Read First Before Buy Blade Tail Motor Protective Sleeve
I guess you have to realize what you are getting with this item. It's a $65 remote control helicopter made in China that is 27-inches long and about a foot high. It's designed for stability and easy to control, indoor flight. It delivers. If you plan on flying the S033g outdoors, you will either need a completely windless day or the willingness to make a few very easy, almost no-cost modifications. The two modifications I prefer are:
1) Snap off the cover, and move the battery as far forward as you can. This will require two 8" cable ties, as you have to cut the existing ties to re-position the battery. Doing so gives the helicopter a little more weight over the nose and helps lean the S033g forward more readily.
2) Using a 3/16 x .115 x 1 nylon spacer (available at Lowe's in the hardware area for about $0.50) you can very easily attach the supplied, spare tail rotor to the S033g thereby giving it 4 blades instead of 2. Again, this allows more forward pitch to fly in slight breezes.
Using those two mods, neither of which require doing any harm to the helicopter, the S033g is a pretty decent little backyard chopper. Of course if you want something that will aggressively fly outside, you're probably better off investing in something like the Blade 300X ($320 plus $130 for the radio control). At $65 you just can't beat this heli, but you should also understand it has some limitations.
BalasHapusFast service at a good price. The Blade 120 SR Tail Motor Protective Sleeve fits perfectly. I highly recommend this sellet.
BalasHapusOk, I'm not the best RC pilot in the world so my heli takes some abuse. I've lost a tail rotor twice, and each time the bearing ends up who knows where. Not a fault of the bearing. I wish the rotor stuck on easier, but once off the bearing is pretty much guaranteed to go 'flying' away on its own. I believe other reviewers noted this, but just make sure you keep a few spares on hand. Excellent bearings when they stay on! When they don't, I suppose its really my fault for the crash...
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