got me one of those ufo thingies!

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- August 2, 2005 at 11:43 pm #9908
  betty.k
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  had me one of them birthdays recently and a couple of friends, knowing i liked toys, gave me an rc ufo!
  
  it’s something i wouldn’t have normally bought myself but now i’ve got it i can’t stop using it! it has 5 steps of propo and fully charged it can climb fairly quickly, say 1 metre per second. when i got it it was a dead still night so i took it outside and could get it to maintain a nice hover at about 20 – 25 metres. i could hear my neighbours come outside to look!it has 2 led’s, 1 red that comes on with the motor and 1 that cascades from red – blue – green! so in flight, in the dark it looks amazing! sounds like a cross between a heli and a ufo too!
  
  it’s pretty durable too, i’ve had it drop from 15 metres onto concrete and banged into everything in the garden and so far the only damage is cosmetic!
  
  under the hood is a motor same size as a mini z servo motor and it’s powered by a 6v 120mah nimh pack (5x 1/3 aaa’s). it comes with a launch pad that doubles as a mobile charger (needs 8 x c cells!) and also a plug pack for indoor charging. there’s a little 6v regulator included that is required for charging, which ever method you choose. with the included charger, it takes around 15 minutes to charge and runtime is a little over 5 minutes. i’m getting slightly better runtimes and performance using my swallow charger but not by much.
  
  so far only mods done is better tx aerial and i unwrapped the rx aerial. i’m thinking a couple of lipo will liventhis thing up! more voltage + less weight =
  
  so if you see a cheap one or can fit one in your next hong kong order then you’ll be happy you got one, trust me!
- August 2, 2005 at 11:45 pm #19216
  betty.k
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  here she is in action (sorry ’bout the phone pics)
- August 3, 2005 at 12:38 am #19215
  merc-blue
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  yeah i had one of these a while ago burnt out the motor pretty quick coudnt be assed replacing it so it hit the bin
- August 3, 2005 at 10:49 pm #19194
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  Yeah they are good fun…. The new generation ones look even more fun and directionaly controllable too.
  
  http://www.gadgetmadness.com/archives/20050720-silverlit_xufo_rc_flying_toy.php
- August 10, 2005 at 12:17 am #19069
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  i made a short vid
  
  http://home.iprimus.com.au/cjleary/ufo.wmv
  
  the central heating was on so it got blown around too much but you get the idea
- August 10, 2005 at 1:59 am #19067
  peteWah
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  I love the music track that you put to that mate :smiley2:
- August 10, 2005 at 2:43 am #19050
  merc-blue
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  what song its it betty? i aslo quite enjoyed it
- August 10, 2005 at 4:39 am #19052
  z-beam
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  looks like fun betty!
- August 10, 2005 at 9:18 am #19055
  Viper_14
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  Really fun i love it
- August 10, 2005 at 11:47 am #19057
  betty.k
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  music is ‘cha cha intro’ by honeysmack. taken from the ‘rock’ album
- August 18, 2005 at 11:59 pm #18984
  trash
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  hehe … been a while since I played with mine. I used to have a lot of fun scareing neighbours in a block of flats next door. Fly it up to their balcony, and turn it off when they cam out to look.
  
  But now I have got to get me a directionally contoled one !
  
  oh hangon … it’s one of those 4 prop units. Nar…. I was thinking of a single prop with a kicker.
  
  Gyroscopic forces react at 90 degrees to their inputs. Pitching the prop in relation to the earth’s magnetic field is another way of steering them. I think a larger version would make an excellemt military serveilence aircraft.
  
  Edited by – trash on 18 August 2005 20:04:35
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