I posted about the temp controllers and some of the other electronics in another post. But yeah, they have a little bit of everything. The temp controllers are pretty cool looking. They are about 2 inches square and about 4 inches long. I haven't hooked one up yet, but given how cheap they were, I bought 4 of them.
Zoinks! I had nothing to do with the rubber unicorn head mask, I promise!The missus is looking at clothes and strangely, a rubber unicorn head mask thing. :-/
To be fair, both Randy and I are simplifying the interaction of the servos, the swash plate, the rotor head, and the flybar (if present). There's a lot of physics going on in that rotor head, including things like gyroscopic offset, lead-lag effect, flapping, and plenty of other details that we haven't mentioned at all. But none of that is really relevant to the discussion about the differences between fixed-pitch vs collective pitch. (And you don't need to understand these extra things to be able to fly a helicopter either.)I'd just never really thought about how the swash plate actually moves the pitch of the blade.
To be honest, I would never suggest that anyone go straight to CP, unless they at least had a chance to fly someone else's Fixed-Pitch bird first, to be sure it's something they both 1) want to do, and 2) have an aptitude for.I thought long and hard about how I might just go straight for the CP bird but ultimately my budget wouldn't stretch to a large enough one for my liking.
Besides, I know you'll have a blast with the V912, especially with the camera add-on. Just remember: it flies like a truck and turns like a brick. And if you hit something with it, you will probably break the "something" that you hit. (Surprisingly though, the bird will probably survive OK. It's remarkably durable.)
Adam