Digital flybar system, cheaper..

[Carl Farrington]

This thing was announced on helifreak a little while ago. Every day
people have been hounding the guy for a release date and price, and it's
(I think) available now. $329. It's a two-axis digital flybar system,
like the V-Bar but it doesn't incorporate the tail.

Doesn't include any head parts so you have to modify your flybar'd head
to work, but it looks good!

A video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URlVXWQ87Es

another: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-n0XJ9fmF8

The thing itself: http://www.digiflybar.com/

The discussion thread about it:
http://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=58579


What do you think? I need to learn to fly helis before I look at
anything like this, but it looks great to me.

[The OTHER Kevin in San Diego]

On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:22:16 +0100, Carl Farrington
<carl@noitsnotcss-networks.commy.invalid> wrote:

>This thing was announced on helifreak a little while ago. Every day
>people have been hounding the guy for a release date and price, and it's
>(I think) available now. $329. It's a two-axis digital flybar system,
>like the V-Bar but it doesn't incorporate the tail.
>
>Doesn't include any head parts so you have to modify your flybar'd head
>to work, but it looks good!
>
>A video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URlVXWQ87Es
>
>another: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-n0XJ9fmF8
>
>The thing itself: http://www.digiflybar.com/
>
>The discussion thread about it:
>http://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=58579
>
>
>What do you think? I need to learn to fly helis before I look at
>anything like this, but it looks great to me.

Alvin is gonna give Finless (anyone is the hobby for more than 30 days
knows who Finless is) a unit to check out. Hopefully, since I live
less than an hour from Finless, I'll get to fly it and see how it
works.

[Carl Farrington]

The OTHER Kevin in San Diego wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:22:16 +0100, Carl Farrington
> <carl@noitsnotcss-networks.commy.invalid> wrote:
>
>> This thing was announced on helifreak a little while ago. Every day
>> people have been hounding the guy for a release date and price, and it's
>> (I think) available now. $329. It's a two-axis digital flybar system,
>> like the V-Bar but it doesn't incorporate the tail.
>>
>> Doesn't include any head parts so you have to modify your flybar'd head
>> to work, but it looks good!
>>
>> A video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URlVXWQ87Es
>>
>> another: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-n0XJ9fmF8
>>
>> The thing itself: http://www.digiflybar.com/
>>
>> The discussion thread about it:
>> http://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=58579
>>
>>
>> What do you think? I need to learn to fly helis before I look at
>> anything like this, but it looks great to me.
>
> Alvin is gonna give Finless (anyone is the hobby for more than 30 days
> knows who Finless is) a unit to check out. Hopefully, since I live
> less than an hour from Finless, I'll get to fly it and see how it
> works.

Awesome. Let us know what you think. Unfortunately one of the UK buyers
just got stung for an eatra 30% import duty and vat, which takes it to
$460 :( Still a lot cheaper than a V-Bar I think though.

[The OTHER Kevin in San Diego]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:50:53 +0100, Carl Farrington
<carl@noitsnotcss-networks.commy.invalid> wrote:


>> Alvin is gonna give Finless (anyone is the hobby for more than 30 days
>> knows who Finless is) a unit to check out. Hopefully, since I live
>> less than an hour from Finless, I'll get to fly it and see how it
>> works.
>
>Awesome. Let us know what you think. Unfortunately one of the UK buyers
>just got stung for an eatra 30% import duty and vat, which takes it to
>$460 :( Still a lot cheaper than a V-Bar I think though.

I'm flying with Finless tomorrow and I know he got the gear about a
week ago so he may have it up and running already. If I get a chance
to fly it, I'll post my impressions.

[The OTHER Kevin in San Diego]

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:59:25 -0700, The OTHER Kevin in San Diego
<skiddz "AT" adelphia "DOT" net> wrote:

>On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:50:53 +0100, Carl Farrington
><carl@noitsnotcss-networks.commy.invalid> wrote:
>
>
>>> Alvin is gonna give Finless (anyone is the hobby for more than 30 days
>>> knows who Finless is) a unit to check out. Hopefully, since I live
>>> less than an hour from Finless, I'll get to fly it and see how it
>>> works.
>>
>>Awesome. Let us know what you think. Unfortunately one of the UK buyers
>>just got stung for an eatra 30% import duty and vat, which takes it to
>>$460 :( Still a lot cheaper than a V-Bar I think though.
>
>I'm flying with Finless tomorrow and I know he got the gear about a
>week ago so he may have it up and running already. If I get a chance
>to fly it, I'll post my impressions.

No joy. Finless didn't have the head parts to do the swap, but I did
see a Trex500 with a vStabi flybarless system on it. OMG was it fast
on the cyclic.

Building my 500 right now (just need a gyro/TR servo and it's done)
and I may have to investigate a flybarless setup...

[RC Man]

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