helicopter34
Veteran
Location: New Jersey, exit 82
| Finally got my hornet to fly. I had it flying before off a tethered cord, but since I upgraded to razor V2, lipos, and turbine swash, I have yet to fly until now. I have been through endless hardships with this stupid thing. Almost every part on the helicopter broke in setup. Just when something would work, something else would break or need attention.
I broke a carbon tail output shaft trying to take of a gear, so I bought a pushrod from my lhs that was nearly the same daimeter, and now I have a steal wire drive. No wind up. I have the gain at about 40 and no wag, but I haven't tried any higher. The everything on the tail is pretty wigglefree. I even managed to strip both razor threads, and had to go to a bigger size screw. Endless fiddling and rebuilding because something wasn't right. I can't tell you have much I hate this glue thing. Its nice that when something breaks you can just glue it, but it would be so much nicer to have everything bolt together like on larger helis. Now that I think about it, I kinda wish I would have gotten an eco 8. I have spend so much on this. This is partially a strong word of warning to anyone thinking about getting a hornet or other micro. Some people have had better luck than I have, but plan on spending at least 700 to get it flying nicely, and that is including all the parts you have to replace from a bad initial setup or minor crashes.
Make it idiot-proof, and someone will make a better idiot |
