Owen Hailey Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 Hi Edmund.I to am very lucky as my Misses lets me get my own toys and she by hers so we get no real friction and we have been together 21 years so on a simular wave lenth to you nice to chat and hope you get you preasent as soon as poss.nice one Owen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Martin 2 Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 Hi Edmund,Good luck with your T-Rex, a few of the 500's fly at our club and they fly very well indeed.Cheers........David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Comber Posted August 21, 2008 Author Share Posted August 21, 2008 OK I have made the decision to cut the Mini-Titan from the short list and it is now a two horse race between the T-REX 450 or the T-REX 500. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Comber Posted September 1, 2008 Author Share Posted September 1, 2008 Having taken advice from a number of places, I was just about to order (literally as I was about to click the ‘Buy’ button having input all the details for the online order – my friend phoned so I decided to hold off) a HoneyBee Fixed Pitch (HBFP) as an intermediary step as they seem to fair well from ‘incidents’ and are simple and robust such that often all you need to do is straighten out and carry on flying. The HBFP draws strong opinions from two opposite camps, but seems to be a good trainer option. However yesterday a friend brought round a new Hirobo Quark FP micro helicopter and we (I hade 4 flights) flew it in my meadow. I loved it. It will do exactly for what I want in terms of intermediate training, and I can fly it safely indoors, and outdoors in calm weather or light winds at weekends (getting dark earlier now and I don’t get home from work). It is tweakable to make it more demanding to fly as my skills progress, beautifully engineered, robust (sacrificial blades) during incidents. I plan to get a T-REX 500 kit at Christmas, but this Quark is just perfect for my current requirements – yes it is expensive, but it is quality, and it works! I will have mine this evening! as my pal is getting it for me as I type! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mouldy Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Definatly the 500.I bought a 450 v2 and am having fun with it, but a 500 would be much better. The 450 is fast, small and light so it accelerates very quickly and gets very small even quicker! Bonus is that parts are cheap as are batteries.The 500 is smoother to fly, copes with winds better and is just under twice the size of the 450. It will fly on 5s cells very well and go ballistic on 6S, but neither size need to be big in the MaH stakes so arnt mega expensive. It also flys well out of the box except if you fit a carbon boom. If you do this then it needs to be grounded due to causing interference and yes this includes 2.4!The 600 flys even better then the 500 but the down side is that it needs 6S 4200's to fly and 8S cells to fly proper 3D. Also needs various parts upgrading to fly good 3D so all in all is a very expensive machine.500 gets my vote! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Jones Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Hi, just a quick note,......They do say if you can fly a Honeybee you can fly anything.........Had one of those before I bought a t-rex 450 and i would say it helped me fly the t-rex alot better..................lolHappy Flyin...................................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Martin 2 Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 The two TRex 500's that fly every time I'm at our club, go through sportsman standard 3D manoeuvers each battery and their beepers go off at 6 minutes on the Align TRex 500 5S lipos that retail at about £60 each. Their other lipos are £90 each and don't appear to give any advantage...They are a very smooth machine though that I've seen fly in winds of about 10mph without noticing it. Oddly, the best fliers other regular machine is a full spec 90 size Synergy that now hardly ever sees the light of day..!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mouldy Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Flying 3D is going to pull a lot more current then general flying of circuits etc. Would expect 7-8 minutes for this type of flying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Comber Posted September 22, 2008 Author Share Posted September 22, 2008 Thanks for the help and advice. As I said ain the original post - I am not interested in 3D - don't ever expect to get that good! so the longer times would be welcome. The Lipo's for the 500 are a concern cost wise - so the T-REX 450SE v2 and the Mini Titan SE are back on the agenda - remember I want to fly in a small meadow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mouldy Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 There is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that youll find the 500 easier to fly then the 450! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Jones Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 you would be better off with a 450 to learn with as the cost would be easier to swallow everytime you crash as i have found....................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Comber Posted September 23, 2008 Author Share Posted September 23, 2008 If I do go for the smaller heli - I am currently favoring the Mini Titan SE. However I won't be buying till Christmas / New year - maybe February when I have a birthday.... by then the 'credit crunch' might mean that vendors are willing to reduce their high (40-45%?) margin to secure sales and there may be 'bargains' to be had..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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