On March 2nd 2013, I ordered a Miniature Aircraft Fury 55 flybarless helicopter kit from HeliProz.com and received it around the 11th.  My initial impression as I unboxed the kit was total awe. Everything was packaged very well, and all of the parts bags were very well organized to be coordinated with the assembly manual. The manual itself, was very well written and extremely easy to follow.

As I started to assemble the kit, I was amazed at the quality of every single part I picked up. The build went very well, and every part on the kit fit like a glove with no trimming, modifications, or fitting required.

There were only a few things that I think could be improved on, but they are very minor issues. The first thing, is the kit comes with no bottom plate, but they offer one as an option part...which I thought was kind of odd. The second is the landing skid struts are a bit brittle, and won`t take as much of a bump as other brands...like I said...minor issue. 3rd, I think the kit could benefit from having 2mm thick frames. Other than that, the helicopter is perfect.

At the flying field...

On March 16th, five days after receiving the kit, I took my new Fury 55 to the flying field for testing. As I spooled it up for the first time, I got jitters...just like I did when I flew my very first collective pitch helicopter. I took it pretty easy on the first few minutes of the flight, and then I let it off the chain.

The feel of this helicopter when I have it in the air is indescribable, and I felt myself flying alot harder than I have even flown with my old T-Rex 600N. I did, however, put it in on the second flight. I was coming out of an outside loop, and stopped it in an inverted hover about 6-7 feet from the ground. At that time, the engine decided to flame out and I found myself in a sticky situation.

I got the helicopter flipped back over, but I bled off too much head speed to get a clean auto from that low of an altitude. It landed  hard on the skids, breaking the struts and dinging up the canopy a little and putting small cracks on both frame sides where the front canopy mounts attach to the frames when the canopy was forced up by the ground. I could have repaired the frames very easily, but I decided it might be best to go ahead and change them. Nothing else was damaged in the crash, and that which was impressive considering how hard it came down.

I have since put 10-15 flights more flights on it, and it`s flying flawlessly. The only regret with this machine, is not getting one sooner. It has quickly become my favorite helicopter I have in my fleet right now. Below are some photos and a list of the components I have installed on my new machine.

Specs:

Air Frame: Miniature Aircraft Fury 55 flybarless

Engine: OS 50 SX-H Hyper ringed competition helicopter engine.

Pipe: Hatori SAB50 Bobby Watts Special

Cyclic Servos: Futaba S3051HV

Throttle Servo: JR Z590M

Tail Servo: JR Z8450

Flybarless Controller: Beastx

BEC: Gryphon 45V 15A hyper BEC with flag pin switch

Spektrum AR8000 receiver

Receiver Battery Backup: Scorpion Power Systems Backup Guard

Governor: Align G600 with spektrum back plate sensor

Glow Plug Ignitor: Switch-Glo Pro set up on throttle channel to activate on low throttle

Main Blades: Rail 606mm CF

Tail Blades: Rail 96mm CF