Lite Machines Corona

 

The Best Beginner Helicopter On The Market

 

 

Setup Tips

Put one of these on your boom to protect it...
I use two 1/2 inch square balsa, both are 3 3/4 inches long.
 

 

After about 13 flights, I upgraded to a brushless setup.  I went with the Hacker C40 12T and 40-3P esc. 

The Fusion 7 motor is ok..  but you have to clean the motor and install new brushes.  The manual says it's a 3 min job. well the first time I tried to take the motor apart, I had to take the motor off the cruch to get it apart.  It was more like a 20 min job.

 Make sure your gyro is working correctly.  with the radio on, and batt. connected, hold the corona and move the nose to the right. You should see the rudder servo on the crutch move to the right which is the same as you giving the the rudder left input.

Also make sure the tail rotor is not slipping. Hold the main blades, and try to rotate the tail rotor. If it spins, odds are the tail rotor gear is slipping on the wire.

Use the included Deans antenna and cut your antenna wire.   I started out with the antenna wire in a pushrod tube along the right side of the boom (I was not wild about cutting the antenna wire) and had radio gliches where the motor would cut in and out every now and then.  Using the Deans antenna solved this problem.

After about 50 flights, the training gear came off and I upgraded the stock boom and pushrod to a Carbon Fiber Boom and pushrod setup.  I still fly with the balsa on the boom. (been flying with the same balsa for a long time..  only mishaps were in the first 13 flights)

 

 

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