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Hoverfly is a tiny indoor flying marvel whose unique technology mimics RC Micro Helis. Its the ultimate model helicopter trainer. The kit comes ready to fly and it is simple to set up. The Hoverfly is rugged, safe, quiet, and will help you improve your skills by allowing you to fly continuously for hours at a time. The House Fly will enable you to concentrate on stick movement and balance control and not have to worry about battery flight time or crashing. When you master the sticks you will be confident when upgrading to a full RC Micro Heli; you will acquire the experience you need to master the ultimate challenge of radio control helicopter flight.

Hoverfly comes attractively finished and ready to fly. It’s small, tough, and quiet - and it flies indoors. But it handles just like its bigger brothers. Imagine the excitement of hovering motionless, then soaring away as the aircraft obeys your every command! Soon you are progressing from hovering and precision landings to the new challenges of nose-in flying, figure-eights and other exciting maneuvers. As soon as you unpack your Hoverfly, the fun starts. There is no complex assembly or set-up, just plug and go. With the Hoverfly, you can go helicopter flying at a fraction of the cost and with a minimum of frustrating downtime.

Whether you are flying for the very first time or trying out advanced maneuvers, the Hoverfly enables you to practice and enjoy in comfort. The Hoverfly is superb for experienced pilots as well with its stunning climbout and crisp tail response thanks to the tiny solid state gyro. The Hoverfly is extremly robust, simple, and easy-to-fix. You can spend more time flying and less rebuilding it. And if an accident does happen, spares are readily available. Hoverfly is the miniature helicopter that flies right out of the box.

The Hoverfly is very small and is ideal for indoor operation, whatever the weather. It weighs less than 70 grams and best of all the Hoverfly is realistic in all of its flying parameters. As soon as you can fly it you will be able to try larger models confidently.
Hoverfly's performance delights expert pilots too! Hoverfly's robust, ultra-light tail rotor is belt-driven for responsiveness and with a precision tail control and a sub-miniature yaw rate demand gyro, you will enjoy a perfect steady tail.
Power reaches the heli via a slim, lightweight, 100-240V AC main power unit and a thin, unobtrusive umbilical cord. Simple and robust mechanics, the brains are in the Electrocyclic control unit and the electronic rate gyro.
The Hoverfly is R/C transmitter friendly. It operates from standard TXs with minimum of four channels and trainer socket so you can practice using the same radio you will be using to fly your larger scale RC Helis.
 

The Hoverfly uses a radically new approach to generate lift and control and achieve a flight performance which closely resembles real helicopters and conventional radio-controlled models.

It is very light, and employs an extremely slow rotor speed, making it safe, and ideal for indoor operation. It obtains lift from three upward-facing propellers driven by motors mounted on the ends of the rotor arms.

These are tilted slightly to cause the rotor to turn. The resulting spinning mass gives this small aircraft exceptional stability (equivalent to a 30 size outdoor model) and a realistic "scale" appearance in flight. The propeller speeds are varied dynamically to provide cyclic control of pitch and roll, controlled by the patented Electrocyclic system. This approach has a number of advantages over conventional designs. The propeller speeds can respond very rapidly to changes in the electrical supply, at the appropriate moments during each revoluton of the main rotor. This is a purely electrical function, not requiring any mechanics; the need for a swash plate and servos is entirely eliminated. The result is an extremely small, lightweight and mechanically simple aircraft with performance far ahead of miniature helicopters with fixed-pitch rotor blades.
The drive to turn the main rotor is provided by the tip mounted propellers, rather than from within the fuselage. There is consequently no torque reaction created, which allows the tail rotor to be very simple and low-powered. It is a fixed-pitch propeller and is needed only for yaw control (steering). It turns in either direction, under the control of a yaw rate demand gyro, the only on-board electronics.

Since most of the electronics stay on the ground, the flying model is extremely light and mechanically simple. This fact, and its clip-together construction, largely of plastics. make it very robust and learner-resistant.


Techincal Specifications:

  • Rotor Diameter (to prop centres) 284 mm
  • Flying weight (excl. umbilical) 68 grams
  • Rotor diameter (overall) 350 mm
  • Rotor speed (at hover) 250 rpm
  • Length (overall) 330 mm
  • Lift propeller speed (at hover) 22,000 rpm
  • Height 120 mm
  • Power consumption (at hover) 25 watts
  • Supply voltage 34 volts d.c
  • System 4 channel PPM, 1.52 ms centre
  • Minimum transmitter spec: Four channels
  • Signaling: PPM
  • Trainer socket: 3.5mm jack or 6-pin DIN

Use your existing 4 Channel transmitter


Hoverfly's lift is provided by its three matched propellers and powerful miniature motors

High tech rotor mixing is what makes the Hover Fly so unique and fun

Hoverfly's robust, ultra-light tail rotor is belt-driven for responsiveness

Hoverfly's Electrocyclic control processor replaces complex mechanical linkages

The Tail blade is controlled using a belt that runs through the boom

Connect a home made training undercarriage which provides a stable base during early landings


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