Christmas in February!
After a long impatient wait, two packages arrived on the 5th of February: The RFT Bravo III, including battery charger, ordered on the 14th of January (5 working days for PayPal to process the cash payment, plus another 10 for shipping). The S300 kit was faster: Ordered on the 27th of January and it arrived within 7 working days. Everything arrived in good order.
The Bravo was well-packed and survived its longest flight unscathed.
First impressions
I was first struck by how light/insubstantial the Bravo III (30g) felt, cetainly in comparison to the S107 (38g). Picking it up by the side windows, I could feel the thin plastic "give". Both the upper and lower halves of the flexible tail fin were slightly wonky. The landing gear is highly elastic, bending under the slightest pressure. The scale-look
MD500 fuselage looks good, with a tight fit between the two halves, except for a rather larger gap on the underside of the tail boom, just aft of the "turbine exhaust". Nine Eagles saw fit to include nice little details like steps on the landing gear and "hinges" on the doors. Less impressive was the flame-pattern paint-job's smudgy edges.
The 2.4GHz Tx felt like a DX8i in comparison to the IR controller of the Syma, but with similar weighting on the control sticks. Both the battery and charger were smaller than I expected, and they met as soon as the useless battery cover was removed. Meanwhile I
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