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Video: Radio Control Roundup

By ⋅ October 7, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Here’s the items covered on TVNZ Breakfast this morning. Feel free to ask any questions or post comments below. Click below to watch the video: Item: The i-Sobot Humanoid Robot Price: $490 Rating: 3 / 5 Info: The 16cm tall i-Sobot holds the Guiness world record as the smallest production robot. It’s a great fun [...]

E-Flight Blade MCX Review

By ⋅ October 5, 2009 ⋅ 7 comments

Read a review of this incredible palm-sized electric helicopter. It’s much more stable and flyable than you’d expect.

Cheap Chinese Radio Control Gadgets

By ⋅ June 12, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

There was a time when local, quality retailers like Airsail and RC Bandit were the only way to get hold of interesting radio control doohickeys. You still have that option, and if you’re looking for full-on RC gear, you’d be silly not to buy local. But when you can hit up sites like BudgetGadgets.com and [...]

Video: RC Fun from RCBandit.co.nz

By ⋅ March 18, 2009 ⋅ One comment

UPDATE: Here’s the video. Pretty damn funny. Today on TVNZ Breakfast we witnessed a horrific helicopter crash. Video to follow later today, but Paul Henry’s flying skills were to blame, not the Dauphin Helicopter from the great guys at RCBandit.co.nz! You can also grab the RC forklift from them too – they don’t have it [...]

Radio Controlled C-17 Globemaster III

By ⋅ October 15, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Now this is a gadget: Powered by four jet turbines, apparently it weighs about 120kgs. [via Gizmodo]

Glide Time

By ⋅ February 10, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

After the last crash of an electric plane, I’ve reconsidered my flying requirements.  I though hard about what I enjoy, and kept coming back to gliding.  I learnt to fly RC on the slope, and I enjoyed the heck out of it. On sunny, breezy days, you can spend quite literally hours soaring a RC [...]

Another one bites the dust

By ⋅ January 28, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I haven’t had many good results while flying lately.  The Helios is a total loss after only about 10-15 flights.  Seemed like a radio hit, but after asking around I found no one else on the frequency, and put it down to a dodgy receiver. The plane augured in from about 100ft in the air, [...]

Hyperion Helios 10e Review

By ⋅ January 23, 2008 ⋅ 6 comments

I’ve replaced the broken one with a new model.? This one looks quite different because it’s designed to be a model, not a scale-ish replica.? I personally find it a little more ugly than the Cap 232, but it should fly better. Maiden today out at PMAC. Full Review: Most of this review will be [...]

Well, at least it was exciting

By ⋅ November 18, 2007 ⋅ 9 comments

I broke my plane.  I done broke it good’n’proper.  Photographic evidence follows. How did it happen?  Well think of it like this: when you toss a long object in the air, like a bat, or a hammer, or a juggling stick, you want it to spin an full integer number of times so you can catch the [...]

Beating the Wind: Parkzone F27 Stryker

By ⋅ September 15, 2007 ⋅ 5 comments

The Parkzone F27 Stryker is a fairly tame flying wing shaped parkflyer in its standard form, but who ever sticks with standard? Besides, buying a RTF plane is silly when I have half the gear (servos, receiver and motor) sitting around doing nothing. By happy coincidence, RC Bandit sell bare Stryker kits, just waiting for [...]

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