On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:59:25 -0700, The OTHER Kevin in San Diego
<skiddz "AT" adelphia "DOT" net> wrote:
>On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:50:53 +0100, Carl Farrington
><carl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>
>>> 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.
>
>I'm flying with Finless tomorrow and I know he got the gear about a
>week ago so he may have it up and running already. If I get a chance
>to fly it, I'll post my impressions.
No joy. Finless didn't have the head parts to do the swap, but I did
see a Trex500 with a vStabi flybarless system on it. OMG was it fast
on the cyclic.
Building my 500 right now (just need a gyro/TR servo and it's done)
and I may have to investigate a flybarless setup...
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