dwaynet
Senior Heliman
Location: Fairfax, Virginia
| I agree with you XLFLYER,
I have an XCell. It's sitting in a box all twisted up waiting for me to fix it. I priced out the parts when i douched it in a year ago and decided my 5 yr old XCell could sit for awhile. The cost of repair was as much as an out of box rappy. So, I picked up a R30. I have decided NOT to upgrade it in any way that is not absolutely neccessary. I am out to proove you don't need chrome and fancy stuff to fly circles around some $1000 machines. The only mod I have done it it was tail boom supports when they broke and to replace the stock paddles with ksj when i got into flips. I have been flying the same stock wood blades (blade grips glued, of course) all the way from learning to auto , learning to hover inverted, back and front flip, loop, roll, 540 stall turns, basically everything except the high end 3D maneuvers with no problems. No woofs, no poofs, no lost tail blades, no nothing I can think of except loosing the clutch on the 10th flight. A $15 heavy duty replacement and that was all for that. I can honestly say my scale of learning was accelerated by flying the raptor instead of my XCell. I was not scared of crashing it as bad. I even bought a crash kit and carried it with me when I flew. Granted, its not as tight and smooth as my XCell, but thats ok. I knew the job was dangerous when I took it.
Dwayne |
