Air Hogs Reflex Helix - Styles and Colors May Vary

by SpinMaster

Product Features

• 6 Way Directional Control
• Twin Drive props for precise control
• Powered Steering and Ultimate Stability
• Lithium Polymer Battery and Charger included
• 9V Battery Required (Not Included)

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 9.6 x 8.5 inches ; 1.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B000O5SVWU
• Item model number: 6009028
• Manufacturer recommended age: 10 years and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #142,484 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Crash-resistant foam fuselage is perfect for a nice big room. Throttle up and down or bank left and right using the 6-way controller. Twin drive props provide directional control while the dual rotors lend stability. Includes one set of spare propellers and battery charger. Runs on a rechargeable lithium polymer battery (included). Controller runs on 9V battery (purchase separately). Ages 10 and older.

Product Description

Small in size but big on fun, this cool 'copter is the ultimate indoor radio controlled aircraft. With six-way directional control and full-function precision control, the power of flight is in your hands. Counter rotation blades and two drive rotors make for a smooth flight forward, left/right or in reverse.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not very good. Hard to control., March 14, 2007

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I call them as I see em. (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews

I've owned this toy for a few weeks and have given up on it. At first this toy was a little fun and I was optimistic about getting it to handle correctly. I'd adjust the top screw to trim it from spinning clockwise or counter clockwise and everything. This gets old after doing it every time after a charge. Next, using the forward and backward control doesn't work that well. Also, it will drop out of the sky or do something weird every now and then. All in all I wouldn't buy it again, especially at the higher price it is currently going for. Try the smaller havoc, it seems to handle a little better (Youtube has a few movies of it flying). [...].

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Gad, is this thing fun!, December 10, 2008

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Hitchicken "cluckbang" (MD) - See all my reviews

= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Air Hogs Reflex Helix - Styles and Colors May Vary (Toy)

Okay, so I'm 65 years old and I love a toy! So what? It makes me feel young. This thing is tremendous fun. Some reviewers say it's flimsy. I say, it's light. Heck, what do you expect it to be made out of? Cast iron? How would it fly?

Some say it's not durable. Heck, I've crashed dozens of times. All I do is re-hook the blades and take-off again. Yeah, I imagine if you got it up to full lateral speed and flew it into a cinder block wall, you could break it. But you'd break your SUV if you did the same thing. But if you at least try to stop and slowly chop the throttle in the crash, you're not going to hurt anything.

Educational? I think so. At my age, I appreciate a little hand-eye coordination practice. You have to think ahead when you fly this puppy.

The only down side is you only get 6 or 7 minutes of flight for a little over an hour of charging. And if you obey those harsh instructions, you're suppose to wait 30 minutes after discharge before you begin the charging process. Bummer. I don't care; I'm still giving it a high rating. It's just too much darn fun.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars About what I expected, August 9, 2007

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J. Meyer "inetpix" (Los Gatos, CA) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

I've purchased several cheap RC flying helicopters and planes over the past year and in general they all seem pretty fragile. But then again I'm not a great pilot.

The Reflex is the most recent helicopter I got and it seems to be the sturdiest of the bunch. Its blade mechanism is designed to "fold in" if they hit a wall which seems to reduce blade breakage. It doesn't reduce breakage to zero however, so the extra blades are handy. You get 4 extra blades, but the bottom and top blades are not interchangeable, so depending on your breaking pattern, you may have burned through all your bottom blades and have 2 extra top blades you can't use.

Setting the trim with the little knob on the top, and making sure the blades are in their "clicked in" position is critical to having any sort of controlled flight. But when properly adjusted and in still air (i.e. indoors) you can hover quite stably.

Now steering is a slightly different story. Again, I'm not a great pilot, so your mileage may vary. The vertical up/down action works quite effectively, but the copter itself seems to spin somewhat unpredictably if you move up or down too quickly. The forward/back control initiates movement, but the heli seems to act a bit like a pendulum and after some forward input, it will want to swing backwards. Using the left/right control to address this is challenging since you really can only use one direction (left, right, forward or back) at a time. I.e. you can't make a forward left input, just forward, then a little left, then a little forward, etc.

Still its the best sub $70 flier I've purchased.