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What Can an R/C Helicopter Do?

The answer is, just about anything that involves flying! They'll hover in one spot. Fly backwards and sideways. Do pirouettes while in forward flight. Perform stall turns, loops, rolls, standing loops and rolls (a loop or roll with no forward speed)...even fly upside-down and hover while only inches off the ground. Let's see an airplane — or even a full-size helicopter — do that!

In normal forward flight, an R/C helicopter flies at about 40-50 mph and approximately 100 to 300 feet high. The current world record for R/C helicopter flight speed is 87 mph, set in 1986 by Dave Whitney of the United Kingdom. Dana Swah of the United States holds the altitude record of 6,022 feet. 

R/C Helicopters — What You Should Know Before You Start