Here is a video of Becky Spaulding from Arizona back in June flying at the 1st Annual OCMA Fun-Fly in Irving, California. 
 

This event was put on by the Orange County Rotary Modelers and was a great success for a first time event.  Becky is a newcomer to the Heli world and has only been flying for 4 months.  Very [...]

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Fusuno has been widely successful with their updated design of the Align T-Rex 700N canopy. Continuing in that tradition Fusuno has now updated the Align T-Rex 500 design. The design stretched out the nose a little giving it more of a point, eliminating a lot of the “round bubble” of the stock Align [...]

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So we went out to the field to test out some new blades and packs on my buddies T-Rex 500 (Lightning Power 425mm and 6s 2600 3g packs). Running the Scorpion 1400 KV motor, I was amazed by the power. This is definitely a killer setup.

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Sick video of Jason Chow doing some amazing 3d. The funny thing about this guy is he say’s he soooo rusty, but then he comes out and flys like he’s been practicing everyday.

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A new company, RC Rotors, has created a set of indestructible landing gear for the T-Rex 500, much like Gorilla gear. 

“Replaces the stock landing struts of the Trex 500 using the original hardware. Its special characteristic is the flexibility of the material which acts as a “shock absorber” for your heli minimizing crash damage.”
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Hot on the heels of the release of their updated 50 size electric heli, the Trex 600 ESP, Align is getting ready to release an updated version of the Trex 500 as well!
Called the Trex 500 ESP, the new heli boasts features such as an included metal tail case, CF blades and paddles, and [...]

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I  know we all know that the 90s are he kings of auto rotation landings but nothing can be made to minimize the auto ability of the T-Rex 500.  Check out this video of Ollie doing autos on the 500.
http://www.vimeo.com/1265040
Setup:

Trex 500CF
Align 500L
Align ESC
Futaba s9257’s
Gy401 + s9257
AR7000 Spektrum Receiver
Medusa Potencia 5V 2A
Flightpower 6s2500’s

Also here are a [...]

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Outstanding T-Rex 500 flight by Alan Szabo

In May Align held a co-sponsored event in cooperation with LVRCC and this a video from that event showing Alan Szabo beating up a T-Rex 500. At one point he even flies under a chain bordering the runway INVERTED. This is a must see video.

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Alot of activity is going around about FLYBARLESS setups. Looks like now they are even getting moved over to the 500 class. Matt Botos seems be be really liking the flight characteristics of the flybarless setups. So much so, that he recently joined team Mikado. I guess, to get the free V-Bar setups, LOL. Just kidding Matt!

A video was submitted today of Matt doing some damage to a T-Rex 500. Is he allowed to fly a 500?? Isn’t he team Mikado (wink).

Looks like he borrowed this 500 from Fireup.

[ video courtesy of helifreak.com ]
[ see more matt botos at mattbotos.com ]

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Looks like a classic Align parking lot video.  I feel like I am a corporate spy when watching these Align parking lot videos.  This one for some reason seems like a really good representation of the Align T-Rex 500’s capabilties in tight quarters.  Of course with JK and Alan at the sticks anything is possible.
http://www.vimeo.com/1153434
 

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Video by Vic Vazz showing Mr. Jason chown and flight number four of his T-Rex 500.  Looks like got the hang of this helicopter really quick.  I stumbled across his website just yesterday and what do you know…..He had videos up on our favorite video sharing site, Vimeo.
http://www.vimeo.com/927404
[see more jason here]

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I know….I missed it.  I specifically called Alan Szabo and asked if he was going and he said he wasn’t because they were only allowing planes indoor and outdoor was going to be helicopters.  Well here one of our contributors found Alan Jr….there…flying INDOORS.  I see a 500 on the table too.  Hmmmm….looks like they [...]

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