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JR Voyager Electric Heli
We've now built and flown the new JR Voyager Electric. It's
a well designed and very easy to build kit. It is both more rugged
and more maneuverable than the Kalt Whisper, and the main frames
and complete head are pre-assembled for you. Below you see Kurt
flying his Voyager behind the HeliProz store.
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| Voyager comes with electric motor
and a nice speed controller with BEC circuit (no separate RX
pack is used) and a push-button arming switch. It's designed
to hold regular sized servos or, with the included adapter plates,
mini-servos. You'll want to use mini servos and a small gyro
to maximize performance. Voyager is a CCPM heli, so you need
a radio that does CCPM (3-servo, 120 degree variety). |
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| As you can see, the Voyager is a nice looking
heli. The decals look "cool" as supplied. The plastic
canopy seems a bit heavy. In addition to radio gear you'll need
a battery pack - 7 cell, 2000 mah preferred - and a charger that
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At right you see the easily accessible motor and two of the
3 cyclic/collective servos. Kurt used 531's because he had those
laying around.
JR claims about 6 minutes of normal flying, or maybe 3-4 doing
hard aerobatics. Obviously you gain performance whenever you
shave weight.
So far Kurt hasn't done any aerobatics. The controls are plenty
responsive and this heli flies and hovers fine. The belt drive
tail works great, and noise levels are of course very low.
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| We are waiting for parts list from Horizon, but
we will start getting parts soon and will have complete parts
support for the Voyager. |
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