
What a machine this thing is. Not because it is fast and manoeuvrable, but because it is so damn bulky. With a reputation for being just about the heaciest helicopter in its class, it did not surprise many when I told them it had an MDS 48, which incidentally provides much more oomf than an old Irvine 46. Want my advice...buy an OS. Expensive but reliable and they last for years. I bought the MDS because I didn't fancy spending 120 quid on a motor that might not even go in the machine. As it turned out, it would probably have gone in much easier than my 50 quid MDS which was a bit of a pig to fit. In the same way the the channel tunnel would be a pig to fit into a standard drain pipe. But after much trouble and annoyance I got it going with a bit of help my dad. Thanks dad.
Well, since I last wrote anything about this helicopter on here (at least a few months ago) it has done a fair bit of flying, and I have to say, my helicopter flying skills have come on alot in that time too. 4 months ago I could just about do a circuit. Since, I have taught myself to stall turn, nose-in hover, pirouette (my first ever pirouette was nose-in to nose-in), slow pirouettes which many peoplke find difficult. Oh, and one day I came up with a really stupis idea. "That'll never roll", people used to say to me. Well, the machine and I proved them wrong. Who thought such a lump of a helicopter would fly, let alone ROLL. Yes, that's right...start the right way up, go inverted, then all the way back to upright again, losing only a small amount of height in the process. WOW!!!