Worlds smallest helicopter?

[Nowhere]

http://www.proxflyer.com/pi_meny.htm

3,3 g...and perhaps photo says it best

Imagine surveilance (ok, spying on your sexy neighbour ) with similar thing, or swarm of them at battlefield...

[VJ]

Cool, it appears to work untethered (battery power).


Jörg

[Brian Ellis]

Looks like a large dragonfly

[rylan]

Wonder how it handles wind.

[Nowhere]

Shouldn't that be "wonder how wind handles it"?

[ZokesPro]

I wonder how much noise it makes.

[Admiral]

Looks like a large dragonfly

yup

[gt40]

Interesrtingly enough, I am looking at getting into some r/c helicopter stuff.
Just a little bigger than that, thou

[Jammrock]

Radio Shack, if they have them up there, has some cool indoor/outdoor RC helicopters:

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2151282&cp=&fbn=Type%2FHelicopter&f=PAD%2FProduct+Type%2FHelicopter&fbc=1&kw=helicopter&parentPage=search

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2135190&cp=&kw=helicopter&parentPage=search

[gt40]

We used to have Radio Shacks up here, almost all of them where converted to 'The Source by Circuit City' due to dome legal issues.

Those look pretty cool though, but I'm looking at something a little more serious.

Probably Nitro powered in a 30 size - about a meter in length or so -something like this

I'm keeping my eye on a few models on ebay, and if everything works out I should be crashing one in about a week or so
( j/k about the crashing part , but I understand they are not the easiest things to fly)

[agallag]

Are you going to try something like this?

ftp://agallagh42.dyndns.org/alan_veg...ydemo_2004.wmv

[gt40]

Holy Poop, is he good
and he was fighting a decent wind too

I think I'll spend about a week just learning to hover properly

[Nowhere]

Hmm...you could start learning already in simulator (there are even options of attaching real control unit to PC...)

[gt40]

I might just do that

[Fat Tone]

Someone once described flying model helicopters to me as "like balancing two ping-pong balls on your finger tip...in a force ten gale!"

You need deep pockets for that hobby Pat. Good luck, I hope you enjoy it. I fancy it myself but no-one will lend me theirs for some reason