just wanted to say hello, and RC helicopter thread .....

[dannylightning]

i am alive and well, hope every one is doing well, finally some nice bike riding weather and some good rc helicopter flying weather, that is my new passion and i am doing quite well at it. i have also been having a lot of fun riding my bike.


check this out, i am pretty proud of my self. i have had this thing up on the air about 40 times and it has wrecked about 40 times, fortunately parts are only a few bucks a peice. but one day i took it up in the air and it stayed up in the air. lots of fun, what a great hobby and once you get good it's not all that expensive any more lol


[youtube:qcm5wipk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb1HO5FCyLE[/youtube:qcm5wipk]

[burkbuilds]

good to see you back on here Danny. Hope you had a great 4th of July Day.

[cayuse]

good going Danny! I fly a HK450 when I'm not riding.

[dannylightning]

how you you like the HK we call them clones cus they are a rip of of the align helicopters.

been flying for jut about a month, got a blade 400 now and its a lot of fun to crash lol. i still fly the SR too

[youtube:1bfrco26]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c15oaCadLTk[/youtube:1bfrco26]

[youtube:1bfrco26]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDQBJb5zBnM[/youtube:1bfrco26]

[cayuse]

Hi Danny,

yes, it's a total ripoff of the Align machine, but it's darn cheap. I've been flying heli's on and off since the 80's and this one is the first that hasn't scared me away from going inverted (due to the small investment compared to my .60-size nitro). Here's a fairly recent movie of me doing a quick demo for the guys at work.
[youtube:30cn93dn]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk9W6vGTFJA[/youtube:30cn93dn]

[cayuse]

Hey Danny,

Just thought I'd share my latest innovation. A travel box I made up for my HK450. Basically a 6x6x24" box that holds the heli, charger, spare batteries, tach, and a few other odds and ends. My tank bag holds my Tx and a 120/12V transformer for the charger (we have 120VAC at the field).
http://s3.postimage.org/mHAE0.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=PqmHAE0)

http://s2.postimage.org/KJ7tS.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=TsKJ7tS)

Now I can combine my two favourite hobbies!

[alantf]

Now I can combine my two favourite hobbies!

scr--ing & drinking? :biggrin: :haha2: :crackup

[dannylightning]

your video is not working, i been flying inverted and all kinds of stuff with my SR, finally got brave enought to try it with my 400, i been crashing the crap out of the SR trying to learn all kinds of crazy stuff. ok your video worked this time, that looks like its really smooth, i dont know about your carrying case, i think it would rattle around in there too much lol.

i flew with a guy that has a t rex the other day and he was damn good...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ruDiL68S70[youtube:39zgjw54]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ruDiL68S70[/youtube:39zgjw54]

[Water Warrior 2]

Pretty neat toy. Why am I envisioning a scale model Surface to Air Missile ?? :whistle:

[alanmcorcoran]

Very nice flying. I swear something that looked very similar bounced off my face shield a few miles past Kankakee. Can you carry a payload on that thing (like a small video camera?)

[BusyWeb]

Very cool...
and nice video quality too, clean and clear.

[dannylightning]

Very nice flying. I swear something that looked very similar bounced off my face shield a few miles past Kankakee. Can you carry a payload on that thing (like a small video camera?)

if i were to get a keychain/spycam thing yes i can velcro it on some place and record the flight, some day i want to get one. , tonds of videos on you tube flying around with cameras on their helicopter.

i just finished painting one of mine and it looks killer.. the tail fins are now matching the rest of the green parts. i am just getting to the point that i am not scared of this one, flew it upside down for the first time 2 days ago and realized it is a lot smoother than the little one in the video, its a lot bigger thatn the one i usually fly and will go around 60mph or so i am told.

thanks for the compliments, and bussy i got a new digital camera that takes great hd video it is a canon powershot xs201is, the price is a steel for the quality of video and pitcures it takes, plus it has full manual controols like the larger Digital Slr cameras but fits in your pocket.


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa247/dannylightning/IMG_0116.jpg

and just to show every one what a RC helicopter is capable of if you are good enough IT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND

[youtube:2gupi1gd]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcKyc5KYcuM[/youtube:2gupi1gd]

[BusyWeb]

I see danny... so, you had new carmera.
Mine is Canon Powershot SX20 IS too... very incidents.
And I love mine alot, but just little bit bulky for the bike mounting... ^^;

EDIT] adding more comments about the RC menuvering..
Wow... couldn't believe it.
Is it require special modification, or just regular RC setup???
If RC can do it, actually, real heli could do ???
Too many curiousity about it.
Thanks for the sharing it.

[blaine]

That is amazing, I didn't know they could maneuver like that.That operator has some skills.Easy to see why he is the champion.

:2tup: O_o

[Water Warrior 2]

Wow, that fellow didn't learn that overnight. He certainly makes his model dance with the best of them.

[dannylightning]

this is the explanation of how they can fly upside down, your main throttle stick controls your pitch and how fast the blades spin, in stunt mode most set up so it is at 100% throttle no matter where the stick is moved to, now the stick only controols the pitch of the helcipter, when you flip upside down you move the throttle stick below half stick and you get in to negative pitch and that keeps the helicopter in the air

if you were flying normally and went into full negative pitch the helicopter would shoot twards the ground like a bullet instead of up in the air like it normally would, and if you flip upside down and you do not move the stick down to negative pitch u will also shoot twards the ground like a bullet.

RC air planes are a piece of cake compared to the helicopters, i got a air plane and was doing all kinds of flips, rolls, flying upside down, knive edge turns, some precision aerobatic moves and every thing else with in the first 5 min. and it only took me about 2 days to get extremely bored flying a air plane and could not wait to get my helicopter up in the air instead. the helicopters are such a challenge its not even funny...

the stuff the pros do would cost you a lot of money to learn unless you are naturally gifted and spend hours apon end on the RC flight simulators, one of the big 700 size nitro helicopters could require very much money to repair, you break one set of blades on the 700 size heli and your out 120 bucks just for the blades. if i have a bad crash with my bigger one its about 60 bucks in repair bills, average crash cost is about 20-30 bucks. my smaller one you saw me doing flips and inverted flight with usually cost 5-20 dolors to repair after a crash. it can be a expensive hobby but its very rewarding, i have busted a helicopter to pieces and came home excited and with a big smile cus i did a few really cool stunts before it hit the ground.

it is the most addicting ting i have ever got my self into and the biggest money pit, i cant quit buying stuff for these, i probably have close to 600 dolors in my big one now and need to spend about 3-4 hundred more to get every thing that i want for it so its a top notch machine... better this, better than, carbon fiber this, carbon fiber that... its worth it to me.

i also push my self extremely hard to learn new things i have advanced much faster than most of the guys on the forums that started around the same time i did, even some that have been flying for a few years, if you are afraid to crash it you will never learn and your progression will be extremely slow...

here is a picture of what you use to controol one of these helicopters, notice all the switches, buttons and there is a digital menu with about 30 screens you can go into to adjust settings for the helicopter too make it fly correctly or change the way it flys. and also here is a pic of my first bad crash lol...

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa247/dannylightning/IMG_0102.jpg

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa247/dannylightning/IMG_2718.jpg

[mrlmd1]

My first attempt at flying one of those would probably look like that too, but it would just be totally out of control. That looks like a good way to get yourself and the spectators killed, just as dangerous as a motorcycle in bad hands. (Joke, in case someone didn't know). :)
Danny, looks like someone stepped on or rode over your helicopter. You fixed that? I guess most of the body work is replaceable but what about engine and rotor mechanism damage in a bad crash?
What kind of fuel supply do those helicopters have to enable them to fly upside down without gas spilling all over or not getting to the engine from the tank? Yours is electric, the one in the video looked like a gasoline engine with exhaust smoke coming out (2 stroke).

[dannylightning]

mine is electric, that green thing there on the front is a 2200mah lithium polymer battery , i can fly for about 8-10 min on one battery depending on how hard i am pushing the helicopter, electric is so powerful now a days they only the really big ones use the nitro fuel, those nitro birds have some kind of fuel cell on the side, i dont now exactly how they work, nitro fuel is expensive, dirty and they are very noisy, due to that you can get some of the larger ones in electric now also but the battery might cost you 250 bucks... the bigger the helicopter the better it flies, longer blades = much more stability in the air. the one in the video of the professional guy flying is a t-rex 700 nitro, i think its about 4 foot long from nose to tail, my biggest one is 30 inches from nose to tail...

every piece on the helicopter is replaceable. most pieces cost 1.50 to 3 bucks a piece. if you crash on grass and if you can hit the kill switch to shut down the motor as soon as you realize its gong down the damage will be minimal, if the blades go in to the groud spinning at full force you will have a big repair bill. in my crash pictured i cut power to mine just as the blades hit the ground so that caused more damage than usual, i thought i was going to save it but one of the electronic pieces died in flight so there was no way to save it from crashing, i had no idea it had died till i fiexd it all up and the tail started spinning out of control as soon as i spooled the blades up, i realized than that my gyro was dead and purchased a quality one. this a a inexpensive one with bottom of the line electroncs, but itcan be upgrade to be a extremely good flying bird, when it is all said and done after upgrades you probably will have still spend less money that buying a high quality one and it will be just as good or better...

the blades on these thing spin around 2500 rpm and some helicopters have a even higher head speed than that. if you get hit by one its not going to be pretty at all.. people have been slashed to pieces with these things, on the helicopter forums under the safety threads you wold be amazed at some of the gory pictures posted..... you never want to fly one around people that do not under stand the risk of being in the same area as the helicopter, whe i go flying it is just me and the other heli pilots, if some one happens to show up out of no where who ever is flying shold land the bird asap and wait for the person to pass threw.

2 months ago this is all i could do, after 3 days of crashing and crashing i finally got the hang of it. the smaller one i have is very durable, some times you crash it and nothing breaks if you get a good set of carbon fiber blades, the wood one break on impact...

[youtube:2u9zt47i]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qetSsuDJR_s[/youtube:2u9zt47i]

[mrlmd1]

So you need to be ATGATT for that sport too.

[dannylightning]

So you need to be ATGATT for that sport too.

a am not exactly sure what that means.

[mrlmd1]

ATGATT- all the gear all the time. Helmet, armored jacket, pants, gloves, etc.
To keep from getting sliced up or killed - you should be wearing a helmet and protective gear - especially if someone new starts to fly one of those things. Humor.

I just found this, to explain how those things work -

http://www.gizmag.com/video-how-to-fly- ... dium=email (http://www.gizmag.com/video-how-to-fly-a-helicopter/16214/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=96f04a5cfd-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email)

[dannylightning]

ATGATT- all the gear all the time. Helmet, armored jacket, pants, gloves, etc.
To keep from getting sliced up or killed - you should be wearing a helmet and protective gear - especially if someone new starts to fly one of those things. Humor.

I just found this, to explain how those things work -

http://www.gizmag.com/video-how-to-fly- ... dium=email (http://www.gizmag.com/video-how-to-fly-a-helicopter/16214/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=96f04a5cfd-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email)

honestly it would be a really good idea to wear protective gear, or be able to run really, really fast. usually you don't want to get the helicopter too close to you when flying, big fields are great so you dont halve to be any where near it...

thanks for sharing that video, very tool to see where all the controls are on a real one..

[dannylightning]

i crashed her in this one.... she flies better now after i took the time to grease all the bearing really good and some other maitnence and it was only like 15 bucks in parts so i guess it worked out for the better lol..

[youtube:3ttw9155]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_cPke0tee8[/youtube:3ttw9155]

[dannylightning]

[youtube:399ggvuw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDm5d5WgQjQ[/youtube:399ggvuw]

[BusyWeb]

Danny, is this still sim video?
It looks real for me.
Nice menuevering, actually great skills.

[alanmcorcoran]

Not really my cup of tea, but it looks like you have progressed significantly - this video is not much different than the one you posted of the expert. I'd be crapping my pants if that thing costs as much as I think it does.

Has anyone ever clipped themselves? Is it dangerous?

[cayuse]

People have been seriously injured and even killed by being struck by rotor blades when they come off in a crash or some other component failure.
I never fly in public parks anymore since stray dogs and 5-year-olds tend to come out of the woodwork and chase the heli around, completely oblivious to the risk. I fly my heli indoors at work (large warehouse space) or at my club field, where everyone knows the risks and stays clear.

[dannylightning]

yes bussy, the one that says 500 pheonix is the flight simulaotor, i thought i mentioned that but i did not.

these things can be verry dangerous flying inside is no fun lol...

here is a video of my flying my real life t-rex 500 my friend filmed this one and put it on his youtube page, this was its first actual day i got to fly it besides just hovering in my drive way..

[youtube:17zygdoi]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEbH72v7miI[/youtube:17zygdoi]


and here is me trying a pyro flip witch is a advanced move, i crashed and left a hole in the ground where it hit lol....

[youtube:17zygdoi]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdk6I5fKaK4[/youtube:17zygdoi]

this is my flying it this sunday that just past in 30 mph winds

[youtube:17zygdoi]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ob_cPrSqY0[/youtube:17zygdoi]

[Water Warrior 2]

Pretty neat Danny. Even the crash was well done. Just curious, how much does it cost to get a T Rex and fly it ?

[BusyWeb]

Wow, those flying is much more fun than smaller one.
Nice video!!
Thanks for the sharing !

[cayuse]

Nice flying, Danny! You've been practicing a lot!
WW - Danny's Trex 500, with the radio control, a couple of batteries, charger, gyro, etc. will add up to the best part of $1000. Am I right, Danny?
It's good that you've got a spotter/cameraman with you in that public park. The last thing we need is for someone to wander into your landing zone and get sliced.

[Water Warrior 2]

OMG, so much for a new hobby. Think I will just keep spending money on my bike. Gotta be cheaper to drop my bike than crash a helicopter.

[cayuse]

IMHO, the most economical way to get to Danny's skill level is to go out and spend a couple hundred on a good flight simulator (Realflight (http://www.greathobbies.com/productinfo/?prod_id=GPMZ4440)), and another couple hundred on a Chinese knockoff machine like mine, HK450 (http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=12390). Then spend most of the winter practicing on the computer. The good simulators are exceptionally good. It's all about hand-eye coordination and learning to fly in and recover from adverse attitudes and the simulator lets you do all sorts of stupid things without costing a dime in parts. Then get somebody knowledgeable to set up and trim your machine so you aren't fighting it. When you feel real comfortable flying the simulator, the real thing will seem familiar and you'll be far less likely to 'dumb-thumb' it into the ground (although that will happen sooner or later :roll: ). You could skip the simulator but you'll likely spend all that money on parts learning things the hard way.

OTOH, you could get one of these Blade MCX2 (http://www.rchelicopterfun.com/blade-mcx2.html), which practically fly themselves. They're fun for buzzing around the living room, but if you are looking for the least bit of a challenge I predict you will quickly become bored.

$.02

[Water Warrior 2]

Hmm. Maybe I'll do some snooping around town to see what is available locally. Could be a good way to spend my fixed income. :2tup:

[dannylightning]

got to get to work but you can get a blade SR, 180 bucks, it comes with every thing you need to fly, and u will be happy with it after it gets a good set up on it and a few simple modifications, when you are at the point of learning loops and flips and stuff, u can do it on the sr but it does not hold up well for it. i learnd most stuff on a sr and moved up, i would pass on the blade 400 check out helifreak.com if you are intested in flying

my t rex 500 is big and it cost my 550 bucks uese, it came with a lot of spare parts, 6 batterys, 3 of them are top of the line crazy expensive batterys too. buying used is the way to go if you get them from some one you trust on the heli forums. i als received a free gaui 200 witch is a really small heli that is made to do every thing the 500 will do but in your back yard.

that crash on the 500 was about 70 bucks. but i bough stealth blades witch seem to be the best value brand of blades..


a 450 size align T-REX sprot or pro is reasonable priced, tough in crashes small enough to fly at a lot of parks, u dont need a ton of room, the batterys that hobbyking sells are pretty cheep and it fly, the sport or pro will fly almost just as good as a big one , the 500 is easier to keep in the air due to bigger blades and a lot more stability but i would not reccomend starting out with a 500 u would probably way to scared to try and fly it..

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa247/dannylightning/IMG_0389.jpg

[dannylightning]

ok, this is for any one wanteing to get in to flying RC helicopters and what you need to kow first

my email is bmx13132000@yahoo.com if you have any heli related questions feel free to shoot me a email but it would be better if you sign up on helifreak.com and find me on there, i am always postig in the eflite blade 400 and SR section and the align t rex 500 section and it would be easy to find me on there.

first off it is a very hard and challenging hobby, it can also be extremely expensive, extremely fulfilling and amazing. the joy i get when i learn something new is amazing. its also a great adrenaline rust...

i started out with a e-flite blade MSR witch is a verry small heli that you can hold in the palm of your hand, it is simular to the air hogs that you get at walmart,target or toys r us but it is a good quality little machine, it is made to fly in the house and will cost you about 150 dolors. it will hover it's self and it is verry easy to fly, it is fast and the controlls are precise unlike the air hogs that are just a kids toy. if you get one of these and get really good at it you now are ready to move on to a collective pitch rc helicopter witch does not hover its self and you have to correct every single move ment it makes to keep it in one spot, a collective pitch helicopter is verry hard to fly when learning you will probably crash a lot and when learning new tricks you will probably crash alot. here is a video of a blade MSR, the guy fling this is verry good with it, i just hover mine around my living room, it can not be flown out side unless there is pretty much 0 wind. there is also a e-flite blade SR120 (not to be confused with the blade SR) it is just like the MSR only bigger and can be flow outdoors in 5-10 mph winds, it might be a little too big to fly in the house but you can hover it around in the house but i would not try to fly it fly it in the house. it is also around 150 bucks, the second video will be of the SR120

[youtube:3rn11q8y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sCus3wolLM[/youtube:3rn11q8y]

[youtube:3rn11q8y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6mh_22wOrw[/youtube:3rn11q8y]

now we move on the collective pitch helicopter, witch can be flow upside down and any witch way you can imagine. after getting good with the MSR or SR120 and you are ready to move up i would definately get a flight simulator phoenix and realflight are the best, phoenix is superior for helicopters but not great for air planes, realflight is verry good for helicopters and great for air planes. i started out with the blade SR, i crashed it well over 100 times, repair cost was only a few bucks and some times nothing broke at all, just depends on how hard you crash. it was the best CP (Collective pitch) trainer i could ask for. i ran carbon fiber blades on it and as long as i crashed in the grass those blades did not break, one crash on concrete and the blades would get chewed up really bad. the wooden blades will break on every crash no matter what.. i learned to fly wit the blade SR i learned to do loops, rools, fly upside down and every thing esle on it. the little SR could barley handle it but it can do it. than i moved up to a blade 400, it needed about 200 dolors in upgrades before it flew good but it does come with a great programabel radio witch is verry important. i fly every thing i have off one radio now. the 400 is not the greatest quality and after every thing i upgrades i could have got a t-rex 450 for the money witch is superior to my upgraded blade 400, the align T-REX 450 eats my 400 for lunch so you would be better off going streight for the T-rex 450, you can get a T-REX sport package that comes with every thing but a receiver and a radio for 400 bucks if you shop around online. only thing is when you get in to the good quality helicopter them come in a small box, when you open that box u find many pieces and a manual that tells you how to build the helicopter, it is important to know how to build one so that is not a bad thing. when you start crashing you need to make repairs. when you buy a already built heli when you crash it and the manual barley tells you any thing you are like OMG i have no idea how to fix this.

now we get in to set up. the good programmable radio has several menu's to adjust your rates, throttle curve, pitch curve, how far the servos move and many other things. it is verry complicated but once you do a lot of reading and research it becomes easy. helifreak.com has many great set up videsos witch will blow your mind when you watch them but aftert you start doing it you will realize its really not all that hard it just takes some getting used to. the head assembly on a heli has several adjustable linkages and they all must be adjusted properly to get a good flying heli, you halve to adjust how much pitch the blades have at low stick full stick and mid stick, part of that is in the radio and part of that is with the linkages, there is more too it but i think this will give you the idea. all i could think was what the hell did i get my self in to when i had to start learning to repair and set up a heli after i crashed it.

RC air planes, easy set up, easy to work on, easy to fly (compared to helicopters) you can get a small micro air plane like the hobby zone champ that a 2 year old can fly, i have one and its fun, i also have a aerobatic micro air place that also cost about 100 bucks. i have crashed it in to the ground over and over and over and over again, i finally snapped the body in half the other day, u must be thinking o crap, no the styrphome can be glued back togeather with gorilla glue or even elmers glue. she flys just as good as she did before, the small micro planes can take a beating, i get crazy with mine and that is why i crash it so much. i just dont care if it hits the ground, i almost aloways walk over to it. pick it up and put it right back in the air.

how much does this hobby cost. it depends on how much you crash, how fast you progress and want something better, but if you start out buying a good ship in the first place that will save you a lot of money,

if you have a good heli, a flight simulator and you are past the learning to hover it and learning to fly it at the field you can stop crashing alot. and the hobby becomes inexpensive. this is a extremely fun and fulfilling hobby. i can make it as expensive or inexpensive as i want right now. if i keep pushing my self hard to learn new tricks witch often ends up in a few crashes before i get the trick down it will be expensive, if i just stick to the things i am good at already it will no longer be expensive cus i wont halve to spend money on parts all the time.

here is a video of my friend testing out his brand new Align T-REX 450 sport a few weeks ago
[youtube:3rn11q8y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DZ6wc41lOM[/youtube:3rn11q8y]

[mrlmd1]

How many dogs does that guy go through in a year? When those blades chop up the dog, his vet bills will be much higher than the cost of the helicopter. Not really smart to do that. At least his kid(s) aren't in the room. :shocked:

[Water Warrior 2]

The 450 sport is a pretty slick machine. Handles much better inverted than a bike too.

As for the dog, well, he needs the exercise by the looks of him. But I do agree with the danger factor. Thanks for the vids Danny.

[cayuse]

100% right, Danny. The learning curve is ultimately constrained by the budget, since learning new stuff wears out or breaks things which costs money. Airplanes can be somewhat more forgiving since you have more opportunity to glue things back together.

Gotta work on my flips..... :cool:

what camera are you using for that last vid?

[alanmcorcoran]

Any interest in flying a real one? I mean, you probably wouldn't be doing flips or much upside down flying, but it seems the adrenaline rush/joy factor would be at least as good as the RC. Plus, you could maybe be putting out a fire or taking someone to a hospital. Also, a very handy skill in the event of zombies...

[dannylightning]

i have a canon power shot sx210 is, it records in hd has a 14x optical zoom and has full manual controols if you want it is basically a small digital SLR or a point and shoot and a descent HD video camera, flips are extremely easy after you get a few of them out of the way and stop shaking all over from fear.. i learned flips on the SR with a tail motor with would cause to tail to blow out all over if you push it too had. but it did them... scarry stuff, the first tiem i did one with a belt drive tail i was like wow this is great and i sold the SR a few days later lol...

that SR 120 probably wont hurt the dog that is just a toy, i hit me self with the MSR all the time trying to haul ass around my living room. oince it hit me and both blades flew off. the SR120 is a bit more powerfull but it still wont chop you up, it might sting a bit unless you get hit in the eye. that might mess u up a bit..

if it were not 90k or more to get a heli liscens i would do it, it is way to expensive and i just cant afford it. i am starting to think i cant even afford to fly the rc ones lol...

[Water Warrior 2]

One of these days Lynda and I will be taking a heli ride to see the Squamish area from the sky. Could be fun even with my fear of falling and aversion to heights.

[mrlmd1]

I just saw a mini-copter smaller than that with 2 rotors on top that has a video camera incorporated into the main body, viewing forward. I have to see if I can find it again on the web. Probably great for spying on the neighbors over the fence or other clandestine uses.

[dannylightning]

I just saw a mini-copter smaller than that with 2 rotors on top that has a video camera incorporated into the main body, viewing forward. I have to see if I can find it again on the web. Probably great for spying on the neighbors over the fence or other clandestine uses.

lol, it is a air hogs, one of my cleaning jobs is at toys r us and they have that little thing there. the ones with 2 sets of blades like that are just made to be easy to fly and will stay in one spot like nothing, they do not do well outdoors so spying on some one might not work out verry well... lol..

[burkbuilds]

When I toured Lockheed Martin last Fall they told us they had Nano flying machines that could actually be in the room with us now and we wouldn't be able to detect them. Sounds like spy stuff to me.

[Water Warrior 2]

When I toured Lockheed Martin last Fall they told us they had Nano flying machines that could actually be in the room with us now and we wouldn't be able to detect them. Sounds like spy stuff to me.
At one time that would have been considered pure science fiction.

[Moedad]

At one time that would have been considered pure science fiction.

As would be motorcycles.

[Water Warrior 2]

I'm still waiting to teleport around the world and suffer from serious jet lag. Oh yeah, I would take the Vstrom to see the sights too. A week end ride could be anywhere in the world. Neat stuff.

[burkbuilds]

"They promised us Hovercars. Where's my Hovercar?" (Red from "That 70's Show")

[Water Warrior 2]

Give him a SEGWAY and he will be happy.

[dannylightning]

nano flying machines, sounds like a misquito to me.. here is one more video. you need to watch it in flull screen and in 720 hd or you wont be able to see whats going on..


[youtube:1axrmudf]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQqM3MF-E8k[/youtube:1axrmudf]

[dannylightning]

[youtube:2mlmoj9u]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFWa4wyv36Y[/youtube:2mlmoj9u]

[harrimarks]

It looks good my dear... The vedio was really very nice...
Thanks for sharing... If you have some more videos... keep on sharing...

Outrage Helicopters (http://helidirect.com/outrage-rc-c-1_29_571.hdx)

[mrlmd1]

That last post of his was a year ago and we haven't heard from him in almost that long.

[JWR]

It has been 4 months since we have heard from BusyWeb.

[Water Warrior 2]

Yup, has been a while since we heard from them. Members come and go. We had the pleasure of their company and watched then grow into different interests. Gone but not forgotten.