It really will hover hands off with little correction required. The best likeness I can give is almost as stable as a micro coaxial such as the mCX or mCX2. You've heard me stating several times now, how stable this little fixed pitch micro is, but just how stable is that? Just double check the polarity as it's not standardized and may require soldering to correct.
There are of course JST SH para-boards and charge harnesses out there for other similar 1S packs. To save on costs, the Blade 70S comes with a very simple USB charger. Those times are flying to LVC (low voltage cutoff), not what I would recommend as battery life will be shortened substantially so take up to a minute off those times if you want the real flight times that are LiPo safe (80% max discharge rule in other words). It really is a non-issue.įlight times with 150mAh packs range from about 4-5 minutes and you can extend that by up to a minute if you use 200 mAh packs which are about the largest, and heaviest that can be stuffed under the canopy. A little silicone grease applied to the canopy mounting pegs make popping the canopy grommets off the pegs a piece of cake if you are finding the process tedious. For most, this will be nothing but a minor inconvenience. The negative is you have to remove the canopy to change out the packs.
I personally hate being locked into proprietary batteries. There are so many 1S 150-200 mAh LiPo cells on the market, some for next to give away pricing when you get 4 or 6 packs in combo deals. The big positive is it gives you literally dozens of battery options. This battery mounting method has both pros & cons. It's actually located within the frame and thus well protected from crash impact bustification. The design feature you will first notice is the placement of the swashplate. The 70S is also much more crash resistant and a good deal less fragile. The best news however for the micro single rotor newbie. It is quite possibly, the most stable single rotor, fixed pitch micro heli currently on the market. It's much more forgiving and easier to fly than the mSR S, not to mention much less costly. The Blade 70S is perfectly suited for the beginner who is looking for a super stable, strong, single rotor, fixed pitch heli to help learn the basics of flying a single rotor RC helicopter.įor those that want to forgo the micro coaxials and start right out of the gate with a micro single rotor, this is one of the best heli's that Blade has ever released to suit this demand. There is a DSM2/X work around however which I will get to shortly, but first, let's have a closer look at this neat little helicopter and why I consider it to be one of Blade's best micro fixed pitch offerings to date, regardless of not utilizing DSMX/2 protocol. However, for the $60 ready to fly price tag with the included toy type 2.4 GHz spread spectrum radio and indoor flying environment most will be able to live with that compromise.
In short, this is not a BNF Blade Heli that you can bind to your Speky computerized DSM2/X radio.
It may be the eventual replacement for the mSR S but there is one show stopper for some, and that's the fact that it's not Spektrum DSM2/X compatible. The Blade 70S is Blade's latest micro sized fixed pitch, single rotor, flybarless helicopter.