e-Flight Blade MSR RC Micro Indoor Helicopter Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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1,290 words · ~6 min read
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so today I'm going to be unboxing a product that I have been eagerly
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awaiting in the mail it's not a computer part but it is a personal purchase I
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grabbed a Blade mSR remote control
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helicopter okay I got it from Great Hobbies I've actually shopped there a
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few times it's been overall a good experience their website's decent you
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know the shipping times are pretty fast so it's uh pretty pretty good okay so it
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doesn't say a whole lot about this on the box but what it does say is that
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it's perfect for anyone who has flown a blade cx3 or MCX it's 100% Factory test
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flone assembled assembled test flone and
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ready to fly it has a unique rotorhead design to provide Nimble response plus
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positive stability that's one of the ones that I was after because I'm not a
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great heli pilot but I have spent a lot of time in the Sim so I'm looking for
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something that I can grow into and from what I've heard about this heli it's
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okay for beginners but there's a lot of room to grow into it so that's pretty
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cool it does require a four Channel 2.4 GHz dsm2 transmitter which is sold
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separately and it includes a four port charger now it also says here it comes
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with everything that you need to get going except for the transmitter you can
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even use such as the such as the such as comes with a couple spare parts it
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advertises some optional glow-in-the-dark weighing in it weighs
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in at under 1 o which is pretty cool
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okay anyway let's get this thing opened up I'm going to point the point the
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camera sort of more at the couch here
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and we can get this box open just kind of there we go okay so inside the first
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thing we will find is the BNF instruction manual so so that stands for
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bind and fly which means that it's ready to go all you need is a transmitter the
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RTF ones are mean ready to fly and they do come with a transmitter um okay
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additional smart smart bind information so here's a little bit of info about
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making sure that it's bound properly to your receiver okay or sorry to your
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transmitter pardon me okay there's the BNF instruction manual it's quite thick
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but what I'm going to assume is that wow no it's not even a whole lot of languages let me see this might be
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strictly English yep that's a beefy manual there you can see there's a whole
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lot of info going on in there all right better make sure I read that
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important read manual for full safety and warranty information but this seems
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to be a quick yes it is a quick start guide so it includes a quick start guide
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on how to quickly bind it initialize the aircraft and etc etc all right then
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you've got an instruction manual for the charger that comes with it this is
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awesome because I I had a um what is IT
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Park Zone Vapor before that came with I believe the same kind of batteries as
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this heli but the difference was that it came with like this fail charger that
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didn't have an AC to DC adapter which is here the next thing I'm going to take
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out of the box and all it had was the ability to run off ablea batteries so
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basically you're charging your little
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um Lithium Polymer batteries here off of
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doublea's I mean that's stupid charging a battery off another battery so this
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one comes with a nice four port charger so you can plug in up to four of these
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batteries which is great because I have a couple already um the one that came
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with my vapor I bought a Spare the one that came with my uh sm26 I think it's
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called got another plane but yeah so you can charge four of these at a time and
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you can run it either off an AC adapter or you can fill it up with batteries
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should you require that which is like just a I mean I guess that's great if
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you're at the no I guess that's great if you're at the park or whatever okay it
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also comes with some spare parts here so I believe it out all of the spare parts
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that comes with on the outside of the box but I could be mistaken yeah okay so
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it includes a spare tail rotor spare fly
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bar four spare body grommets and a handy swash plate calibration tool so that is
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what we will find inside just going to show you what we got here so there's the
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one here are some
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grommets and then we've got oh wow these are really small parts better be be
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careful with this there's your spare tail rotor okay there's a little screwdriver
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thanks guys just in case you don't have a screwdriver okay then you whatever
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this is this might be the calibration tool not actually sure and then we've
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got a couple little guys here okay there
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we go so that's all of the parts included with the Blade mSR and then the
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last thing of course is the heli itself
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as I said before it weighs in at less than 1 oz and the overall length I think
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they also list that on here is 7.9 in or
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20 cm so it's a 20 cm long heli you can
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see the okay so let's start with the RoR
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the main rotor up at the top so it's going to spin this way and you can see
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that the way it's designed these actually move a little bit one of the demo videos I saw of this particular
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heli actually showed them crashing it into a door and then picking it up
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putting it back on the floor and flying it again so the way they're advertising
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this is that it's supposed to be quite durable and actually the guy at um at
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the hobby store great hobby said that probably I'm more likely to break things
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like the tail rotor and less likely to break the main rotor okay so you can see
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down here we've got all of the sensitive Electronics inside the helicopter there
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try and get you a good look at all of that okay and then here's a look from
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the other side I wish I could fly this thing for you but I'm like not wanting
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to necessarily busted up and I'm just in a basement here with like an 8ft ceiling
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so I'm yeah like I said I'm not a great helip by any stretch of the imagination
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down at the bottom here you can see there's a little housing for the battery to fit into and I wish I knew more about
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this thing but I did not as much research as I probably should have
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anyway thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Blade mSR oh yeah here's
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the uh transmitter I'm going to be using for it my trusty DX7 and I hope to get
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back to you guys with uh something that isn't a horror crash story shortly