Are you thinking of buying a Futaba FASST radio? Well, the team at Futaba announced a limited time offer to help make your decision. Read on to get the details of this offer.

Any FASST radio purchased between August 1 and October 31, 2010, includes a 1-year check-up at Futaba’s authorized U.S. service center…absolutely free!*
Offer included [...]

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Our friends at RC Mania gave us a heads up about this awesome video of Futaba Pilot Sawamura Yasushi putting his GY701 in action and giving us a show. Man, this is a real teaser video. We can’t wait to get our hands on this all-in-one gyro & governor. Check out the video for yourself and decide if it was a teaser for you as much as it was for us.

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Do you own a Futaba 12Z or FX40 transmitter? Well then, this update released on August 17th on Futaba’s Software Downloads Page is for you. Read on to see the details of the updates.

You can read the Software update version 1.6.1 for your Futaba 12Z, by clicking here.
You can download the zip file for the Futaba [...]

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Bobby Watts gives an overview and demo flight with the new Futaba GY701!

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On July 30th, our friends at RC Mania Magazine reported on Japan’s first Futaba GY701 unboxing. Click on to check out the pics and info.

I had to translate the article with Google Translate as I do not read Chinese, so here is what was said.
There is nothing greater than the first GY701 Japan to receive [...]

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Click to read more about this great offer from Futaba!

Now here’s one more powerful reason to make a FASST 7C, 8FG, 10CG, 12FG, 12Z or 14MZ your 2.4GHz choice: Buy any of these systems between July 20 and July 31, 2010, and your retailer will give you a second receiver FREE – a R617FS with [...]

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The Futaba XFC Championships is getting closer. On June 11-13 2010 one of the years biggest competitions will be held in Muncie, IN.  This event always has some of the worlds top pilots in attendance.  Read on for more info.

Muncie, IN is also the home of IRCHA and the AMA. Some of the pilots in [...]

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Here is a video from RC Mania showing the startup sequence of the GY701 gyro:

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Here are more pics of the upcoming Futaba 701!

The people at Hobby-Media.biz posted these pics taken at the Japan 3D Jamboree of a Futaba 701 gyro. The gyro appears to be the next generation 611 unit, and this time Futaba is incorporating governor functionality into the unit. It will also be S-Bus compatible. I am [...]

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Looks like Futaba is stepping up to the plate with their newest gryo. Looks very promising and add a few new tricks to the mix.

GY701 sensor size is very small, about the same size as the GY520, the letters are illuminated, red, blue, purple light, as with the GY520, and looks very good.

Looks like [...]

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I don’t know how the RCHR Links page went so long without these two on it. Click for more details!

We have just added Horizon Hobby and Hobbico to our Links page. These two hobby giants are among the largest distributors in the US. Horizon carries brands like Align, JR, Spektrum E-Flite, and YS while Hobbico [...]

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Looks like the battle between Spektrum and Futaba continues on. Here is another one of Futaba’s “FASST Versus Speck” ads.

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It looks like Futaba has really hit a home run with one of their latest radios released October of 2009, the 8FG. This cutting edge radio is taking the hobby by storm, so much in fact, that one of our favorite pro pilots has recently gave the flagship 12Z a rest for Futaba’s rising star, [...]

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Inertia RC is running a special promotion to trade up your old gyro of any brand qualifying brand (Futaba, JR, Skookum, etc.) and receive an Inertia 860 replacement. Seems like a pretty sweet deal. If you have been considering upgrading your outdated gyro, now may be the time.

Source: Inertia RC

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I noticed this weekend that one of my friends never sent in his recalled TM-14 module so I just wanted to make sure everyone knew about this even though its about 30 days old.

From Futabarc.com
“The Futaba factory has recently notified us of a difficulty with some of the TM-14 modules that were produced and shipped [...]

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