Back in the 90s we did this all the time - we called it "doing the funky chicken". I had a Concept 30 IC powered heli throw the radio battery out on impact leaving the throttle on almost full bore. It took quite a few minutes for the clutch to finally burn out and allow me to go pull the fuel line off.
That's what we in the RC heli hobby call the "chicken dance". Only way to stop it quickly with a nitro heli is throw a coat or jacket on it, then run up to it and yank the fuel line off.
hahaha nothing scarier than a big 600 or 700 Nitro Heli smashing itself to pieces on the floor while the engine is SCREAMING and you're desperately trying to get near the fucker to cut the engine without losing a hand!! haha!
Basically the HW autopilot removes all of the fear and apprehension of your first rc heli crash, by crashing FOR YOU. 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂. Jk awesome video as usual, mate!
Oops 😬, that’s why when it comes to anything that flies you HAVE TO read instructions from “ front to back & back to front & inside out “ if you don’t, well you found out what happens... Hilarious vid 🤣😂😂🤣😂😅 👍👍👍👍👍✌🏻
As someone who's been in the drone bizz for 5+ years (and has worked for DJI), I'm genuinely curious what you mean with 'sometimes disagrees with what you want to do'. Could you elaborate?
Kev despite some teething problems you outlined, that GPS Mode is a bloody Godsend! I can't tell you how useful that function will be for someone like myself who didn't learn to fly Heli's 'til his late 30's and basically struggles with losing orientation of Heli, then crashing in a panic trying to recover!! That's a miracle system for any newbie or struggler like myself! I've crashed £1200 Heli's losing orientation so i'll defo be buying this Heli !! Thanks so much kev! Keep up the madness bro! Wes, Liverpool.
I'm in the same boat as you, except I've got 20 years on you - I'm almost 60. I own a Blade 230s and an Align T-Rex 470, and I never fly them anymore. I've only hovered the 470 a few times. I've got dozens of hours with the Heli-X simulator, so I've attempted to fly the 230s, but when it's in a banked turn, I can't tell whether it's going left or right. I've hit throttle hold and dumped it into the grass a couple of times, with little to no damage, but now I'm gun shy. If someone offered to buy me out, I'm not sure I'd decline. It's really discouraging, because I love these machines. I really enjoyed building the 470, but, if I crashed it, I'd give up for sure.
@@ExSkyCyclePilot My goodness Michael i can so relate to your feelings mate! I'm the same, i got to the point where i'm too afraid to fly my expensive Heli's any more because i'm so afraid of crashing them and then having to spend £hundreds on parts etc! I really struggle with seeing what direction my Heli is pointed when i'm flying it farther away, and just the same as you, when i'm banking to left or right, i often lose orinentation and panic and dump it! You mention you have 20 years on me, well i really feel for you because i believe us late starters, who come into Heli flying as older adults, are totally disadvantaged because when you learn new skills with a very young/childs brain, the Neurons are still growing and making new connections, so you learn much fatser and your brain mouldfs itself or has much more plasticity than when you're an adult, thus making the newly learned skill "second nature" if you will. Ofcourse us older adults can still learn new skills very well, but it's much much harder in my personal opinion. The only tip i can give you is much larger Heli's like the 600, 700 and 800 size Heli's are actually easier to fly because their larger size is naturally more stable and less "Twitchy" than smaller Heli's, but the problem with even this is when you crash, it's much much more expensive to fix!! We can't win mate! lol.
I love 3D helicopters, it's my favorite RC models to fly, especially the 6CH ones.. I don't like the GPS helicopters, I'd rather stick to the original way to learn.. Which is... Try take off, crash before helicopter lifts off the ground. (Chicken Dance).. Then repair the helicopter!! Try fly and crash again! Cry for a while, and fix it again! Then take off and crash... Laugh about it, and cry... Fix it again!! Fly it and enjoy, then crash and fix it as it's a routine already.. Honestly half the fun is to repair it and maintain it, the other half of the fun is to fly it! It toom me 2 years to learn to hover it in all orientations, and another 1 year to fly it 3D style properly without crashing it.. Now I don't crash much at all, can't even remember when I last crashed, lol.. Anyway it was fun to watch the helicopter being destroyed like that, laughing like crazy here really.. Shouldn't have let the newbie fly such a beautiful machine, or at least you should have explained better how to operate it.. LOL SWEET Keep well and be safe bro!
RC Helicopters are a lot easier to fly with auto gyros these days. I built a Morley Bell 47G with 6.5cc glow engine (designed by Jim Morley) in the late 1970’s early 1980’s and without gyros it was like balancing a ping pong ball on top of another ping pong ball, in a breeze. Took me a couple of months to grasp the hover.
13:04 this is known as "chicken dance" and it usually happens to nitro/gas rc helicopters. If you have a rough landing and the battery gets unplugged the throttle servo will keep the engine running until it destroys itself or runs out of fuel I had this happen to me on my 2s xk k110 with cc3d flight controller refused to disarm and it destroyed itself in battery fire
flips into gps "flies like a drone" he hasnt flown an acro drone it seems. Give it a try for me kev, love to see your power loops and barrell rolls! shred the gnar boys, carry on!
I had the same heli to test. When I got it the blades were poorly balanced which caused the gyros to crap out. That's what it looked like in the video, mine was going the same way but I killed the throttle before it did any damage. After balancing the blades all was well.
When he said that its newbie friendly i just flashbacked to the first 5 sec lol
😂😂😂
@@NoMercyRC i know but that chicken dance tho
Omg right
Back in the 90s we did this all the time - we called it "doing the funky chicken". I had a Concept 30 IC powered heli throw the radio battery out on impact leaving the throttle on almost full bore. It took quite a few minutes for the clutch to finally burn out and allow me to go pull the fuel line off.
That was part of the fun back then 😂
the gps was like "don't worry bro i got ya, trying to take off from the side of a hill, lemme just tilt you a little"
I can’t express how much I cringed when those blades were hitting the floor
RCModels same
It didn’t bother me it wasn’t mine 😂
Brits say floor instead of ground for some reason. Deal with it
Sean Hamilton no we say ground to in Britain
@@seanhamilton4175 who Pissed in your Cheerios this morning?!?...Lil Hostile 🤣🤣🤷🏼♂️
The blades on the floor sound like a drum roll 😂
best bit for me was kev's face when the camera guys joked about the crash not filmed gahahaha that was true reaction reaction right there
Vinny got him
Gotcha!! 🤣🤣🤣
That's what we in the RC heli hobby call the "chicken dance". Only way to stop it quickly with a nitro heli is throw a coat or jacket on it, then run up to it and yank the fuel line off.
So sad :(
never let a good funkey chicken go to waste!
hahaha nothing scarier than a big 600 or 700 Nitro Heli smashing itself to pieces on the floor while the engine is SCREAMING and you're desperately trying to get near the fucker to cut the engine without losing a hand!! haha!
Funky Chicken!
In this case they could have just hit the kill switch on the Tx
13:29 Kevin's face. His honest thought: Whaaaat haappeeen?😁😁😅
Hi Kev you are the best youtuber and have got me through these hard times 👍😊you are an inspiration
How he inspired you and what are the results in your life due to Kevin
Jamuna Sharma he has by getting me into rcs and he’s made my life more fun
That's great you in right track
@@jamunasharma929 thanks 🙏
It looked like a moth that was sprayed with brake cleaner. 😂
💀Game Over💀
Hol up
Wat
Basically the HW autopilot removes all of the fear and apprehension of your first rc heli crash, by crashing FOR YOU. 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂. Jk awesome video as usual, mate!
I tried not to laugh....just wasn't possible. And you know, it could'a been worse......LOL
hahahaha
Man i will go someday to Britain just to go to the hobby shop you go to and race crawlers
Basically everything is broken but its not that bad.😆😆😆
Trust me, it could have been soooo much worse...
the beginning was probably the most funniest thing i have ever seen
Excellent flight! Very good skills at keeping the blade tips hitting the ground at all times. Very good!
He said "it all happened so quick!" lol dude, you had like 5 minutes to stop and think about what u were doing and disarm haha
Congratulations, you have made the first “rc helicopter malfunction shenanigans “ video that this giant robot actually liked to watch
This RUclipsr is epic never seen anyone like this before
Your response when it's destroying itself is priceless. Haha. Good reminder to always remember they're only toys.
OMG the look on your face was priceless!!!! Get back to the air when you fix it
"Aww I wasn't filming" Kev- "What??" Priceless!!
I get him every time with that one!!
0:09 lol I laughed so hard🤣
I was expecting a different crash but it was hilarious
I was dying out laughing 😂
Helicopter are smart ! Because they knows, that Kevin destroy everything, and she says I prefer to destroy my self ! 🤣
You should do a review on the RGT Rock Hammer witch is a rock crawler that would be good with a Brushless system
I LOVE how he is getting back into choppas🙃😅
If that is a beginner helicopter, I think I'll stick to RC trucks 😆
It’s called a Rick Roll Helicopter
Call it "try not to die" cuz I about went out laughing.. Sounds like u started yelping, help helpp help haha that's cold hard fun right there.
Lmao. Kev with that nervous chuckle when he hands over the controller
Nice to see you getting back into helicopters
I cannot stop laughing at this. It may be my favorite RC crash of all time.
Best Funky Chicken Dance of RC Heli :D hahah. I watched your video on Chinese Tiktok mate. they stole it
Thank you for reminding me why I don’t fly Helis anymore 👍
😂auto level, auto hover, auto invert, auto Rescue, and special mode AUTO Self-Destruct🤣🤣🤣🤣
Best funky chicken dance, EVER!
The Sultan Of RC
Yo Kevin!!! I always have so much fun watching your channel. Thank you for just being you!!! Much love from the states. See you at next paddlesworth!
Kev I have watched u senes I was 5 u r my fav RUclipsr keep up the goo work
Wow... it's the chicken dance...😆...I missed those days... it's been 6 Years since i stop flying RC helicopter...it collecting dust now...🤭
Oops 😬, that’s why when it comes to anything that flies you HAVE TO read instructions from “ front to back & back to front & inside out “ if you don’t, well you found out what happens... Hilarious vid 🤣😂😂🤣😂😅 👍👍👍👍👍✌🏻
Always great to hear “wauffle” after specs
P.s to do 3d you need a 4s lipo 400mah at least not a 1800mah 3s.
I would love this I have never flown before but it is so expensive
Stay away from it my friend..u willll waste ur money
Your reaction trying to flip the emergency stop switch is priceless. 500 Quid's lol
I bought a Mavic Air recently, it’s pretty good, cept it sometimes disagrees with what you want to do.
Standard!
As someone who's been in the drone bizz for 5+ years (and has worked for DJI), I'm genuinely curious what you mean with 'sometimes disagrees with what you want to do'. Could you elaborate?
Kev despite some teething problems you outlined, that GPS Mode is a bloody Godsend! I can't tell you how useful that function will be for someone like myself who didn't learn to fly Heli's 'til his late 30's and basically struggles with losing orientation of Heli, then crashing in a panic trying to recover!! That's a miracle system for any newbie or struggler like myself! I've crashed £1200 Heli's losing orientation so i'll defo be buying this Heli !! Thanks so much kev! Keep up the madness bro! Wes, Liverpool.
I'm in the same boat as you, except I've got 20 years on you - I'm almost 60. I own a Blade 230s and an Align T-Rex 470, and I never fly them anymore. I've only hovered the 470 a few times. I've got dozens of hours with the Heli-X simulator, so I've attempted to fly the 230s, but when it's in a banked turn, I can't tell whether it's going left or right. I've hit throttle hold and dumped it into the grass a couple of times, with little to no damage, but now I'm gun shy. If someone offered to buy me out, I'm not sure I'd decline. It's really discouraging, because I love these machines. I really enjoyed building the 470, but, if I crashed it, I'd give up for sure.
@@ExSkyCyclePilot My goodness Michael i can so relate to your feelings mate! I'm the same, i got to the point where i'm too afraid to fly my expensive Heli's any more because i'm so afraid of crashing them and then having to spend £hundreds on parts etc! I really struggle with seeing what direction my Heli is pointed when i'm flying it farther away, and just the same as you, when i'm banking to left or right, i often lose orinentation and panic and dump it! You mention you have 20 years on me, well i really feel for you because i believe us late starters, who come into Heli flying as older adults, are totally disadvantaged because when you learn new skills with a very young/childs brain, the Neurons are still growing and making new connections, so you learn much fatser and your brain mouldfs itself or has much more plasticity than when you're an adult, thus making the newly learned skill "second nature" if you will. Ofcourse us older adults can still learn new skills very well, but it's much much harder in my personal opinion. The only tip i can give you is much larger Heli's like the 600, 700 and 800 size Heli's are actually easier to fly because their larger size is naturally more stable and less "Twitchy" than smaller Heli's, but the problem with even this is when you crash, it's much much more expensive to fix!! We can't win mate! lol.
Congrats on the 700.000!!🥳
I love 3D helicopters, it's my favorite RC models to fly, especially the 6CH ones.. I don't like the GPS helicopters, I'd rather stick to the original way to learn..
Which is...
Try take off, crash before helicopter lifts off the ground. (Chicken Dance).. Then repair the helicopter!! Try fly and crash again! Cry for a while, and fix it again! Then take off and crash... Laugh about it, and cry... Fix it again!! Fly it and enjoy, then crash and fix it as it's a routine already..
Honestly half the fun is to repair it and maintain it, the other half of the fun is to fly it!
It toom me 2 years to learn to hover it in all orientations, and another 1 year to fly it 3D style properly without crashing it..
Now I don't crash much at all, can't even remember when I last crashed, lol..
Anyway it was fun to watch the helicopter being destroyed like that, laughing like crazy here really..
Shouldn't have let the newbie fly such a beautiful machine, or at least you should have explained better how to operate it.. LOL
SWEET
Keep well and be safe bro!
Bro, the helicopter took the plunge for a mid career shift into free styling and break rotoring!
A little hot glue will fix it 😂😂
Helicopter turned into a really evil whip!
Kev you are so god damn close to 700k subs! Keep it up man!
Saw this thing last week on Banggood.
Talking about taking the fun out of learning to fly rc helicopters. Quite dangerous in the hands of a noob too.
Nice. That a nice way to blast off . Now it fly like magic
The new omphobby M2 Evo has an upgraded tail motor and it is much more solid even under heavy pitch bumps. Great little series of micro helis
I would name it helicopter dance btw last scene was hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂😂
RC Helicopters are a lot easier to fly with auto gyros these days. I built a Morley Bell 47G with 6.5cc glow engine (designed by Jim Morley) in the late 1970’s early 1980’s and without gyros it was like balancing a ping pong ball on top of another ping pong ball, in a breeze. Took me a couple of months to grasp the hover.
13:04 this is known as "chicken dance" and it usually happens to nitro/gas rc helicopters.
If you have a rough landing and the battery gets unplugged the throttle servo will keep the engine running until it destroys itself or runs out of fuel
I had this happen to me on my 2s xk k110 with cc3d flight controller refused to disarm and it destroyed itself in battery fire
he did say funky chicken
What an opener! Flippin hilarious bruv! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Your getting the aircraft guys attention now... keep up the planes and helis 💪
A fitting end, but entertaining never the less!
Me: Hmm wonder if I can do a doughnut is a rc Heli?
Kev: Check this out 0:08
700k subs congratulations kev 👍
Looks like a chicken having a heart attack!
Is that the chicken dance lol
Wow! Scary stuff! 😲 I was worried that blade pieces and spinning parts were gonna hit you guys. $500 is nothing as long as you guys are ok.👍🏼
flips into gps "flies like a drone"
he hasnt flown an acro drone it seems. Give it a try for me kev, love to see your power loops and barrell rolls!
shred the gnar boys, carry on!
Really wanted to get one for my 2 year old Daugter but not any more..thanks Kevin for this Video
never seen a breakdancing mode before, looks alil dangerous. good thing they give that extra tail rotor
When kev on rage mode😂😂😂
Lmao just watching that chopper die slowly oh noooo lol
Yeah!!! I also wanna buy one of this perfect RC´s. Looks like fun!
You screaming and helicopter doing chicken dace 😂😂😂😆🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣lol😃
"it won't turn off"
* doesn't even try to flip the off switch *
That was great. Good thing you caught it on video.
RUNAWAY!!!!!!!! Bring your face sheild for the next flight.
OMG that is hilarious how the hell did that happen
Kev:says to not laugh
Me:HAHAHAH
I’m laughing so hard right now 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The intro was priceless. Awesome video, gracias
Back on the days we used to called that the funky chicken dance 😂
I started from toy grade 3 channel you get from toy stores. And from that point on, I gradually developed my skills for the hobby grade helis.
Kev congrats on the 700k subs very happy that you hit it and still pushing through
Keep up the great work kev!😅👍
Checking out the damage while the thing is giving you the death beep. Leaving the battery plugged in. Luckily it didn't slap you in the chops.
Ohhhh You got the limit edition break dancing one!
Nonchalant sliding in of the EXB. I see you, Kev.
Kev I Want To Odder X Maxx But They Did Not Deliver In India Can You Help Me
You could go to a local hobbyshop
@@KPTGR8 Does one of 'em have a online shop?
Hey you are in India I am also in India .
I also wanted to buy a XMAXX 8s can you tell the cost of XMAXX 8s in India.
@@ratheesht3850 bro you fool even if you get one where you you plan on getting spares
Are you in Kerala I will get parts from Amazon
or any other online shopping. Can you tell what is the cost of XMAXX 8s .
Hahaha the expensive chicken dance
Nice video kev
0:00 when its your first day flying a helicopter
I think the road was tilting and that probably caused the wobbling
I had the same heli to test. When I got it the blades were poorly balanced which caused the gyros to crap out. That's what it looked like in the video, mine was going the same way but I killed the throttle before it did any damage. After balancing the blades all was well.
It left the concrete pretty clean. The most expensive way to clean concrete 😂🤣👍
Now that was a cyclone! LOL
I have to say that's the longest lasting crash I seen of any RC helicopter. That thing was dancing around like a chicken with its head cut off
I don't mean to laugh at your expense Kevin but I could not help it! I haven't laughed that hard in a long time lol
That was funny to watch but rip wallet!!