Electronic Helicopter

In recent years, electric rc helicopters have become very widely available and much easier to fly than ever before, making them the ultimate 'must have' radio control model and bringing countless new people to the rc flying hobby.

As a result, they now make up the fastest growing sector of the hobby, even overtaking airplanes in some parts of the world, and the examples shown on this page are some of the helicopters that have been responsible for this massive explosion in popularity.

Essentially there are three groups of electric rc helicopter - coaxial, Fixed Pitch and Collective Pitch, the latter two being commonly abbreviated to FP and CP respectively.

Most electric rc helicopters follow the conventional layout with a single main rotor and a tail rotor, but there are some that have two sets of main rotors, one above the other, and no tail rotor; these are called coaxial, dual rotor or contra-rotating helicopters. The E-flite Blade CX3, shown above, is a fine example.

Coaxial helicopters have the big advantage of being a lot easier to master, and the good ones such as the Blade CX2 and 3 can be flown right out the box with little or no setting up involved.

In comparison, a single rotor RTF electric rc helicopter advertised as "Can be flown straight from the box with NO experience!" invariably needs some tweaking here and there, and some very sensible practice.

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