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Antiques or Out of Business > What was your first RC Heli??
 
 
Cortez Jenkins
Heliman
Location: Augusta, Ga

1996 Ergo 30. (Love at first sight). 4 months later Ergo 60, 6 months later Ergo 60 sport. Now 3 vigor cs's & the new infant to the family Venture 30 cp.
10-23-2002 Over year old.
 
 
Dyehard
Veteran
Location: Cedar Bluff, Va.

charly, this is the absolute truth, not embelished a bit, even though I had trouble believing my own eyes at the time. I was at one of Bill Curtis contests in Greenville, Pa in the early eighties. The Cricket had only been out a couple of years. Robert Gorham was competing in Expert class. Late in the evening, when the air was dead calm, a young man asked Robert to help trim his new Cricket, as he couldn't get it to hover very well. Robert picked it up into a hover, trimed it for about a minute, dropped down on one knee, hovered the Cricket over till it was within arms reach and then, after laying the transmitter on the ground, he started reaching out and leveling the heli by grasping one skid between thumb and finger. He played with leveling the heli by hand and after seeing which way it would drift, he would adjust the transmitter trim to compensate. After about a minute, the heli just sat there. Someone yelled they needed Robert, and after looking around and seeing me right behind him, he picked the tranmitter up, turned his back on that Cricket, walked over to me and said "How about giving this guy a hand while I find out what they want". He walked off, never looking back at the hovering heli, which continued to just sit there. I hovered if for another minute or so, set it down and told the guy "don't expect me to do anything like that". It was completly amazing what the right person could do with a Cricket.
10-23-2002 Over year old.
 
 
Gypsey
Heliman
Location: London ON, Canada

My first heli was a Shuttle Z with the blue canopy, colective and throtle ganged to the same chanel. Wow am I ever glad things have changed.

Gypsey
10-23-2002 Over year old.
 
 
nitro
Senior Heliman
Location: Las Vegas

First Victim

Hello,
My first heli was a Concept 30 and man did it take some abuse.
Nitro
10-23-2002 Over year old.
 
 
Buzzin Brian
Elite Veteran
Location: College Station, Texas

My first bird was a Century Hawk 30 SE V1. I loved that machine, it taught me a lot. It was the best christmas present I ever got. That is until I got cocky. Was doing a 540 and then it was like a reality show, "When good helis go bad!!!!!!!" Needless to say, may it rest in pieces. I then went onto a Raptor 30 which I still have, and now have a Vigor CS, Fury home brew Carbon Extreme 2, a Raptor 50 V2, a mega Hornet CP form hell, and a Fury Tempest 3D/FAI on order.


I love helis, they are the best. I am just glad I didn't try to learn on some of the helis most of you guys did. I think I might have been tramitized for life.

Build it, fly it, crash it. Repeat as often as needed.
10-23-2002 Over year old.
 
 
ViperOne
Heliman
Location: Lelystad, The Netherlands

My first heli was:

Schluter junior 50.
10-23-2002 Over year old.
 
 
HiroboEric
Veteran
Location: Los Angeles, CA.

Concept SRX with auto link be gone in flight system.

Eric Pacheco, AirWorksRC.com
10-23-2002 Over year old.
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hrana
Senior Heliman
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Schluter... the king...

My first heli was a Schluter Jr. 50 with a webra 50... It had 5101's on everything and was a nice and smooth heli. I have been looking for a generic picture of this bird since I seem to have lost all of my pictures of it. This was before digicams were out. =/
10-23-2002 Over year old.
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kadet
Heliman
Location: Seoul, South Korea

My 1st rc helicopter

Hi !
I'm Korean man.(the country next door to Japan)
My 1st helicopter was Hirobo's Ministe(a?)r 20.
And now I am flying JR's Ergo Z230 mainly.
Thanks.
10-23-2002 Over year old.
 
 
charly
Heliman
Location: xenia, ohio

Dyehard...Your right, I would'nt believe it even if I saw it! That Robert G. must have been a heck of a man. I can't even get cRaptor to do that AND I can't fly any better either. The only diff is I'm alot older!

charly
10-24-2002 Over year old.
 
 
TOXXIC
Heliman
Location: Jersey

Nexus 30.(3 months ago) 6xsuper, upgraded to used ergo 60, and new 10x! thanks ja1010
10-24-2002 Over year old.
 
 
fj1200
Heliman
Location: Muskego WI

Raptor 30
10-24-2002 Over year old.
 
 
Erick Wipf
Heliman
Location: Reno Nevada

1st heli. an old blue shuttle with an OS28. I got this POS used, and hovered it 4 times before detonating it. It didn't have enough power at 5000 feet with a training gear to do anything more than hover, and crash.
10-25-2002 Over year old.
 
 
Craig Seay
Heliman
Location: Port St. Joe, FL

Glad to see I'm not the only "OLD" timer around. I still remember going to one of the Rebel Rally contest in Jacksonville, FL and seeing Aubrey Radford loop the Kavan Jet Ranger. Anybody remember Ernie Huber and Mike Mas and Walt Schonard and John Clark and Bill Youmans and John Simon and the list goes on and on.
My first chopper was the Dubro Hughes 300 with the O&R engine running on glow. Used my very dependable EK Logictrol radio converted by Callvin Wollitz. After hovering around for a couple of weekends, I flew that lead bucket around the pattern and made a beautiful running landing. I was hooked! Went right home and ordered a Kavan Jet Ranger. Put the mods on and installed a Webra Speed 61 along with the EK radio and flew the socks off it. All without gyros or electronic mixing. I also later flew a Revolution II with K&B 61 fixed pitch, a Dubro Shark with SuperTiger 61 Bluehead and fixed pitch, (after installing a Kavan Allouette clutch it worked great) lastly I flew a Schluter Heli-Boy with OS 61. All with NO gyros or electronic mixing and all using a very dependable EK radio. SINGLE STICK by the way. Been out of the helicopter business for 21 years and am just fixin' to order a Century Hawk Sport to teach my son on. We both fly fixed wing with both single and two stick (mode II) radios.

craig
11-05-2002 Over year old.
 
 
YSRRider
Key Veteran
Location: Ingleside/Fox Lake, IL

WILL THIS THREAD PLEASE DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
11-05-2002 Over year old.
 
 
Mopzilla
Veteran
Location: Cupertino, CA USA

Quote 
WILL THIS THREAD PLEASE DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why?

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Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
11-05-2002 Over year old.
 
 
YSRRider
Key Veteran
Location: Ingleside/Fox Lake, IL

just bored of reading it, It pops up in my inbox every couple weeks......
11-05-2002 Over year old.
 
 
Sterling
Heliman
Location: Columbus, Indiana

Most would think me an idiot, but the equipment listed below here is my first heli. Had a Sig trainer for a plank but only flew it twice before I then spied a heli for the first time at the field, and was awestruck. The planes held little interest for me from then on.

At the same time I bought my Fury, I also bought G-2. By the time I had the Fury built, I had about 100 hours on G-2, flying a fury sim model I got off the net.

My first flight was at IRCHA 2002, and was an intense white knuckle affair, but was overseen and checked out and flown prior by a nice gentleman from the MA tent.

Thanks to G-2, my second flight back home included nose-in and some forward flight, still with the rotopod on and still breaking the engine in. By now the gear is off and loops and rolls are being done and I'm only on my third gallon, once again all thanks to G-2, which I still fly considerably, honing my 3-d stuff.

Sure I'll crash. Guess we all do, and I'm not one to play it safe...like to push it sometimes. In retrospect, I'm still glad I started out with what I did, but would certainly not recommend it to just anyone, especially if they're not willing to invest many, many hours in sim time. YMMV.
11-05-2002 Over year old.
 
 
Sterling
Heliman
Location: Columbus, Indiana

Oops, sorry YSRRIDER, hope my previous post doesn't push you over the edge....
11-05-2002 Over year old.
 
 
Jesse Lineberger
Senior Heliman
Location: Round Rock Texas

1st Heli

Kalt Enforcer ZR, flew it til the tail rotor gearbox melted and moved on to bigger and more expensive!!!!!!!!!

Beam Team
Duralite Flight Systems
Magnum Fuels
MAH Blades
11-06-2002 Over year old.
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