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MICRO FLYERS HELICOPTER

Micro Flyers Helicopter, retail $29.95 (www.brookstone.com...)
Manufactured by Excalibur Electronics, Inc. (www.excaliburelectronics.net)
Last updated 05-21-08




(In reference to the package I received from Brookstone at 3:27pm PDT on 05-20-08):
{sung like the Foreigner song "Feels Like the First Time"}
Feels like a flaaaaaash-liiiight...feels like a FLAAAA-aaaash-liiiight!!!
Feels like a flaaaaaash-liiiight...feels like a FL

BREAK IN 24577
READY.
CONT

?OUT OF DATA ERROR IN 49152
READY.
Let's try that again...as soon as I saw the address on the package, I *knew* it wasn't a flashlight...

CONT

?CAN'T CONTINUE ERROR
READY.
LIST

10 POKE53280,15:POKE53281,15:PRINT CHR$(147);
20840 READ A$
24576 PRINT A$
24577 PRINT A$
40960 END
49152 DATA "{b}Feels like a flaaaaaash-liiiight...feels like a {i}FLLLAASSSSH-{/i}liiiight!!!{/b}"

READY.
49152 DTTA "{b}Feels like a heliiii...copppppter... feels like a {i}HELLLIIIL-{/i}iccccoooopppterrrrr!!!{/b}"
RUN

?SYNTAX ERROR IN 49152
READY.
49152 DATA "{b}Feels like a heliiii...copppppter...feels like a {i}HELLLIIIL-{/i}iccccoooopppterrrrr!!!!!!{/b}"
RUN

Feels like a heliiii...copppppter...feels like a HELLLIIIL-iccccoooopppterrrrr!!!!!!
Feels like a heliiii...copppppter...feels like a HELLLIIIL-iccccoooopppterrrrr!!!!!!

READY.
This isn't a flashlight, household lamp, Christmas light set, or other thing that glows, but it *DOES* have a flashing LED in it, so what the hey. I have only evaluated remote controlled (RC) toys several times before, so please bear with me here.

I love things that fly; that's why I took the bate (I saw it in a catalouge while I was sitting on the john a few days before I ordered it - just like I did with another helicopter a short time prior to this one) and also why I added a seperate section titled "PRODUCTS DESIGNED TO FLY" on my website.

This is a lightweight, easy-to-fly remote controlled helicoper. It is designed specifically to be flown indoors.
Unlike the other indoor helicopters I've seen, this one has an all-plastic construction, not styrofoam.

According to the provided instructional materials, its official name is the "Micro Flyers Wireless Indoor Helicopter".


SIZE



This toy is remarkably easy to use for a helicopter...here's how to get it off the ground:

As with any rechargeable product, charge it first (see directly below), and then you can fly this toy.


1: On the underside of the Micro Flyers Helicopter's body, there's a small on/off switch.
Use a fingernail to slide this switch to the left (as the nose of the helicopter is facing up) to the "on" position.


2: Place the Micro Flyers Helicopter on a flat surface in the middle of a large room.

3: Turn the remote control on, point it at the helicopter, and push forward on the left-hand stick.

4: The Micro Flyers Helicopter should now lift off the ground. Congratulations, you're now a pilot!!!

For additional instructions & tips on how to fly, please read the instructional material that comes with the product.


Turn the Micro Flyers Helicopter and the remote off when finished using them.
Same switches as before, but slide them in the opposite direction this time.



The battery in the Micro Flyers Helicopter itself is rechargeable and is not designed to be changed; however the batteries in the remote will need to be changed from time to time.
The procedure for charging the battery in the helicopter itself is explained below the battery changing instructions for the remote control.




To change the batteries in the remote, remove the battery door, very gently place it on the ground, and kick it into the garden so the hungry, hungry praying mantids will think it's something yummy to eat and strike at it...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So just set it aside instead.

Remove the used AA cells from the compartment, and dispose of or recycle them as you see fit.

Install six new AA cells into the compartment, orienting them so that their flat-ends (-) negatives face the springs for them in each compartment.

Slide the battery door back on until it clicks into place.
Aren't you glad you didn't kick that battery door into the garden with all those hungry, hungry praying mantids now?


Here is what a praying mantis looks like.
I found this guy on the morning of 09-08-06 clinging to the basket of my scooter.




To charge the battery in the Micro Flyers Helicopter, you'll see a domed "door" near the bottom of the upper surface of the remote control's body. Slide this door down until it stops, and gently remove the thin cord with a small plug on the end of it.

With the Micro Flyers Helicopter turned off, ***GENTLY*** plug this into the receptacle for it on the underside of the Micro Flyers Helicopter's body; orienting it so that the red arrow on one side of the connector faces the front end of the helicopter .

Turn the remote control on; a green light should now turn on. When the green light turns off (advertised at 25 to 30 minutes from a nearly-fully discharged battery), gently unplug the cord from the Micro Flyers Helicopter, turn the remote control off, and stow the charging cord back into the compartment in the remote control for it.



This RC helicopter is meant to be used as a toy in a dry area outdoors, not as a flashlight meant to be carried around, thrashed, trashed, and abused, so I won't try to drown it in the toliet tank, bash it against a steel rod or against the concrete floor of a patio, let my housemate's citty kats go to the litterbox on it, run over it with a 450lb Celebrity motorised wheelchair, stomp on it, use a large claw hammer in order to smash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannonada (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piņata" too much again - candiosity is usually checked with a laser-type device on a platform with a large readout (located at Piņata Central), with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; and the cannonada (also located at Piņata Central) is only used to shoot piņatas to piņata parties away from picturesque Piņata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analysis, or perform other indecencies on it that a flashlight might have to have performed on it. So this section of the web page will be significantly more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.



Photograph of its remote control.


WMP movie (.avi extension) showing the blue flashing LED inside.

This clip is approximately 2.07 megabytes (2,140,116 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than eight minutes to load at 48.0Kbps


WMP movie (.avi extension) showing the helicopter flying indoors.

This clip shows it taking off from the floor, flying across the room, and crash-landing in the far corner of the room. After the movie camera was turned off, one of the kitty cats went after it, but could not find it because it had landed on the inside of a magazine rack - the blue flashing LED inside the cockpit was what enabled me to quickly locate & retrieve it.

This clip is approximately 0.930 megabytes (955,932 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than four minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.

I cannot provide these clips in other formats, so please do not ask.









TEST NOTES:
Test unit was ordered from the Brookstone website on 05-16-08, and was received at 3:27pm PDT on 05-20-08.

Product was made in China. A product's country of origin really does matter to some people, which is why I published it on this web page.


UPDATE: 00-00-00






PROS:



CONS:



    MANUFACTURER: Excalibur Electronics, Inc.
    PRODUCT TYPE: RC helicoper
    LAMP TYPE: Blue LED
    No. OF LAMPS: 1
    BEAM TYPE: N/A
    SWITCH TYPE: Slide on/off on underside of product
    CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
    BEZEL: N/A
    BATTERY: 6xAA cells (remote), 3.7 volt Li-Poly rechargeable (helicopter itself)
    CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
    WATER RESISTANT: Very light splatter-resistance at maximum
    SUBMERSIBLE: No
    ACCESSORIES: Spare tail rotor
    WARRANTY: 90 days

    PRODUCT RATING:

    Because this product is not intended to emit light, the standard "star" rating will not be used.
    It *DOES* have a blue flashing LED in its cockpit, so it is at least a bit germane to this website.





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