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Air Hogs Reflex Helix - Styles and Colors May Vary

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Air Hogs Reflex Helix - Styles and Colors May Vary

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Small in size but big on fun, this cool 'copter is the ultimate indoor radio controlled aircraft. With six-way directional control and full-function precision control, the power of flight is in your hands. Counter rotation blades and two drive rotors make for a smooth flight forward, left/right or in reverse.

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Product Details

Product Length:	10.3 inches
Product Width:	9.6 inches
Product Height:	8.5 inches
Product Weight:	1.4 pounds
Package Length:	10.3 inches
Package Width:	9.6 inches
Package Height:	8.5 inches
Package Weight:	1.6 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 27 reviews

Features

6 Way Directional Control
Twin Drive props for precise control
Powered Steering and Ultimate Stability
Lithium Polymer Battery and Charger included
9V Battery Required (Not Included)

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 3.0

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21 of 22 found the following review helpful:

Not very good. Hard to control. Mar 14, 2007 By I call them as I see em.
I've owned this toy for a few weeks and have given up on it. At first this toy was a little fun and I was optimistic about getting it to handle correctly. I'd adjust the top screw to trim it from spinning clockwise or counter clockwise and everything. This gets old after doing it every time after a charge. Next, using the forward and backward control doesn't work that well. Also, it will drop out of the sky or do something weird every now and then. All in all I wouldn't buy it again, especially at the higher price it is currently going for. Try the smaller havoc, it seems to handle a little better (Youtube has a few movies of it flying). [...].

9 of 9 found the following review helpful:

Gad, is this thing fun! Dec 10, 2008 By Hitchicken "cluckbang"
Okay, so I'm 65 years old and I love a toy! So what? It makes me feel young. This thing is tremendous fun. Some reviewers say it's flimsy. I say, it's light. Heck, what do you expect it to be made out of? Cast iron? How would it fly?

Some say it's not durable. Heck, I've crashed dozens of times. All I do is re-hook the blades and take-off again. Yeah, I imagine if you got it up to full lateral speed and flew it into a cinder block wall, you could break it. But you'd break your SUV if you did the same thing. But if you at least try to stop and slowly chop the throttle in the crash, you're not going to hurt anything.

Educational? I think so. At my age, I appreciate a little hand-eye coordination practice. You have to think ahead when you fly this puppy.

The only down side is you only get 6 or 7 minutes of flight for a little over an hour of charging. And if you obey those harsh instructions, you're suppose to wait 30 minutes after discharge before you begin the charging process. Bummer. I don't care; I'm still giving it a high rating. It's just too much darn fun.

12 of 13 found the following review helpful:

About what I expected Aug 09, 2007 By J. Meyer "inetpix"
I've purchased several cheap RC flying helicopters and planes over the past year and in general they all seem pretty fragile. But then again I'm not a great pilot.

The Reflex is the most recent helicopter I got and it seems to be the sturdiest of the bunch. Its blade mechanism is designed to "fold in" if they hit a wall which seems to reduce blade breakage. It doesn't reduce breakage to zero however, so the extra blades are handy. You get 4 extra blades, but the bottom and top blades are not interchangeable, so depending on your breaking pattern, you may have burned through all your bottom blades and have 2 extra top blades you can't use.

Setting the trim with the little knob on the top, and making sure the blades are in their "clicked in" position is critical to having any sort of controlled flight. But when properly adjusted and in still air (i.e. indoors) you can hover quite stably.

Now steering is a slightly different story. Again, I'm not a great pilot, so your mileage may vary. The vertical up/down action works quite effectively, but the copter itself seems to spin somewhat unpredictably if you move up or down too quickly. The forward/back control initiates movement, but the heli seems to act a bit like a pendulum and after some forward input, it will want to swing backwards. Using the left/right control to address this is challenging since you really can only use one direction (left, right, forward or back) at a time. I.e. you can't make a forward left input, just forward, then a little left, then a little forward, etc.

Still its the best sub $70 flier I've purchased.

10 of 12 found the following review helpful:

fun and easy after practice Apr 18, 2007 By Angela Benardini
I purchased this helicopter for my husband for his birthday; it's fun and easy to use after you trim it in the right direction. If you just screw in the top and not follow instructions, it doesn't work correctly, it just makes it more out of trim. All in all, it's a great buy (especially at Sharper Image because of their 2-3 year warranty.)

3 of 3 found the following review helpful:

Mostly Brilliant May 03, 2008 By Peter Hagelund
This thing is mostly brilliant. Like other reviewers I cannot stress enough that you *have* to get the trimming right before getting adventurous. Read the supplied instructions carefully and follow the trimming directions. When trimmed correctly this thing will literally hang a foot from your face and barely move. If you buy it for a child, do the trimming yourself before handing it over - and don't expect really young kids to get much out of it. To fly it the way it's done in the commercials, you need to be on the controls constantly; if you expect to just give it full throttle and have it hang like a helium balloon on a string you'll be disappointed. It's a real flying machine and it takes careful and constant control in all directions. Being very light, it reacts to very little air movement like forced air/AC vents, open windows and its own rotor wash when close to a wall.

Pros:

- Very fun and addictive.
- Easy to fly once you get the hang of it. They recommend a double garage or a basement - I fly it in my 20x20 living room with no problems.
- Good flight time (about 10 minutes on a full charge).
- Durable (even a 6+ foot drop on carpet will not damage it and if (well, when) you hit a wall or a piece of furniture the rotors simply fold in).
- Wall-plug charger (doesn't require a base with batteries like other brands).

Cons:

- Long charge time (at least one to one and a half hours; other brands will recharge in about 30 minutes).
- Small radio controller (obviously made for kids, but still...).

The user of these micro helicopters has to be patient... they're easy to fly (certainly easier than a full-size RC plane or helicopter) but still require some ramp-up time. Flying it every two hours or so (allowing the battery to cool down and then recharge) over a couple of days or (long) evenings should get most to a point where they can take off and land on e.g. a coffee table or even their own hand.

Bottom line: Fun, addictive and well built but requires trimming and is not a toy for young children.

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