I happened upon a posting for this Walkera 400D Coaxial heli. From the pictures, it seemed rather well built for a cheap coaxial, but I noticed it had a swash plate at the lower rotor, suggesting full fixed-pitch cyclic control (further investigation verified this). Being the same size class as the old Syma I have, I have spare motors already.
The thing only cost me $40, why not...... It was compete with Tx, 2 3S packs, and some spare parts and another whole frame.
Flying the thing is a bit weird at first. I had to tweak the CG a bit to get it trimmed enough to control without jacking the radio trims too much. Once that was done, I was able to dial it in to a neutral hover.
Full cyclic control at one rotor against another rotor with a 45* lead fly-bar is a weird thing to experience compared to a CP heli, or even a FP fly-bar heli. It's all well and good until you put too much cyclic into it and the fly-bar goes crazy. I'll have to play with the fly weights next to see if I can make it a bit more agile.
It's just something of medium size to bash around indoors during the winter..... and chase household pets, and what-not.
2009 Walkera 400d Coaxial
Discussion in 'Walkera' started by Beaver, Nov 24, 2016.
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Discussion in 'Walkera' started by Beaver, Nov 24, 2016.