Vintage Hirobo Nitro Helicopter Restored and Flown by NightFlyyer.

Unfortunately, this was destroyed in the fire! I love the old nitro (We old timers called all nitro engines, gas as a generic term, as there were no electric helis. Like the word Kleenex. LOL. It's easy to correct us kids, but when your 71, you may have some words that stick in your mind that don't easily get changed too. The Hirobo Shuttle was first introduced in August, 1985.
Since then Hirobo has released other types namely Shuttle X, XX, Z, ZX, Z Ts, ZXX, RG. Now Hirobo still produces the Shuttle series names Shuttle plus and Shuttle Sceadu.

The Shuttle became known as one of the first ARF Helicopters. (Almost ready to Fly) The Head was typical for heli's at the time with individual 'flapping' blades and a tail rotor driven by a belt. Unusual though, was that it came with an auto rotation clutch as standard equipment thus giving the Shuttle aerobatic properties in the right hands.
Mike Mas was famous for flying this helicopter inverted.

Because of these extras though, it was expensive when compared to other manufacturers.
Shuttle Z's without any accessories were 250, radio was 600, engine was 100, and a Motorized gyro was 175-250.

Now over 25 years later the 'Shuttle is still one of the best entry level nitro helicopters on the market.
By today's standards, this old Shuttle was not much of a 3D helicopter, but with some mods, loops, rolls, and inverted flight could be accomplished.

It's heavy so it becomes much smoother than any of my 1 lb electrics. My shuttle weighs 6.9 lbs for comparison.

Being that I'm getting older, I just love to watch my helicopter fly nice and smooth around the sky. It is a real treat, especially since the wind does not bother these bigger machines too much and it feels good.

Specs:
L with rotor: 1,320 mm
Width at skid: 220 mm
Height: 395 mm
Rotor Dia: 1,100 mm
Weight: 2,300 g

I hope you enjoy this bit of history before piezo gyros, mixing radios for 3 servo swash plates, Lipos and 2.4 GHz.

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Dave Herbert
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Thanks Bryan for this old helicopter.
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Thanks to Jeff Martin for the Video work 2 years ago.

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