This very cheap beginner's C17 airplane includes gyro stabilization to prevent stalls and crashes. Hard to crash (but not impossible). A very nice and cheap flier for beginner pilots. Find it here .
Pros
- Very easy to fly. Great for beginner fliers. It has three axis gyro stabilization which prevents phugoid oscillations and stalls by quickly adjusting the thrust. It also prevents roll angles from exceeding about thirty degrees. Hard to crash, but I'm sure that some will find a way (especially when trees get in the way ;-).
- Very cool looking scale model of the C17. It actually looks like a C17 in flight when it's up high.
- Use a very common 3.7V 300mah battery with white Losi connector. You'll be able to easily to find additional batteries for this.
- It's cheap! It's currently the lowest cost RC airplane that I can think of at the moment. It really is impressive what you're getting for the price. This one's price is going to go up as it will be popular (supply and demand). So get it now while you can for $23.
Cons
- You will need to assemble the plane. It takes about two hours to assemble. You'll have to provide your own glue as it's not provided in the package.
- Range is about 80 meters. Alkaline batteries might help improve it (vice the dollar store batteries that I'm using). Fortunately its motors stop and it goes into a straight glide if you exceed range.
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