New from Mikado is a 8mm main shaft swash driver. Up untill now Mikado has only offered a 10mm swash driver for your flybarless conversions, but that is for about 80% of the helis available..but other helis such as the Raptor 50 and ElyQ Vision 50 feature a 8mm main shaft, so the previous mikado [...]

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This is one of my all time favorites flights of Matt Botos from IRCHA 2008 flying his flybarless Synergy N9.

[ video courtesy of HeliFreak ]

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A nice MR video of Lukas Riva getting a little “too low.”

[ video courtesy of www.runryder.com ]

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Tim Jones on Thursday at IRCHA 2008 with Leon Luke flying his T-Rex 700:
http://www.rcheliresource.com/videos/ircha2008_timj.flv
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Here is a video cuortesy of Derek Khaw from IRCHA 2008:
http://www.vimeo.com/1586275

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Finally got our workflow going so now I can crank out my IRCHA 2008 videos.  
Here is Lukas Riva RUNNING OUT OF GAS after almost going out of radio range.
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Mark Fadely the master has submitted his exclusive photo gallery from IRCHA 2008.

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Nice MR video of Luka “The Show-Stopper Riva” on the Align T-Rex 700.

[ video courtesy of runryder.com ]

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Jeff Fassbinder, marketing manager for Thunder Tiger/Ace Hobbies, introducing their new Innovator RC Helicopter at IRCHA 2008.

[ see more at http://www.innovator-rc.com ]

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Here is the gallery from Thursday at IRCHA 2008 Jamboree.  This day was a little hazy and rainy so the color pop isn’t as rich.

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Here is a brief intro to IRCHA 2008 from Brandon Updike of Team Avant/ElyQ.

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Well the day is over and I am beat like a dead horse.  Running around a 1 mile long (seems like it)  flightline all day with a huge set of cameras with and without golf carts is crazy.  I must say I think for my FIRST IRCHA I planned my trip well.
Highlights of the day:

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Well I knew there was a hint of politics in the industry since I have entered just 3 yesrs ago.  Coming to IRCHA has made alot of the battle lines clearly apparent. 
We have decided to advocate the politics and offer an open forum to debate and disseminate the “politics in toy helicopters.”
Our new forums will be dubbed, [...]

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We got our hands on the Align .90 High Performance Muffler to do a hands on.  Will report our observances on Saturday.

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We got our hands on one of Align’s new GP700 Gyros.  Supposed to be up to the job of competing with Futaba 611’s and Spartan 760’s.  ”We will see.”  We will try out on a demo on Saturday and let you know.

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