A Steal Deal on a Helicopter

[pdub]

During this week, Duty Week, bored as heck, gotta keep moving, went to the grocery store. Just past the produce, they had the "get me" toys display. Yep. A helicopter.

I've been into RC fly-in-the-house micropters before. Hundreds of bucks into it. They break. And then you order tiny parts and do microsurgery to fix them and break them again.

This one, 18 bucks. I've bounced it off of the walls, failed some landings with it, standard fare.

And it's still good. 18 bucks from the grocery store. Here it is, charging up from the AA batteries inside the transmitter. Good deal. Lots of fun. Not as sophisticated as the expensive ones, won't hover, but fun.

[studemax]

If a helicopter won't hover, how fun can it be?

[Deaf Bob]

If a helicopter won't hover, how fun can it be?

More than you know!
Good for harrassing the cats in the house!

[pdub]

If a helicopter won't hover, how fun can it be?

Money-wise versus fun-wise, a helluva lotta fun. I'm just a grey haired kid anyhow. Can't deny it.

[realsteelfreak]

I had one of the cheap ones before, when it quit working I took the flashing LEDs out and put them in a 1/32 Tahoe so my son could have a Police SUV.

[oletrux4evr]

If it doesn't hover, it isn't a helicopter. To fly is heavenly.....to hover is divine.

[pdub]

If it doesn't hover, it isn't a helicopter. To fly is heavenly.....to hover is divine.

But if the wing is going faster than the fuselage, it must be a helicopter, and therefore it is dangerous.

[JOES66FURY]

My son went thru a mess of inexpensive helo's before and they never did fly right. I picked on up at a store one day where the dude was showing them off....It was half off so for 40 bucks I got one and it flys great, never a problem...hovers, sideways, backways, front ways, I need to pick up another one for the youngest.