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Hi SF, I've only got 11, latest is the 107C I was hoping for a White one but they sent a Red/Black one at first a bit disappointed but I now think it's a pretty cool addition. Can't thank you enough for all the vids and tips you've done on this machine it has really helped. There are a lot of "107's" around at present for about £8, I'm not even remotely interested as i know they will be fakes!!!!

I am trying to work out on Linux how to upload photos of my collection, finding it a bit challenging today, no worries I'll get there soon. I don't get a lot of time to try and study,do odd jobs, cook etc etc as I am on a lot of morphine (prescribed) so in between dose a get a couple of hours to try and achieve the things that either need doing or what I wan to do, then there's the problem of hand eye co-ordination, and if that wasn't enough often times my vision just goes blurry a couple of times a day and there is no pattern it just goes, all in all difficult really. So now I'm going to try and upload some pics

Hi Rob52, Amazon 10 heli's all genuine no probs.

rob52 said
Hey guys, another noob to RC helis. Obviously I'm new here, as this is my first post. I actually made the mistake of buying a fixed pitch, single rotor mini for my first RC helicopter. It was a Xieda 9958, and it sucked big time. I think I just got a lemon, you know, one of those rare birds that's defective out of the box? The first time I tried to take off, the thing just skidded across the floor to the left, the instruction manual (written in Chinenglish), said to use the trim buttons on the transmitter, but that had NO affect. What you have to understand, is that I live in a small one bedroom apartment and there ain't no huge amount of air-space in here, so as I took flight I was fighting this thing to try to keep from smashing into the walls. After a few hard crashes, the left slide problem went away, only to be replaced by the toilet bowl effect. The design of this chopper used the tail rotor to control yaw, same as a real helicopter, but apparently the tail rotor wasn't kicking in until a few seconds after takeoff. Anyway, long story short, after only less than an half hour of total flight time, the thing quick working all together. Thankfully, aside from a few scratches on the rotor blades, it wasn't damaged from all the crashes, so Xheli took it back. I swapped it for an F162 Fire Wolf. You may have seen them at Amazon under the alias of Avatar F103. It's one of those kind with the two big out-rigger fans on the sides like the choppers in the movie Avatar. It flies pretty decent, but it's not nearly as smooth and sweet as my very first Syma S107. That's right, I got her just this past Monday and now I'm hooked. She's yellow in color and I name her "Bumble Bee". This little RC chopper flies like a dream. It's truly amazing how much control you have with this little bird. Now my wishlist at Amazon is loaded with S107s of all different colors, and of course, the S107C with the onboard camera. I've also got a few of the little replica models like the Apache, Blackhawk, Marine Cobra and Coast Guard Rescue. I don't know how they fly, but I'm gonna find out.

 

The one negative thing about the 107 I noticed right away is it's sluggish forward/backward control. I was looking around at all the mods when I came across this site and starting reading about all the fake/imitations/clones/bootlegs of the S107 out there. I'm sure glad I came across this site before buying anymore RC Helicopters, as I'm sure Syma isn't the only reputable brand they copy. Has anyone compiled a list of sellers on Amazon or Ebay that sells these bogus models, or perhaps a list of reputable licensed sellers?

 

Anyway, I look forward to meeting some of you on the forums.

Hi,you guys!
I'm new be here.Nine Eagles
Is here anyone deleting comments or to change the topic?
This could really be fantastic.Isn't it?

Good man CPD

Welcome! As JamDJ's said, I've been rather busy lately, never get a chance to go slow until it comes time to just sit and kill time in a dorm room. (hate doing that, but what's a "selectively" social college kid to do?) Keep going with this, and things aren't too hard to pick up. Diagnostic skills on these little things is pretty easy, just scroll through and read the old posts by some of us vets and you'll soon get a good grasp of problem, solution A, which is when problem B arises, facilitating solution B, causing problem C to become apparant, eliminating solutions A, B, C, and D, and confounding all of us until somebody chirps in the actual problem/solution and it's fixed, and so-forth. That's how I learned how to diagnose these things, along with being a kid that was always into stuff like kinects (or was it kinex...) and figuring out why this or that didn't work as designed.