Saturday, March 10, 2007

RC helicopter..

It turns out that a co-worker is into RC choppers, he brought one of those 2ch submicro helis into the office, and I found myself fascinated by it.
A week later I bought myself a DF4, a cheap fixed pitch ready to fly model. I figure if I enjoy it I'll buy something better. Inspecting it, it's clear that the servos are poor, and will need replacement, but it appears to function.
I just ran through the first battery, some airtime, lots of crashes, no significant damage. I can see that it'll take significant practice for any sort of controlled flight, but it's quite captivating.
Anyway I'm off to buy a second battery and "fly" some more......