SJ-Series Gyro 3.5CH Helicopter
- Easier to fly and more stable than most non-quad-copters
- But you still get the fun of crashing sometimes
- Flies for 7-minutes on a 45-minute charge: buy 7 for continuous round-the-clock flying
- Indoor flight works best, with a control range of 50 feet, so pick a co-worker to annoy
- 9" long, which is 28% longer than the similar model we’ve sold, and way more stable and helicoptery
- This ultra-exhaustive review says more than we ever could, or would ever want to
- Model: SJ250
You can't spell "kickass copter" without "cockpit".
You know we love drones. We love them so much we named our horse- er, our 'copter discussion forum after them. We love flying them, doing tricks with them, shooting videos with them, and then talking about all those things. But there’s one thing it’s hard to do with them: pretend you’re flying one in your favorite helicopter movie scene.
You can’t use your imagination to put yourself in the cockpit of a quadcopter, because there is no cockpit. Not to mention, hey don’t look anything like the 'copters in the movies.
Not so this SJ250 RC helicopter. It makes a convincing stand-in for playtime reenactments of everything from the soaring nighttime flights of Blue Thunder to the horrifying nightmare of Black Hawk Down. At 9" long, it’s 28% more copterlike than the 7" one we’ve sold here before.
And there’s no shortage of filmic inspirations. Because the Internet gonna Internet, of course there’s an exhaustive site indexing and analyzing every appearance of helicopters on film. As another film-copter connoisseur puts it, “You can sometimes find fantastic helicopter scenes in movies that aren’t necessarily that good.”
Whether your idea of James Bond is Roger Moore or Daniel Craig, its coaxial gyro-stabilized flight and durable metal frame will make you believe your make-believe. And for the price of one DJI Phantom, you can buy enough of these to stage the helicopter surf attack from Apocalypse Now.
Plus it’s got a little window so you can pretend you’re sitting inside it. Case closed. Please have your credit card ready. Operators are standing by.
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