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Miniature Aircraft Nitro/Gas Helicopters > Am I weird?

kenman
Senior Heliman
Location: Columbia, Maryland, USA

Ok, I am wondering if I am weird or something. When I fly, I enjoy low, slow-speed passes as much as a high speed roll or consecutive tumbles. I enjoy flying slowly, low to the ground, imagining my Fury is a search and rescue bird or something like that. Maybe I need a scale heli because I am almost as fascinated by holding my fury in a perfectly steady hover or doing slow piros low to the ground as I am doing backward loops. I think more about mounting a hook to my Fury and trying to pick stuff up and drop it off than I think about what 3-D maneuver to learn next. I guess I am just amazed at how cool it is to see a heli defying gravity in the way that only helis can. Give me a heli over a VTOL jet any day!

I fly a Fury because I am a Mechanical Engineer and I'm very appreciative of a good, SIMPLE design. I would never have considered any of MA's previous helis because the layout seemed too "hack". Instead I chose a Vigor and then a Millie. But when I saw the Fury for the first time, I found a new ship that keeps things simple while delivering outstanding performance ratios. I wonder if the fury would fit in a scale fuse. If so I might be tempted to buy another Fury for that purpose. But for now I can't decide if I want to start a scale heli project or get that inverted backwards thing right.

Cheers,
Ken

05-06-2002 Over year old.

BladeRunner
Elite Veteran
Location: Ontario Canada. Member of "some sort" s

Wierd?

YES, you are wierd.

Your TV remote is probably 6 times BIGGER than anyone else's. You have a BIG problem with control.....you NEED to have control.......ah, gee.......isn't that why we ALL fly R/C??????

Actually I like those slow passes myself.......of coarse that's more likely because I don't know how to do 3-D!!!

05-07-2002 Over year old.

ed vega
Key Veteran
Location: nyc, queens

kenman , you'd make a really good faif3c pilot too, cause the name of the game is the slower and steadier you go the better it looks..

05-07-2002 Over year old.

PHI flyer
Senior Heliman
Location: Bowie, Maryland

Your no more weird than me. I was out on Saturday with my Jet Ranger cruising around at no more than 3 feet up thinking how sweet that looks. My nephew had a USA-1 nitro running around the field and I was chasing after it with the heli. That was the most fun I've had flying in 13 years. I wish I had a video camera that day. It was very cool and with the right camera angle could have looked real. I found that chasing something like that makes for good practice flying low. We're gonna do it again next weekend and I will find someone to operate a camera.

05-07-2002 Over year old.

HONDO
Heliman
Location: Tucson Az.

Hey kenman if you are wierd then just about all of us are that is the reason most people get into this stuff because nothing else can do what a heli does. I enjoy flying around slow and scale like with my Fury 80 all the time on low head speed then click it on 1850 snap it around a little then back sloww and smooth. Thats whyy helis are so awesome. When was the last time you flew a plane at 80mph then cruised it at 1mph in an instant.
PHI that sounds pretty awesome chasing a car around. Our safety officer would have a cow. Thats something that I would just wait till he leaves then just have at it and have some good fun . I will be building a Hughes 500D pretty soon and will try that at our lake with a boat instead like Magnum PI stuff.

05-07-2002 Over year old.

HOMEPAGE

Dave_D
Key Veteran
Location: Philippines

You think that's weird......

My Freya has been with me for a year and half already and I still sometimes stare at it for minutes at a time.

I even check up on it before going to bed after I put my son to bed.

I hope my wife doesn't catch me in bed with it or else I might have to choose

05-07-2002 Over year old.

ugly skid joe
Heliman
Location:

LOL

Thats funny

I know how you feel

05-07-2002 Over year old.

HONDO
Heliman
Location: Tucson Az.

I hear you Dave I do the same thing .

05-07-2002 Over year old.

HOMEPAGE

vapor
Heliman
Location: wi

We are all just a little odd

Flying heli's 10 inches off the deck, low, slow in to a nose in hover
is quite exciting. Some people have too, just to get a good look at the
volt watch monitor through the windscreen. Thats my excuse. ( Fear of inverted ) >>>Vapor<<<

05-07-2002 Over year old.

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Mitchkado
Heliman
Location: Hertzeliya, Israel