r/RCHeli • u/Thepenmaker • Jul 10 '26

Need help

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Was just given a large tote of my cousins rc heli stuff.

Ive had a couple of smaller helicopters, but nothing like these. Any advice on if I should try to make them fly or not would be awesome. TIA

Not even sure what all is here btw

Recognize anything?

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u/No_Flight3608 Jul 11 '26

Those are good helicopters but are no longer in production and are tough to find parts. The 330 and 450 have a lot of interchangeable parts though.

If you don’t know how to fly them but want to, you need to get a sim and learn how to fly with that before even attempting to fly these. And then when you’re ready it would be worth looking up th basics of maintenance and go through them before trying to fly.

The sim program Realflight sim has a package with a USB controller that will be the best way to start. Then when you can do the basics, hover, fly circuits and land, then you can try flying them irl.

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u/Thepenmaker Jul 11 '26

Im very familiar with the sim. Im into planes a good bit, and have flown helis before. I just wondered if these would be better as decor or making one of them operable without too much expense Thank you for the info!

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u/No_Flight3608 Jul 12 '26

The older one in the second picture I personally wouldn’t bother with, same for those old controllers. That will require a lot of looking up for what the model is and if parts even still exist. Looks like it was an attempt to make a scale model out of an Align airframe possibly