There are a lot of people out there who cannot afford to fly the more expensive top of the line models.  For this market XHeli.Com has cornered the market with their beginner RTF RC Helicopters.  They say they are the largest retailers of RC Helicopters online.  I have seen hundreds of ads for their website on-line and we decided to pick up on of their top 450 RTR 3D helicopters and do a review.

Their new flagship helicopter is the 2.4Ghz GENESIS 450PE RTF CCPM 3D RC Helicopter.  We received a complimentary machine to do an unbiased review.  In the following review we will outline instructions, build, parts quality/fit, durability, tun-ability, overall performance and value.

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The new Henseleit Rigid has proved to be nothing less than a speed demon and an amazing flying helicopter. Thanks to HeliFreak.com user Thrasymedes, we have brought you a translated version of the designers story to the machine.

Pulling out all the stops, Matt Botos, its ripping the carbon on the blades on this sick video of his Mikado Logo 600 3D.  Enjoy!

I have never been able to get an entire flight of Curtis Flying anything except a 90. I was determined to try it this time so I asked him to give me a little slack. I kept up with him pretty good but it was alot of work keeping up with this legend.

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  2009 San Diego Fun Fly - Curtis Youngblood (99.3 MiB, 415 hits)
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Stayed up all night and cranked it out…6 hours of sweat and fingerprints on my keyboard.  Trying to be a little more diverse in our coverage.  More videos coming tomorrow (may last day off) so stay tuned.

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  2009 San Diego Fun Fly - Trailer (81.0 MiB, 215 hits)
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Bert Kammerer has a new Trex 700 up and running after having all of his helicopters stolen in a parking lot at IHOP. With XFC in 19 days lets all wish him the best of luck there!

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Colin Bell is putting his Mini Titan through it’s paces at his home in Canada.

This is an awesome flight as always from Colin!

Mavrikk has been around for quite a while, they have always been active when in comes to making thier blades better and better! Jeff G. of www.Heliwholesaler.com sent me a set of 690 Wide Chords exclusively for Rcheliresource.com, a big thank you goes out to him! Now lets get started with the review!

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Rc Heli Resource brings you an exclusive first look at the new Thunder Power RC Pro Power 40C lipo batteries. You saw them here, first!

6C Charge Rate!

40C Discharge Rate!

6x Cycle Life!

Assembled in the USA!

With Thunder Power’s recent journey into the blade market we review their 325mm blades for the 450 size heli.

There is a new kid in town and his name is Kenny McDonald, he is not playing, he is here to smack it down!

Kenny is flying a Trex 700E with a Scorpion 4035-560, Castle HV110, Outrage 12s 5000 packs, 2250 head speed, and 8V to the cyclic servos making his machine the ultimate 3D animal!

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In our latest review we run the newest heli from Align through the paces, the T-Rex 450 Pro. This heli does not simply improve on the last, but brings a completely new design. Performance, build quality, and ease of assembly all included!

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As yet another example of RcHeliResource taking it to the next level we bring you the first of many helicopter build videos. In this series we are assembling the new Align T-Rex 450 Pro.

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I made the trip up to Americus, Georgia to attend the 2009 Southeastern Electric Flight Festival last weekend.  SEFF this year was a huge success.  I’m not sure the final tally of registered pilots but I was #437 and I regestered at 11:00AM on Friday so you can imagine how large the turnout was.  This event is definetely an airplane event but this year there was more heli’s than I’ve ever seen before.  There were a few top heli pilots such as Bert Kammerer, Matt Botos, Clintstone, and Bobby Smith on hand to demonstrate the power of electric helis.

Dave Blum’s EC 135 Eurocopter – Scale Align T-Rex 450

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Another entry into the flybarless market is the new LF Technics GyroBot, with 2 versions available you should be able to run this setup on just about anything!

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