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Well, I think I’m Done with the Axe CP

I know I didn’t have too many posts on this blog about the Axe CP, and it looks like I won’t be saying much more about it at this point. I think the Axe CP was a really good helicopter to learn hovering in all orientations and forward flight and flying circuits. It was cheap enough to get into the hobby, and now has me hooked. The problem is that it’s just so small and fragile, and the replacement parts are too expensive.

A couple of weeks ago I had a pretty bad crash, losing orientation about 25 feet up and coming down on the rotor head. $50 worth of parts ordered from Tower Hobbies later, and I still had some pretty bad wobble, and as I was making adjustments, I broke a ball off of the swash plate and kinda decided that was enough (having just installed that swash plate). If it had a metal head, I’d have more interest, but setting up the metal head on the Axe CPv3 is gonna be a few hundred dollars and that’s just kinda nuts.

So it looks like I’m going to focus all of my attention and flying on the T-Rex 450. It’s the helicopter that I probably should have bought in the first place, but the initial investment is so steep, that I didn’t want to spend that much money if I ended up bored with it. It’s also nice that I didn’t have all of those crashes that I did with the Axe on the T-Rex, so it’s still in nice shape (although I’m sure that’ll change once I start trying 3D on it).

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