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Saturday, December 29, 2012

The helicopters

One thing I have wanted for  time now is an RC helicopter primarily because an RC car always seemed to hit something on ground level to hang it up. So I figured a helicopter would have less trouble flying about. I had the good fortune of receiving not one but two helicopters of different sizes and purposes - one indoor and one outdoor. The outdoor one quickly proved why it was labeled as such when I had continual trouble flying it indoors. Something about the ceiling in the way. Once outdoors, however, I ran into enough trees that I busted both of the lower rotating props and was forced into a quest for replacements. Turns out that Radio Road Toys doesn't make readily available replacement props for its helicopters so I had to get creative. Found another company makes very similar style helicopters and also make easy to acquire replacement parts so I will be offering those when I get the money for it. Until then, I had used gorilla glue to hold one if the props together and will go to a local park to try it instead of my tree ridden user until I get the hang of flying it.

On the matter of the other helicopter, it was an indoor Air Hogs helicopter only a fifth of the size of the big one. It has taken a royal beating over the last few days and is holding up nicely. Gotten lots of flying practice in preparation for the big one.

As an added bonus, the little one scares the deal out of my large black dog. That was funny.

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