chickencam Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 I bought one of these 2 years ago for OH and it has packed up. He would like a new one for his birthday and I wondered if anyone has bought one recently and has a recomendation. The one he has takes 6 AA batteries and flies for less than 10 minutes on a charge and it is very heavy on batteries. Our cat Scamp loves the helicopter and is very upset that the 'indoor butterly' is dead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..lay a little egg for me Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 I got one of these for my son and it has been very successful. Fairly easy to fly and a lot of fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busybird Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 We bought my 9 year old one of the little Silverlit helicopters for his birthday last June. He is as careful with it as a 9 year old can be and it has survived the inevitable crashes that come with flying a helicopter around a furnished room It is still flown regularly by DS2, DS1 and OH. They each seem as (un)skilled as the other but can take off, fly around and land the thing with reasonable accuracy after a few practice crashes, sorry flights. We have found that it generally flies for as long as one person's interest lasts on one charge. It recharges quickly and we haven't noticed it being too draining on batteries. Their fleet of RC cars are much more expensive to run... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted January 14, 2010 Author Share Posted January 14, 2010 That is the one that he has, I may just replace like for like because there seems to be a fairly big price hike from these to better ones and they may then be took big to fly indoors. Any other advice would however be appreciated thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Don't whatever you do buy the ones in Hamleys (can't remember the name - something Gunship). We bought one for YS for his birthday. It was sold as being virtually indestructable, they had a version for a younger child and then the one we bought (son 12). It seemed really good, lovely flashing lights and you can move it around not just forward. Within 20 minutes it had crashed and broken. Took it back and got another one and again it broke. It was £40 OH thinks they won't take it back again. I hasten to add that YS was pretty good at flying it so feel pretty hard done by. I haven't heard of the one above. Would be interested to hear of any good ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
