Air Hogs Hawk Eye RC Chopper

Have you tried google “FPV” and then surf for an hour, but turns out have no ideas with the wire and how to set up? Don’t worry, the sellers had heard your need already. RC helicopter with built-in spy camera have been a trend, you can see that from this newly released Air Hogs Hawk Eye ,the iPhone heli Ar.Drone Parrots and Art-Tech Eagle Eye. But this one is much cheaper that it is only $65 when compare to Ar.Drone which cost $300 at the time of writing. And this micro surveillance heli display a cyber and awesome outlook, like telling us it come from future.

Video and Photo taking

Hawk Eye RC helicopter allows both video and photo taking by pressing the button on the controller during the flight. With 60MB memory, you are able to record a 5 minutes long video at or few hundred photos! And transfer them to your computer simply through USB.

Steady-Fly Technology

The built in software able to detect any instability and auto-adjust it to maintain balance. Something like a 3-axis gyro.

USB file sharing and recharging

With the included USB wire, you can download the foto and video as well as charging at the same time.

Hawk Eye Review

This infrared coaxial remote control helicopter allow only 4 flight maneuvers: UP, DOWN, Turn Clockwise and Turn Anti-clockwise.  It requires 30 minutes of charging for flying 4-5 minutes. But it can only be took off and land on smooth surface, as it will spin before the take-off. It fly upward and rearward by raising or lowering the tail so as to change the angle of attack of the blade, so it won’t attain a high speed. Anyway, 2 Hawk Eyes can be flying at the same time. Don’t over expect it flies like a champ, but it works awesome as an indoor toys with camera. Here will go some pros and cons

Advantages

• Cheap
• Palm size
• Futurism appearance
• Durable outfit
• Record video up to five minutes at a resolution of 320×240
• Take few hundreds still photos at a resolution of 620×480

Drawbacks

• Require little bit skills to capture a nice video
• Unable to handle slight breeze
• Infrared malfunction under strong sunlight

All in all, this one could be ranked high in 2010 X’mas gift wish list. End this with a good-ending-clip.