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Posted at 12:38 PM on Thursday 11/13/08 by
Ben
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Overstock.com has the Syma Mini S010 RC Remote Control 3-channel Helicopter for $38 - 10% code EXPIRED + $1 shipping = $35 shipped. It can fly up, down, forward, backward, left and right and charges in 10 minutes and flies for 5 minutes. [BizRate]
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    mollask - Posted 12:43 pm PST 11/13/08 (158 Posts)  Report Spam

    I've seen some of these mini-copters for less than $20. Not sure what makes this one worth $35, but I'd wait for another deal if you're looking for one of these for your nephew/son/cube-mate...

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    gwe - Posted 12:46 pm PST 11/13/08 (356 Posts)  Report Spam

    Are there any of these that fly for longer than it takes to charge? Most you spend 2/3's of the time charging.

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    R6 - Posted 12:49 pm PST 11/13/08 (268 Posts)  Report Spam

    ummm.. those run on gas? but those will price 10x as much

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    VolvoMan - Posted 12:54 pm PST 11/13/08 (265 Posts)  Report Spam

    You can pick up Air Hogs Radio-Controlled Havoc Helicopters at your local Target store for around $25 ea.

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    mollask - Posted 12:56 pm PST 11/13/08 (158 Posts)  Report Spam

    Yeah - go to Target - save the shipping and the $10.

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    BargainHunter777 - Posted 1:02 pm PST 11/13/08 (101 Posts)  Report Spam

    Are they sturdy enough to withstand crash landing or even rough landing. I had a medium quality helicoptor with chargeable battery. It a long time to fine adjust to stabilize it so that it will remain steady while airborne. Finally, every time I landed it (albeit not so gently), some thing would break, so I had to glue it using epoxy and fine tune it. Any one with similar experience or I had a bad piece?

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    VolvoMan - Posted 1:36 pm PST 11/13/08 (265 Posts)  Report Spam

    ^ I bought 3 Air Hogs Havoc Heli's almost a year ago for my nieces and nephew and they still work. Body is made of a compressed styrofoam to keep them light and durable.

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    enternal - Posted 2:24 pm PST 11/13/08 (108 Posts)  Report Spam

    The choppers that I flew were very hard to stabilize and very frail from being so light. After losing Billy, I shouted for everyone to get to the chopper, but only me and the girl made it out. Poor Apollo creed got his arm shot off Sad.

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    pcspecialist - Posted 4:31 pm PST 11/13/08 (269 Posts)  Report Spam

    Because the tail rotor is horizontal, it must be using opposing main rotors so it probably is very easy to fly. With a horizontal tail rotor the speed of the tail rotor will cause forward/backward movement as it will control the angle of the main rotor by lifting/lowering the tail.

    This configuration requires 3 motors (and 3 channel controller) compared to the cheaper ones with 2 (and 2). Also this one is radio controlled compared to the cheaper infrared.

    I have not tried this one but giving the differences between it and the cheaper ones I would guess it is probably well worth the extra cost.

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    utlimatennis - Posted 4:44 pm PST 11/13/08 (10 Posts)  Report Spam

    I think I'd rather fly with those sling shotting monkeys.

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    Whizzard - Posted 5:15 pm PST 11/13/08 (104 Posts)  Report Spam

    #9 has good points.

    Three channels mean more manueverability.

    Circles around the rotors mean that flying close (or into) obstacles does not mean the rotors get busy shredding themselves.

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    lu6an - Posted 5:15 pm PST 11/13/08 (42 Posts)  Report Spam

    kohls dept store has these for like $30 a piece

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    grafer2 - Posted 8:28 pm PST 11/13/08 (82 Posts)  Report Spam

    purchased a couple of these for 18 a while back... lasted a couple months... worth the fun.....

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    ahjeck - Posted 3:33 am PST 11/14/08 (38 Posts)  Report Spam

    I second #13's comment... It's pretty fun as long as you don't fly out of range haha.... and then watch it drop into the water. Not the best price however.

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    NullShell - Posted 11:20 am PST 11/14/08 (91 Posts)  Report Spam

    Last year I wanted to get one of these toy helicopters for my niece, but my sister didn't like it. I am still interested to get one for myself, lol. Any one knows which is the best model within $50?

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