A Little About Me

I have been into R/c hobbies since I was 12. Started with electric R/c buggies and later began to race onroad gas. After a short period of racing at my local hobby shop's track, I gave up cars and dove head first into R/c Helicopters. In August of 2000 I bought my first R/c heli from Cindy, an Ikarus Piccolo. Might I add, despite her best efforts to get me into something more practical.

After months of crashing, glueing and buying parts. I gave up on it and bought my first Raptor 30 and really started to learn something. The following year I converted my Raptor 30 to a 50. This really helped me progress as I had all the power I would need to try new things. After another year had passed I sold my Raptor 50 and bought a Raptor 60 and stuffed a YS80 into it. What a great chopper that was. Lots of power and super smooth. Simply a blast to fly. Also the Al's Funfly drag champion of 2002.

I continued to fly and learn a lot with the Raptor 80 until the following year when I sold it as well. Afterwhich I purchased a Robbe Millenium 2, with an OS91Cspec. Sadly the machine was not what I had expected. Very very smooth, especially in the wind, but did not have the kind of response I was looking for. After flying it through the rest of the year, I sold it and bought a new Raptor 90. Which brings me up to this year.

What's coming next, who knows? But I am really enjoying my Raptor 90, so I don't see it going anywhere soon.

Current Setup

Current Upgrades

Funflies I plan to attend

Nick's Heli Links

Runryder Web Forum
RC Groups Web Forum
Futaba Radios, Servos and Gyros
YS Engines
ACE R/C - Thunder Tiger Helicopters
Magnum High Performance Model Fuels
Quick UK Helicopter Upgrades