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its a great heli lots of fun still only had a few flights

yes , hav been able to get the big heli out 😀

cheers mate ,its fun trying to find parts and get em goin again, cant afford all trhat flash stuff uve got lol

@@arcturus2382 lol - Arc you change your helis more often than i change my socks! ;-) I love the variation of those that you fly - great stuff pal.

@@HeliShed tell me about it lol it all adds up rather fast i could of bought some newer ones by now . still its all good fun ive got the trex 550 e to try next week

good job

thats the recomended size i do hav 3300 batts but they make it nose heavy my 500 l takes 3300 but they slide underneith so they balance better

hi i actually put a slightly bigger motor in mine and i use a 1300 4s lipo so it proberbly worked out about right , i couldnt say how good it flies i mostly fly helis so my skills on the plane are not great my cg is about 90

@@arcturus2382 Hi and thanks for that. It sounds like the combination of your bigger motor and 4S put the CG right. I have mine at 85mm with a 2300 3S for the moment (still with ballast in the nose), but I haven't tried it yet. I did do a radical hack and realigned (rotated) the wings forward by moving the pegs in the fuse. Now the horizontal tail is in one line with the leading edge and trailing edge. I am wondering whether the pegs were glued in too low which dropped the trailing edge slightly. We will soon find out!

@@mrhilma sounds like u hav set it up with zero degrees incedence so that should fly the same inverted as upright ,i need to fly mine more but i dont hav easy site for planes but it does fly good my first flight i crashed because i hadnt flown for ages but had s few flights since ok . i got a timber x yet to be flown flying the balsa belero is nice but i dont want to smash it up lol will u hav vid of your flight would like to see if so .cheers

Exactly - 0 degrees incidence! The hope was that it would be more neutral. The weather's turned bad here, so I may not see test-flying and videoing conditions for a while. Timber should be more relaxing!

@@mrhilma hopefully will get to a good flying site in summer to fly the timber its still in the boxlol

south england

thanks .not quite keeping them goin yet but nearly there

lol i still hav a 600 flybar to try out as well

cheers its a great practice heli cheap to repair 😀😀

cheers yes it wasnt to bad just a servo and straiten the boom but the blade was broke so i do try and buy the seconds u can get them for 15 pound sometimes , just got a load of tarrot blades for the 450 8 pound so not so bad .

yes land was soft i put on spare servo straightened boom and had a pair of spare blades and she ready to crash again lol ,and flybar in 2024 lol ive just bought a 600 trex flybar heli and a 550 flybar ,i hav got a flybarless head for 550 though the 600 will remain as is unless i find a head for it .should be fun

@@arcturus2382I've got a Trex-600e, currently out of service as I need parts, mainly need the CF frames, but they're not really in stock anymore. In the process of rebuilding my CNC machine to cut out the CF frames. Seems that's the only way I'll be able to get them. Hopefully you can still find trex 500 parts.

hi . yes 500 parts are easy there are lots of them and should be able to get some 600 parts on ebay . if u serch internet u might find some new frames i hav seen them sometimes depends were u are i found some parts then they usually are in other countries with expensive post lol

@@arcturus2382 I've checked ebay here and there and I do see some but they're in UK (I'm in US). Which isn't all that much of an issue, however it seems they're used frames, which I would prefer new ones. Ultimately I will crash the heli again at some point so I'll need to find a longer term solution with regards to the frames. Other parts like the main gear, main shaft, etc.. will probably become an issue further down the line as well. I think it some point it'll make more sense for me to fix it, retire it as a shelf piece and maybe pick up a more modern heli. I have an old Shuttle ZX that's 25 years old at this point that sits on my shelf. Parts for that would be impossible to find.

@@K9Megahertz i just got a blade 500x so i had to buy 2 so i could hav some parts but trex helis are usually good u can just buy another heli for parts but a newer heli is easyer but were is the fun in that lol, i had a shuttle in 2001 i didnt keep it unfortunatly ive seen 2 on ebay this week

lol i thought it was toast , just shows how strong they are . u do hav to make sure the blades are tight vto avoiod blade strike, i did turn the motor back on but it didnt spool up as fast as it should i hav turned it up more on the esc but dont know if i shall risk it again lol

high its a tarrot head the rest is trex its quite good ive just ordered some more tarrot bits cheap blades etc , theses 450 are great to practice for cheap repair cost

yes i just had boom strike on my sab 420 doin an auto so i hav the bladers tighter now

no wind today or tomorrow should be nice .😀

cheers shall try 4s .not to fussed about the undercariage the grass always grabs it anyway .cheers

they make a nice change now and again ,these small ones are great for a small area

more luck than judgement

@@arcturus2382haha i'd say more judgement than luck! You're getting really really good at flying now mate! ( that damn parcel was delivered by amazon today, and the idiot driver did the same thing as royal mail were doing, he posted it through the communal door letterbox downstairs and the parcel has been stolen!! Fuming! I spoke to amazon customer services and they're sending a replacement out in 2 days! I've had no luck recently me have I mate!!?? LOL )

its mine

i did hav a microbeast which was good but i just changed to the spektrum fc6250 which i like also . it is a great heli plenty biggernough compered to a 450

just tried one on the 420 it didnt go so well heavy landing boom strike and blade grip lol 30 pound down and there was no sd card in camera

​@arcturus2382 Oh no! I love my 420, but parts aren't cheap, that's for sure.

yes it realy is built well and flys nice ,troubl;e is u dont want to crash lol , ineed to get my trex 450 out to chuck about abit

lol yes the headspeed is low i like it low for cruising about but u do need higher for tik tokks or rainbows so i do go up a gear but go back down again before i end up in the hedge lol i need more room

they fly realy well just a little slower but thats good enough for my skills

@@arcturus2382 you are doing good ! well done

hi thanks for the comment, i cant remember exactly what is in the plane it is in the loft at this time i think it was the sugested motor then i flew it 4s instead of 3s which gave it a nice chunk of power . it is a very floaty plane as it is light with lots of lift.chears

Typically when running 6s you have a lower kv motor and its geared for similar head speed that you would run otherwise. Target head speed should be based on the airframe and rotors chosen and what ever flight mode the user has setup then you choose a motor and gearing to reach that target. Higher head speed isn't inherent to being 6s. Its just that newer 6s motors tend to have a higher max watt rating than older 3s motors. Basically its just a bigger more powerful motor. There could be made larger more powerful motors that are 3s if there was demand. That happens plenty for other markets where you get super high KV but low voltage motors.

yes this is a great heli to get back into flyin helis its far more capable than my skills but easy to fly if u learning to . u can adjust the settings easy on the heli and it wont brake the bank on spares and is quite good on durability . the omp m2 is good to

i sold my m1 for 110 pound and got the s1 for 160 on bangood u still need the trans they had them on align trex unboxed for 30 i think they are 40 now . i will say the m1 is great i wouldnt say the s1 is any better but the trans is handy😀

yes its great got to push it a bit more but not to much lol

cheers i wanted to fly it last week but me scooter broke lol.it flies great and wasnt as nerve wracking as i thought. didnt u say u hav one of these aswell

Yes I have! Also in yellow. Glad you got your wheels fixed 😊

does look good mate .i wasnt too nervous i was just bein super carefull

sometimes the wagging gets better when worn in

these are realy strong i hav crashed it a few times and only broke a servo arm, it was level when it hit wich helped i was too slow on the pitch. oh and i hav just built a 420 raw so should be out end of week nervously flyin it lol

Oh wow, can't wait to see how you get on with it!

yes that should hav self leveling, not that u need it wes when u hav flown an 800 .lol

yer it flys perfect i hav done no adjustments on the giro i realy like the ikons it feels more locked in than the microbeast for me .and the tarrot head seems good

@@arcturus2382 Phil I am messaging here because my phone screen has totally frozen! I can't msg, call, or do anything with my damn phone! LOL. It's lit up, everything looks fine, but it simply wont react to touch or pressing of buttons on side of phone. My dads giving me a lift to mobile phone repair shop in Old swan to get it fixed, so as soon as it's sorted i'll give you a call mate.

lol just fly the m1 foir a bit then the s2 seems huge . that 420 sounds nice i would quite like one myself id it worth the extra price tag

@arcturus2382 The problem is I'm so scared of crashing it due to the cost, I just potter around with that and leave the practising to my smaller helis! It is a lovely looking thing though!

@@deersbrook4485 thats why im flying old trex 500 s u can repair them with cheap tarrot parts. and im still being super carefull lol, i hav been considering a 420 raw but i would also potter around eaven more lol