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Thunder Tiger Raptors 30-90 - Imperio > Thinking of buying a Raptor 30
 
 
ciressarg
Heliman
Location: Sunnyvale, CA

I am thinking of buing a raptor 30 to use as a practice chopper. How well do they fly in stock form? I notice that some retailers offer many different parts options, and I am trying to avoid sinking a bunch of extra mony into it for do dads. I already have a fancy and expensive machine that is why I'm intersted in puchasing a practice chopper. I owned a Century Falcon before and I know that some of the components were
not adaquit and had to be upgraded right off the bat. Is this true of the raptor? and if so what will I need to puchase? Any feed back would be appreciated.
04-04-2002 Over year old.
 
 
Gbouten
Senior Heliman
Location: Alamogordo, New Mexico

You will be just fine right out of the box. I would recommend getting it with the OS motor as I think you will be much happer. You are correct as far as the upgrades go. I bought my R30 and after learning to fly it I upgraded it to the 50 as I live at 4000 feet I wanted the extra power. But the upgrades can come as you see fit.

Greg
04-04-2002 Over year old.
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Doug
Elite Veteran
Location: Naples Florida....

They fly great out of the box. no "blue" bits required
04-04-2002 Over year old.
 
 
dwaynet
Senior Heliman
Location: Fairfax, Virginia

Mine carried me through learning nose in hovering, inverted hovering, loops, rolls, backflips, frontflips, 540 stall turns, reverse flight, auto's, and a few other things all in stock form with stock wood blades. My only complaint was a lack of power to try some of the more taxing maneuvers (my os32 was several years old and not producing power like it used to). That was the only reason I sold it to a good friend and bought myself the 50 kit with a new os50. We have since got my old 30 producing more power and it would have done everything else if I would have kept it. That's ok, I got a new person in the hobby. The only thing I was forced to upgrade was the boom supports, the stock ones are cheap and end up snapping at the mount point. No big deal, $20 bucks or so.

Dwayne
04-04-2002 Over year old.
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Remy
Senior Heliman
Location: Washington, D.C. - MHA Member

I'd have to second Dwayne, fly it stock. You can spend more than the price of the kit in various upgrades, for no real benefit.

Only 1 upgrade is kind of mandatory : the 20 extra ball bearings. (if you order the 29BB kit) They are already included in the 49BB kit and in the ARF kit.

Few upgrades may be worth looking at as well. By no means required, but may be nice to have :

- better boom supports
- CF main blades

Other than that, save your money for a better quality heli in the log run (or a better gyro or whatever...)

Remy
04-05-2002 Over year old.
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rsilvers
Senior Heliman
Location: Marshfield, MA

I have a Raptor 30 and I would say a header tank is nice for $10, a whip antenna is nice for $10, and a boom mounted rudder servo + a GY401 is nice and if you want to do aerobatics and don't have a TX with at least 5 point throttle curves then a GV-1 governor can deal with that. Most of these parts can carry over to another copter later.

But no, you don't want to replace the functional or structural parts like you might think. I would rather have 3 sets of stock horz/vert fins for $30 than one set of carbon-fiber ones for $30.

I would suggest a green/remote Gem2000 also for battery monitoring.

As far as OS vs TT engines, my friend and my TT36 are fine but since everyone says I should be unhappy with them I would get an OS32 if I did it again just to be sure. Heliproz has a nice deal where you can get the ARF with the OS engine. I don't know of anyone else who does that. My local hobby store would not do it.
04-05-2002 Over year old.
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rsilvers
Senior Heliman
Location: Marshfield, MA

How about this -- tell people to dump it after they use it and if they are not happy with it. I am really suspecting that the TT36 is getting a bad rap from when they had the wrong needle 2 years ago. This is probably not the case with new ARFs.
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