I got my Hornet airborne today for the first time after messing around with it for a couple weeks. I was expecting it to be a lot more of a handful after all I've read about it. It wasn't that bad. I had it hovering in about a nine by nine clear spot in the study. There is a tremendous amount of slop in the head though and that seems to make it wander around a lot. It also seemed to get blown around by it's own rotor wash quite a bit.
I keep breaking things on this little guy though. I broke part of the tail slider while I was trying to set it up a couple days ago and today the little pivot that sticks down on the tail gearbox snapped off in flight. I was only about a foot in the air and got it down OK but certain parts of this thing sure seem fragile.
I made some training gear out of 2mm CF rod and some epoxy mixing cups and it seems to work pretty well.
Anyway, just wanted tell someone. My wife is rather unimpressed it seems.
-Chris
01-19-2003 Over year old.
ergo Heliman Location: belleville michigan
horneti,m impressed i too have been at it for weeks with no flight , still getting vibrations out , and too my wife don,t give a ****
