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Antiques or Out of Business > What was your first RC Heli??
 
 
desulli
Senior Heliman
Location: Military STATESIDE address......Okinawa , Japan

Concept 30 SX

My first bird was a Concept 30 SX (I think SX anyways). I was 20(ish) not much money and no knowledge. I got my tax returns in and saw a used heli (the 30) at a local bike shop. I used all the money (I think about $650) I had to buy it. I got it set up (sorta), fired it up, lifted off then set it back down with lots of vengence, which created lots of parts.....

I repaied it about $130. Tried again. Created more parts. Did this for 3 tries before I gave up. It took a lot of time and savings to get $130 per crash back then for me.

Put it in its box and let it sit for 10+ years. Now I have bought a TREX 450 and hope to learn to fly it. If I ever get the nerve up, I WILL fly the Concept 30 just to prove to it that it didnt win.

Don

Learning to miss the ground one crash at a time.
06-30-2008 05:41 AM
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kodiak24
Senior Heliman
Location: Corvallis, Or

First heli Nexus 30
07-11-2008 06:35 AM
 
 
skippy7399
Heliman
Location: Sheboygan Falls, WI

Mu first heli...

An Esky Honey Bee II. What piece of garbage! Spent more money than I paid for the thing tryig to keep it airborn. However my King2 still flys and I love it. We'll see how the ECO 8 does when it's finnished, maybe next month.
07-11-2008 09:07 PM
 
 
majestic12
Senior Heliman
Location: truckee, ca

gmp cricket with no gyro! Hey..it looked so easy in the ad, I mean come on if Jamie Far could do it so could I ? right? WRONG!!!!!!!!!!! Lets just say that the Cricket never made more than a few hops at best. My first successful heli was a shuttle zx.

FURY for sale
TREX 600N PRO OS 50 HYPER-Align pipe
TREX 700N PRO OS 91 MP5
HF:STMPNGRND
07-29-2008 07:20 AM
 
 
afbtstix
Heliman
Location: Trexlertown, PA

1989 Hirobo Blue Shuttle, it did fly!

08-13-2008 07:07 PM
 
 
flyfast
Heliman
Location: NY

A pair of Schluter Helistars. Essentially, the Helistar was a Heli-boy with a different canopy.

As I recall, it felt very much like todays helis in the air. Really, todays machines have changed only slightly.

I wonder if the non-elevator swashplate and direct collective linkage arrangement will ever make a come-back. It was a good approach. The 90° bend in collective pushrod at the bottom would somehow need to be done better however to meet today's demands I think.

Kevin M.
08-27-2008 11:15 PM
 
 
leftyatm
Veteran
Location: Elkton, MD, USA

An E-sky honey bee. That I tore the crap out of. It was a fixed pitch heli. And got me started in all this madness.

2X T-Rex 450 SE V2 T-Rex 500 CF T-Rex 600 CF and T-Rex 600 NSP
08-29-2008 06:58 PM
 
 
RotorheadBob
Senior Heliman
Location: Wash DC Metro Area

Kavan Jet Ranger

Mine was a beautiful Kavan Jet Ranger which I never learned to fly. I bought it in Nov 78 after reading about the helicopter some 5 years earlier in RCM.

That helicopter is long gone. But, I had a chance to fly one at IRCHA, as my friend Steve P. (aka Heli_Headcase) let me fly his Jet Ranger at IRCHA.

Thanks, Steve!

Rob
08-29-2008 07:40 PM
 
 
heli_headcase
Key Veteran
Location: Hovering around Atlanta

Quote 
Thanks, Steve!

Any time Rob


HHC

So many heli's - too little time...
08-29-2008 07:42 PM
 
 
Myoung
Heliman
Location: Layton, Utah

Thunder Tiger Hoverstar

Loved it but it was fixed pitch
09-22-2008 06:18 AM
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matt155
New Heliman
Location: Pembroke Pines, Florida-USA

My first heli was a GMP Cricket I built back in 1984.

10-05-2008 02:25 PM
 
 
EagleMan!
Heliman
Location: Dubai, UAE

First Helis till now....

1985 Blue Shuttle (bought in 1987 in HKG) OS28FH, Futaba 5NLH radio, no gyro. I was 8 then...my Dad tried to fly it, crashed it...bought another one and it was stored in the garage for 6 years.

Took out the OS28FH and replaced it with OS32F-H Pull Start, Futaba FP-G153BB gyro, radio Futaba FF7 Super...I learnt to fly with this heli.

1995, bought HIROBO SST-Eagle 2, OS-61SXH engine, Futaba FF8 radio, Futaba FP-G153BB gyro (later changed to G501)

1998, HIROBO Tsurugi XX (OS-61SX-H WC engine, G301 gyro, K&S pipe)
1999, HIROBO SST-Eagle 2WC99 (Futaba 9ZHP, G501 gyro, Hatori 666)
2000, HIROBO SST-Eagle 2WC99 (2nd one identical equipment, except GY501)
2001, HIROBO Freya 60 (Identical equipment to 2nd Eagle-2WC99) learnt flying 3D with it.
2006, HIROBO Freya 90 Evo (GY601 gyro, Hatori 938)
2007, Synergy N9

T-Rex 700 coming soon....

"If it doesn't work...TRY HARDER!!"
10-05-2008 06:46 PM
 
 
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