Thinking about a Gaui R5

[signman]

Anyone here own one ?

Like to here from any of you.

Who stocks them in the UK ?


Thanks

[AlastairC]

Yea I have one. Got mine from Europe as no-one has them here (Ep-Fun webshop) . Love mine. Running it on 14S Optipowers with an XNova 4530-525 and Rail 606's. It seriously shifts. My first proper speed heli. If you keep the head speed down then it is a lovely big air heli. Fire it up to 3200 RPM+ and it is a monster If you read Justin Pucci's RCHN review that will give you a great idea about the build. Happy to answer any questions about it

[signman]

R5

Thanks for the reply Alastair.

That looks the business mate !

I have a speed and kosmik 200 on my bench but no other electric's.
I've heard Speed flying is a dark art ?

Not been flying long so still a newb really.
I'm not really into smack at all but sport, mild 3d and these Speed heli's do it for me.

TDR , Diabolo etc.

I'll have to try an R5

Yea I have one. Got mine from Europe as no-one has them here (Ep-Fun webshop) . Love mine. Running it on 14S Optipowers with an XNova 4530-525 and Rail 606's. It seriously shifts. My first proper speed heli. If you keep the head speed down then it is a lovely big air heli. Fire it up to 3200 RPM+ and it is a monster If you read Justin Pucci's RCHN review that will give you a great idea about the build. Happy to answer any questions about it

[tomatwalden]

.... Love mine. Running it on 14S Optipowers with an XNova 4530-525 and Rail 606's. ...

Those "Rail 606's" looks an awful lot like Halo blades to me!

[AlastairC]

Those "Rail 606's" looks an awful lot like Halo blades to me!

Yes Tom well spotted.. ran these for the first few flights as landing the thing is like landing a 700 on 450 skids that are not well attached. You have to land directly into wind on flat ground or it will tip. The pics below are from my Facebook posts. The Rails are on the heli in the top image. The second image shows the "small" drive gears Still getting used to the heli and breaking in packs. Almost got the tuning down so I can start pushing it.





signman - speed is not so much of a dark art... just practice (and I need lots of that) and courage (yup still got a lot of work to do there too) to hit full collective coming into a loop at the top of a reverse half cuban 8. This is Justin's telemetry from his R5. Bottom of the 8 is 359 kph and 250 kph in level flight. Not bad for a 50 sized heli ;-)

[signman]

I believe there is a 550 Diabolo out soon too .

I have a Goblin Speed at the moment, still just an airframe.

Think an R5 may be a great first Speed Heli.

Been reading Robert's great post's over on HF on his R5

[tomatwalden]

The 550 Diabolo has been out for quite a while ...

minicopter - RC-Helikopter und Zubehör - Produkte - Diabolo 550

I assume you mean a speed version? A Diabolo S 550 ?

[gazmk2]

That R5 is very nice looking machine!

[AlastairC]

Not that my Trex 550DFC is fat but...