Ikarus ECO8

Aikon1977

Junior Member
1st post in the heli section...

Ikarus ECO8, a long story.

I've bought my ECO8 in the year 2002:
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After some hopping around,a few fails and a lot of repair work I decided to save my money and placed the ECO in a corner...
 

Aikon1977

Junior Member
... a few year after that (october 2010) I wanted something different to the planes I used to fly.
So the ECO8 has been dusted:

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With some exercises on the SIM and on the field it turned out that the heli flies very stable...
 

Aikon1977

Junior Member
...now the time has come to improve a little:

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With the gyro and the completely new adjusted main head it was even more stable and easy to fly.

But still brushed (which is not causing any problems) and 35mHz - and this has caused some probs...

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Aikon1977

Junior Member
...time to rebuild

As I found out the ECO8 is fun flying (without the technical problems) I wanted to do something new with the mechanics:

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Aikon1977

Junior Member
...on the field

Attached the ECO with new hardware: brushless, 3s 5000mAh, FrSky 2,4gHz

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...no failes or crashes till now, so the training gear has been removed in the meantime (and yes, it looks better without).

Gregor
 

glydr

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Nice story. I've been wanting to do a scale heli. An MD500 would be awesome.