Life With The Klone 50 - Part 1 - Introduction

The Klone 50 was a gift from MockingbirdRC.com for participation in the Singapore National 2009 3DX competition. Over the last 4 months I've been really enjoying the Klone 50 - it's fast, light, aggressive, easy to build, repair and easy on the wallet. To top it off, it can do any 3D maneuver in the book (or at least in my book!)

I have about 100 flights on my Klone 50, and people have commented how new it looks still. Despite it's low cost, the parts have hardly any slop after all the 3D flying. Getting up to 15 flights on one gallon of 20% to 30% nitro doesn't hurt either!

To summarize what the Klone 50 is in one line - It's an all-out 3D heli fully-blinged (all the metal parts you'll ever need) out of the box that features low-cost spare parts and mean looks.

To honest it's not a completely new design, a number of parts are similar to the Raptor 50. However, it's completely new where it counts - An eCCPM full-metal head and carbon servo and front frames. It has +/- 12 degrees on the collective and is a full 100 to 200 grams lighter than typical Raptor variant/conversion. In other words, it has the agility and stellar power-to-weight ratio a Raptor would find very hard to match.

Want to see it close and personal? Here's a build video posted by nwolsink:


There are nice hi-res photos of the Klone 50 mechanics on this thread:
http://runryder.com/helicopter/t523575p1/

That's all for today, gotta run! Stay tuned for more updates! I'll be doing a Klone 50 3D flyin video soon...