DaveESPI
Heliman
Location: Latham, NY
| I got my SRB Quark today. I had to go to work, so I waited till I came home to fiddle with it.
I read the instructions, charged the battery, and set the controler up as specified from the instruction manual, and did the start up sequence.
I held it in my hand and ran a series of low power reactions to inputs from the sticks.
First thing I felt: A VERY POWERFULL GYRO !
I was impressed, so I powered it down after everything checked out OK.
I set it on the floor.
The cats watched intently.
It started up again, slid around, then lifted a foot, and held a perfect hover with zero drift or tail twitch........
much unlike the cats which were twitching their tails intensely.
I set it back down, and decided "this bird needs to fly this coop!"
Took it out to my favorite "proving grounds" (Nighttime lighted parking lot near my house) and had a super smooth and nearly uneventful Maiden flight. It handled a slight breese very nicely, and impressed me with its agressive turning ability and nice responsive flight characteristics.
I cut the throttle at 10 feet and it dropped fast, I throttled back up inches from the ground, and did a "tap and go" on the ground, and the slight mis-calculation of the tail angle caused damage to a foam tail propeller blade.
I went home, slapped a replacement one on, pluged it all back in, and it flew perfectly 30 seconds later with the repair.
350.00 for it from Greg off e-bay, and it is worth every penny.
I was not sure if I would like it, but it's super stable and very relaxing to fly with just a bit of "squirelyness" to make if fun in the wind. |
Set it down spining and the tail blades were all that got hurt. This little guy is overall pretty tough.
