Amaerican Matis share you're picture and information.

Just make a facebook for your dog a lot of people are doing it now.

I do not have the faintest clue as to what is exactly an "Amaerican Matis"....

Brgds, Bert

An American Mantis is an RC helicopter from the 70s - 80s. But YOU'RE not expected to know this information unless YOUR experience dates that far back.

To the OP: Have some self respect, please. The only way we have to judge your character is based on what you type on here.

And I will assume here given your login name....... Don't give me the line that English is your second language. It is my second language too.

Rafael

Oh I thought it was a kind of dog.. lol

Originally Posted by Rafael23cc

An American Mantis is an RC helicopter from the 70s - 80s. But YOU'RE not expected to know this information unless YOUR experience dates that far back.

Rafael

My experience dates back to '82 to be exact (I was 15 years old those days), and the helicopter I was flying (trying to fly) those days was a design of 1977 (if I'm correct... a Graupner Bell 47 G). But the "American Mantis" is a completely unfamiliar design to me.

Care to share some pics??

Brgds, Bert

Originally Posted by Brutus1967

My experience dates back to '82 to be exact (I was 15 years old those days), and the helicopter I was flying (trying to fly) those days was a design of 1977 (if I'm correct... a Graupner Bell 47 G). But the "American Mantis" is a completely unfamiliar design to me.

Care to share some pics??

Brgds, Bert

Well, I was 17 in 1989 when I got my Sport 500 from Hobby Lobby. But I did some research and found some interesting designs. I also hang around some people that like to "revive" some of these things.

Google search: American Mantis Helicopter

But in reality my post was intended to highlight the stuff in red. Not the historical value.

Rafael

Originally Posted by Rafael23cc

Well, I was 17 in 1989 when I got my Sport 500 from Hobby Lobby. But I did some research and found some interesting designs. I also hang around some people that like to "revive" some of these things.

Google search: American Mantis Helicopter

But in reality my post was intended to highlight the stuff in red. Not the historical value.

Rafael

That is funny... I bought a Sport 500 Collective, also somewhere end of the eighties (cannot remember the exact year, somewhere around '87, because I bought my Hirobo Shuttle in '90) and flew a couple of years with it. Revived that one some 12 years ago and it was not flying as nice as it was in my memory. A year before that I revived the helicopter I started with (that old Bell 47 G) and that was a true nightmare....
Recently I re-maidened an original Schlüter Cobra.... Not too bad given it's condition.

But looking at the pictures of that Mantis.... I suspect (trying to) flying that is sheer horror....

Brgds, Bert