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Link to purchase from Banggood.com: RTF ($43) - http://www.banggood.com/ESKY-F150-MIN...

I was really looking forward to this one, but ultimately ended up in disappointment. :/

Enjoy! -Flyin' Ryan

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The swash plate looks similar to what is on my Nanos FP75. The bearing would not stay pressed tight in the swash plate on mine, so the swash plate basically did nothing. Even after replacing it, the heli I mention is almost impossible to fly, and is basically going to wind up a paperweight.
Thanks for honest review, I thought big buying this... After watching I changed my mind ??????
"It's sad to see all these sweet brands in the past years just failling like that today :'(
E-Sky was a top helis manufacturer, it broke my heart to see them provided crappy quality helis like that today!
If some E-Sky commercials read this comment, come on guys, wake up and stop destroying our great souvenirs form your company!
Thanks for sharing and happy weekend"
I have one of this for a couple of months already. Flies really stable for a flybarless setup and a really relaxing indoor flyer. I guess you were just plain out of luck. Got mine from banggood as well.
best affordable airwolf in my opinion is the Walkera cb180q. i am a model builder so i painted the fuselage to match the bell 222 from the t.v series. it has co-axle type stabilization via a flybar and is a great upgrade to single rotor fixed pitch from a co- ax heli. i have moved to collective pitch now, but still find myself flying the walkera for fun. too back they have been discontinued.
thanks ryan great review as per i was going to get the bigger one don't think ill bother now :) ill stick with my brushless powerstar & blade cpx :)
Interesting video. I have seen other reviews on this heli and it flys great. What do you think the problem is?
Glad you didn't sugar coat it. Even if some people like it, it shows what the manufacturer's engineering and quality control department is like.
"Great review Ryan.....and you know it could also be the review I'd make for my Honey Bee V2....and who makes the Honey Bee V2......?....well it's ESky ...what a coincidence.......I haven't managed to fly it either....and it's crazy fragile.
I'm sticking with my Blade 200 SRX that's a great little heli...:-))"
"... and when you FINALLY get the canopy back on after having struggled with connecting the battery, you go ""?#&$!!! I forgot to switch it on!""
The only place to fly this safely without cracking or breaking anything on the chopper, is over a huge wheat field."
Hey Ryan! I ordered a cheerson cx10 on January 23 and its February 21 today and still hasn't arrived. I got the normal free shipping with no tracking. What's your experience with shipping time on banggood?
Happy reviews man, happy reviews
"Uh oh. I have one of these on the way that I bought way back in January based on a few good reviews and it's looks.

Well, it was cheap, if anything it'll look great on the heli shelf.

Airwolf!"
looks cool..but looking cool dont make it fly..good review bud
Thanks for the heads-up Flyin' Ryan!  Elsie looks cute as usual too.
It looks nice. Pitty about all the bad points. I would stick the board on the top and the battery underneath if it fit. It would make it way easier to charge.
I have a larger CoAx version of AirWolf...that's wrecked too??
Hello Sir Ryan... Me too, had the same problem with ESky F150 and until now I still don't have any idea what's wrong with my Airwolf. But then I just saw on banggood an ESky F150X, with an X on it. And on the look, it has different rotor system from its predecessor... Ever considered to have a review on it Sir?
Aaaaawww, that?s sad, it looked soo nice... :( but can you make a review on the F300?? it would be nice!
I think you got bad luck my friend. The Zonda Version ESKY 150X Micro bell 222 Airwolf is one of the most fun and most stable helicopters out there. Even my 6 year old kid could fly it. I am sure you got a bad one :)
I wonder if its bigger brother the 300bl Lama is any better.  I've had good luck with the non-scale version f150, other than Banggood crunching my canopies.
Every Esky product I have ever bought has been junk. Lesson has been taught here!
I love mine. Yes changing battery is a pain but I got to where I would use a pair of tweezers to connect and disconnect battery without removing canopy. Yes the fuselage canopy is fragile, it will crack in a crash like most of these small copters. The tailboom part of the plastic is actually structural and mine cracked after a couple hard crashes just forward of the rotor mast so the tail section could wobble a bit. I glued it up with CA glue and accelerator. Amazingly after patching it up with CA I have crashed it a bunch and it has not broken the plastic yet which is miraculous. The main core frame of this thing is very robust, take a look at how the main board is protected as well as connectors that lug into it. The rotor head and drive train is the most robust I have seen on a copter this size. Numerous hard crashes and no damage to anything other than the plastic fairing. Yes a wheel might pop off. They slide right back on and you can CA them. This thing is super stable and I love flying it indoors. I will by likely by another. One other thing. Ob very front is sticking out small plastic piece that looks like a pitot tube but it is actually the antennae for receiver. I thought it was just for looks and mine was bent badly like it was about to fall off after several crashes. I just thought it was little piece of plastic so went to tear it off and had to use a razor knife and later realized this was part of antennae! Luckily I just fly this indoors so range is no issue and it still works perfectly fine in that regard for me!
I was going to buy one but after seeing this I will stay away. Thanks for this review.
Is there any other company makes the airwolf rtc helicopter eve in same or bigger scale recommendations?
What is the best quad with decent video for around 50 bucks?
Nice review ..thx for info .....cheers !!
"1st of all most scale helos have very delicate bodies, I got the newer F150x, with some re-designs so much better than the 150 I have, for $40 for the F150x its a deal, hovers rock steady, 2 speed mode is a plus. In the future dont buy scale helos as they are very thin bodies, now not the WLtoys but they are heavy. most likey these were just lemons the newer x series seem alot better. FYI, Esky is gone now Zonda hobbies has the name with DTS and GWY brands also. So dont expect true ESKY of old in these newer design. My take on these chinese knock offs on helos or drones they are hit and miss with quality, cant tell you how many times I either got a refund, credit on helos and drones from Banggood, heck recently been doing fidget spinners for them and already had to get refunded back on a handful of crappy spinners from these cheaper chinese made knock offs. once I stared buying DJI, Yuneec, bebop, Traxxas, kyosho brands never had one problem with those, higher cost to buy also.
example scale helo FX70c bell HD500 is junk out of the box, I finally just ordered all the parts and built my own with my own mods while building it flys perfect, butstock out of the box junk."
Im really shocked.. usually ESky makes good stuff.. sucks you can't enjoy it = (
Well I recently got the F300 version & the servo module unit (servos, gyro, receiver unit) blew & smoked the room out first battery plug in. Trying to find a replacement is no good they're out of stock on the part everywhere, which kind of tells me in itself, I'm not the only one with the problem.
"awwwww, elsie was so cute :D.
i really want a cat but family is allergic and good review even though the product was really bad"
Thanks for the info .
"Hahaha Nice Airwolf :-D
Cant get over with the ""delicscies"" hehe Nice review though. Thanks..."
My f150 was just fine it did get hit by a car wen i was flying it over the street but it was just scratched everything was fine
I have been looking at the wltoys v686 quadcopter with fpv, what do you think? Is there a bettar fpv long flight long range cheap option?
Good review. I also got F300 which is a bigger version of yours. It has the same transmitter like yours but my transmitter trimmers dont work at all. Do your things work?
Thats pretty normal for Esky helicopters
"Hey Ryan...this heli has the same chassis and looks just like the Ares FP75 underneath....same exact method of charging, hard to get the FP75 canopy back on. Doesn't fly great, but not completely shitty. Mine drifted around pretty bad but I manually trimmed out the drift but the rudder control made it unflyable. Makes me sooo sooo mad.
What I want to know is if Firelands Ares line has products that they aren't even designing. I HATE REBRANDERS!!! Though it happens I just don't want to get charged more for the same shitty or even functioning heli that I can get from banggood."
It's a radio issue I had the same issue with my blade 70s
It's just a bell 222, Airwolf has turbine intakes and weapon pods ( sorry, Airwolf fan)
Strange that yours is so different from the Micro RC Bell 222 Airwolf Helicopter with CC3D reviewed by alishanmao. Both from ESKY, I'm confused
Bad apples come in all shapes and sizes =D
are both motors brushless?
Legend will it be
Nice review, at least you've saved a few people some money!
Your cat is cute, Ryan :)
The battery plug needs a forceps to use.
"Smallest 4-channel heli? Really? It looks to be about a 100-size heli (i.e. - V911, Mini CP, MCX, etc.). Maybe it's the smallest SCALE 4-channel heli in production? I think my MCX/S300 is a bit smaller, but the scale details aren't so great., and it's no longer in production. The only micro heli's I know of with comparable scale details are noticeably larger (the Xeida 9958 and 9968. Hmm, maybe a review of one of those?).

Also, not a Llama. I own two (a WLToys V915 and a Walkera 4F200LM), and it looks nothing like either.  The air wolf body is modified a Bell 222.

Sorry for picking nits, but I really like scale heli's. Glad to see a review of one, even if it only prevents me from buying this model."
Hey Ryan are you gonna review the CX-10A?
"This helicopter is called a Bell 222, not a ""Llama"". Bell is an american helicopter co. located in Texas.
The Llama is a European helicopter which similarly, sorta, resembles the Bell-47.
Yes this is ""Airwolf"", correct. . . .but the Bell 222 Airwolf version.
Very nice review & sorry to hear that you are having so many difiiculties with this tiny r/c heli. Thankya for sharing this video. i will not be purchasing this heli, sadly."
Well it's Esky. So not super surprised
Looks so cool tho... :(
"Did you try the version of this helicopter with 6 axis gyro?
http://www.banggood.com/ESKY-F150X-2_4G-4CH-MINI-6-Axis-Gyro-Flybarless-RC-Helicopter-With-CC3D-p-1122794.html?rmmds=category"
Can you do a review on the rc excavator
Oh. Thats rc Micro copter. Same the airwolf. Nice.
Dear Customer, so sorry for the inconvenience, if have any problem you can sent E-mail and make a video of problem. ??
Thanks is for the update
Can you do review of syma f1? It is $29 at xheli.com. It is on sale!
Can you please do a review on the parrot mini drone you can buy it on amazon 99.99 I really need a proper review and I know you do awsome review your the best always remember that your awsome
can u take a review on the flyers bay justice series Warcraft helicopter please
it flies like a truck, hence the name
look for a broken swashplate!
Yup, body fragile.
I subbed you sorry I've watched your channel for over a year and had no idea I hadn't subbed lol shame these are sucky I liked the look of it
u  shouldnt sell a heli based on airwolf thats a piece of crap, good jon ryan
You should have said "and here's some flight footage", and then instead it's you standing outside with a brick or something just crushing it to pieces lol.
I think your heli has a problem in the collective pitch. At fuul throtle your pitch is around 0 degrees.
Is this the version 2 heli?
Wow,Ryan You Have Thousand Subscribers
Thing is, the S107G is half the price, and better....
Never mind I just found the review lol ??????????????????????????
Good job bro I won't be buying on of those.
"So you are saying it is a delicacy? Like from a delicatessen? You coulda just said it was baloney. (or is that bologna?)
;)"
I had one of those, is pure crap
good to know
A discredit to the "Lady".  That's what the Bell 222 was called in the show Airwolf.  I've lost my interest in helis and much prefer the quads in these small craft anyway...
Please review tevos gobi qwadcopter thanks
love the cat
I would send it back and get my money refunded. That thing is a piece of shit. But on a different note, Ryan, go check out my video i uploaded of my DJI Phantom flight with my GoPro!
Else is so nice ! :)
I'm not sure if you got dealt a bad hand but I bought for and all of them seem to be flying great I have no problems no issue whatsoever sorry for your luck but don't know what to say I have no problem with the ones that I have
Lol this is terrible, but heads up cos they made something Ryan can't fly XD
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Damn, this is even worse than the snow mobile..
man that sucks i have not had good luck with Chinese RC things
dude that's not a real air wolf you got a knock off ..
That's pretty bad lol
What a piece of garbage .Anyways good review ryan
it cost 5$ to built in China, what and why you don't understand?
Your is the second review on this saying it sucks and hard to handle,not for me tell they get the bugs out.I do like the air wolf colors but that's all
i love you cat!!!
I liked the else pics on Facebook she is a nice cat
Is it that bad
Did you buy this with your own money? If so ouch...
Another one
i have one and it flies great not one problem. mine flies with no problems. may i ask how well of a helicopter pilot are you?this not for first-time or even beginner filers.
U forgot to put f one fake
its my birthday