I had one in the early 90's. I learned how to fly heli"s with it. As a beginner I also had the occasional impact with the earth, lol. I had Tower Hobbies on speed dial and was on a first name basis with the service department. I went through several sets of blades, tail booms, main shafts and other bits on a weekly schedule. It was a great flyer and after months of practice I finally got the hang of heli flying. The old Airtronics mechanical gyro worked well keeping the nose pointed where I wanted. Unfortunately the Concept was lost in a house fire, I lost everything except the clothes on my back. Rough times for sure. After a few years I recovered and now I have a Hirobo Shuttle ZXX. I've had it for over 20 years now and it's still flying today. It's also a great heli but the Concept will always be missed. Happy flying.

This is one of best RC videos. Thanks for sharing. I remember looking at this in the tower catalogs when I was a kid- like late 80s early 90s. never saw a concept in person.

I love these old retro helis. Cool footage.

Smooth flying! Cool shot flying back up the driveway. Makes me want to dust off my DX and fly it again!

Kyosho was the bomb back in the 80s and 90s!

G'day truckpilot55, That is some nice work with a classic helicopter there! Far too many people say "it's too hard to get parts for, I'll park it on the shelf and look at it" I have just acquired a 1990 Concept 30 SX and I plan on learning to fly on a little TRex 450 clone, then I am going to give it the flogging it so richly deserves! :-)

Great video!

Excellent rotation similar to real helicopter. I like this in Concept 30.

yeh it sounds like i should've taken your advise a few weeks ago :/ the helicopter sort of went through the hedge the other day and the gear grind'd down (i'm on the hunt for one on ebay) thank you again for all the help, i will be sure to move the tail boom back a bit and to check that the blades are all balanced :)

I remember that brown flying box!!!! what good memories

nice flying. i dont like to fly in small areas. you make it look easy

I had some nitro Kyosho cars back in the 80s and 90s.

Great video, thanks! I can hardly wait to get mine flying!

thank you so much, it's holding in now :)

Nice Flying👍

I have one of these I’m my basement. Needs some work but would be awesome to get it going again.

Great vid man! i have the same model! i made a restoration in it.... please, tell me, what kinf of fuel you use? regards from brazil!

What engine? I am assuming a period correct OS .32? Also, what headspeed are you running? Like 1,400-1,500?

do you possibly think you could say which servo goes to which number in the receiver, i'm having some trouble getting the transmitter to move the servos. i've got a matching pair for the frequency channels. Any help would be amazing from anyone :)

i've tried the process of elimination, when i get nearly all the servos in the right place, my some sticks are opposite, etc. i know this sounds silly, but could you just tell me which number on the receiver does the plug the comes out of the on/off switch plug into (it has 2 wires). this seems to be messing up my stick movements, thanks

hi there, i'm having some trouble with the tail rotor shaft. it slides in and fits in well but then the blades start spinning, the shaft slowly wobbles and becomes lose.. has this happened to yours, if so is there anything i can do to help stop the shaft sliding out? - thanks

@alaskapilot22 thanks. she does fly nice.

corr i remember i had one of these, best heli ever (of its day) i ended up putting the Bell222 body on it, geez that was like 15 years ago !

Speaking of being too hard to get parts for, I know I need main blades, tail rotor blades and there is something else missing from the tail rotor? Can you still get these parts somehow or do I need to start thinking about how I am going to make them?

I guess im too young to remember this heli...but is that one of the first dfc models?

What kind of gyro does this have?

mannn, after two months got it all sorted, tried starting it tonight and find a cracked fuel tank, no glow plug along with a blocked filter... gotta wait till tomorrow now haha

추억 돋는다~~~고딩2학년때 ~~ 내 첫 헬기~~ 머플러도 오리지널이넹~~~ Sx Sr ~~~추억돋는다^^ 후타바 조종기^^

What fuel are you using. I was using a blue 80/20 mix and had mine running pretty solid once. I showed the video and they said there should be more smoke coming out. So I moved the HS needle wider by one single click, and now shuts off once in the air. I moved one click back in and still shuts off in the air. The carb was pretty clogged up. I'm thinking a seal or some dirt is in there which is making it so its not a smooth adjustment.

usually the first or the last socket is power. sounds like your swash is not set properly. check out the link in my video description, you might find it usefull. let me know if it helped.

they fly so much more responsive if you take the stock wire drive out and put a NHP carbon "tube" drive in, scour the web and you will find one, the wire drives have got so much spring in them.....i keep watching the vid as it brings back so many memories for me, i am flying a Raptor 50 these days though

😮😮😮 amazing vintage heli😮😮 Very cool design 😊😊 Easy to get spare parts and gears in 2024? Greetings :)

the concept 30 is easier to learn on then the 450. much larger, and much more stable. that's how i learned. parts can be found on ebay. also tailwinz dot com sells a lot of parts, new and used. blades can be matched up, just be aware of the root thickness at the blade grip.

That's! Rc nitro copter meby not easy too flay. If have dont know how.

My 14 year old self just self actualized

you must have a TX that will mix throttle and pitch, otherwise you must use idle up and control pitch alone. if you are using a switch to control pitch, swap channels pitch and throttle. get the pitch gauge out and take some measurements. the vibration must be eliminated. looks like the tail boom is in to far causing the tail drive wire to bounce inside the boom. the manual explains all that. the blades must be balanced, and tracked, all the shafts must be straight.

screw the brass collar on the shaft and use locktite. if you are talking about the tail drive shaft, you must push the boom all the way in and pull it back 1/8 inch so that there is end play between the two ends of the drive shaft, other wise the shaft will bow and cause severe vibration.

did you get her flying yet ?

Look for main blades its so hard 2 find in ebay.anyone sell parts for them?i am from greece.

ya man, get her dusted off. have some fun. i'll have this back out in the spring when it warms up a little.

the best i got it to work was by holding it by the tail and lifting off :( the collective would not go up with the throttle so the collective could only be controlled separately by a switch. if you look on my channel you can see the heli hovering for a bit (with the aid of my hand) , thanks for checking up though :)

you must have a 6 channel heli radio. plug everything in and move the sticks. use process of elimination.

Looks like the head Speed is a bit low, take some collective pitch out of the blades and let the rotor head spool up a bit more, than adjust everything else accordingly

Nice nose in work.

Esmui chulo

Is it easy to control

No shirt and sandals! Let's do this!

I just went to a yard sale in lakeland florida and found 2 gas power heli one is a kyosho 30dx and the other much bigger like 2 foot bigger no idea motor is -o.s max special editio came with one fatuba radio for kyosho and a real strang radio for the other it says j.r circus circus las vegas on the radio have any clue well i pay total of 65 dollars for them and wanted to find a starter for dx

great. send me a vid.

Clear prop huh

so what does that say, your wallet is is so lite it will become airborne like the concept 30 ? your very welcome. good luck man and keep me posted.

I got two of them for sale..