S107/S107G R/C Helicopter with Gyro- Red

I could not believe how easy this was to fly! I was flying circles around the family room within the first day. The most amazing part is the durability. Some people might complain that the wings are flimsy and brittle but that is what makes the helicopter so durable. It is well worth the extra $5 to get a wing replacement kit. You will likely blow through the first set of wings as you are learning to fly and are experimenting. By the time you break a set of wings you should be a pro flier and won't have to worry about crashing and breaking anymore. It is extremely important to replace a wing as soon as a piece breaks off otherwise it will cause the rotors to wobble which will break the motor. Also make sure to watch the tail rotor as pet and carpet hairs tend to get caught and will cause the motor to burn up. As far as a testament to how durable these are; I let a six year old and a two year old use these for a few days. The six year old got to be pretty good within a few tries. I only had to replace one wing after letting him use it. The two year old was a completely different story. He enjoyed throttleing the copter up to the ceiling until it would crash and burn, falling 20ft to the ground. I would pick it up and he would repeat to do the same thing time after time for the duration of many battery rechargings. To help him out a bit I took off the tail rotor which only allowed him to go up and down but he didn't notice and it provided a few extra seconds of flight before it would hit the ceiling and crash. After countless crashes and battery cycles all I had to do was replace the wings and it flew just like it did when I took it out of the box. I would only estimate that the little battery can handle 50-100 rechargings before its life cycle gets to be too low to enjoy but for $30 taht was perfectly fine with me. To me it is very high quality for $30. If you are expecting something that is going to last for years then you might want to invest in a higher end helicopter. If you want something to entertain you or your kids for a few weeks then this is it!

We purchased the Syma S107/S107G R/C Helicopter (Red) for my son's birthday. The list price for $130 is absurd. At $20, it is well worth the money. It comes with a remote control, the helicopter, and a USB cable for charging. The remote control takes 6 AA batteries. The helicopter must be charged before using. It takes 40 minutes to an hour to charge while hooked up to a USB port on your PC. On a full charge, it runs for about 6 minutes non-stop flying. So that's about 60 minutes of charging for 6 minutes of flight! At first, I thought that was awful. But I've adjusted nicely to a routine of flying it here and there throughout the day just for a short period of entertainment. It is fun to fly. The blades look very delicate, so be careful not to crash it! I have hopped it a few times off the ground trying to land. But the frame seems durable although very lightweight. Two lights flash on the nose of the helicopter when it is ready for flight. It has an on/off switch opposite the USB charging port. My on/off switch is kind of finicky. Sometimes the lights do not come on when we flip it to the "on" position. So we just gently apply some pressure to the switch with a finger, and it activates the lights. Overall, you can't beat it for $20. It is a VERY fragile, tiny RC helicopter. It is perfect for beginners or people looking to have fun flying a cheap, indoor model. It's lots of fun! Just don't break it. UPDATE: After a week of flying, one of the blades chipped. It still flies OK with the chip, but I went ahead and ordered more blades. You can find them here: SYMA Replacement Set of Main Rotor Blades for S107 Red Part S107-02 UPDATE: Replacement blades showed up. The screws that hold the blades to the rotor are TINY! The only Phillips-head screwdriver that would work was a tiny one that came with my eye glasses. Those screws are incredibly small! But I was able to get it loose and slip the new blade in place. I've been flying this toy for a few weeks now, and crashed it several times. The reason is that maneuverability decreases substantially as battery power weakens. At the end of each session, the helicopter is literally 5 inches off the floor while I do some daredevil maneuvers to squeeze the last drop of juice out before a recharge. It's fun, and I found that crashes lower to the ground at slower speeds are relatively harmless to the helicopter. UPDATE: It's been 6 weeks of flying now. The helicopter is still great fun to fly, but it seems to lose its ability to climb in altitude quicker now after a full charge. I'm not sure if it because winter has brought thinner air to Idaho or what. But something is causing the helicopter to struggle to gain altitude after only about 2 minutes of flying. Still fun though! UPDATE: We had 4 good months out of this tiny helicopter. It was fun to play with. Now the USB charger lights up indicating a full-charge, but when we go to fly it, it won't lift but 6 inches off of the ground. I don't see any damage to the helicopter itself, so it must not be charging to full capacity. We enjoyed it enough to say it was worth the price. Too bad it didn't last longer than 4 months. UPDATE: Found the problem! The battery degraded to a point where it will not recharge. It heats up in flight and I was also plugging it in right away after flying without giving time for the battery to cool down. Sometimes I even left it charging for hours after it was fully charged. The heat ruined the battery. Found another battery on Amazon. Syma S107 / S107G Upgrade 3.7V Lithium Polymer 240 mah Battery for Remote Control Helicopter Helizone RC Firebird Cut the wires and spliced this new battery in. This is a slightly stronger battery. Slightly larger as well. It fits though. Helicopter flew great with this new battery. We're back in the air again! UPDATE: Had this helicopter for about 10 months now. Spent about $10 on replacement parts to keep it in the air. Had about a month or so of down time. We crashed it pretty hard in our basement the other day. The stabilizer on the tail cracked and broke off. I ordered a small parts kit for a few dollars. Full Set Replacement Parts for Syma S107 RC Helicopter, Main Blades, Tail Decorations, Tail Props, Balance Bar, -Red Set- Replacing the stabilizer wasn't too difficult. Just a couple of tiny screws. Still flying! FINAL UPDATE: After almost a year of flying, I can give a fair evaluation of this helicopter. The price is perfect for almost anyone to purchase and enjoy. As long as you do not purchase a defect, you have a great chance of getting a few months of great fun! This is not a RC that has a super long shelf life. You will have to do repairs to it to keep it flying. You will crash it. It's perfect for taking the first step into RC helicopters. I hope they release an upgraded version that has more power, durability, and a longer shelf life.

I'm giving this product a 4.5 stars. I wanted to buy an inexpensive helicopter that was going to be a success. I saw this online and decided to check it out after reading all of the positive reviews. Once I got it in the mail, I verified the contents to be sure if it was a legitimate product and it was. I really hated the twisty ties they used to hold in the helicopter inside the box. It was a pain and I was worried about using too much force to get it out. Well, everything turned out fine. I tried seeing if it was ready to be flown right out of the box but it wasn't quite there yet. I recharged it for about 30 minutes and bam; it flew like a bird for about 8 minutes. Of course being an amateur at this toy, I had trouble getting to fly properly but eventually I got better as I played with it. I gotta say that this toy can really take a beating. I crashed this helicopter into so many things that the worse I've done to it at the time was that I scratched up the wings. I love the engineer at this little helicopter. This toy was designed to be simple and effective and it is very easy to open up the toy and fix it up when needed. I already own this toy for about 3 weeks and already I broke it. Haha The helicopter took a dive into my dog's water bowl. Oh man, was I worried that it wouldn't work anymore. I dried it off for about 30 minutes and checked to see if it would still turn on. Yep, it was still working. I was impatient and wanted to play with it again, so I ignored the fact that I still needed it to dry and kept on playing with it. The helicopter still flew, but I began to notice that the helicopter was losing power very quickly. I charged it up and again, the power was quickly depleting. Eventually, it would either shut off after using about ¾ of the throttle or a dim red light would flash instead of the bright red/blue LED lights and nothing would function. I tried searching online and seeing how I could fix this problem. My mom said to buy another one, but it would have cost another $20 out of my pocket. I troubleshoot the problem myself and found out that it's most likely that the battery went out. The helicopter would still turn on, so power could still cycle around the helicopter. The helicopter wings would still spin when being used when charged, so the chip or motors didn't get damaged. I bought a set of miniature Philip screw drivers at my job (Dollar Tree) and they fit perfectly for $1.05 as well as electrical tape for $1.05. I ordered two batteries for the helicopter here on Amazon.com and was getting ready to attempt to fix and modify my helicopter. Once the batteries came in, I immediately started working on my helicopter. I used a pair of wire cutters, 3/43 Philip screw driver, electrical tape, the two batteries, my broken helicopter, and my imagination. I took apart the helicopter, removed the damaged battery, exposed the power wires, shorten the wires from the two new batteries, connected both of the batteries and the power wires; black to black and red to red using the electrical tape, used electrical tape and strapped on the extra battery underneath the helicopter; between the two legs, inserted the replacement battery on the front nose, taped it into place, and finally closed everything up. Power was following through and everything was a success. The batteries needed to charge and I waited about 1 hour and 46 minutes. When it was done, I manage to get it to work like almost new for about... 16 minutes and 31 seconds. Of course, the helicopter has some trouble staying in the air for a long time with the extra weight but it still manage to last for that length of time. Near the end of that time, it was getting ready to die. In my conclusion, if you want a toy helicopter, get this fun little toy. It's very fun, durable, design is incredible; easy to modify without soldering tools, and everything is replaceable. Pros: Lightweight The design Easy to modify Very fun For kids and adults Durable The price Parts are replaceable Cons: IR Transmitter/receiver for remote and helicopter Only designed for indoors No built in video cam :P Original battery doesn't last that long Charging takes forever even before and after modification

Growing up I always wanted a remote controlled airplane or helicopter but never got one no matter how many times I asked Santa for it. Now as an adult I can buy the toys I could only ever ask Santa for. Of all the things I wanted as a kid that I still wanted as an adult there was this, a remote controlled helicopter. And, lucky for me that with the massive improvements in battery and motor technology of the past few years they have managed to make such a wonderful miniature helicopter. I've purchased several different helicopters over the past few years with varying degrees of success. When the gyro stabilized ones showed up on the market I was impressed with the responsiveness and control the online videos all showed them having. I have one that I purchased from a different retailer that claims to be gyro stabilized but it's just not quite right. After reading up on the Syma 107 I discovered that this other one may have been an attempt at a knock off on the Syma design. Once I knew better I bought an S107 and am definitely pleased. This is by far the most responsive easily controlled helicopter I have yet had. Syma definitely has my loyalty in terms of helicopters right now. I love flying this little helicopter around the house or in empty theatres where I volunteer. If you have dogs, like I do, be aware that they may not like the helicopter quite as much as you do. My poor little yorkies run to the next room and hide when the helicopters come out... There are a few limitations you need to be aware of if you're going to be buying an S107. First off this is an infrared remote controlled device. That means the range is limited. If your helicopter gets too far away from you your signal will stop controlling it, results may vary as to what it will do then. If you use it in a really sunny space or outside the sun can and likely will interfere with your infrared signal. Air currents are a big problem for this little guy. A gentle breeze outside can push this a long ways, you may not feel the breeze too much but the S107 will and it will start getting away from you very easily. Air currents don't just occur outside... If you get this too close to an air duct you may have some surprising flight paths result. Helicopters work by creating a negative pressure zone above their blades. The helicopter rises not so much because it's pushing air down but because the air beneath the blades is more dense than the air above the blades and this causes the helicopter to move up into the negative pressure zone. This is important to remember when you fly your helicopter indoors. If you hover too close to the ground you may not be able to push enough air down to keep reducing the pressure above the helicopter and thus you will have no negative pressure zone into which the helicopter can be pushed. Also if you get too close to a wall, couch, tv, tray table, ottoman, etc... you can inadvertently create a negative pressure zone between the helicopter and said object. Thus causing the helicopter to suddenly be pushed into said object and potentially damaging the object and/or the helicopter. The helicopter is not broken if it suddenly veers into a solid object you were flying it near, you were just a poor pilot. This helicopter is a toy, and it can be a very good educational toy at that. But, it is not a toy for young children. My brother-in-law got a lower quality helicopter for Christmas last year and let my four year old nephew and six year old niece fly it. Neither really understands the concept of finesse just yet, and as a result that poor little helicopter was slammed into nearly everything in the house. It didn't last long, and my brother-in-law was out one helicopter. Kids will want to play with this, adults will want to play with this, but if you want to play with it you'll need to be careful who else you allow to play with it.

We recently purchased 2 s107g's for our grand daughters birthday, both are into flying. These helicopters really fly nice for a $20 toy, even my wife could fly them and had a blast doing so. They really hold up well when they do have a mishap. So we ordered 3 more for my wife and I and my best friend. When these came the controller was slightly different, it had 3 channel selector instead of 2 like the first two helicopters we bought. So far two of them had to go back to Amazon. One of them would not show a green light on the controller and would not charge the helicopter and the helicopter itself had the on/off switch backwards. The second one had a similar problem with the remote but would charge the helicopter. But the helicopter would barely fly forward, but haul butt backwards. Seems like there might be a quality issue with the newer 3 channel helicopters. Would have loved to give it 5 stars but after sending two back for quality issues I just can't. We'll see what the replacements are like first. 11/23/11 Well we had to send the third one back and two of the replacements had to go back too, all of the bad helicopters came from Amazon. Amazon has pulled the ones they sell for now til they can find out whats going on with them. Good news is the first 2 helicopters are still flying great but they came from an amazon partner. 11/25/11 Well we have to send back one of the original two, the battery will not take a charge anymore. Had to drop another star because they have a real quality issue. Will say of the 3 s105g's we bought not one problem and are lots of fun to fly. 11/25/11 Today the last of the original two that we bought died in flight today, no crashes or any of the other problems that affected all the others that were sent back. The wire came off the motor for no appearent reason on this one. Don't know how Syma stays in business with the poor quality problems that they have with the S107g. But all 3 S105G's still run and fly great and would recomend you buy these over the S107G.

Was a little worried about buying one of these, and didn't expect much performance or battery life for the price. Let me tell you, this thing is cool and lots of fun for my son and for ME. It charges in under an hour by hooking it up to your computer via an included USB cord. The flight time is probably around 7 or 8 minutes. This doesn't sound like much, but its really not bad. At first, you are going to be horrible at making a controlled flight, but you get better with practice. Is it sturdy? Yes and no. You are going to crash this thing, many, many, times. And you WILL break parts eventually. We've already cracked 1 wing and 1 stabilizer in a couple of days, but it still flies fine. The good news is that you can get a full set of plastic replacement parts (on a well known auction site) for a buck or 2 which includes shipping! I've already ordered a set just to have on hand when the parts finally break off. I can't speak for the longevity of the battery, as we've only been using it for several days. Hopefully it will hold up, but as I said, replacements are cheap. The only bad thing I've noticed so far is that the charger cord doesn't connect very well to the helicopter (very touchy). I'm more than willing to overlook this for the fun it provides. I wish I had purchased several of these to give out as gifts (to kids and adults alike). You can't beat the price, and most people will like it better than a scarf or a coffee mug which may cost around the same thing! There are websites you should check out regarding fakes which apparently have flooded the market, and how to spot them. My purchase on Amazon appears to be the real deal and so far I couldn't be happier. Buy one!

My 3.5 year old son was of course beside himself when he discovered that helicopters could be remotely controlled. Well it just so happens I ALWAYS wanted a remote controlled airplane when I was a child, before the days of remote controlled helicopters, but they were always way too expensive. When I realized that you can own one for only $20 I was thrilled to make my own childhood dreams come true as well as my sons! So first of all, I'm having a blast flying this little thing! But it really does take some learning, I still can't quite maneuver it to fly a very far or fast distance without crashing. Anyways, since its complicated and my son is three, I thought I would just always help him fly it because obviously it would be too difficult for a three year old. That worked for about 60 seconds and then he insisted on doing it on his own. Long story short, he ran it strait up into the ceiling (vaulted, HIGH ceilings and then crashing down into hardwood floor), into the walls, furniture, ME, little sister, you name it over and over and over for about 15 minutes until the batteries finally died, finally an end to the madness. Every time it crashed I cringed thinking SURELY it must be broken, until it would effortlessly launch yet again. After the initial excitement of flying his own helicopter and crashing and making everyone around run for cover wore off, he became a bit frustrated that he couldn't really control where it went at all. So he would play(CRASH) with it until the batteries died, charge, wait not so patiently, then go through the exact same charade again, crashing literally every 10 seconds, the time between crashes only as long as it takes a three year old to locate WHERE it landed after crashing into the ceiling fan of a vaulted ceiling, and then set it back up on its feet to take off again. Anyways, what I'm trying to get to is this, after a few days of crashing like CRAZY, it was STILL working, and by that time he had learned to make it hover at whatever height he wanted it to. He learned how to use a very gentle and light touch to slowly let it take off and he could bring it right up to the ceiling and start to come down right before it would hit the top. Sadly, a week later it did completely die after a random crash. But seriously, all that it had been through, I still feel like I got it at a steal of a price! We loved it so much and were so impressed with the durability that I ordered him another one right away! Now we're months later and this one is still working perfectly fine, since it wasn't the "test dummy" I imagine it will hold up forever. He still crashes it all the time though, just not nearly as much as that first one. Steering is still a very difficult concept, he does try, but for the most part he just loves making it go up and down, he'll raise it up, set the controller down, then play with some other toys underneath, with the helicopter just hovering there by itself. Its so cute and his imagination runs wild with rescue missions and helicopter adventures! I really feel that this has help my son learn patience and to learn what its like to get progressively better at something we put a lot of time into. Now if I could only have more turns!! BTW, the second one that we purchased was the "coast guard" version. Which is amazingly fun with all of its blinking lights. BUT the landing "gear" is not as good as this one because it gets bent out of shape a LOT (you know, with all of that crashing) and we are constantly bending it back. That's mostly fine, because its easily fixable, and my son has learned how to bend them back himself, but it would be nice if they were as durable as the non coast guard version. Oh and also on the non-rescue, the wheels are not real, they are just non moving plastic, which he was a little bit bummed about, but no big deal.

This review is for the Syma S107 Electric R/C Helicopter. Syma S107/S107G R/C Helicopter - Red This thing is so much FUN its almost PHUN. Amazing fun for the price. The little Heli itself is quite sturdy. The controller is completely adequate, if not spectacular. Very good first Heli for adults and children. With a battery mod to allow easy battery replacement, it becomes exceptional for the price. The E-Flight Blade Scout Blade Scout CX RTF 3-Ch Heli is better but more expensive. One large advantage for the Scout is the battery just plugs in and it only cost about five USD. A six battery charging station is available as well. Just imagine if you were to mod the Syma S107 to use the same battery... just saying.... one battery type for multiple R/C Heli's is a good thing. What you need on hand when it comes in: 1) 6 AA batteries for the controller. Rechargeable NiMH or NiCad will work just as well as alkaline. 2) An indoor room with carpet or a blanket spread flat for a training surface to soften the first several landings. The bigger the room the better. 3) No sunlight, no strong LED lighting, no LED, LCD, or plasma TV on. They may interfere with the IR remote control. 4) USB power from a computer or a universal charger. USB charging is preferable to charging from the controller. Things that might help your first flight. 1) Be patient. You are learning a new skill. 2) Charge the Heli till the LED in the USB cable is bright before each flying session. 3) With the nose of the Heli pointed away from you, turn the controller on, then the Heli, and put it on a flat and level surface. Push forward slowly on the left stick just until the blades spin. Do that a few times to get used to it. 4) To adjust the yaw (nose left or right), run the power up to Just when it begins to seem a little light on its landing gear. Then adjust the yaw trim knob (top-center of controller) a little at a time in the opposite direction it wants to turn. So if it tries to turn left, turn the little knob on the remote slowly to the right, and vice-versa. 5) Its easier to control the take-off if you power up quickly to a foot or so of altitude, rather than trying to ease it off the deck. 6) Take-off's are optional but landings are mandatory. Just let the left stick pop to zero power if you get into trouble because a power-on crash will be worse than a power-off crash. 7) Ask for help. It will speed your skills along which will increase the FUN factor. 8) Visit your local R/C Heli shops and ask LOTS of questions, peruse their R/C Heli magazines, get them to demo their products. Things to consider purchasing at the same time 1) Additional battery (care is required to perform the battery modification or hard-wired replacement without causing a fire) 2) Spare parts kit with blades, a flybar, main shaft, etc. 3) Additional S107's ' Good luck not getting hooked on R/C Heli's!!!