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I remember my first RC car. It was a Nikko Dune Buggy Racer with these great knobby tires for off -roading. There was also a “turbo boost” control for extra speed when you needed it. For a 10 year old it didn’t get any better.
With any toy at that age, at first you cannot imagine life without it but eventually it ends up in a box somewhere. I suspect the purchase of my first Nintendo killed my interesting in the genre as that was my first and last RC toy until about 5 years ago when I first spotted the relatively new micro helicopters.
I remember feeling that same excitement getting ready for my first flight, just as if I was 10 years old again. Unfortunately the thing was a piece of junk. The body was made of Styrofoam that split down the middle after the first crash and the blades were so brittle that both sets broke within a few days of use and there was $60 bucks down the drain.
The good news is the micro helicopters are way better today and way cheaper. Our friends at Xenon Project were kind enough to send us demo unit to dust off our pilot skills with.
Our unit is the S107G in red. The little sucker is surprisingly well made. The chassis is metal and the housing is a nice high quality plastic. Our only wish here is that the gears were made of metal as well.
The other major improvement we noted was the blades. Instead of being fixed and super easy to break, each blade can fold back and is made of much more flexible – i.e. damage resistant plastic than previous models.
The copter itself has a rechargeable battery, but the control takes 6 AA batteries that you supply. In the air the S107G is a whole lot of fun to fly. The controls are very stable and responsive, making it pretty easy for even beginners like us to look like seasons pro’s. Our only other minor gripe pops up with the controller. It communicates with the unit via IR which means a very limited flight range. We found that with any more than 10 feet the connection was lost causing a crash.
All in all, we love this little guy. At just $25 bucks is less than half the price of our first copter and superior in every way from fly-ability to durability.
Be sure to zip over to Xenon Project to check it out along with their huge inventory of everything RC.
Link: Xenon Project
