Wood or Carbon blades

[brashhighlander]

Alright folks. There is only one other heli flyer at my club who I always seem to fly on a different day from, so I need a bit of advice from everyone on here.

At the moment I am simply hovering and attempting some figure of 8's. I need a new set of main blades, the question is do I go for woodies or carbon. I know the level of flying i am doing I can still use woodies but I like the idea of a set of matched carbon blades. Are they worth the extra £20 for someone at my level.

Thanks

[Steve]

There's also glass composite blades as an inbetween house between woodies and carbons.

Worth a thought maybe - better than woodies and not as expensive as carbons.

[gazza]

Not forgetting with glass and carbons you can run a higher headspeed mate so the heli will have much better manners in wind...Not that its windy much these days

If you have a habit of crashing often tho mate I'd say stick to woods

[brashhighlander]

These would be ideal, but everywhere seems to be out of stock. Anybody know anywhere that has these in stock

[David Drew]

Just put some Razors on my Swift. Early feelings are that they are more solid, better balanced (less vibration) and the higher head speed is reassuring.

I am also at the same learning stage, so crashing may be more expensive, but I never really 'trusted' the stock woodies.

David

[Biggles]

I use one carbon and one woody......LMAO

[David Drew]

I use one carbon and one woody......LMAO

And flies round in circles eventually disappearing up his own....LOL

David

[Jamez]

LHC have some glass fiber blades for very little more than a set of woodies, or if you want to go carbon but don't want to shell out, JP,s carbon blades are a nice step up, and they are usauly less than 28 quid.
They are not up to the standard of say sab's or NHP's but they make a hell of a difference

[Steve]

I'll second that Jamez.

I've got JP blades on my 30 and they're spot on. They've been on there ever since I built it over a year ago. It's been so long since I bought them that I can't remember how much they were, but no complaints here anyway.

And they look good - mostly white with a grey and black diagonal band bit at the root.

See here -> http://www.modelhelicopters.co.uk/ac...s_LmGlass.html

[brashhighlander]

Thanks guys

just ordered a set of JP carbon blades, at £30 seems good value.