What was your first heli?

[Gaza07]

Twister medevac coaxial loved it untill it blew away, then got a twister 3d

[chris jones2.4]

mine was a Hirobo scuttle ZXX
pile of shit compared to my vision and 700 and 500

[toetapper]

Hirobo sceadu. Irvine 36,zimmerman pipe, csm 540,futaba 9001's.

Cheers
Si

[derrick]

If i count the £19.99 one my wife bought as a stocking filler, lasted a couple of hours most of that time was spent charging battery,
moved on to a cx2, the rest is history,

[Vanquish]

Trex 500, still flying it!

[Rick H]

Concept 30 SRX with a sanwa 6000 radio great heli for learning

[p4ddy]

Ripmax Sabre FP AKA Rebranded Walkera#4. Still have it.

[woody]

My first was a second hand Swift

followed by a Trex 450 V2, then a Trex 600e then ..... then...... then ..... finally a nitro Trex 700LE .....too many helis

[Leo77]

My first heli wa a mfa sport 500 fixed pitch which had a enya ss40 engine and sanwa radio gear. And learnt to fly without a gyro, helis have changed so much in the last 20yrs

[rapidgaz]

My first was a trex450xl but soon became a se v2 well about a month of upgrades.


Sent from me

[heliward0]

twister FP..hatred hatred thing!!!!...looking back i am suprised i didnt give up on helis within a week!!

[Tim Procter]

A raptor 30 with 148 servos.

Bingo.

I had much the same... A Raptor 30 with the same servos and a shitty gyro that name forgets me.

[electricsceadu]

mk3 morley bell 47g
irvine 40h
futaba 128 servos
g154 gyro
futaba challenger heli mode 1 tx

i was flying fixed wing mode 2 so the tx didn't get used for long

i've still got the heli and it was restored in 2007 and an asp 61 four stroke motor fitted and it was one of the morley's that i was awarded the morley vintage cup in 2007

[Grant85]

Yep you never forget your first heli especially if ya still have scars on your arm over 3 years later from when it chopped through it like I have! I had a twister bell coax heli then I bought a Walkera 60b off the internet. I thought it looked good as it had all the nice shiny metal parts. Unknown to me it had dodgy raido gear in it and when I plugged the lipo in...It just went bezerk and I couldn't get my arm away in time I'd never touch a Walkera again.

Cheers Grant.

[Si_B]

I never saw a collective pitch MFA fly properly, but my old fixed pitch one taught me to hover and fly circuits (without the aid of a gyro). The Bluebird engine was the weakest point, but when it was running, it was great fun.

Will try and dig out an old photo, my second model was a Shuttle S. Still remember my first crash, I ran out of fuel when hovering about 6 foot off the ground. The first lesson on how expensive the hobby is (only used to earn about 80 quid a week back then)