Blade 400 vs T-Rex 450

[Brian Gifford]

My two pennys worth guys .........

I have both the blade and the 450 .................the blade I bought first as the radio was worth the price ............the 450 I bought after because it was the 450 must have ....

I flew the 400 to death .............average £30 per crash on parts ..............parts identical with the twister if I emptied my local model shop .........The T- rex flew like it looked ........very classy .................but guess what ..............I flew the blade more .........just something about it i loved ...threw it about .....crashed it .......learn't to build it .....still do even though I fly nito's now ........and something else ............I fly all my helis off the DX6i that came with the blade .............the 450 however ............when I pranged it it cost around £70 a hit .............big outlay considering I pay around £ 80 a hit with the rappy 50 .......

Cost is the factor .......performance is about the same other than the 450 feeling more stable ......my advice is the 400

DAZZ

Thanks, Dazz. That's a very good argument for the Blade. I must admit, the DX6 attracted me, but after what you've said, I'm even keener.

[paulg1979]

So I went for it and bought Phoenix and the Blade 400 yesterday. Just been practicing. Is it me or is it really easy to fly 3D but a nightmare to land?

One other question should there be a plug with the Blade as I'm not able to charge the battery?

[Hunders]

Regarding the charger. You can use a car battery if you like but I found that to be really annoying so I went into town and picked up a 13.8V 5amp bench PSU like this one http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=231

It does the job just fine.

[paulg1979]

I would have thought the shop I purchased it from should have told me about this. I'll pop down Maplins tomorrow.