Thanks to Woot.com for planting the final seed. They put up a nice "referb" bundle a few weeks back and I nibbled on the bait but missed the deal. Been thinking about it since and this weekend it was there again. I put the Q500 in my cart Sunday morning. I told myself if it was not sold out again by Sunday evening I would take that as a sign and hit "checkout...soooo sometime between now and June 12 I should have it hand!
Background...got a little twin rotor department store heli from my wife several years back. I get overboard really quickly on occasion. That little toy became a Trex 450 very shortly. Never really got that thing flying but broke a bunch of rotors before deciding that I would never be a Szabo like pilot or even close.
Sold that kit off and got into 5th scale off road buggies. That was a lot of fun and a lot less expensive when things went other than planned. Still like the flying idea though. Wife again buys me a dept store toy drone which I just straight up took back knowing better. Fast forward a year or so and here we are...
And of course I am already looking at the shiny anodized and carbon fiber bits but dont even have the bird yet
I might have issues
Background...got a little twin rotor department store heli from my wife several years back. I get overboard really quickly on occasion. That little toy became a Trex 450 very shortly. Never really got that thing flying but broke a bunch of rotors before deciding that I would never be a Szabo like pilot or even close.
Sold that kit off and got into 5th scale off road buggies. That was a lot of fun and a lot less expensive when things went other than planned. Still like the flying idea though. Wife again buys me a dept store toy drone which I just straight up took back knowing better. Fast forward a year or so and here we are...
And of course I am already looking at the shiny anodized and carbon fiber bits but dont even have the bird yet
I might have issues
The shiniest thing I have on my Typhoon are these Cree Strobes to aid in visibility and orientation:
