by Carl Farrington <carl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Apr 16, 2008 at 08:50 PM
The OTHER Kevin in San Diego wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:22:16 +0100, Carl Farrington
> <carl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> This thing was announced on helifreak a little while ago. Every day
>> people have been hounding the guy for a release date and price, and
it's
>> (I think) available now. $329. It's a two-axis digital flybar system,
>> like the V-Bar but it doesn't incor****ate the tail.
>>
>> Doesn't include any head parts so you have to modify your flybar'd head
>> to work, but it looks good!
>>
>> A video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URlVXWQ87Es
>>
>> another: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-n0XJ9fmF8
>>
>> The thing itself: http://www.digiflybar.com/
>>
>> The discussion thread about it:
>> http://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=58579
>>
>>
>> What do you think? I need to learn to fly helis before I look at
>> anything like this, but it looks great to me.
>
> Alvin is gonna give Finless (anyone is the hobby for more than 30 days
> knows who Finless is) a unit to check out. Hopefully, since I live
> less than an hour from Finless, I'll get to fly it and see how it
> works.
Awesome. Let us know what you think. Unfortunately one of the UK buyers
just got stung for an eatra 30% im****t duty and vat, which takes it to
$460 :( Still a lot cheaper than a V-Bar I think though.
