OT - the BEST fun ever with your clothes on

V8D, grandson had one like this for Christmas and when I saw it I thought it was fantastic. Whats more it is still going www.microrccars.net/hovercopter/

Whats the old saying ? oh yeah , "the difference between men and boys is the price & size of their toys "

I have the same but fixed wing aircraft x 2. They are made out of the same stuff and have an engine on each wing. The remote allows you to control throttle (climb or dive) and left/ right (opposite engine revs increase to induce turn).

You just throw it like a paper plane and then hit the throttle. Great fun but it needs to be indoors or a no wind day if you want to control it. They will climb to power pole height and have a range of about 30 metres from the controller.

You can buy them from Toys R Us for around $50 - 60. I bought mine in Oct and they survived the travel to Afghanistan where they get flown around the compound occasionally. The Afghans love running after them (and are happy to climb on the roof to rescue them).

I will be buying a new set on return to Oz as I am giving mine to one of our bus drivers.

Great fun to buzz the dog and the wife etc - the kids love it.

Remember - No Wind

Cheers ... Taz

Hi There,

I fly rather larger RC heli's than this but can recommend them to anyone who wants to have a bit of fun. Almost indestructible and a buzz when you get it right.

I got one of these for christmas, it is still working, I have lots of RC stuff and most of it is broken within 24hrs. This thing can be flown inside only as the sun effects the IR, I found out when I lost control and ti went onto my roof. They are awesome fun, I also got my 14month old in the cheek with the blade and it didnt hurt him, it was kind of like king kong. I also have the single channel UFO thing, it was crap so I modded it. Reversed the polarity of the blade, put the balde up side down on the top of the body, took out all the electronics, direct drove the batts to the motor, and let it go. I recon it got around 400m verticle so it was a tiny dot, but the wind took it probably 2km horozontal. It landed somewhere a long way away but it was awesome. I recommend the mod as its a crap toy.

Can you buy them in Oz? and where.

hahaha....designed for indoor flying??!!......hehehe......something to chase the budgie around the house with hehehehe

Took the Picoo Z round for the Australia Day BBQ at our mate's place yesterday. He's building a big open plan room out the back of his place with a very high pitched roofline. Perfect!

Whilst all the ladies sat in the pool drinking wooblah, the men played with the helicopter inside on a 41 degree day. Experimented with blu-tak weight distribution for a greater 'attack angle' to increase speed. All the lads are buying them now so we can race.

Later on my wife had a go and crashed into the new brickwork where it fell into the wall cavity. mmmmmmmmmmm. Extension ladder and some contortionist work from Graemar (he's a plumber see) saved the day.

Thats what my brother bought my 6yo for xmas. Bloody great. We fight over playing with it all the time.