Nice radio controlled helicopters

 

Cool video on youtube of some great Turbine Helicopters

They look and sound and fly really realistic 🙂

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1DpkAsiTYM&hl=en]

The event was

Scale Helicopter’s at Cheshire ‘Hell-E-Cats’

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Walkera V400D02

 

Yet another new model from Walkera over in China.

Quiet interesting this one as its in the bracket that the Honey bee CP3 and Blade CP Pro fall into.

This one is flybarless and also a brushed main motor and also the tail is driven by a brushed motor.

The rear brushed motor looks very much like the original Honey CP2 one and hence I wonder will it burn out just as quick as that one did?

No one really stocking it yet in the UK, so you will have to wait or order direct from China, which looks like £170. But you will almost certainly get hit with UK customs tax and also the Royal mail admin tax, so prob total closer to £200 and would put it dearer than the current Honey Bee CP3 or Blade CP Pro, although bear in mind this heli is flybarless and also comes with a better TX.

V400D02_big_e

Tony over at Xheli has done a review, looks like for what it is handles very well, although I think if you try and fly like a pro with it, that main motor will also burn out very quick in flight mode 😉

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=memvamcQrD0&hl=en]
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Baby elephant saved

 

Gives one hope sometimes in the human race, when you read stories like this 🙂

 

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKcZAVG6JAE&hl=en]
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Windows v1.0

 

25 years ago on the 20th November 1985 Windows 1.0 was launched!

 

windows_1_0

System Hardware requirements for Windows 1.0

CGA/Hercules/EGA Monochrome or colour monitor

MS-DOS 2.0

256 KB of RAM or greater

Two floppy drives

windows-1.0-packaging

Windows 1.0 – 1985 Retail price $100

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Bill Gates originally wanted to call this Interface Manager.

But his Marketing exec Rowland Hanson convinced him of changing the name of it to Windows 1.0.

 

Happy 25th Birthday Windows!

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New PCs will boot up ‘in seconds’

 

Seen this info all over the internet and its so misleading, what this replacement for the bios (UEFI) will actually do is make the point between hitting the power on button and the first instance of the hard disk to start loading seconds, rather than the 30+ seconds you can wait on some pc’s now before they get past the post screen. It does not mean when you hit the power on button, windows will appear after a few seconds 😉

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