SY X25 R/C Flying Car w/ Camera, $44.35 (www.gearbest.com...)
Manufactured by Song Yang Toys (URL not known)
Last updated 01-27-20
This isn't a flashlight, household lamp, Christmas light set, or other thing that glows, but it *DOES* have some bright LEDs on its fuselage, so what the hey.
This is only the twenty fifth {?} R/C helicopter (well, quadcopter or even drone!) to have graced these pages (out of at least a thousand other products) over the last sixteen-plus years this website has been online, so please play nice and don't bite my head off to tell me that I forgot some important detail.
I love things that fly; that's why I took the bate and also why I added a seperate section titled "PRODUCTS DESIGNED TO FLY" on my website a number of years ago. I was also attracted to something that this flying car has that many others don't...
It has a gyro -- that means it's easy to fly even for a "craptastic" pilot like me.
This is a medium-small, lightweight (I), easy-to-fly 4-channel remote-controlled outdoor (and indoors with a large enough space) flying car. Its remote uses RF (radio frequency) radiation.
It sports a camera; both still photos and aerial video can be taken with it!
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This toy is remarkably easy to use for a flying car...here's how to drive it & get it off the ground:
As with any rechargeable product, charge it first (see directly below), install the flight battery, and then you can pretend to fly a dragonfly (well, that's what the kitty cat would think it was if it were designed to be flown in a small living room).
1: Plug the flight battery into the receptacle for it on the underside of the product, and slide the little black switch located nearby to the "ON" position.
2: Place the flying car on the ground so that the tail-end (the end with the red LEDs) faces you.
Move several feet away from the flying car (at least six feet away).
3: On the remote control, turn the "on/off" switch to the "on" position. A fairly loud, single "beep" should issue from it.
4: The yellow-green chevron (sort of looks like a large, upside-down "V") on the remote will now come on and start blinking. Push the left-hand stick on the remote control forward and then pull it back toward its lowest position. This "arms" the flying car. If you did this correctly, that yellow-green chevron on the radio will go from blinking to steady-on and the R/C should emit another tone.
5: Gently push the left-hand stick on the remote control forward a second time -- but do so more gingerly this time so that the flying car doesn't just blast away -- it has a good deal of thrust, so the possibility of it getting away in this manner does exist.
6: The SY X25 R/C Flying Car w/ Camera should now lift off the ground. Congratulations, you're now a pilot!!!
For additional instructions & tips on how to fly, please read the instructional material that comes with the product.
To drive on the ground, leave the left-hand joystick on the radio alone, and use the right-hand stick to go forward & reverse and make left and right turns.
To take an aerial photograph, press & release the button on the front of the Tx near the lower left with the 'camera' graphic printed next to it.
To shoot realtime aerial video, press & release the button on the front of the Tx near the lower left with the 'video camera' graphic printed next to it. Press & release it again to neutralise the recording of video.
Turn the remote control & the flying car off when finished using it.
Same switches as before, but slide them in the opposite direction this time.
The battery in the SY X25 R/C Flying Car w/ Camera itself is rechargeable; however the batteries in the remote will need to be changed from time to time.
To do this, unscrew & remove the phillips screw from the battery door on the underside of the unit, using a small phillips screwdriver (the #0 from my set of jeweller's screwdrivers worked well here). Set the screw aside.
Remove the battery door, carry it to the top of the basement stairs, and kick it down those stairs into the basement crawling with thousands of hungry piss ants that have to piddle -- they'll think it's something yummy to eat and start chewing on it, but quickly find it unpalatable so that they drag it to the queen, who also finds it distasteful so she pisses on it and instructs the worker ants to do the same...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So just set it aside instead.
Remove the four used AA cells from the compartment, and dispose of or recycle them as you see fit.
Insert four new AA cells into the compartment, orienting each cell so its flat-end (-) negative faces a spring for it in each chamber.
Finally, place the battery door back on, and screw the screw back in.
Aren't you glad you didn't kick that battery door down the stairs to all those hungry, hungry piss ants with full bladders now?
To charge the battery in the SY X25 R/C Flying Car w/ Camera, take the largish USB plug and plug it into any free USB port on your computer. A red LED in the USB plug should turn on.
Unplug the battery cable from the Flying Car, and plug it into the matching receptacle for it on the end of the charger's cord. The red light in the USB charger should now turn off.
Let it cook for 80 or maybe 90 minutes (assuming the flight battery is completely flat); when the red light in the USB charger comes back on, the charge cycle is complete.
Fully charging the SY X25 R/C Flying Car w/ Camera's battery should give you 6 to 10 minutes of flying time.
This RC flying car is meant to be used as a toy in a dry area outdoors (or in a large open room indoors), not as a flashlight meant to be carried around all the time, thrashed, and abused; so I won't throw it against the wall, stomp on it, try to drown it in the {vulgar slang term for a fudge bunny}bowl or the cistern, run over it, swing it against the concrete floor of a patio, bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoñata (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piñata" too much again - candiosity is usually checked with a scanner-type device on a platform with a large readout, with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; and the cannoñata is only used to shoot piñatas to piñata parties away from picturesque Piñata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analyses, or inflict upon it punishments that I might inflict upon a flashlight.
So this section of the flying car's web page will be significantly more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.
The range of the radio in the Tx (RC hobby talk for "transmitter") is stated as being 60 to 100 meters (~196 to ~328 feet); frequency is stated as 2.4GHz.
The unit has a 4-channel remote control; this allows for forward / backward / up / down / left / right movement (movement on all three axes -- X, Y, and Z). It also has a fully proportional control system; simply meaning that the motor speeds can be varied depending on how far you move the joysticks -- it isn't simply "full power and no power at all" like some other R/C products.
Photograph of its remote control.
Photograph of the flying car with its lights on.
Screen dump of the micro SD card that I saw when I went to snag video of flights that I made on 12-28-15.
Note that it is just a bunch of garbage. Running CHKDSK /F on it didn't fix it, so I reformatted & tested it.
Spectrographic analysis of the red LEDs (through a red-tinted diffuser) on the back section of the fuselage of this flying car.
Spectrographic analysis of the red LEDs (through a red-tinted diffuser) on the back section of the fuselage of this flying car; spectrometer's response
narrowed to a band between 630nm and 645nm to pinpoint emission peak wavelength, which is 636.960nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at sy-x25-r.txt
Spectrographic analysis of the green LEDs (through a green-tinted diffuser) on the forward section of the fuselage of this flying car.
Spectrographic analysis of the green LEDs (through a green-tinted diffuser) on the forward section of the fuselage of this flying car; spectrometer's
response narrowed to a band between 505nm and 525nm to pinpoint emission peak wavelength, which is 514.420nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at sy-x25-g.txt
Maiden drive & flight of my SY X25 R/C Flying Car12-22-15
Drive/flight took place along the 1000-block of Ellinor Ave. in Shelton WA. USA on the afternoon of 12-22-15 (or, "2015 22 Dec." or even, "December 22, Twenty Stick-Bent-Stick" if you prefer).
Weather conditions at flight time were cloudy, temperature of 43�F (6.1�C), and winds reported as being from the ESE gusting to 3mph (2.595kts, 4.83kph).
L'un peu gros {terme d'argot vulgaire pour le m�le homosexuel} [le fagot] dans le pantalon noir et la veste � carreaux grise & blanche en haut pass�e comme un �clair que vous voyez est le pilote - moi �videmmentt. (The somewhat fat {vulgar slang term for homosexual male} [F46607] in the black pants and zipped-up grey & white checkered jacket that you see is the driver & pilot -- me of course).
This video is 77.464232347092 megabytes (77,575,625 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than three hundred eighty seven minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.
ALL OF THE REST OF THE FLIGHT VIDEOS ARE ON THEIR OWN WEB PAGE
SO THAT THIS EVAL. WOULD NOT BECOME TOO CUMBERSOME!!!
TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased on Gearbest as an early Christmas present to myself on 12-06-15 (or "2015 06 Dec." or even, "December 06, Twenty Stick-Bent-Stick" if you prefer), and was received on the afternoon of 12-22-15.
The camera appeared to fail a couple of days after I received it; problem was isolated to the Micro SD card which was apparently defective as was the replacement that I installed -- the third one functions properly now.
UPDATE: 01-20-16
The gay little flying car has failed -- all four motors now spin backward and force the flying car into the ground rather than lifting it in the air.
Therefore, I have appended that dreadful, "" icon to its listings on this website to denote that the product has failed and is unusable as-is.
UPDATE: 03-02-16
The product crashed high (~100 feet {~30.5M}) in a conifer (evergreen) tree on a flight that I made yesterday (03-01-16) and is irretrievable.
Therefore, the dreadful, "" icon will be appended to its listings on this website at once, denoting the fact that it became lost in the line of duty. I wasted no time in ordering a replacement however, which should be here by early-April 2016 because I really do love the living tweedle out of this flying car!
UPDATE: 03-18-16
The replacement arrived on 03-14-16, so I'm once again flying this wonderful little flying car!
MANUFACTURER: Song Yang Toys
PRODUCT TYPE: Micro-sized R/C flying car w/inbuilt camera
LAMP TYPE: LED
No. OF LAMPS: 8 (1 yellow-green on the radio, 1 red in charger, 6 in flying car itself)
BEAM TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: Slide switch on/off on R/C; slide switch on/off on flying car itself
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
BEZEL: N/A
BATTERY: 4x AA cells for R/C; 3.70V 650mAh Li:PO battery for flying car
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
WATER- AND URANATION-RESISTANT: Very light sprinkle-resistance only
SUBMERSIBLE: ���UN FANTASMA ESPANTOSO GRANDE QUE TOMA UNA MIERDA ENORME EN UNA CESTA DE PAPEL USADO PL�STICA, NO!!!
ACCESSORIES: USB charging cable, flight battery, 2x front rotor blades, 2x rear rotor blades, 2GB micro SD card, small Phillips screwdriver
SIZE: 170mm L x 170mm W x 65mm H
WEIGHT: 111g (3.920 oz.) incl. battery & memory chip
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated
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" icon to its listings on this website to denote that the product has failed and is unusable as-is.
" icon will be appended to its listings on this website at once, denoting the fact that it became lost in the line of duty. I wasted no time in ordering a replacement however, which should be here by early-April 2016 because I really do love the living tweedle out of this flying car!
