Estes SF161 Helicopter

Estes SF161 Helicopter

Features :

• Up/down, left/right, forward/backward control
• 6 - 8 minute flying time
• A/B selector
• Comes With 90 Day Warranty

Estes SF161 Helicopter description

4601 SF161 Mini Helicopter Medium Red IR RTF

It's no Huey, but I didn't pay $4.7 million either.
I got this on sale at a local brick-n-mortar for a Jackson. At that price I didn't expect much, but it was actually alright.

Battery

This is a toy so it can't heft enough weight for a decent battery (though that's not going to stop me from trying to upgrade it), so I only get 7-10 minutes out of a flight. But for that little money, that's about all I expected. And to be frank I start to run out of ideas of things to do with it after that long anyway, so no big deal. I'm not sure what a charge time is because I put it on the charger (tail hanging out of the controller) and go find something more worthwhile to do, so it's pretty much a non-issue for me. The shortest amount of time between setting it down to charge and coming back to play with it has been 45 minutes and it was ready to go.

It flew right out of the box for a shorter than normal but longer than expected time, just enough to get a feel for it. After the first charge I thought I had a...