Air Hogs Havoc

[Maverick]

Ok I know some of you guys got these little birds. What are some of the mods you did to get them to fly where you wanted instead of spinning like a demented top?

I had to get one, wally world dropped the price to $15.00 so the step son and I both got one. It gives us something to fly. Maybe later if we can control the lil bastages we can have a dogfight.

[Wes14]

i had a older one (looked like a pepsi bottle hooked to a prop and lil piston thing)
fill the thing full of air and spin the prop and let go.

all i could modify was the fact i could fly it in reverse:O

we got rid of it when the lil' bastage flew into the top of a tree in reverse:rofl

[nirvana]

My dad has one, it's a neat little toy the trick was to be quick with the trim buttons so that you could get it to stop spinning.  Unfortunately the batteries were usually dead by that time.  I think you can only move side to side and hope it follows unless you buy the $60 ones.

[Wolfala]

If its spinning, check the tail rotor for any lint or hairs that it may've sucked up into it. That'll drop the rpm enough for you to go dizzy. As for forward motion, take a tooth pick and put a little weight on the end taping it sticking out in front. That'll shift the CG forward enough to give you forward motion and not affect the weight a lot. I'm on my 2nd one b/c the tail rotor motor gave out.

I got my dad one for fathers day, my wife flies one and I have mine.


Wolf





Edit.

Wouldn't do thumbtacks in the nose because you are really close to the LiPo battery - you don't want to puncture that ever unless you envoke the B double O M theorym.

[indy007]

I unplug mine from the charger, hold it with a 2 finger grip, throttle up to hover (full up on a fresh battery is *not hovering*, and just hit the trim button until it stops spinning. The trim changes with battery power, but that's it. Once mine are set, it's good for the entire flight.

I have (well.. had) 5. Got them on sale @ Target for $9.99/each.

The key is just tiny little corrections, and adding side stick if you increase or decrease power from the hover.

Also, always launch & recover by hand if possible. Takeoff & landing is where you do all the damage in my experience. So far I've only had 1 destroyed tail-rotor and 2 lost airframes (1 battery failure, 1 mid-air collision with an air hog hydro storm).

Neat toys. For forward momentum, instead of a toothpick, we've been using thumb tacks.

If you get really bored, take it outside with a few mile an hour wind. We got them to what we estimated to be about 80-100 feet before it lost signal. If you do this, bring it down gently, or just chop the throttle & floor it again (takes good timing or else shovel recovery). Then, pray your idiot friend doesn't fly directly through it with his hydro storm.

[Jebus]

To make it fly forward I put the silver weights in the nose.  I also added 2 toothpicks.  I taped them to the front nose  so only 2/3 was taped under the cockpit (also made the tips look like some cannons hanging off).  That made it move forward but at and easy pace.