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Well, the one used on the s029 is really bad, and breaks in about one flight, whether or not you crash. If you use decent plastic, a vaccu-form body would be good, but the cheap ones that they make are just one-and-done--crash once and you're done, needing a new body.

Yeah, now that I think about it, I kinda want to try it again for myself... I know of a surplus/closeout store where I can get UH-1B/C models for $10, then a s029g is good for nothing as is, so I might give it another shot, this time using a larger heli for the guts, as long as its parts can handle the job... Heard a lot of bad things about them like the plastic bodies are basically just thin sheets of vacu-formed plastic and they have tendancies to have all kinds of problems associated with moving forward. (bad tail motors, easilly blown tail motors, tail motors that aren't even connected, etc.) Get past that, and it should be better with a good body on it.

Let us know the progress with it!

If I remember right, and especially for that, you're probably going to need a s102g and probably going to need some mega modifications to both the innerds and the model to make it work. I think if you put the board and battery up in the front, the corpous/motors where they should go, and put the IR reciever in the bottom of the nose somehow.

Would take some considerable cutting and soldering of wires to pull off right...

Look around, from what I've read a few other places, it's not that hard to modify the right 1:72 plastic model to work with a s107 inside. If it wasn't for the fact that they were making a s119g and I loved the 107's I have so much, I would have done that with a huey. But, like I said, then they came out with a huey. (or at least said they're comming out with one, then they never did anything more with it that I know of)

The trouble with a skyhook is that there's the large open area right where the motos/board go. The innerds for a military heli with a broken body off of ebay could work, as long as you get the right one. (one with the s102g style corpus and whatnot in them, like my original huey plan called for)

*note to self~~the 107 doesn't have the lift to pick up a 1:48 heli as originally planned, and especially not the only 1:48 UH-1D out there... a die cast one!

There's a lot of helis that they need to make, but the thing is, if they make too many, then they won't sell enough of each. They have two different hueys listed, but they haven't made either of them yet. I think they're making all of the 800g's and s107c's and the other big sellers for christmas before they make any of the others.

What we need is somebody to make a set of bodies for syma military helicopters. Some aftermarket kit where you can turn a S107 into a military heli of your choice that isn't offered by Syma.