As mentioned on a different thread recently, I have bought a couple of eflite helicopters this year.
Coaxial ones are easy to fly (they are the ones with two contra-rotating blades on one axle) and we have, amongst others, a CX2 which is just about large enough to work ok outside, and an mCX which is small and wonderful to fly inside.
The mCX is very stable and very easy to fly. It is nominally my 10 year old daughter's and she and her friends haven't caused a catastrophic failure yet - I think I've only replaced a couple of blades. Because we got a shop-soiled model, they gave us a second battery and charger. I bought a third high capacity battery a few weeks ago, so we can now have 2 batteries on charge whilst flying with the third, which is enough to keep it airborne pretty much constantly. I think that the whole lot has cost us about £60 and it has had a lot of use in the last year.
A friend has a Chinook from eflite, damn that is fun and it was again about £60 in a sale. It takes the same spares as the mCX too, which was handy when I flew it into the dog's cage.
Coaxial ones are easy to fly (they are the ones with two contra-rotating blades on one axle) and we have, amongst others, a CX2 which is just about large enough to work ok outside, and an mCX which is small and wonderful to fly inside.
The mCX is very stable and very easy to fly. It is nominally my 10 year old daughter's and she and her friends haven't caused a catastrophic failure yet - I think I've only replaced a couple of blades. Because we got a shop-soiled model, they gave us a second battery and charger. I bought a third high capacity battery a few weeks ago, so we can now have 2 batteries on charge whilst flying with the third, which is enough to keep it airborne pretty much constantly. I think that the whole lot has cost us about £60 and it has had a lot of use in the last year.
A friend has a Chinook from eflite, damn that is fun and it was again about £60 in a sale. It takes the same spares as the mCX too, which was handy when I flew it into the dog's cage.
