review. That might cause a problem or two as each brand could vary and customers could get agitated if it wouldn’t work. I will turn down any offer to endorse any electric helicopters. This could result in danger for customers who go to buy specific types of these electric helicopters which controlled by remotes. On one occasion, though, a friend of mine caused problems for a few people.

This friend of mine wrote sparkling reviews on a particular brand of electric helicopters which are remotely controlled. I had actually warned him about the brand, which he was reviewing about, that it was not all that reliable and that cheap materials were used during its manufacturing. He wasn’t really perturbed by the amount of money on offer, instead wrote many such reviews and posted it all over the internet and printed a few as well. He hyped it so much that people from everywhere were attracted. The helicopter sales went sky-scrapping and people were pretty glad for a few weeks after purchase. Bad things started to happen since then. People complained and quarreled about these electric helicopters which weren’t working properly. Helicopters started shorting out and a few even got caught fire due to faulty wiring.

One person was, in fact, was hospitalized because they attempted to extinguish the fire in the remote control electric helicopters and they couldn’t put it out quick enough. Another customer lost a finger because of an explosion. This led to the reviewer’s downfall. The reviewer felt pathetic after reviewing such a remote control electric helicopter. He never researched it enough and had hurt his trusting readers. This made him feel extremely bad that he even left the helicopter business after this. I tried my best to revive him back to the business as I knew his passion for it. I felt quite bad that he had to leave.

It was clear that he was despondent by the entire incident and he could never really recoup and regain his name or reputation in this field. He went back to flying in recreational meets and really couldn’t get himself at the higher level. He was recognized only for his recreational activities. From then on, he slipped down to the ranks of recreational fliers.

E-Flite Blade 400 HS65MG servos Fut. GY240 gyro 9 tooth pinion gear Align 330 Pro blades 2200mAp battery MicroHeli Head upgrades Used 1270mAps of the 2200mAps for this video TC are 0-50-80-80-80 PC are 52-65-78-90-100

• Best choose for 3D flyer of Trex 400/450 and other similar size helicopters
• 25C high discharge rate will give you the power you can never think of. Long lasting and powerful.
• Continuous Discharge Rate: 25C / 55A
• Burst Discharge Rate: 50C / 99A
• Dimension: 103.5x 34x 25.5mm

Product Description
Features and Benefits
Tenergy 25C 2200mAh 11.1V 3S Li-Polymer battery is the best choose for
3D flyer of Trex 400/450 and other similar size helicopters.

25C high discharge rate will give you the power you can never think of.
Long lasting and powerful.

* Continuous Discharge Rate: 25C / 55A
* Burst Discharge Rate: 50C / 99A
* Dimension: 103.5x 34x 25.5mm
* Weight: 181g / 6.4oz

Discharge (Output) Leads: 14 AWG silicon wire, 80 mm long, no connector

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Tenergy 25C 11.1V 2200mAh Li-Polymer battery w/ EC3 Connector for E-Flite Blade 400 and ParkZone airplanes

The Electric RC Helicopter revolution is one of the greatest things to hit the RC scene in recent years. Where once flying helicopters indoor, flying really small helicopters and the buying cheap RC helicopter was once a dream, electric RC helicopters made that and more a reality. Finally, it doesn’t cost so much to pursue this extremely interesting hobby, and the need to go to the airfield in order to fly vanished. All this means great news for beginners and those interested in this hobby but doesn’t want to spend thousands dollars just yet.

However, Electric RC Helicopters doesn’t appeal to the experience RC helicopter pilots as much as it should. Mostly because electric RC helicopter comes in much smaller sizes and are generally less powerful. Not long ago, avid RC pilots also claim that electric RC helicopters are also slower and less maneuverable. That was true until Align launched their T-Rex 450 line – truly agile electric helicopters which are fully 3D flight-capable. So today, there is only one point left that prevents an avid RC helicopter pilot from taking up electric flights. Now, that barrier is breaking fast.

Not too long ago Align introduces their new flagship, the T-REX 600. This is the first electric RC helicopter that is as big as their gas brothers. In fact, the T-REX 600 comes in size identical to .50 size gas helicopters.

RC Action Thailand recently got in touch with Helimod, Align’s one and only authorized dealer in the country, and got valuable information about this fantastic model. First off is the overall construction. While this model comes as big as a .50 gas helicopter, it’s built with minimal weight in mind. Two versions are available, one uses aluminum and the other uses carbon fiber. As for the manufacturing quality, the T-REX 600 rates second to none. Unlike many cheap Chinese manufactured brands, this model’s part doesn’t need any tweaking or modifications before assembly. Most impressive is the tail rotor which comes in aluminum alloy – together with triple action ball bearings – so superbly made that the T-REX is ready for any type of flights, basic or 3D, right out of the box.

The T-REX 600 also includes many accessories that usually have to be bought separately. First there is the motor – BL600L Kv, which packs ample power. Then there’s the ALIGN RCE-BL75G speed controller. Next, there’s the BEC 5.8 V 3 A, a converter for the receiver. Lastly, there’s the receiver’s battery, a 7.4 V 1100 mAmp Lithium Polymer. Many people might wonder why there’s a need for a separate receiver batter since this is an electric helicopter, hence there’s already a main battery. That’s because this model being so big, requires a 22.2 V batteries – way too powerful for receivers.

In flight, the T-REX 600 performs just as well as any gas helicopter would. According to Mr. Charnchai, managing director of Helimod, setting up this helicopter is similar to setting up gas models. In the air, the T-REX 600 behaves the same way that its gas counterparts do. Basically, for pilots who are used to flying gas helicopters, they will find that this helicopter requires very little getting used to. On the other hand, for pilots who’ve only flown electric versions, a few adjustments on the pilot’s part may be necessary. Finally a gas helicopter experience is available for electric fliers!

I bought a crashed Blade 400 3D. I have just rebuilt it (learning as I go). This is the maiden flight. Followed by a quick flight of my old Walkera 36