Avant RC previews the Aurora Ultimate

[Lars Blaabjerg]

The moderators in this forum make a meaningful debate impossible.
I'm out of here.
Bye.

P.S. For anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about, take a look at the font size of my last post (if you can see the text at all).

[robgt]

I just wanted to say that the two people flaming this thread do NOT speak for me, nor, in all likelihood, most of Europe.

I also don't appreciate people preaching politics on any of the heli forums I frequent - regardless of the side they come from :)

Lets stick to the heli's guys, and have fun :P
Crikey, I cannot wait to get my hands on the Aurora!!!
Cheers,
Rob

[WillJames]

The moderators in this forum make a meaningful debate impossible.
I'm out of here.
Bye.

P.S. For anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about, take a look at the font size of my last post (if you can see the text at all).


It is all in your approach. Buh-Bye. :)

[ShawnK]

Lars,

As I stated to you privately, your post was shrunk because I said I wouldn't have any more Avant bashing. You decided to press the issue one more time. I shrunk your post. Did you think I wasn't serious?

You're free to disagree, but I mean what I say. When a moderator on HeliFreak says "enough's enough", that's generally not a good time for you to press the issue.

I'm sorry to see you go. You'll be missed. Good luck in your pursuits, and you're welcome back at the Freak should you ever change your mind.

[MD3DNT]

who do you think you are kitchen
you can if you want make people stop thinking??
democratie is probably a word you don't know ......
well anyway we have said what we think about the augusto problem and i am sure that at least in france i have been heard if i judge by the numbers of mails i received.
probably augusto pays a lot to advertize on this forum

[R-4-L]

oh come ooon, MD3DNT, whats the REAL problem here? its a heli that has been designed and studied and tested numerous times by professionals who were working very hard on producing a peace of art.
its like what clay said (and everybody kept saying), I like it, I actually love the heli, they didn't need to just rely on writeups and ads, the videos and experiences explain all. I honestly thought that this is going to be alot more expensive that the estimated price posted on their site. I am not loaded, but I would save $$ to buy a kit that's worth of this class.

its really very very simple, i feel that you are inlfuenced to keep repeating these posts because you have problems with politics or something similar..why drag politics and all the stuff we try to forget into a community that's interested in nothing but fun and friendship.. if you want to talk about anything other than helis, there's an off-topics section where you can go and vent all you like within the rules ofcourse.

I am just asking, please talk about the topic here, reviews that is, thoughts about the heli, what you are looking forward for.. if you are interested in dealership contact avant team directly, if you are interested only in buying it, wait for a dealer to be chosen and buy it from them, if the dealer is greedy, thats between you and them.

[MD3DNT]

NO problem at all
the topic is closed

[WillJames]

Augusto is actually paying us NOTHING! We trade him his advertising for him hosting 10G of our videos for the last year.

What you may have noticed is that the people on this site fly helis not just the keyboard and we keep it real and call it like we see it.

There is nobody who replied to your thread who owns or even flys an Aurora, they replied because your argument was meant to do nothing more than stir the pot, and that is not how we do it over here on HeliFreak.com.

So guess what... you don't know everything do you?

We love helis here and we don't like people just trying to stir the pot.

[DebianDog]

I would like to fly an Avant :mrgreen:

[R-4-L]

oh sooo me tooo :mrgreen:

[WillJames]

There was a crowd creaming over Marcus's Aurora at Black Sheep. The heli is one of the best looking helis I have ever seen, everybody says that it is gorgeous!!

Randy "lakespinner2" took this photo, his gallery is http://www.flyupyours.com/bsheep/index.htm#67

http://www.flyupyours.com/bsheep/images/IMG_1923.jpg

[R-4-L]

thats the hardest tease right there,,,, are there different gear ratios available? like for a ys or an os engine?

[WillJames]

I have no idea Ali, but I do know what you see in the pic above is one Avant and one Aurora both with the programmable head. Man they are HOT looking.

Kinda like a Ferrari, they look fast and furious even sitting on the table with the blades folded.

[Kinger]

If you guys like looking at the machine, I'd check out www.teambob00.com. Robert has taken a number of pictures of his machine and posted them on the site. Certainly a beautiful machine to look at.

[Augusto]

That picture is gorgeous. It seems that lately people have been taking very artistic photos at funflys.
I like Marcus' Red Ninja canopy style so much that I had mine painted very similar.

Augusto.

[tchavei]

Hi

The anounced ratio is 8.25 which seems to be ideal for both OS and YS engines. I'm using the 8.45 ratio on my Freya and YS91 and although powerful, I feel the engine is screaming way too much for my taste. The 7.92 ratio is too low for the YS to get in its right powerband.

Tony

[mevigavant]

I'm building one right now. It's such an easy build it's not even funny. I had the whole thing together in a couple of hours( minus the tailboom assy.) I have very little room to manuver the heli with the boom on. My favorite part of the build was installing the fan hub. I screwed it on and didn't even bother to dial indicate it. I like the fact that I can drop the engine and not have to remove the clutch stack like I do in my Avant FX. the fan shroud is sweet looking also. I have the VH on but it looks like if you run the OEM head there is no need to cut the shroud. I only had to remove a little bit of it to clear the hatori header. The T/T ends are solid. There is no play what-so-ever in the ends. The tail gears are super smooth and spin with no effort at all. The oneway is sick. This thing looks like it was German engineered. I compare it to the Hirobo oneway only better. It spins just as effortless as the tailgears. I'll let everyone know once I get some stick time on it.

[WillJames]

Where did you get it mevigavant?

[NolanManley]

There are a few of them out for survey as Augusto posted over on RR.

I'm sure it will be one heck of a machine. ;) Augusto is not known for doing things shoddy. :D

[mevigavant]

I was one of the few lucky customers that was able to get one. The production version is going to be of the hook.

[Augusto]

mevigavant was one of our first customers when we released the first avant FX.
We wanted to rely not only on pro-pilots but also on regular customers that were knowleageable enough from experiences with many brands of helis to be critical of problems they could find so early on we contacted several customers and made them a part of the testing program. People like Juan (mevigavant) or Tony Chen or the Teambob00 crew to name a few are simply invaluable to us.

There are many Auroras out there being tested by regular customers in many local fields. We are fine tuning parts based on their feedback. Regular customers introduce a lot of variables and less than ideal parameters that make their feedback more valuable from the point of view of foolproofing a kit than the one you get from the pro-pilots. Pro-pilots are used to fix things and go fly the helis. We get a lot of feedback from them that has more to do with the performance or different configurations they test and so forth as well as improvements ideas from their experience.

Between the two we get a wide range of feedback that's invaluable accross the whole spectrum and we are thankful to them all for their hard work.

Augusto.

[MD3DNT]

i doubt you could choose me as a test pilot augusto

[mevigavant]

It's also much easier to remove the main gear now. you no longer have to remove a side plate to remove the main gear. the engine now comes out without having to remove the bottom plate.

[WillJames]

Sounds like you are thoroughly testing the machine, that is GREAT for the end users!!

[R-4-L]

I take it that the aurora is considerably different from the avant EFX mod.. I thought that most parts were going to be the same as the mod.. this is good.