Syclic
Senior Heliman
Location: Northern Hemisphere
| Hawk Sportpkcc
Compete against Shuttle Plus? Venture? Raptor?
I thought my Hawk IV at $220.00 did so very well as the US version of the Shuttle Plus is selling for $200 (glad to see that Altec has upgraded the US version to the ZXX swashplate, as the cheap plastic one in the "world" version is pathetic...) and the Hawk has a far better rotor head, better power system, comes with a better muffler and blades. Heck by adding the $22.00 ball bearing upgrade kit to the Hawk (for a total of $242) make it even better then the expensive ($370) Shuttle ZXX and adding the inexpensive 550mm Funkey FRP blades for only another $40 (for a grand total of $282) make it even better then the $370.00 Sceado 30 IMHO.
Ditto for competing against the $240 Raptor. Buy the time you add the CNC TT muffler that is similar to the muffler that comes with the Hawk IV the Raptor will cost $270.00. And one still will not have a heli with as good a clutch system,swashplate or rotor head as the Hawk IV.
As for the Venture at $270.00, this would have to be compared to the Hawk IV ARF. Here you will have to add a muffler to the Venture, this will bring the price up to at least $300! The last time I looked the Hawk IV ARF was only $249.00 and included the one piece CNC muffler! I helped a local with a Venture (he has already replaced the stock swashplate with the metal one from a Century Raven) and though it was fairly new it had already developed a lot of slop in the control systrem. So IMHO the Hawk IVagain has a far better rotor head and power system, dual boom supports etc.etc.
Note that at the current $220 price, in all three cases, the Hawk IV proves to be MORE heli for a LESS money. In fact, I have found the low $220 dollar price one of the things that made it hard for me to initially convince the locals that it was such a good heli. They all thought that it could not be better because it was so much less in price!!! Now with the Sport at $160 it may even be harder to convince people.
But for us who know better....as MobileRaptor said.....what a great crash kit  |
