Don't be fooled by the low cost. This little airplane flies very well. Great affordable first airplane for beginner RC pilots. Find it here
Pros
- Very inexpensive. Should be affordable for most.
- Two channel plane that's very easy to fly. Throttle for climb/descend, and yaw control for right/left movement.
- Includes gyro stabilization to prevent rollovers. Although a differential thrust flier, the yaw steering was nicely proportional. The gyro stabilization helped greatly here. No need for "bumping" the yaw control as with many other 2 channel diff thrust fliers w/o stabilization.
- Only 10 grams, and also constructed of tough EPP foam. Should be resistant to most (but not all) crashes.
- 3.7V 80mah battery provides close to 8 minutes of flight time.
- Transmitter provides about 100 meters flight range.
Cons
- As it is very lightweight, this plane is best flown indoors, or outdoors on low wind days.
- Unusual size 3.8mm diameter brushed motors. Not sure where you would purchase replacement motors? But hopefully most pilots will be ready to move on to bigger/better planes before they wear out.
- Although gyro stabilized, it seemed tail heavy out of the box. A little putty on the nose easily corrected that (although it might have needed a little bit more).
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