101R Flipside Quadcopter, Red

Helicopter is a lot of fun. I was able to tape a keychain camera onto it (it does make it clunkier). I fly this indoors and outdoors. Because it's more powerful and heavier, the blades can get damaged when you crash. I've broken one blade so far. I fly a different helicopter inside now and use this one for outside. It can go very high. My favorite trick to do is to throw it in the air and then kick on the engines. It will right itself and you'll look really cool. It does not need to be level when you start unlike some other copters.

The instruction for the EZ Fly are useless. It is next to impossible to fly it inside my home with 9' ceilings. I would not recommend this toy.11/8/14Gave the drone to my 14 year old grandson today. He has flown drones before. He had this one in the air doing tricks in minutes. Wish I was 14 years old again.

Bought 3 of them when on sale for under $21 each. Inputs lag badly. Range is terrible... after 30 feet, looses signal and flies off at full throttle. Returned all 3 immediately. I have a number of quads along with 20 years of flying all kinds of RC. No control is dangerous.

Appears like a great little copter and it seems like it has potential. However, the first big crash into a solid surface and one rotor won't spin and the canopy is broken. Seems like a wire got pinched to that motor and I'll be out $17 on their website (plus whatever shipping is) to get a new set of parts to get this back in the air. From my experience, another reviewer had it right- you may need to buy two copters just to have the spare parts. The manual refers to four flight modes from easy to beginner and then that's the last it says about "modes" - later there's talk of a rate button, but I didn't have time to experiment before I destroyed the copter. The manual speaks of turning on the radio first and then hooking up the battery before the beeps run out to "bind" the copter to the remote, but I had better success turning on the copter before the radio (totally backwards from most RC). Check out the manufacturer's website and notice they don't pay much service to the Flipside copter. All of the "how to run" and "how to repair" videos are for a different copter- not the Flipside.So why did I give it 3 stars? I did have some fun flight in whatever mode or rate the copter was in before I destroyed it. I also held it in my hand and tilted it while running and watched some rotors spin faster and others slow down to try to compensate to keep the "model" (that's what they call it in the manual) level. I've flown a more expensive copter and it seemed like a similar experience.I will be looking for a deal on another copter so I'll have 8 more rotors, 4 more motors, 4 more booms, another battery... Kind of like buying spare parts in bulk. Maybe they're following the "get them hooked and make our money on spare parts" model of business?Just keep this last thought in mind. My experience with this copter tells me that the RC copter hobby is going to be expensive even with a cheap copter.Edit: I got a second copter. I played with the rate settings (top right button on the remote)- I got the copter crazy high and essentially had to power it down (left stick down) because it flew on the other side of a tree and I couldn't reliably control the copter. I'm not going to blame the manufacturer for this break. I messed up and broke the second one. Well, the reason I got the second was to have spare parts, so I started to try to combine the parts of the two copters to build a working copter. Some observations:#1 The circuit board had different components between the two copters. Seems strange to me, but they seemed to fly the same, so I'll write this one off...#2 The EZ Fly RC website showed each component as a replacement part (motors with wiring, booms, central frame, control board, rotors, etc). This to me implied easy to repair. This turns out to be incorrect as on both copters I could remove some booms from the central frame and some I could not. There appears to be some sort of glue holding them together.#3 They don't sell the motor + boom as a replacement part, so you're going to be whipping out the soldering iron to put the connector on the new wires if you end up having to get a new motor.#4 If a boom is stuck in the central frame, you'll need to cut and solder the motor wire if you need to replace the motor even if you bought a second copter to be able to treat the motor/boom as a single replaceable unit.A couple of simple engineering changes would have made this thing robust enough to be a learner's copter. The screws that hold the control board in are right over the booms, so if the wires to the motors could run somewhere other than across the top of the boom back to where they enter it, the screws that hold the control board could also be what secures the booms. The booms are cheap, why aren't they included with a motor as a FRU? A small piece of lexan or similar lightweight material under the gears would make it harder for dirt/grass to get between the motor's gear and the rotor's gear to bind things up.I lowered my review one star (down to two) because it seems to me after experimenting with these two quadcopters, this company is producing this copter as sort of a subscription model scenario. You need to go direct to them to order replacement parts, and if you're just learning, you'll be going back often for a couple bucks here and a couple bucks there, and the pessimist in me says that's how they're going to make their money on this product.

for sale price of $20 was a great buy at 59 not so much.

Easy to Fly for beginners and capable of stunt flying for advanced.Very resilient to crashes. Grass is better than concrete however.If rotors bind up - look for very small pieces of grass in the gears between motor and blade. Use a needle to clear it.Super fun to fly.I did cut the charge plug off the wall socket device and wired it to my LiPo charger and reduced charge time significantly.

Fun while working.

I bought this product as a "lightning deal." I followed the instructions and charged the battery upon arrival. First attempt at flying the quadcopter, one of the motors did not work consistently; sometimes it would work, most of the time it did not. When looking at the motor, I realized that boom was not securely connected to the frame--it slid right out. Are the problems connected? I am not sure. Worked well enough to play with for a little while. After the third battery recharge, battery will not hold a charge. Maybe I just was unlucky, and got a lemon, but this thing is a piece of junk. I actually strongly suspect (though I cannot prove) that I received a previously defective and returned product. If that is the case, then either Amazon or EZ Fly tried pulling a crappy move. Will be returning for a refund promptly.