Comments on: The Gakken Cross Copter: Two rotors for twenty-seven dollars http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/09/28/the-gakken-cross-copter-two-rotors-for-twenty-seven-dollars/ the blog that is not dansdata.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:03:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Red October http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/09/28/the-gakken-cross-copter-two-rotors-for-twenty-seven-dollars/#comment-3160 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:45:10 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/09/28/the-gakken-cross-copter-two-rotors-for-twenty-seven-dollars/#comment-3160 I work at Radio Shack and we sell the Micro Mosquito; it is indeed very controlable once you get the hang of it. It may or may not need to be balanced out (It has trim and balance controls) and a propper RF transmitter instead of the rather lousy IR jobber some of our other flying toys have... I work at Radio Shack and we sell the Micro Mosquito; it is indeed very controlable once you get the hang of it. It may or may not need to be balanced out (It has trim and balance controls) and a propper RF transmitter instead of the rather lousy IR jobber some of our other flying toys have...

]]> by: Changes http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/09/28/the-gakken-cross-copter-two-rotors-for-twenty-seven-dollars/#comment-3142 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:10:53 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/09/28/the-gakken-cross-copter-two-rotors-for-twenty-seven-dollars/#comment-3142 I'm not too impressed by anything that can't fly under its own power. To me, such toys have all the sense of a Flintstones car. About the Picoo Z clones, I'll say this: I own both a genuine Picoo Z and a DealExtreme knockoff (the first they added to their collection, the unremarkable "world's smallest helicopter", before they started adding other canopies and whatnot). The knockoff was much, <b>much</b> stabler and far more enjoyable to fly. I say "was" because a particularly nasty hit on the tail caused the tail motor to be separated into its component parts. I then foolishly decided to cannibalize the knockoff for parts to use in the genuine Picoo Z instead of doing the opposite, on the grounds of the real thing costing me three times as much. I shoulda have transplanted the PZ's tail motor on the knockoff instead. Oh well, live and learn. The Mosquito has two knockoffs on DealExtreme, but there are some cheaper helis that have the price of a Picoo Z knockoff while also having three channel control. I ordered <a href="http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.15970" rel="nofollow">one</a> just the other day. I already own an "old" Mosquito knockoff, with the four-bladed wire-enclosed rotors (instead of the much more sensible ones with two pivoting blades per rotor, which DX put on sale a few days after I ordered mine, grr), and I'm curious to see which of the two flies better. I'm not too impressed by anything that can't fly under its own power. To me, such toys have all the sense of a Flintstones car.

About the Picoo Z clones, I'll say this: I own both a genuine Picoo Z and a DealExtreme knockoff (the first they added to their collection, the unremarkable "world's smallest helicopter", before they started adding other canopies and whatnot). The knockoff was much, much stabler and far more enjoyable to fly. I say "was" because a particularly nasty hit on the tail caused the tail motor to be separated into its component parts. I then foolishly decided to cannibalize the knockoff for parts to use in the genuine Picoo Z instead of doing the opposite, on the grounds of the real thing costing me three times as much. I shoulda have transplanted the PZ's tail motor on the knockoff instead. Oh well, live and learn.

The Mosquito has two knockoffs on DealExtreme, but there are some cheaper helis that have the price of a Picoo Z knockoff while also having three channel control. I ordered one just the other day. I already own an "old" Mosquito knockoff, with the four-bladed wire-enclosed rotors (instead of the much more sensible ones with two pivoting blades per rotor, which DX put on sale a few days after I ordered mine, grr), and I'm curious to see which of the two flies better.

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