The E-Flite UMX Night Vapor R/C Airplane (hereinafter, probably just called the Night Vapor) is a small, slow-flying R/C airplane. It isn't designed to be a speed demon; no, it is actually designed specifically to be a very slow flyer. This also means that the Night Vapor can be flown indoors -- in fact, it was spefically designed to be flown indoors -- though you can fly it outside IN CALM WIND CONDITIONS ONLY!!!
It include exclusive AS3X® and optional-use SAFE® Select technologies for smoother and easier flight.
Simply put, these systems make the Night Vapor eaier to fly and harder to (seriously) crash -- though when you're first learning to fly it, you're inevitably going to have a few rough moments but I believe that SAFE® will save your toliet muscle!!!
The Night Vapor is designed to be a very slow flyer; this lends itself very well to indoor flights that a larger, faster plane simply would not be appropriate for.
Its slow speed and light weight (26g {0.92 oz.}) means that you won't tear curtains, gouge walls, or break lamps when you crash; though some users have reported that a head-on crash directly into a hard object might damage the propeller drivetrain -- though the damage is easily repairable with inexpensive spare parts from Horizon Hobby.
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To use the Night Vapor, turn the radio on by sliding the slide switch on the front of the radio's body to the left.
Plug the flight battery into the connector for it (the battery only fits the plug one way) and then gently (but somewhat firmly) press the battery into the battery tray using the Velcro™ pads on both. Place the airplane on the ground, facing away from you.
On the radio, move the left-hand stick toward the front (toward the antenna). The airplane will accelerate (speed up); you should now immediately pull the right-hand stick down (away from the antenna); the Night Vapor should almost immediately take off and become airborne.
Use the right-hand stick to steer the Night Vapor: moving the stick to the left causes the plane to turn left, and moving the stick to the right causes the plane to turn right.
To gain altitude, pull the right-hand stick down (toward you); to lose altitude, push the right-hand stick up (away from you). Droners (people who fly drones) may find this a bit confusing, but this is how real airplanes are controlled, so get over it.
When you're finished flying, slide the slide switch on the radio to the right, and unplug the Night Vapor's flight battery.
The cell in the aircraft is rechargeable.
So, here's how you do that:
Hold the charging dongle in one hand, and plug the battery into it with the other.
The battery will fit only one way, so if it doesn't easily plug up, turn it 180° and try it again.
Plug the dongle into any free USB port on your laptop, PC, or Mac computer; or plug it into a "wall-wart"-style USB charger frequently used for charging cellular telephone handsets.
A red light on the charging dongle will turn on; when this light turns off the battery is fully charged and may safely be unplugged.
To change the batteries in the radio, unclip and remove the battery door, very gently place it on the ground, and kick it into the garden so the hungry, hungry praying mantids will think it's something yummy to eat and strike at it...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 according to the (+) and (-) legends embossed into the bottom of each chamber.
Finally, place the battery door back on, and snap it into place.
Aren't you glad you didn't kick that battery door into the garden with all those hungry, hungry praying mantids now?
Here is what a praying mantis looks like.
I found this guy on the morning of 09-08-06 clinging to the basket of my scooter.
This RC airplane is meant to be used as a toy in a dry area outdoors (or indoors with a fairly decent space -- an empty two-car garage, a large living room, a conference room, a gymnasium, etc. would be appropriate here), not a flashlight meant to be thrashed, trashed, and abused. So I won't try to drown it in the cistern (toliet tank), bash it against a steel rod or against a concrete driveway in effort to try and expose the bare Metalmarineangemon - er - the bare Metaltrailmon - um that's not it either...the bare Metalkumamon...er...uh...wait a sec here...THE BARE METAL (guess I've been watching too much Digimon again! - now I'm just making {vulgar term for feces} up!!!), let my mother's big dog's ghost, or my sister's kitty cats piddle (uranate) on it, hose it down with my mother's gun, run over it with a 450lb Quickie Pulse 6 motorised wheelchair, stomp on it, use a medium ball peen hammer in order to bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoñata, drop it down the top of Mt. Erupto (now I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piñata" too much again - candiosity is usually checked with a laser-type device on a platform with a large readout (located at Piñata Central {aka. "Party Central"}), with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; the cannoñata (also located at Piñata Central) is only used to shoot piñatas to piñata parties away from picturesque Piñata Island, and Mt. Erupto is an active volcano on Piñata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analyses, or perform other indecencies on it that a flashlight might have to have performed on it. Therefore, this section of the Night Vapour's web page will seem a bit more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.
It sports a Spektrum™ transmitter with industry-leading DSMX® 2.4GHz technology.
The Night Vapor arrives 100% factory-assembled and ready to fly right out of the box. That means you can be flying in just the time it takes to charge the battery! You don't even need to make a store run for the AA cells needed by the radio; they're already included in the box!
One piece of advice that I've seen handed out on multiple occasions is to try like hell not to drop the Night Vapor directly on its tail, as doing so gives a fairly significant chance of damaging the rudder.
Photograph of its radio (transmitter).
Photograph of the airplane itself to show some of its lights.
Brief video hosted on YourTube showing how you have full control of the control surfaces (rudder and elevator) of the Night Vapor.
That music that you hear is from the coin-op arcade video game, "Afterburner ][" aka., "Afterburner Deluxe" by Sega from 1987.
This product is not audio (sound)-sensitive in any manner; the music may safely be ignored or even muted if it piddles you off or makes your ears bleed.
TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased on Ebay on 04-20-21 and was received at 3:36pm PDT on 04-23-21.
UPDATE: 04-26-21
I attempted to maiden it in the living room yesterday morning, it promptly crashed into the front door at a 45° angle and busted the prop. No spares were furnished, so as things stand right now I have a plane that does not fly.
I sent a message to Horizon Hobby about this, so all I can do now is hurry up and wait.
Because it is now nonfunctional, the dreadful, "" will have to be appended to its listings on this website at once.
UPDATE: 08-06-21
I finally had the $$$ to purchase a replacement propeller -- two of them actually.
UPDATE: 08-12-21
The props came yesterday; I wasted no time in installing one so that I could give the little guy its maiden flight later this morning.
More importantly, this allows me to remove that horrible, awful, "" icon from its listings on this website.
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NEUTRAL:
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MANUFACTURER: E-Flite
PRODUCT TYPE: Slow-flying R/C airplane
LAMP TYPE: LED
No. OF LAMPS: 8 (2x blue, 2x red, 1x green, 1x white in airplane; 1x bicolor green/blue in radio; 1x red in charging dongle
BEAM TYPE: N/A
REFLECTOR TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: Slide on/off on radio; no switch on aircraft itself
CASE MATERIAL: Thin plastic wings, carbon fiber airframe (plane); plastic (radio)
BEZEL: N/A
BATTERY: 3.70v 150mAh Li:ION (plane); 4x AA cells (radio)
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: unknown/unable to measure
WATER- AND URANATION-RESISTANT: Very light sprinle-resistance at maximum
SUBMERSIBLE: DER TEUFEL TRÄGT EINE WINDEL PINKELN-GETRÄNKTEN NEIN!
ACCESSORIES: Flight battery, charging dongle, 4x AA cells for radio, several tiny screws & washers
SIZE: 419mm L x ~209.5mm H x 376mm wingspan
WEIGHT: 26g (0.92 oz.) incl. battery; 5g (0.14 oz.) battery itself; 304g (10.72 oz.) radio
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
WARRANTY: Guaranteed not DOA
PRODUCT RATING:
Product is not yet rated because I haven't been able to give the Night Vapor its maiden yet.
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