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david11cap
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Location: Clinton,CT

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		What made you all want to fly rc helis? Me it was portability. Flying planks I had to deal with removing wings and places close to where I live to fly?
10-29-2009 12:20 AM
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rocco.sj
Senior Heliman
Location: San Jose,CA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		It all started for me 6 years ago when i was at my local flying field club.there was a guy hovering a trex450 and was mesmerized by it and how the heli was suspended up in the air.caught my attention, and had the bug ever since!.now i look back and wondering how i came a long way by not knowing how heli works in the begining and becoming a sponsored pilot at the end.i guess if you put your mind to work, anything is possible.one thing i learned so valuable about this hobby is to be patience and never quit and give up!.also a very expensive hobby!.

Team RF Frequency.
10-29-2009 12:42 AM
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bart2546
Heliman
Location: Canal Winchester, OH - USA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		For me it was something that a lot of people around here DIDN'T do except a few. I watched those few and was MUCH more intrigued and amazed than watching a floating pine tree covered in balloon material fly in a straight line.

I had always been amazed by rotary flight. Even when I was little when they had the Stat Medi heli shows/tours I always went to that only.

I however went in as completely naive and didn't realized HOW darn expensive it is. Oh well, already in too deep to go back now.

Regards, Brandon
10-29-2009 12:46 AM
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yzchopper
Senior Heliman
Location: Basin City, Washington USA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Because an airplane is just plane fun and a helicopter is exciting and challenging. I'm up for challenges. No really..why I fly is because I worked for a helicopter cropduster who flew the R/C Helicopters and he got me hooked. I could not afford one until I was older and out on my own. Now I enjoy flying both R/C Helicopters and the Full Scale Helicopters.

Steve

People Fly Planes Pilots Fly Helicopters
10-29-2009 12:48 AM
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bart2546
Heliman
Location: Canal Winchester, OH - USA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		God do I want to get my rotary license....it's just waaaay to expensive.

Regards, Brandon
10-29-2009 01:04 AM
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Gyronut
Elite Veteran
Location: Martinsville In.

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		I figured that if I could stop smoking I could fly heli's.

I'm still not smoking..

Rick
10-29-2009 01:04 AM
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enahs
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Location: Valparaiso, IN

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Grew up in an RC family as my dad and grandfather fly planes. I had always had the itch to get a heli but never did until I graduated high school in 2006. I was able to buy all I needed and got a heli. Due to college, I didn't get to fly much until the summer of 2008. Will graduate this May and am looking forward to being able to fly more frequently.

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10-29-2009 01:06 AM
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mckrackin
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Location: lucasville,ohio USA

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10-29-2009 01:09 AM
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Thomas Moore
Senior Heliman
Location: California

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		I saw a 450 on youtube.... then the addiction started.

Team Avant
10-29-2009 01:43 AM
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airboss
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Location: OC ,california

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		about 8 years ago I mastered the 3D planes ,we were on fire, and made lots of new flying buddies. and thanks to brushless and lipo tech planes seemed to rule. then 6 years ago I met a guy flying a rapt. 90
at our local park, this guy was good enough to convince me that I needed a heli.

OCRM....flyBlackstarr.org.
10-29-2009 01:49 AM
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2tall
Heliman
Location: Crystal Lake, Illinois, USA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		I was first hooked in the early 70s. I had just been reassigned from a 2nd Nam tour to Ft. Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. Like so may others of that time, I had become fascinated with the world of helicopters through the visuals of various evolutions of the UH1.

The only decent hobby shop at the time was on Menard Road a few miles from the airport. (Local lore claimed that the meandering path of Menard road - as it progressed from the airport towards down town Anchorage - was first established by the path of a drunken cow - but I digress.)

Hanging from the ceiling of that shop was a scale EC something or other detailed exactly in the scheme of one of the local TV affiliates. Nearby was a used Kavan Jet Ranger looking for a new home. I think I actually made several trips there just to lust after the possibility of ever owning/flying one of those models.

I settled on a GMP Cricket. That progressed to a Schluter Heliboy, then a GMP Competitor Pro. We left Anchorage in 1990, but the hobby, for me, has had many stops since then - all wonderful.

"Don't worry, I crash better than anyone else I know."
10-29-2009 01:52 AM
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GyroFreak
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Location: Florida ... 28° 52' N 81° 16' W

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		For me, the challenge. Both learning to fly and the complex mechanics. I love modifying and trying new gadgets.

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10-29-2009 01:56 AM
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A. Bundy
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Location: Aurora,IL. 30W/SW of Chicago

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Because everyone said it was hard and I could never get good at it.
10-29-2009 02:17 AM
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GimbalFan
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Location: Copter County, Nv

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Why fly helis?
I was into high-end puter-based flight sims 5 years ago when I saw that TV show on RC that Chris Chianelli did on DIY, the episode abt RC flight sims.

Right away I bought G3 and flew it for a few months before deciding to find an RC park nearby to see what folks were doing. I got out of my Jeep at Bennett Field and the first guy I saw flying was Alan Jr with his blue R90.

Bada-boom bada-bing.

I drove home that afternoon and phoned HeliProz for an R50 package.

The day the hair on the back of my neck stops standing up whenever I fly (helis, planks, gliders, anything) will be the day I drop this hobby.

Hasn't happened yet. Probably never will.

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10-29-2009 02:21 AM
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Helijet
Heliman
Location: B.C. Canada

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		As I enter my 34 year of flying helis....if you have to ask you just don't get it.

D. Wichmann
10-29-2009 02:49 AM
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BOOGIE
Key Veteran
Location: LAFAYETTE LA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		A friend got me into it Maybe I should not call him a friend! He cost me a lot of $$

Team PO-BOY
10-29-2009 03:01 AM
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jschenck
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Location: La Vista, NE.

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		watching some guy take his brand new GMP Cobra into a hover, spin it up to a high RPM (throttle was a separate slider I think, he flew single stick) then shoot it up into the sky. My 16/17 year old brain was frozen. He then did a high speed pass and an aileron roll. Man I wish I could remember his name. He flew for the military at White Sands and we were flying at the northeast model club.

I traded some equipment for a Cricket the next year. After the tail wire slipped and it did a few piro's I landed it without breaking and sold it - realizing I could not afford to wreck it.

Glad I now can fly them.

.. P-gas, T700, V50c/u, R50T, T4/250 and a Cricket ..
10-29-2009 03:02 AM
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ruddernate
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Location: sulphur,Ok.

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		i got a little cheesy micro heli at radio shak (micro masquito) and it was a challenge to get it to fly right. i read others on the internet saying it was junk but wouldn't fly very well. i had made mine fly great. when i did a search online to find parts i saw these huge nitro machines and i was amazed. i had no idea they made machines such as these. i'm still amazed and more broke than ever. oh and i just found another masquito knock off for $10 on line and it now flys great. i gave $80 at radio shak and i thought that was expensive for a toy heli at the time.

fly it like you stole it
10-29-2009 03:44 AM
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30636086
Key Veteran
Location: Tacoma, WA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		after watching the "Rob and Big" episode where they went to the LHS and got 10 helis to "learn how to fly!

"Do work son!"

I dont suffer from mental iIlness, I actually enjoy mine!
10-29-2009 04:08 AM
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Bundian
Senior Heliman
Location: Miami, FL USA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		My buddy both a crappy plane at Walmart.
I was the only one who could keep it in the air for about 15 seconds, than I flew out of range and flew into the neighbours yard and his dogs chewed the plane up

Next day i went to the hobby store for a proper plane, since they were too big, i got a Blade CX2...after demolishing the living room with it i went for bigger and bigger til ig got a 600 nitro which was the best heli ever..til I saw the 700...now I got a 700 and a 250.
I've kept the Blade CX 2 just for sentimental values, I haven't flown it for a very long time

Fly it like you stole it!!!
10-29-2009 04:11 AM
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