Customer Reviews

Dragonfly Syma Double Horsepower Helicopter 9093

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3 star:		(4)
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Unlike the previous reviewers I have had no such problems with breakage. I have, however come close to landing the machine on the roof of my house. Caution must be taken to ensure that the air is dead calm when flying this machine. ANY wind will cause a problem. Also, it does take a fair amount of practice to master the controls. It is a good 1st step but definetly not for young children. I've had to duck more than once when flying it. I have always made certain to land it on grass and have had many landings without damage.

My husband really likes the heli. Though I must say a piece did break off with in a day of getting it. So it is a little too fragile for my taste. It is fun to watch the dogs run around barking at it. Only other issue I have is that no matter what adjustments you make, it always spins. The instructions say you can adjust to straighten it out. Spins in one directions no matter the setting.

First 10 minutes the chopper crashed and now the tail rotor doesn't work. Better to buy two of these and use on for spare parts, since to order spare parts will cost too much in shipping!

For what it's worth since I'm new to RC helicopters I hope there is something better out there!

I enjoy the helicopter. I keep the old ones for spare parts. These are great if you plan to move on up to the 'real' model helicopter. I saved tons of money learning on these before I moved up to the HeliMax MX450.

Note: the box says ages 14+ in one location and ages 8+ in another location. Given the potential for eye injury, I'd go with the 14+.

Its a really good helicopter, really powerful. For $20, its a real value for money. It needs open space to tap the real potential of the
chopper. I can fly indoors by keeping the direction always to
the right and chopper flies in a circle without taking too much
area. Its a fun chopper !

this product is fine but its not the real one its a chinese clone thats why its been breaking id buy from a diffrent seller but other than that a fun lil toy and a good price for a trainer

This copter is a fun novelty. If you spin up the rotor, it'll take off and if you pull back on the stick it'll land so it entertained my 2 year old son who excitedly shouted about the helicopter in the sky.

However, the helicopter is too light and flimsy for outdoor flight. I've tried flying it on as calm a day as possible but even then, there is always some air movement and the slightest air movement just blows the copter about, it becomes unstable and crashes. Indoor flight is impractical because the copter is too large for most rooms. Perhaps it could be used in a large sports hall, but I can't think of any other venue.

Steering appears to be backwards but I'm not sure that that even matters since there is no forward and backwards, just rotation and height. I suspect that if I could find still enough air, the copter might move forward slowly allow me to control it (I used to have a little indoor copter that behaved this way) but as I said, I've never found still enough air to fly it stably.

This device is unstable. The 'copter spins clockwise without touching the tail-rotor control. The manual instructs that a 'trimmer' potentiometer can be adjusted to correct spinning. Even with the trimmer pegged the thing spins like a top. I tried using the rotor control too; holding it counter-clockwise, to no avail. Now, I am looking to find a decent RC chopper that will simply hover when the main rotor is powered up. If anyone has any suggestions on either fixing this one or a different model, feel free to post!

Hobbytron is terrible. The helicopter is not as easy to fly as the ad states but it is alright. The helicopter works but that's not the problem. Hobbytron is just plain rotten to deal with. I've purchased three items in the last two months from them including one of these copters and all of the items showed up broken. I fixed two of them. This one was easy but I sent a $169.00 heli back that was defective from the factory and now I am stuck with a store credit. Run from Hobbytron and don't look back.