The first time I ordered something from China it was supposed to arrive in 2 to 4 weeks. It took 7!
When I decided to build a quadcopter I found a kit on eBay that seemed just the ticket. The price was good and the seller had great reviews but, unfortunately, they were in China. Expecting the same delays I found myself nosing around various website the following weekend and came across a ready to fly H100 very similar to the one I was planning to build.
The controller wasn’t as fancy as our build (no GPS) but it down from the regular price of almost $500 to just $200.
My mind got to reasoning this way.
- The parts aren’t going to arrive for a quite a while, so if I buy this I’ll have something to fly until the other one is ready.
- Having a pre-built one nearby will help with figuring out where things go.
- I’ll be able to upgrade the controller and add a GPS later and can then either have two fully features quads or could sell one (perhaps even at a profit).
- I had a little extra income which would more than cover the cost of this.
- That price was so good…I’d be throwing money away if I didn’t buy one!
After putting it into and out of the shopping cart a few times, I finally pulled the trigger. Since it was only coming from California it would arrive on Friday…the parts for the build arrived the Wednesday before!
Not only that but the weather turned nasty bringing wind, ice and snow with the result that the maiden flight of this machine ended up occurring about 5 minutes before the maiden flight of the our build.
Thanks Mr. Murphy – you did it again!
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