Author Topic: Look at this neat LITTLE toy i got (Read 625 times)

Duckwing6 · « **on:** March 12, 2002, 04:09:19 PM »

Ikarus ECCO PICCOLO, one of the smallest Electro RC Helicopters i've ever seen.
It's awesome ... it weights less than 300g completely ready to go and it assembled in about 3 hours !

Have a look on the size:

Look at the heli not the chick !

i've got myselfe the a fuselage kit:

weights extra 60g, but what the heck !

Cheers
DW6

Animal · « **Reply #1 on:** March 12, 2002, 04:17:03 PM »

Can you, say.. load weapons or cameras into these? Like the military does?
And use them for purposes other than watching them fly around with a silly grin on your face?

Maverick · « **Reply #2 on:** March 12, 2002, 04:45:20 PM »

What the devil is the power for that lil critter??? It looks like it should be an old Cox .049! Is it all electric?

Duckwing6 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 12, 2002, 05:12:29 PM »

all electricity... man cox is dead since ages

on 8cells with the tuning engine it runs up to 10 mins... they have set a record at 32 mins... but that was with non-stock engine and batteries.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 12, 2002, 05:54:06 PM »

So is it like a Real RC chopper? I mean like the gas ones that you can hover and control and everything or does it just fly on its own?

and how much? Cause I want one!

eskimo2 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 12, 2002, 06:08:43 PM »

I live close to an RC field and was watching an RC chopper.
I made a comment about how it could do such un-natural things.
A guy in front of me said that the pilot was a 3 time world champion.

eskimo

Duckwing6 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 13, 2002, 01:36:30 AM »

yea this is a complete RC chopper !

it's a bit different as it has a fixed pitch and you fly with the rpm same for the tail rotor, but it's just like the big ones... only that it is really really small and basically built for indoor flying.

it comes at around 350 Euros that'd be some 300 $ i think.
DW6

Saintaw · « **Reply #7 on:** March 13, 2002, 01:40:41 AM »

Built in for indoors flying?

I should have had that when I was a kid... re-decorating interiors

Animal · « **Reply #8 on:** March 13, 2002, 01:44:26 AM »

Someone please answer my question cause I have the money!

moose · « **Reply #9 on:** March 13, 2002, 01:45:29 AM »

ruh ruh

taxes are coming back.

Duedel · « **Reply #10 on:** March 13, 2002, 03:26:28 AM »

Hey Duckwing cool thing. My girlfriend wanted to get one too but we heard that it is very very difficult to fly. Can u share ur forst flying experience plz?

wsnpr · « **Reply #11 on:** March 13, 2002, 05:27:31 AM »

http://www.ezonemag.com/articles/2001/mar/piccolo/piccolo.htm

Hope the link above is to the same RC helicoptor
A little dated.

Duckwing6 · « **Reply #12 on:** March 13, 2002, 09:30:17 AM »

Well duedel flown (or hopped around rather

) a bit now:

In ground effekt it's very unstable.. lift it out of ground effect and it becomes a lot better but still it's a heli and therfore hard to fly especially for newbies (like i am to heli flying

)

The way the rotorhead is setup you need to be very carefull to have the hiller blades and the swashplate nicely aligned otherwise it just doesn't do what you want it to do ... but heck it's fun !

cheers
DW6

LePaul · « **Reply #13 on:** March 13, 2002, 10:26:26 AM »

Oh wow

So no more getting up from the computer to check on what the dog is barking at, eh? Just send out Super Huey and voila, instant eyes? Neat! Now, if it can carry some Estes model rockets, I've got the world's smallest gunship

CyranoAH · « **Reply #14 on:** March 13, 2002, 11:43:04 AM »

Wow, I'm ordering this one for sure!!

Daniel