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The Lil’ Draganflyer Plus is the evolution of the original Lil’ Draganflyer. Now featuring remotely controlled lights and five optional remotely controlled accessories! These accessories can be interchanged and include a Camera, Missile Launcher, Water Cannon, Hook and Basket, and Bubble Blower.

The Camera accessory package can be purchased separately and records images and video to a micro SD card. Video recording is toggled by the top left controller hat button, and pictures are triggered by the bottom right controller button. A micro SD card and USB card reader are included with the optional Camera accessory package.

The Missile Launcher accessory package can be purchased separately and holds six safe plastic missiles. Individual missile firing is triggered by the top left controller hat button, and simultaneous firing of all six missiles is triggered by the bottom right controller button. Twelve missiles are included with the optional Missile Launcher accessory package. Additional sets of spare missiles can be purchased separately.

The Water Cannon accessory package can be purchased separately and fires a stream of water when pressing the accessory button on the controller. A water filling tool is included with the optional Water Cannon accessory package.

The Hook and Basket accessory package can be purchased separately and raises or lowers a hook on the end of a line. One controller button will raise the line, and the other will lower it. A basket which can be caught with the hook is included with the optional Hook & Basket accessory package.

The Bubble Blower accessory package can be purchased separately and fires a stream of bubbles when pressing the accessory button on the controller. A bottle of bubble solution and a filling tool is included with the optional Bubble Blower accessory package.

The Lil’ Draganflyer Plus mini quadrotor continues to be an ideal beginner 4-channel Ready-to-Fly 2.4GHz electric helicopter. Use it indoors or outdoors for unlimited fun. The Lil’ Draganflyer Plus has flight characteristics similar to its bigger brothers, the Draganflyer X4, X4-P, X6, and X8. With three gyros, the Lil’ Draganflyer Plus offers unsurpassed stability and incredible control. The 2.4GHz digital proportional 4-channel remote control ensures strong, glitch-free performance. Because of its small size, the Lil’ Draganflyer Plus is easy to fly indoors, but it is also powerful enough to fly outdoors even with mild winds.

Lil’ Draganflyer Plus comes 100% assembled and Ready-to-Fly right out of the box with no assembly required.

The Lil’ Draganflyer Mini Quadrotor is an ideal beginner 4-channel Ready-to-Fly 2.4GHz electric helicopter. Use it indoors or outdoors for unlimited fun. The Lil’ Draganflyer has flight characteristics similar to its bigger brothers, the Draganflyer X4, X4-P, X6, and X8. With three gyros, the Lil’ Draganflyer offers unsurpassed stability and incredible control. The 2.4GHz digital proportional 4-channel remote control ensures strong, glitch-free performance. Because of its small size, the Lil’ Draganflyer is easy to fly indoors, but it is also powerful enough to fly outdoors even with mild winds.

The Lil’ Draganflyer comes 100% assembled and Ready-to-Fly right out of the box with no assembly required.

If you own, or plan on buying, the Thunder Power RC TP820CD charger or Thunder Power RC 820CD LiPoly Charger & Rip Max Pro-Peak 270W AC-DC Power Supply, you should be aware that there is a firmware update that needs to be installed on the TP820CD charger. Please note, MOST customers WILL NEED TO PERFORM THE UPDATE. All TP820CD owners should identify the version of firmware currently operating the charger to identify if further action is necessary.

To identify which version of firmware your TP820CD is operating, simply turn on the charger. You will see the version firmware your charger is running, as noted on the bottom right corner of the initial screen displayed. All TP820CD chargers with a firmware version other than v4.3 will need to install the update.

Instructions on updating the Thunder Power RC TP820CD

Please note: When new firmware is made available for any Thunder Power RC Charger, it should be installed to allow for optimal operation of the product.

We have just received stock of the Hitec HawkEye Hand Launch Glider. Be the first to grab this Light Weight EPO Foam Glider for only $16.95!




Built of lightweight and durable EPO foam, the Hitec HawkEye Hand Launch Glider is easy to assemble and a breeze to fly. With only three main parts to assemble (body frame, main wing, and tail wing), you will be ready to fly in just minutes. Insert the wings snugly into the pre-cut slotted areas, take ahold of the underside of the frame, and launch it into the air!

Extremely simple to assemble and an absolute blast to throw around! Available in a hot red and bright white color scheme, the Hitec HawkEye Hand Launch Glider maintains keen sight over all it surveys. When the price point is this low and the quality is this good, you just can’t go wrong.

Our Bladerunner Black Ghost, Firefly, Micro Mosquito, and Search & Rescue rotors and accessories have never been priced this low! If you’re a Bladerunner helicopter owner, you don’t want to miss this! We’ve slashed the prices on all of the Bladerunner rotors and other accessories to make room for new inventory. Still don’t like the prices? Make us an offer! Take advantage of the huge savings and stock up now while supplies last.

The prices have been reduced by up to 80% off!

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There is a spreadsheet available with test data from over 251 unique propellers frequently used on rc model airplanes. Dr Phil Millener, Chattanooga, Tennessee (RCGroups.com user “Dr Kiwi”) has compiled a massive amount of data on almost all the frequently used RC propellers, and gave us permission to make the file available to you for download. For your convenience, there is also a reformatted version which only contains the results without any macros (available in .xls format and .csv format.)

This spreadsheet has over 13000 data points for different propellers. Each row has the following information:

• Propeller Name
• Motor Used
• Gear
• Propeller Diameter
• Propeller Pitch
• Amps, Volts and Watts drawn
• RPM
• RPM as % of Kv * V
• Motor Weight
• Motor and Gearbox weight
• Thrust (in g and oz)
• Grams per Watt
• Pitch Speed

There are macros in the spreadsheet. You can either use them to produce graphs and sort data, or disable them and just read the data. From this data, you can make a more educated choice on which propeller is best for your application. Looking at figures, such as the number of grams per watt obtained, can help you choose between similar propellers by giving you an estimate of which ones are more efficient in different situations. Depending on if you’re building a quad copter for hovering and aerial photography or a high performance RC airplane, you can now get an objective picture of the differences between the propellers.

Simulating propeller performance is a difficult thing to do, and usually requires the use of approximations and assumptions that reduce the accuracy of the final results. Having actual experimental measurements overcomes all of these problems. Individual measurements are usually hard to find online, and are typically scattered among different sources. Besides being difficult to locate, you can’t usually compare similar propellers side by side, since each tests lists data differently. This spreadsheet is a big step towards solving this problem.

Here’s some sample data, taken for an APC 8×6 E Thin Electric Propeller with a Hacker A20-22L  brushless motor:

If you wanted to know how this propeller performs with this motor as RPM is increased, you could make a plot like this in Excel (or any other spreadsheet program, like Numbers, if you’re using a Mac.)

Adding a trendline to the data allows you to make a prediction about the thrust this propeller and motor would provide at other RPM values. A simple polynomial fits the measured data well, and since there are more than 3 data points, you can be reasonably confident that the predictions will be good.

Another useful quantity could be the efficiency of the propeller and motor in grams of thrust produced per watt of power used. Here is one such plot.

APC RC model airplane propellers are available on our website, along with suggested brushless motors.